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Comment by maceo | Hacker News Reader

This has been done before (and posted to HN), and it had the same problem. Way too many false positives, especially with older sites.

https://logo.clearbit.com/starfoods.com

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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.

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

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

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

Interesting results with Blizzard.com: https://logo.clearbit.com/blizzard.com?size=500

Another (big) false positive is craigslist: https://logo.clearbit.com/craigslist.org

or (first semi-random one I tried): https://logo.clearbit.com/sabre.com - totally absurd

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