Lynniiee
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So something that really bothered me about brilliant earth is that some stones had the certification # listed, and some stones didn’t. You had to email their support team to receive the certification, which often took a day or so to get back. This doesn’t seem as big of a problem for natural diamonds, but a good percentage of lab diamonds are missing their certificates listed on the site.
I’m a developer, and recently obsessed on the diamond search, so I poked into their source code and guess what I found?
The certificate id on every diamond! They just choose a certain % of their diamonds to show. Most likely semi-randomly. So here’s how you can do it to:
1. Go to the details page of your diamond that’s missing a certificate, I’ll use this one as an example:
https://www.brilliantearth.com/loose-diamonds/view_detail/6916874/
2. Right click somewhere on the page, and press “Inspect”. This might be different depending on your browser, basically we want to open Developer tools.
If you don’t know how to do that on your browser, you can find out here:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Common_questions/What_are_browser_developer_tools
It should open you to the elements tab, where you’ll see the html of the page.
3. Press ctrl + f to start a search, and search for certificate
You should see something like this:
4. Now take that number, and depending on what type of certificate it says it has, either look it up on the IGI or GIA certificate website.
For us, this will be IGI:
https://www.igi.org/verify.php?r=341805388
Here’s GIA:
https://www.gia.edu/report-check-landing
And wala! Your certificate is there.
Coming up next, how to do this on James Allen
I’m a developer, and recently obsessed on the diamond search, so I poked into their source code and guess what I found?
The certificate id on every diamond! They just choose a certain % of their diamonds to show. Most likely semi-randomly. So here’s how you can do it to:
1. Go to the details page of your diamond that’s missing a certificate, I’ll use this one as an example:
https://www.brilliantearth.com/loose-diamonds/view_detail/6916874/
2. Right click somewhere on the page, and press “Inspect”. This might be different depending on your browser, basically we want to open Developer tools.
If you don’t know how to do that on your browser, you can find out here:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Common_questions/What_are_browser_developer_tools
It should open you to the elements tab, where you’ll see the html of the page.
3. Press ctrl + f to start a search, and search for certificate
You should see something like this:
4. Now take that number, and depending on what type of certificate it says it has, either look it up on the IGI or GIA certificate website.
For us, this will be IGI:
https://www.igi.org/verify.php?r=341805388
Here’s GIA:
https://www.gia.edu/report-check-landing
And wala! Your certificate is there.
Coming up next, how to do this on James Allen
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