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(old) Top 5 Alternatives to People Data Labs in 2024 - And the One We Think Is Best

Discover People Data Labs alternatives and competitors. ReachStream, Bright Data, and Proxycurl. Find best free & paid data providers similar to People Data Labs.

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How CoffeeSpace Powers Its Tinder-Like Cofounder Matching App with Proxycurl

We at Proxycurl have had the privilege of speaking with Hazim, the CEO and co-founder of CoffeeSpace, a Tinder/Hinge-like platform for co-founder matching. Intrigued? We’re here to tell you all about it: its origins, core idea and features, challenges faced, and the tech stack that powers its data-matching

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I’d Like to Cancel My Plan, Do I Have to Incur Any Cancellation Fee?

Short answer, yes. Long answer, It depends on the plan you are on There are three types of plans Proxycurl offers: 1. Annual Plan, billed monthly 2. Annual Plan, billed annually 3. Pay-as-you-go, ala-carte credit purchase The 2nd and 3rd plan types won't be the content of discussion

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This Is Why Meta Lost the Scraping Legal Battle to Bright Data

Meta took Bright Data to court, and the results are probably not as you expect...

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Need more credits? We've got you covered, simply tweet.

We have been listening to your feedback and compliments, and we heard how much you've been loving Proxycurl. Thus the launch of our "Tweet for credits" initiative that serves to reward customers like yourself! What is it about? Simply tweet (or post in the terms of

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How To Delete My Proxycurl Account?

You have the option to delete your Proxycurl account at any time within your Proxycurl dashboard. After successfully deleting your account, here's what to expect: * Loss of access to all your Proxycurl credits. * No more access to your old Proxycurl account. * Permanent removal of your account and personal

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Changelog: You can now limit your monthly auto top-ups

Following the previous update on the new smaller auto top-up amounts, we've now added the ability to limit your monthly auto top-up amount. Specifically, you can choose between one of these four limits: * $1,000 * $2,000 * $5,000 * $10,000 For those of you who run Proxycurl

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Changelog: You can now auto top-up in smaller amounts

We have good news for you! We've added two smaller denominations of auto top-ups: * $10 * $50 Some of you are working hard to scale up your businesses and applications, while thoroughly enjoying using our products doing so. These two new options could help you manage the costs better

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Changelog: Fresh data is now the default standard for our Person and Company Profile Endpoints

You might've seen this new “Data Freshness” selector in your Proxycurl dashboard. It’s part of a new update we recently rolled out. We’ve made it easy for you to toggle on and off the freshness parameter of the Person Profile Endpoint and Company Profile Endpoint.. Once

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Changelog: Improving The Personal Email Lookup Endpoint To Exclude Work Emails

“Why do you still charge credits for work emails that are filtered out when I’m searching for personal emails?” A customer asked. In fact, quite a few customers… We’re happy to announce we listened: * before: when using the Personal Email Lookup Endpoint, work emails that were filtered out

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The Proxycurl Success Story: Hiring a Marketing Manager Through Automated Recruitment and Executive Search

Finding good candidates that are worth hiring is hard. Other solutions like Indeed, Professional Social Network, and Glassdoor rarely pay off. Here's how we just sourced our own marketing manager without them.

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Similarity scoring is now available with our Reverse Email Lookup Endpoint

This week over at Proxycurl, we added a highly-requested parameter and we're giving away free credits! Read on to find out more. New similarity_score for Reverse Email Lookup Endpoint We added similarity_score to the Reverse Email Lookup Endpoint. It works the same as the similarity_score

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People Data Labs Customers: Get 25,000 Proxycurl Credits for FREE

Are you a customer of People Data Labs? Are you happy with your service? Are you certain you're happy with your service? Find out at no cost this month - we're offering you a month of free service on our $299/month plan, which amounts to

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Best Tech Affiliate Program (2024) – Refer Once & Earn for 2 Years

Have you heard of an affiliate program where you can continue to earn from each referral for two years after they sign up? Well, you've come to the right place: We offer such a program here at Proxycurl! And our commission is a lucrative 30% of your referrals&

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Is Professional Social Network Scraping Legal? Updated 2025

Uncover facts and debunk myths on the legality of Professional Social Network Scraping while looking at a highly-watched court case.

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Test Proxycurl API with Postman & Free Credits - No Code

Writing codes to evaluate an API service might be too much work. Luckily, there is Postman. So, what is Postman? The Postman platform is a solution for product engineers to test an API service without writing integration code. It is a user interface tool to build, interact and test the

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Proxycurl Vs. People Data Labs

US employers struggle to find workers to keep up with the economy’s recovery from the pandemic-caused recession. Although the job market is picking up all over the US, the unemployment rate still fell from 5.8% to 6.1% in May. Employers can close the labor gap is to

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Is Professional Social Network Scraping Legal? Updates 2020

Disclaimer: This article does not, by any means, constitute legal advice. Views expressed are purely opinion and are not legally binding. Consult with your local legal counsel for advice specific to your project, country or application. In our previous article, Is Professional Social Network Scraping Legal?, we discussed two influential

Tutorial: Generating Professional Social Network Profile URLs for Professional Social Network Scraping with Python

Professional Social Network profiles have become a powerful place to gather data on individuals. Different parties will have their own usage of Professional Social Network profiles, such as Professional Social Network data mining, profile research or leads generation. There are many methods out there to procure the information we need.

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