It is pretty easy to add: just a single line to the XML of your RSS/Atom feed: you don’t need to host the script (though you can if you want to: it is MIT licensed).

I feel that RSS and Atom are being held back by the poor (or non-existant) user experience for new users. Try to put yourself in a new user’s place:

• You are reading an interesting blog post, and want to read more from that author.
• You see an orange icon next to a “follow” or “subscribe” link. That sounds promising!
• You click it.
• You get a wall of XML text. Or worse: a “Save As” dialog!
• You have no idea what to do next.
• You give up and move on to the next cat video.

Or even worse:

• You are reading an interesting blog post, and want to read more from that author.
• You don’t see any “follow” or “subscribe” links.
• You look for Facebook/LinkedIn/etc links, and try to follow them there.
• So much for the open web.

For some reason, technical people just don’t seem to get this. RSS and Atom are not just for technical people. They are for everyone. So the user experience needs to be simple and easy to understand.

I ended up cranking out a whole bunch of sites using it:

• UnicodeSearch.org - the complete Unicode character database (over 150,000 characters) with instant filtering and searching.
• EmojiSearch.org - the complete list of emoji (over 5,000 when you include variations) with both native Emoji and preview images.
• ISO-3166-1 - the standard list of countries.
• ISO-3166-2 - the standard list of country subdivisions.
• ISO-4217 - the standard list of currencies.
• ISO-639-2 - the standard list of languages.
• ISO-639-3 - the extended list of languages.

I did have Github Copilot going, but it mostly helped with boilerplate.

The W3C has a Feed Validation Service, but it only looks at the feed itself, not at the linked pages. And a lot of the problems that it finds are about things in the content which can mask more serious errors.

Anyhow, give it a try at https://www.rss.style/feed-analyzer.html.

RSS.Style has a list of high-profile feeds that you can try (and feel better about having problems in your own feed).

It works pretty well (IMHO) as long as you have paid attention to your URLs when you built your website.

Links:

• Sitemap.xml Viewer - the viewer!
• Sitemap.style - instructions for how to integrate it into your website: just download a file and add a single line to the XML.
• Viewer parameters - to customize the viewer’s sorting and toolbar.
• Demo - a live demonstration at one of my other side projects.
• Source - the source code including a list of all the tools I used.

Images were all built with Docker v24.0.7 for amd64.

It does not include sites that just have a lot of logos to look at, such as all the websites indexed by LogoSear.ch.

I also made a logo API comparison page for the ones with free tiers.

AbstractAPI

• https://www.abstractapi.com/api/company-enrichment
• Lookup by domain
• No public pricing

API Ninjas

• https://api-ninjas.com/api/logo
• Lookup by name or ticker
• Paid: $238/year for 200K/month

Benzinga

• https://www.benzinga.com/apis/cloud-product/company-logo-api/
• Lookup by ticker
• Several variations of the logo, including vector and light/dark (but docs say only PNG)
• No public pricing for the API. Pro pricing is $37/month, but that’s looks like something different.

BigPicture

• https://docs.bigpicture.io/api/#company-api
• Lookup by domain
• Blog is dead (Cloudfront 502 error)
• Free: 1K lookups (total)
• Paid: contact sales

Brand.dev

• https://brand.dev/
• Lookup by domain
• Also has lookup by “Transaction Identifier”, but no details
• Also returns brand colors
• Free: 100 API calls/month
• Paid: starts at $348/year for 1000 calls

BrandFetch

• https://brandfetch.com/developers
• Also: extra level with more data, colors
• Also: transaction enrichment API (call for pricing)
• Images in webp (although some mentions of SVG)
• Free: no attribution, 1M/month
• Paid: $1200/year for 2.5K/month

Brandkey

• https://brandkey.io/
• Lookup by domain
• Includes colors, “metadata”
• Free: 25/month
• Paid: $1200/year for 10K/month

Brandy

• https://logoapi.dev/
• Is this a part of flowlet? The example uses a flowlet hostname.
• Lookup by domain
• Includes colors, fonts
• Pay-as-you-go: $5/1K

Clearbit

• https://clearbit.com/
• Purchased by Hubspot
• No longer accepting new customers: sending people to logo.dev

CompaniesLogos

• https://companieslogo.com/logo-api/
• Lookup by ticker
• 8650 logos
• Free: no
• Paid: $588/year. Higher tiers for high-res, dark mode, SVGs, etc.

CompanyEnrich

• https://companyenrich.com/logo-api
• Lookup by domain
• Separate API to lookup by name
• Free: 200/month
• Paid: $588/year

CUFinder

• https://cufinder.io/enrichment-engine/logo-api
• Lookup by domain
• Free: with attribution

EODHD

• https://eodhd.com/financial-apis-blog/40000-company-logos
• Lookup by ticker
• 40K logos, 200x200 PNGs
• Paid: $399/year (one-time download for addition fee)

Factset

• https://developer.factset.com/api-catalog/company-logo-api
• Lookup by ticker
• No public pricing

Ful.io

• https://ful.io/api-list/company-logo-finder
• Lookup by domain
• Separate API for company name to domain
• Example has broken URLs
• Paid: $3000/year for 2.5K/month

Klazify

• https://www.klazify.com/
• Lookup by domain
• Also: has categorization (=IAB v3 topics)
• Paid: starts at $1068/year for 2K/month

Logo.dev

• https://www.logo.dev/
• lookup by domain or stock symbol
• Also: API for brand name to domain
• Also: API for domain to social media handles
• Free: attribution required
• Paid: $300/year

LogoIntern

• https://logointern.com/
• Lookup by name or stock ticker
• “1M+ logos”
• Geared towards users making slideshows: Unclear if they have an API
• Paid: $875 for 5 users

Parget

• https://www.parqet.com/api/logos
• lookup only by stock symbol
• “400,000+” logos
• Free: attribution required
• Paid: 3000 EUR/year

PeopleDataLabs

• https://www.peopledatalabs.com/company-enrichment-api
• Lookup by name, domain or ticker
• They have logos for 45% of companies in their database.
• They do not document logo_url as being base or premium, so not sure if free can be used
• Free: 100/month (only base fields)
• Paid: 1K/month for $960/year

Proxycurl (Nubela)

• https://nubela.co/proxycurl/docs#company-api-company-profile-picture-endpoint
• Company lookup by domain or name
• 2nd (free) API call to get logo (by LinkedIn URL)
• Free: no
• Paid: 15K for $588/year

RiteKit

• https://ritekit.com/api-demo/company-logo
• Lookup by domain
• Will return SVG if available
• Tries to extract on the fly
• Also returns brand colors
• Option to download database “200K+ logos”
• Pricing unclear: looks like focus is on other tools

The Companies API

• https://www.thecompaniesapi.com/api
• Lookup by name, domain or free form (“prompt”)
• 17M records
• Search on home page does not work
• Free: 500
• Paid: 50,000/month for $950/year

Uplead

• https://www.uplead.com/free-company-logo-api/
• Lookup by domain name
• incorrect content-type on images
• no auto-add
• Free: attribution required

Not Analyzed

• Icon Horse - only favicons
• Logo.Wine - full logo (i.e. not icon), no API
• LinkedIn - looks like they removed their company profile lookup API
• Xignite - (aka Quodd)only stocks and 7K logos, but logo+icon and SVG
• lucky.logosear.ch - not ready for prime time
• AllInDigital - seems dead
• AirHex - only airlines

To do

• Bing Image Search
• Brave Image Search API
• Yandex Image Search
• LogoFinderAPI
• Logo API
• ScientaNL/brandr-api
• Have I Been Trained

The major browsers no longer support it, so clicking on a RSS/Atom link brings up either a “wall of text” or even worse, a “Save As” dialog, both of which are useless and especially hostile to newcomers. This has lead to authors avoiding putting visible links to their feeds in the HTML body. So now newcomers never even know that feeds are a thing.

There’s not much I can do to help with built-in browser support, but I can do something to make feeds look better when you click on them: add some style! Introducing RSS.Style to help you add a stylesheet to your RSS/Atom feed, including a (rather generic-looking) sample style template and a way to preview it.

The other thing that I discovered while working on RSS.Style is that people are not paying enough attention to their feeds. RSS.Style requires that the basic fields are present (and correct) so it can use them in the template: It is shocking how many high-profile bloggers have errors in their feeds. I made a Feed Analyzer that points out some common mistakes that are not covered by the W3C’s feed validator.

You can see it in action on my blog’s RSS feed!

Source is available at github.com/fileformat/rss.style and is MIT licensed. The preview and analyzer are written in TypeScript and hosted on Cloudflare Pages.

Have you used Github Actions to automate everything in existance? I have.

So I built a tool to generate a page full of Github Action badges.

And, of course, it runs as a Github Action! (It also works from the CLI)

It works really well for Github organization profiles: public or private.

Note: badges for private Github repos are only visible if the page is hosted on github.com for security reasons, so it makes sense to have it on a Github profile or in a custom README file.

Written in Go, MIT license. Source is at fileformat/ghashboard

Example: VectorLogoZone’s Github Profile

Check it out on the Github Marketplace: ghashboard

• No dependencies
• No build step
• Not even a package.json
• Docker image is a single step straight from distroless
• Node’s new --watch flag works

I am not really sure that it is practical for a real project: I wouldn’t want to have to reimplement common parsing tasks and such like. And I would probably use Bun or Deno to get built-in TypeScript support.

The source code on Github: fileformat/node-without-npm.

I want a place to post random things that are not necessarily part of a specific project or a things-i-learned note.