Business Coder Quickstart#
Introduction#
Welcome to the Melissa Business Coder. The Business Coder Cloud API searches for Business Demographics data based on the address and company name.
The Cloud API can:
Search for businesses using the phone number, stock ticker, and web address.
Discover business SIC codes, sales volumes, employee sizes, phone numbers, etc.
New to Melissa Cloud APIs?#
We highly recommend first time users of our Cloud APIs to review our Using Melissa Cloud APIs section. It will cover critical topics like:
System Requirements#
SSL/TLS 1.2+
Getting Started - What Can I Do?#
Explore Melissa Lookups#
Check out Business Coder lookups here for the full experience.
Use Address as Input#
Using the address as the primary pivot searches for businesses at the specified address.
Endpoint#
/WEB/BusinessCoder/doBusinessCoder
Click here to go to the full endpoint documentation.
Try it Now#
curl -X GET "https://businesscoder.melissadata.net/WEB/BusinessCoder/doBusinessCoderUS?\
&cols=\
&id={{customerId}}\
&opt=\
&a1=22382%20Avenida%20Empresa\
&a2=\
&city=Rancho%20Santa%20Margarita\
&comp=\
&ctry=\
&postal=92688\
&rec=\
&state=California" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json"
Use Melissa Address Key (MAK) and Company as Input#
Using the MAK number and company name as the primary pivot searches for businesses.
Endpoint#
/WEB/BusinessCoder/doBusinessCoder
Click here to go to the full endpoint documentation.
Try it Now#
curl -X GET "https://businesscoder.melissadata.net/WEB/BusinessCoder/doBusinessCoderUS?\
&cols=\
&id={{customerId}}\
&opt=\
&comp=\
&mak=8008006245\
&rec=" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json"
Use StockTicker as Input#
Using the stock ticker as the primary pivot searches for businesses.
Endpoint#
/WEB/BusinessCoder/doBusinessCoder
Click here to go to the full endpoint documentation.
Try it Now#
curl -X GET "https://businesscoder.melissadata.net/WEB/BusinessCoder/doBusinessCoderUS?\
&cols=\
&id={{customerId}}\
&opt=\
&rec=\
&stock=GOOG" \
-H "Content-Type:application/json" \
-H "Accept:application/json"
Use Web Address as Input#
Using the web address as the primary pivot searches for businesses.
Endpoint#
/WEB/BusinessCoder/doBusinessCoder
Click here to go to the full endpoint documentation.
Try it Now#
curl -X GET "https://businesscoder.melissadata.net/WEB/BusinessCoder/doBusinessCoderUS?\
&cols=\
&id={{customerId}}\
&opt=\
&rec=\
&web=melissa.com" \
-H "Content-Type:application/json" \
-H "Accept:application/json"
Use Phone as Input#
Using the phone number as the primary pivot searches for businesses.
Endpoint#
/WEB/BusinessCoder/doBusinessCoder
Click here to go to the full endpoint documentation.
Try it Now#
curl -X GET "https://businesscoder.melissadata.net/WEB/BusinessCoder/doBusinessCoderUS?\
&cols=\
&id={{customerId}}\
&opt=\
&phone=800-635-4772\
&rec=" \
-H "Content-Type:application/json" \
-H "Accept:application/json"
Use Melissa Enterprise Key as Input#
Using the melissa enterprise key as the primary pivot searches for businesses.
Endpoint#
Try it Now#
Click here to go to the full endpoint documentation.
curl -X GET "https://businesscoder.melissadata.net/WEB/BusinessCoder/doBusinessCoderUS?\
&cols=\
&id={{customerId}}\
&opt=\
&mek=323318841\
&rec=" \
-H "Content-Type:application/json" \
-H "Accept:application/json"
Use FreeForm as Input#
Using the free form as the primary pivot searches for businesses.
Endpoint#
/WEB/BusinessCoder/doBusinessCoder
Click here to go to the full endpoint documentation.
Try it Now#
curl -X GET "https://businesscoder.melissadata.net/WEB/BusinessCoder/doBusinessCoderUS?\
&cols=\
&id={{customerId}}\
&opt=\
&ff=\
&rec=" \
-H "Content-Type:application/json" \
-H "Accept:application/json"
Inputs and Outputs#
The table below shows the most common inputs and outputs for Business Coder.
For full details on the inputs see the Request Parameters and for a complete list of the outputs see the Response fields.
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