Reviews of Companies Research about lookingfor HOT 4 CLOSED

NOTE:
Although this issue isn't saying to do this, I am currently reading the 'Terms of Use' page to make sure that we will be able to use their API legally. Will update this comment once done to see what I come up with.

UPDATE
So, it does seem possible to use Glassdoor's API that will be able to fetch a company's review but there are multiple types of "reviews" that exist for every company (check link below). I will have to wait until tomorrow's stand-up to talk more into detail about what we should decide on doing. Also, Glassdoor requires us to add a specific "attribution" whenever we are displaying Glassdoor's API results on our website (code can be found in the link below).

In the meantime, I will create a Glassdoor account using our TeamEmail's Gmail account that can be found on BaseCamp to get an API Key for us. I will also create a doc that will give everyone information of the API key similar to the "Authentic Job's API" doc.

https://www.glassdoor.com/developer/companiesApiActions.htm

In Depth Public API Terms:
http://www.glassdoor.com/crs/api/glassdoor-public-api-terms.pdf

UPDATE#2
So while creating the account I'm realizing that our access to using GlassDoor is limited to 10 days if nobody does this survey that GlassDoor gives us and even after that we will only have unlimited access for 12 months. I will just wait until tomorrow to discuss this more with the team and see whether or not we want to push forward with using GlassDoor since it doesn't seem reliable for the long-term.

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Team Decision

Glassdoor API off the table

What Now?

Research a bit more for alternative API's and if there isn't any available then try and figure out a different way to grab this information if possible.

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Update

I ended up creating a doc on Basecamp that'll provide a brief summary on why Glassdoor's API will not work. Also, I want to point out that I was unsuccessful in finding another alternative in finding out how to get a company's review. I thought using Indeed's API would've helped us in solving this problem but their API is not the answer to our problem.

I'm going to go ahead and close this commit due to not being able to find an alternative in grabbing the reviews for a company.

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