README.md

🔎 Company Researcher

Powered by Exa.ai - The Search Engine for AI Applications

🎯 What is Company Researcher?

Company Researcher is a free and open-source tool that helps you instantly understand any company inside out. Simply input a company's URL, and the tool gathers comprehensive information from across the web, presenting you with detailed insights about the organization, its products, funding, social presence, and more.

📊 Data Sources & API Endpoints

All data is fetched using Exa's powerful search API. Each section below includes a direct link to try the API call in Exa's playground.

1. Website Information

   • Company Website Content (Try API)
   • Subpages (About, FAQs, Pricing, Blog) (Try API)

2. LinkedIn Data

   • Company Profile (Try API)
   • Founders' Profiles (Try API)

3. Financial Information

   • Funding Details (Try API)
   • Crunchbase Profile (Try API)
   • PitchBook Profile (Try API)
   • Tracxn Profile (Try API)
   • 10K Financial Reports (Try API)

4. Market Intelligence

   • News Coverage (Try API)
   • Competitor Analysis (Try API)
   • Wikipedia Information (Try API)

5. Social Media Presence

   • Twitter/X Profile (Try API)
   • Recent Tweets (Try API)
   • YouTube Videos (Try API)
   • TikTok Presence (Try API)
   • Reddit Discussions (Try API)
   • GitHub Profile (Try API)

💻 Tech Stack

• Search Engine: Exa.ai - Web search API optimized for AI applications
• Frontend: Next.js with App Router, TailwindCSS, TypeScript
• AI Integration: Vercel AI SDK
• Hosting: Vercel

🚀 Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Node.js
• Exa.ai API key
• Anthropic API key
• (Optional) YouTube API key
• (Optional) GitHub token

Installation

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/exa-labs/company-researcher.git
cd company-researcher

2. Install dependencies

npm install
# or
yarn install

3. Set up environment variables as described in the section below

4. Run the development server

npm run dev
# or
yarn dev

5. Open http://localhost:3000 in your browser

🔑 API Keys & Environment Setup

Required API Keys

• Exa API Key: Get from Exa Dashboard
• Anthropic API Key: Get from Anthropic Console

Optional API Keys (for additional features)

• YouTube API Key: Get from Google Cloud Console (for YouTube video fetching)
• GitHub Token: Get from GitHub Settings (for GitHub repository data)

Note: The application can run without the optional API keys. YouTube and GitHub features can be disabled by commenting out their respective code sections.

Environment Setup

Create a .env.local file in the root directory with the following structure:

# Required
EXA_API_KEY=your_exa_api_key
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your_anthropic_api_key

# Optional - for additional features
YOUTUBE_API_KEY=your_youtube_api_key
NEXT_PUBLIC_GITHUB_TOKEN=your_github_token

For deployment on platforms like Vercel, add these environment variables in your platform's settings.

Alternatively, you can create a copy of our example environment file:

cp .env.example .env.local

Then fill in your API keys in the newly created .env.local file.

⭐ About Exa.ai

This project is powered by Exa.ai, a powerful search engine and web search API designed specifically for AI applications. Exa provides:

• Advanced semantic search capabilities
• Clean web content extraction
• Real-time data retrieval
• Comprehensive web search functionality
• Superior search accuracy for AI applications

Try Exa search

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