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Public profiles have no LinkedIn connections, and we only work with public profiles

Do You Provide LinkedIn Connections?

LinkedIn connections are not part of the public profile data set, and we only work with public data. Therefore, LinkedIn connections are not available for us to scrape and we do not scrape them. No, we do not provide LinkedIn connection data.

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Do You Offer Any Discounts for Startups or Nonprofits?

We do not offer any discounts to any classes of organizations.

404 is a successful query and will be charged, failed requests such as 503, 429 meanwhile won't be.

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Why Do We Charge Credits for 404s?

In our API, a 404 is considered a successful query, despite being classified as an error code. You can check our API reference manual sections on credits and status codes for official documentation at any time, but here we will explain the why of this policy. When a request comes

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Proxycurl Search May 2023 - Results Now 67% Cheaper & More

📢As of 1 March 2024, we've deprecated this initial version - the Search API V1, and launched the Search API V2, with some amazing updates: • No more regexes, now on Boolean search • No more 35-credit base costs, it's now just 3 credits/result - much much cheaper! • Much faster search

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The VC's Guide to Uncovering Stealth Startups

How can you identify a likely founder so that you can be the earliest to invest in their success? In this article, we'll answer this question and show you several specific queries you can plug into the Proxycurl Person Search Endpoint to search for potential founders. Our intent is to

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Regular Expressions & the Proxycurl Search API

📢As of 1 March 2024, the Proxycurl Search API no longer supports regex, instead we've switched to Boolean search. Check out the announcement post here. But this is itself still a great guide for learning regex. Welcome to the definitive guide to regular expressions (regex) & the Proxycurl Search API! This

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The Ultimate Guide to LinkedIn Search: Jobs, People, Profiles, Candidates, & More

We heard you want to do a LinkedIn search. Awesome, that's what we're here for! In this article, we'll walk you through several ways to search LinkedIn, including both user interfaces and APIs. We'll also provide some code samples in case you're interested in checking out a third-party API solution

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The Ultimate Guide to Company Data APIs (with Python Examples)

Welcome to (or back to) our "Ultimate Guide to" series, in which we discuss different aspects of scraping data from LinkedIn! This time, our topic is: Company Data APIs. There are many reasons you might need a Company Data API, but at its core, a Company Data API is an

What is LinkedIn Sales Navigator? How to use it? Is it worth it?

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What is the LinkedIn Sales Navigator?

LinkedIn offers a proprietary tool called LinkedIn Sales Navigator that - for a fee, of course - allows the user to apply advanced filtering to LinkedIn's data set. In this tutorial, I will briefly walk you through it so that you can see for yourself what it is and decide

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Proxycurl Announces Search!

📢As of 1 March 2024, we've deprecated this initial version - the Search API V1, and launched the Search API V2, with some amazing updates: • No more regexes, now on Boolean search • No more 35-credit base costs, it's now just 3 credits/result • Much faster search speed Check out the

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Am I Charged for Making the Same API Calls Repeatedly?

Yes, you are. Each API call you make is an independent call to our servers, and we bill you each time you make a call. The reality is that running our servers is expensive, and every time you make a request, we do the work to process your request, even

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How to Build a LinkedIn Data Scraper

So you want to scrape LinkedIn for data. Maybe you're a dev looking to automate your next remote job search; maybe you're a hiring manager trying to find the perfect candidate; or maybe you're an investor trying to figure out who exactly is joining which stealth ventures. The problem, of

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Using Proxycurl's Historic LinkedIn Employee Count Tool for Investment Research

What is Proxycurl's Historic LinkedIn Employee Count Tool, and why is it useful? Proxycurl's Historic LinkedIn Employee Count Tool counts employees during historical snapshots and provides a trend line dating as far back as the user wants (with the caveat that it's only accurate as long as there are no

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