link to stackshare from industrial users

In addition to the locally maintained lists, stackshare has a list of companies using ocaml

https://stackshare.io/ocaml

Consider linking to that website from the top or bottom of the industrial users page.

The API might also expose the data directly. If that is the case, one could get the names and urls for the companies for now, and create a follow up issue to generate a page with that data.

[Bhavika-Gianey]

I would like to work on this.

[Bhavika-Gianey]

@patricoferris @pitag-ha, is this a medium-level issue? Shall I start working on this ??

[pitag-ha]

@Bhavika-Gianey , I haven't had a look at the stackshare API yet, but you can have a look and see if the following is possible

The API might also expose the data directly. If that is the case, one could get the names and urls for the companies

I think that would be a medium issue. Let us know :)

[Bhavika-Gianey]

@Bhavika-Gianey , I haven't had a look at the stackshare API yet, but you can have a look and see if the following is possible

Hii @pitag-ha , stackshre has a GraphQL API, I have never used that before but I will try to implement it and let you know in case of any difficulties :).

[pitag-ha]

Perfect @Bhavika-Gianey! :) Do you know if using the stackshare API is for free?

[Bhavika-Gianey]

Perfect @Bhavika-Gianey! :) Do you know if using the stackshare API is for free?

I was going to discuss this with you @pitag-ha. It's free for the first 2 months allowing 100 API calls. And after that, there are monthly plans.

[Bhavika-Gianey]

What do you think ?? Shall we proceed using this?

[pitag-ha]

Thanks for investigating that, @Bhavika-Gianey! I think that should be ok, yes :) I don't think we would pay the monthly plan, but I'm hoping that 100 API calls will be enough to get the current list of names and urls of companies using OCaml (we simply wouldn't keep it updated).

I spent a few minutes trying to find this data in the API and I didn't find it immediately. It may or may not exist there, so I would investigate that first and then come up with an implementation approach after finishing that research.

[Bhavika-Gianey]

I spent a few minutes trying to find this data in the API and I didn't find it immediately. It may or may not exist there, so I would investigate that first and then come up with an implementation approach after finishing that research.

@pitag-ha @Kanishka-work , I have gone through the stackshare data and extracted the list .

Shall I proceed using this data??

[Bhavika-Gianey]

Also, I have one doubt, the current hard-coded companies page already has a lot of companies listed and in the stackshare API, there is no such data of the image or logo and description of the respective companies. It only contains names and related GitHub repos of the companies using Ocaml,
So, shall I have to make a new page and delete the existing page or if I have to render data on the existing page, then do I need to change the layout of that page as I can't see image URLs and descriptions from the current API data.

This is the existing companies page for reference:

@pitag-ha Perhaps this work can aim to produce a script that generates a yaml file with company name, stackshare url, company website, and a few other attributes, and stop there for now?

[pitag-ha]

I'm sorry, I've totally missed this somehow.

@Bhavika-Gianey

I have gone through the stackshare data and extracted the list .

Thanks! That's great :)

Perhaps this work can aim to produce a script that generates a yaml file with company name, stackshare url, company website, and a few other attributes, and stop there for now?

That sounds like a good idea to me! @Bhavika-Gianey , do you want to do that? @Kanishka-work, would you include that script or that yaml file somewhere into the ocaml.org code base?

I would include the script only and add documentation in the script for how to run it. We can rename this issue as "create script to fetch company data from stackshare api" and create another issue for follow-up steps as we get time to think of more concrete requirements.

[Bhavika-Gianey]

I'm sorry, I've totally missed this somehow.

@Bhavika-Gianey

I have gone through the stackshare data and extracted the list .

Thanks! That's great :)

Perhaps this work can aim to produce a script that generates a yaml file with company name, stackshare url, company website, and a few other attributes, and stop there for now?

That sounds like a good idea to me! @Bhavika-Gianey, do you want to do that? @Kanishka-work, would you include that script or that YAML file somewhere into the ocaml.org code base?

@pitag-ha, Yes I would like to proceed further.
I want to clarify the issue as per my understanding, so,

• I need to extract the company name, stack share URL, company website, etc from the API, etc of all the companies using Ocaml, so I need to fetch data simultaneously from two endpoints, one which gives the company name and from the other endpoint the corresponding URL and other resources of those companies ??
• The data will then be stored in the YAML format.

I am still a beginner in Ocaml, I want to ask which modules or tools in Ocaml are used for HTTP requests and API calls in grphQl and parsing the data in YAML ??
I have till now seen that I have to use the Lwt, Cohttp, and Cohttp_lwt_unix libraries.