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English
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Summary

Brand.dev is developing an API that allows users to fetch comprehensive company brand data, such as names, addresses, logos, and colors from any domain through a single API call. The blog post shares insights from their extensive experience scraping hundreds of thousands of websites daily, offering guidance on extracting a brand's address programmatically using Node.js and TypeScript. It covers techniques for scraping addresses from official websites, social media platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram, and merging fragmented data into a complete address. The guide also addresses the challenges of handling anti-bot measures, inconsistent data formats, and legal considerations, while providing tips for scheduling scraping tasks and managing common scraping issues. By utilizing tools like Cheerio and Puppeteer, developers can streamline their data retrieval processes, though Brand.dev offers a more efficient solution with their API, which aggregates this data into a single structured source.