swotng/database

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

SwotNG database

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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:, _(*2)

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., _(*3)

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until today) problems: * Database tied to one language implementation (partially solved by data-only branch which is outdated) * Blacklisted domains are listed inside Ruby code * Wildcard TLDs/SLDs are listed inside Ruby code * Database holds only name of institution, _(*4)

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., _(*5)

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., _(*6)

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 :)