The Forbes Global 2000 is an annual ranking of the top 2000 public companies in the world by Forbes magazine. The ranking is based on a mix of four metrics: sales, profit, assets and market value. Use this gem to look up Forbes 2000 companies based on a domain name or email address.
Installation
gem install forbes-finder
Usage
record = ForbesFinder::lookup 'exxonmobil.com'
# => <ForbesFinder::Record:0x007faa33887310>
record.name
# => "Exxon Mobil"
record.rank
# => 1
It'll handle email addresses and URLs with all sorts of subdomains, parameters, etc.
record = ForbesFinder::lookup 'https://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios/checklist/'
# => <ForbesFinder::Record:0x007faa338072a0>
record.domain
# => "apple.com"
record.name
# => "Apple"
record.rank
# => 22
ForbesFinder::lookup('[email protected]').name
# => "Microsoft"
Limitations
- There may be cases when the company you're lookup up is a subsidiary of a Forbes 2000 company that has a different domain name. Keeping track of all of those is beyong the scope of this gem, but you're welcome to submit it as an alias.
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