swotng/database

This package is abandoned and no longer maintained. No replacement package was suggested.

If you are looking for database of academic domains that package is for you.

dev-master / 1.0.x-dev 2015-11-18 03:52 UTC

MIT

• Grzegorz Zdanowski
• Lee Reilly

• database
• academic
• domains

README

Did you ever tried implementing educational discounts? If your answer is affirmative you probably came across simple but not-so-trivial problem: which domains should I accept? Lee Reilly came with really nice solution called Swot:

Swot is a community-driven or crowdsourced library for verifying that domain names and email addresses are tied to a legitimate university of college - more specifically, an academic institution providing higher education in tertiary, quaternary or any other kind of post-secondary education in any country in the world.

What's wrong with Swot than?

Swot started as Ruby gem tied to database of domains. While that idea was nice it created many (not resolved until today) problems:

• Database tied to one language implementation (partially solved by data-only branch which is outdated)
• Blacklisted domains are listed inside Ruby code
• Wildcard TLDs/SLDs are listed inside Ruby code
• Database holds only name of institution

How to use it?

SwotNG database is backward-compatible with original Swot format. See Structure description for details. If you're starting new project you should read usage document and follow instruction for your language.

You're lying! There's PHP here!

Yes, you're correct - test script is written in PHP. That script is there to check new pull-requests. You don't need PHP environment.

Future plans

• Provide script generating PRs to this repository
• Add missing details for institutions
• Add data from new PRs made to original Swot database
• Provide tools for dumping database in various formats (e.g. SQL)
• Create simple service for querying database via HTTP
• Spread idea to the world :)