March 2025

Indeed Company data

🔄 Field replacement: Website links

Effective from: March 2025

Action	Data field	Description	Type
Removed	links	Various company websites	Array of strings
Added	link	Primary company website link	String

Impact: Only the main website URL will now be returned. This simplifies downstream usage and aligns with improved field standards.

Craft data

❌ Field removal: Craft News section

Effective from: March 2025

Reason: The Craft source no longer provides public access to News content. We are evaluating potential alternatives to restore this capability.

Action	Data field	Description	Type
Removed	news	News articles related to the company	Array of objects
Removed	headline	Article headline	String
Removed	image_url	Article image URL	String
Removed	summary	Article summary	String
Removed	published_at	Article publish date (YYYY-MM-DD)	String (date)
Removed	url	URL to the full article	String

Clean Company data and Clean Company API

🆕 New field: company_websites_professional_network_canonical

Formats: Flat files and API Effective from: March 3, 2025

Action	Data field	Type	Description
Added	company_websites_professional_network_canonical	String	Canonical professional network profile URL

Reference: Learn more in Clean Company Data dictionary or Clean Company API dictionary.

Employee data

🔁 Field rename

Action	Old Name	New Name	Description	Type
Renamed	member_id	parent_id	Employee profile identification key	Number (integer)

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🆕 New field

Action	Field Name	Description	Type
Added	is_parent	Indicates if the ID is the original (non-duplicate) record	Number (integer)

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⏳ Scheduled removals (May 2025)

Action	Field Name	Description	Type
Scheduled for removal	is_latest	Original and active record indicator (now redundant)	Number (integer)
Scheduled for removal	received_at	Internal operations field; use updated_at instead	Timestamp

Search API endpoints

🔁 Updated ID ordering logic in Search API

Effective Date: March 19, 2025 Change Summary:

• Previous default: Ascending by id

• New default: Descending by last_updated, then by id

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📦 Pagination format updates

🔹 Search Filter endpoints

Before (x-next-page-after)	After
123	"2025-01-01",123

Note: Use ?sort=id to preserve previous ID-based sorting behavior.

🔹 Elasticsearch DSL endpoints

Before (x-next-page-after)	After
0.345,123	0.345,"2025-01-01",123

Note: Pass "sort": ["id"] in the request body to retain previous logic.

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🔄 Backwards compatibility options

Type	Option
Search Filter	Add query parameter ?sort=id
Elasticsearch DSL	Use {"sort": ["id"]} in request body

Clean Employee API

🆕 New data field: date_day

Release date: March 26, 2025

Action	Field Name	Type	Description
Added	date_day	String	Day of the award issue date

Schema context: This field is now part of the nested awards object in the Elasticsearch DSL schema and enables more granular filtering or sorting based on exact award dates. Input type is byte.