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

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SwotNG database
===============

[](#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](https://github.com/leereilly/swot) came with really nice solution called [Swot](https://github.com/leereilly/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?

[](#whats-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- Database tied to one language implementation (partially solved by `data-only` branch which is outdated)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?

[](#how-to-use-it)

SwotNG database is backward-compatible with original Swot format. See [Structure description](https://github.com/kiler129/SwotNG-database/blob/master/STRUCTURE.md) for details. If you're starting new project you should read [usage](https://github.com/kiler129/SwotNG-database/blob/master/USAGE.md) document and follow instruction for your language.

### You're lying! There's PHP here!

[](#youre-lying-theres-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

[](#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 :)

###  Health Score

16

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LowBetter than 4% of packages

Maintenance0

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity41

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

### Community

Maintainers

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