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DescriptorAPI
Turn messy card descriptors into clean merchant data
DescriptorAPI turns raw card statement lines into clean merchant data: name, logo, category, website, city, and payment processor, with a confidence score. Arabic included. 500 free calls a month, no card required, and you only pay for matches.
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Samy, and I built DescriptorAPI.
The problem. Open any banking or budgeting app, and you'll see lines like POS 4521 CAREEM*RIDE DXB AE or PAYPAL *NETFLIX 4029357733. Users don't recognise them. That leads to support tickets, "I didn't make this charge" disputes, and budgets that put Netflix under "Other".
What DescriptorAPI does. Send the raw line and get back the merchant name, logo, category, website, city, and payment processor. Every answer has a confidence score from 0 to 1, so you can show strong matches right away and send the rest to review.
What's different:
• Built for statements outside the US. It reads airport codes, local spellings, and Arabic script, and it strips processors and wallets like PayPal, Stripe, and Fawry to find the real merchant underneath.
• You pay for answers, not attempts. A call counts only when it returns a merchant. Unknown lines are free.
• Cheapest step first. Cache, then rules, then fuzzy match. AI only sees lines nothing else could answer, and its answer is cached.
• Private by design. We need the descriptor, never the cardholder. Amounts aren't stored, and we don't train on your data.
Try it in 10 seconds, no signup: paste any line from your own statement into the playground: descriptorapi.com/playground. Not a developer? Upload your credit card statement PDF at descriptorapi.com/statements and see where your money went: every merchant named, subscriptions and hidden fees picked out, all checked against your bank's totals. Free for 3 statements a month, and the PDF is never stored.
Launch offer: the free plan gives 500 enrichments a month with no card. For Product Hunt, code PRODUCTHUNT takes 50% off Starter or Growth for your first 3 months. It's valid for 7 days.
I'd love to know: what's the strangest descriptor on your statement? Paste it below, and I'll decode it live in the replies.
About DescriptorAPI on Product Hunt
“Turn messy card descriptors into clean merchant data”
DescriptorAPI was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #78 on the daily leaderboard. DescriptorAPI turns raw card statement lines into clean merchant data: name, logo, category, website, city, and payment processor, with a confidence score. Arabic included. 500 free calls a month, no card required, and you only pay for matches.
On the analytics side, DescriptorAPI competes within API, Fintech and Developer Tools — topics that collectively have 668k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how DescriptorAPI performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted DescriptorAPI?
DescriptorAPI was hunted by Samy Massoud. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of DescriptorAPI including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Samy Massoud