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Proxycurl Shuts Down. Thank you.

In January earlier this year (2025), LinkedIn filed a lawsuit against Proxycurl. Today, we are shutting Proxycurl down. Regardless of the merits of LinkedIn's lawsuit, there is no winning in fighting this. This is due to two reasons: * The American Rule, which means that even if we were

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The Ultimate Guide to the Professional Social Network API: People Profile API (with Python Example)

In this first chapter of the "Ultimate Guide to the Professional Social Network API" series, my goal is to get your product integrated with Professional Social Network API without the need to be approved as a Professional Social Network Partner. This guide is intended for software engineers comfortable

Top 5 Professional Social Network Scrapers in 2023 - Detailed Reviews with Ratings

💡Old post - republished with new content You are probably reading this article because you are seeking a solution to fetch fresh Professional Social Network profile data at scale. In this article, I'll introduce and provide a cursory review of the top 5 Professional Social Network scraping API

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How can I retrieve a list of all employees within a company through the Professional Social Network API?

In this post, we're going to answer a StackOverflow question. You can still [view the original question on StackOverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55246288/how-can-i-retrieve-a-list-of-all-employees-within-a-company-through-the-Professional Social Network), but we'll provide the text of the question below also. Or you can skip below to our answer. Years

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Does Proxycurl's Professional Social Network API pull contact information from Professional Social Network Profiles?

No, Proxycurl's Professional Social Network API only scrapes public Professional Social Network profiles. Contact information of profiles are not present on these public profile pages, so we are not able to provide that information as well. However, we have announced an Email Extraction API endpoint that will allow

Introducing Accountgram (by the Proxycurl team)

I'm happy to share that the team behind Proxycurl is launching Accountgram today! Accountgram is a digital B2B debt collection service with a 32.5% success rate from 64 collections, and an average of 12 days to collection. Accountgram is the key that reduced our customer churn rate

Ultimate Guide to B2B Collections

As the CEO of Accountgram, a B2B debt collection specialist with 92 collections under my belt since June 2024, I want to provide you with a no-nonsense breakdown of everything I know about B2B collections. I’ll also show you exclusive receipts from a collection made by Atradius, a €2.

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Why Is There a Double Opt-In for a 12-Month Subscription Commitment?

Our double opt-in process guarantees complete transparency before you commit to the 12-month subscription. With this step, we're assured that you understand and agree with the terms, before finalizing your purchase. To proceed, review the terms before accepting them by checking the box. Only after you tick the

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Ultimate Guide To The Professional Social Network API: People Profile API (with Python Examples)

Learn all about the Professional Social Network API, with comprehensive Python code demos. Dive into the world of Professional Social Network APIs, official and third-party alternatives, and understand how to access and utilize Professional Social Network profile data through Python code examples.

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Fresh Data Is Here for Person, Company & Employee Search API Endpoints

We've heard this product feature request a few times, and we're glad to launch this! It'll give more data quality to your workflows using our API endpoints. To fresh data!

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We Scraped Ahrefs Evolve 2024 Attendees & Enriched It with Professional Social Network Data to Identify Noteworthy People to Network With (Spreadsheet Included)

My marketing team and I are attending the Ahrefs Evolve 2024 conference in 2 days time. My objective (as the CEO of the company) in attending this conference is really to identify a few brilliant individuals whom I might be able to hire to join Proxycurl to bolster our marketing

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Get Historical Employee Growth With Proxycurl's Employee Count Endpoint

We added a new feature to the Employee Count Endpoint: the `at_date` parameter, which will fetch historical employee count data of any company. Check out our docs.

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How Do I Change or Cancel My Subscription Plan?

We get it - flexibility is key when it comes to managing your subscription. Whether you're looking to upgrade, downgrade, or even cancel your plan, we've streamlined the process to be as painless as smooth as possible. Here’s a quick guide to help you with

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We are serious about purchasing credits. However, I need more trial credits for evaluation. Are you able to provide us with more trial credits?

Do you have a budget of $1.99 for testing the service? If so, are you able to head over to the dashboard and make a top-up? $1.99 will yield you 100 credits, which I believe should be plenty for you to evaluate the service. In our early days,

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Announcing Fresh Facebook and X/Twitter Profile Data in Person Profile Endpoint

In the heels of our recent announcement of the all-new Customer API, I am happy to share that we will now return fresh profile data for Facebook or Twitter/X profiles via the Person Profile Endpoint (provided that the use_cache=if-recent parameter is included). Here is a quick demo

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Introducing Proxycurl's Customer API

I am pleased to announce that the Customer API is now available in production on Proxycurl. The Customer API enables you to retrieve a list of customers and followers of any company. Let's see it in action. It is no secret that People Data Labs (PDL) is one

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An Update To Proxycurl's Free API Offerings

We have to update our free API offerings due to bad actors abusing our free API offerings. As you already know, we have always offered a suite of free API endpoints that lets you 1. check an email address to see if it is a disposable email, a free email,

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Ultimate Guide to Boolean Search Syntax

There is a good chance you already know the Boolean search syntax if you're good at googling because a large of advance search expressions are in fact a Boolean search. In this guide, we will go a bit further and formally document the Boolean Search syntax. Boolean Search

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Search API V2 is live! No more regexes, hello Boolean searches

We take the iteration process very seriously at Proxycurl. After months of development, we have revamped the Search API and this update for the new Search API is live today! Now Boolean search, no more regexes This is how you can search for people who had studied at Caltech or

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How Fresh Is the Data from Employee Listing Endpoint or the Search API?

Proxycurl's Employee Listing Endpoint and the Search API are powered by LinkDB. This means that searches are performed within LinkDB. We do not scrape Professional Social Network for employee data or to perform people/company searches. Since LinkDB is not synced with the latest data on Professional Social

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We're Introducing New Annual Plans With Additional Discounts and Other Pricing Updates

In this new year, we're fully committing to our long-term customers with the introduction of a new subscription plans. These changes reflect our growth as a company and our commitment to investing resources in serving our customers over the long term. Throughout 2023, we've significantly invested

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Why Doesn't Proxycurl API Support CORS?

We often receive inquiries about enabling CORS headers to allow any origin to access the Proxycurl API. However, our policy is to deliberately block requests to the Proxycurl API that are made from a browser client. The reason for this is that it would require exposing the Proxycurl API key

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What is the difference between the Person Search Endpoint, Role Lookup Endpoint, and the Employee Search Endpoint?

We have three similar API endpoints that seem to perform the same function—these are the Employee Search Endpoint, the Person Search Endpoint, and the Role Lookup Endpoint. However, in actuality, each one has unique nuances. * Employee Search Endpoint - Powered by LinkDB, this endpoint returns a list of employees

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How Cold Emailing Grew My B2B Startup To $100k MRR

Cold email has always been essential to the growth of Proxycurl. It's the main reason why we hit $100k MRR. Here's how we did it profitably...

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Profile Enrichment via Facebook & Twitter Comes to Proxycurl!

Hello and welcome to our end-of-August changelog! We've added a new feature to our Person Profile Endpoint - the ability to look anyone up by new methods. There are now THREE methods of input: * Professional Social Network_profile_url * facebook_profile_url * twitter_profile_url (And don'

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