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TazeTSchnitzel on June 30, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

This isn't trying to scrape the page and find something vaguely logo-like. Rather, it seems to be using iOS, OpenGraph and Twitter icons. In this case, the site has a strange OpenGraph image specified in its meta tags. If it produces a weird image it's because the site owner has specified an image which isn't their logo. It's not because the API picked a random image.

For this service, if it can find an image, it's at least an image the site owner wanted to be used to represent it.

VivaCascadia on June 30, 2015 | [–]

Yeah, really odd choice for an Open Graph image. They specify that burger and soda image directly in their header.

<meta property="og:image" content="//nebula.wsimg.com/7cdaeb9fbb87f3450dc65108e6d6af87?AccessKeyId=6E4E9B5CC8D37F66F76C&disposition=0&alloworigin=1">

todd3834 on July 1, 2015 | [–]

I wouldn't have thought that the open graph image is a logo. Seems like that wouldn't be a reliable source for logos

TazeTSchnitzel on July 1, 2015 | [–]

Fair point. It's at least something they've chosen to represent themselves, however.

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