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Steven Goh | CEO

Steven Goh | CEO

World's laziest CEO. Before starting the highly-successful Proxycurl and Sapiengraph, Steven founded 5 other startups: Gom VPN, Kloudsec, SilvrBullet, NuMoney, and SharedHere.

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Professional Social Network Email Finder API

Table of contents * Introduction * Getting Started * Prerequisites * How to get B2B emails with Work Email Lookup API Endpoint * How to get personal emails with Personal Email Lookup API Endpoint * How to get personal numbers with Personal Number Lookup API Endpoint * Summary Introduction It is a common use case to reach

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Why do I get different results with the Lookup endpoints?

This bug has now been fixed! You should always get consistent results when using the Lookup endpoints in the same way. Note that changing the value of similarity_checks may change affect the answer, since this parameter affects how the query behaves as well as any temporarily-cached data. Original answer

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Why am I getting 503 HTTP status code errors?

You might get an erroneous HTTP status code of 503 when you call our API occasionally. This is due to a temporary error. There are many reasons for this: * It could be due to a network error between our internal services or web scraping infrastructure. * It could be due to

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What is Proxycurl's CCPA Policy?

Nubela CCPA Policy - June 28th, 2022 This CCPA Policy is incorporated by reference into the Proxycurl Privacy Policy, and applies only to California consumers and the Personal Information of California consumers. If you are a California resident, the processing of certain personal data about you may be subject to

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Is Proxycurl Compliant with GDPR?

Is Proxycurl Compliant with GDPR? On May 25, 2018, The European Union began enforcing EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) [https://gdpr.eu/what-is-gdpr/#:~:text=The%20General%20Data%20Protection%20Regulation,to%20people%20in%20the%20EU.] in an effort to strengthen the security and protection of the personal data of EU

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How to Report API Issues

There will always be bugs with Proxycurl API, so sometimes, the API might not be behaving in a way that is predictable for you. You might want to find out why. Please provide our customer support with details so we can come back to you with an appropriate response: * Please

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Coresignal Full Review - Comparisons, Features, Pricing

Proxycurl Coresignal Scrapes Professional Social Network profiles live and returns data in <3 seconds "Real-time" API does not return data immediately Core business is in data enrichment via API Core business is in selling datasets Fresh data no older than 29 days; with 90% of profiles scraped

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Bright Data Full Review - Comparisons, Features, Pricing

Proxycurl Bright Data's Professional Social Network Scraper API rate limit of 300 requests/minute; or 432,000 profiles / day). Rate limit can be increased in an Enterprise Plan. No rate limit Profile is fresh Profile is fresh Has skills and contact data No skills and contact data Strong

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PhantomBuster Full Review - Comparisons, Features, Pricing

Proxycurl PhantomBuster Scrapes Public Professional Social Network profile Scrapes Private Professional Social Network profile No need for you to bring your own Professional Social Network account Bring your own Professional Social Network account No limits other than API rate limit (300 requests/minute; or 432,000 profiles / day). Rate limit

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Why do the Lookup Endpoints return incorrect results sometimes?

This post applies to the following API endpoints: * Company Lookup Endpoint * Role Lookup Endpoint * Person Lookup Endpoint * Work Email Lookup Endpoint Occasionally, our Lookup API endpoints return the wrong results. False positives, to be precise. This happens because our Lookup Endpoints is a search function. Even Google gets search results

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Proxycurl is having a service outage - 17th May 2022

Updates (so far) * As of 17th May 2022, 6.22PM SGT, we pushed out an update that should bring Person Profile Endpoint back to normalcy. * As of 19th May 2022, 5.12PM SGT, we pushed out an update that should bring Company Profile Endpoint back to normalcy. * As of 25th

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Search employees with Employee Listing API

We have received feedback that the Employee Listing Endpoint leans towards being a little obtuse in how it can be used to solve problems. For example, the following steps are what you need to identify Software Engineers working at Apple with Proxycurl today: 1. Call Employee Listing Endpoint, which would

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How fresh are profiles returned by the Proxycurl API?

Proxycurl API returns profiles of varying levels of freshness. * Profiles that are less than 29 days old. * Use use_cache=if-recent parameter to enable profile freshness of <= 29 days * On average, 88% of profiles are fetched in real-time when this parameter is provided. * The other 12% of profiles are

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Why don't we provide price quotes?

Let's start by looking at this snippet of an email from a customer looking to acquire LinkDB Snapshots from us: Hello Steven, I'm back to revisiting this (sorry for the delay). It's down to you and [REDACTED]. [REDACTED] has similar data. They're

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How to View a Professional Social Network Profile as a Public Profile?

Organizations and individuals have several reasons to retrieve Professional Social Network profile data. While pulling profile data may seem nefarious, it has several benefits depending on your goals. You might want to scrape profiles for specific industries to collect a list of sales leads. Corporations can use profile data to

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Which countries does Proxycurl's Person Profile API Endpoint work with?

Proxycurl's Person Profile API Endpoint works with Professional Social Network profiles of any country, as long as the profile is public. Public Professional Social Network profiles can be viewed without being logged into Professional Social Network. (See this article for the difference between a public Professional Social Network

What is the difference between Professional Social Network Public Profiles VS Professional Social Network Private Profiles? (With Python code samples)

In a nutshell, Public Professional Social Network profiles are profiles that any individual can view without being logged into Professional Social Network. Private profiles are profiles you see when you are logged into Professional Social Network. Public Professional Social Network profiles have less information. This article will break down what

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Professional Social Network is suing Mantheos - What you should know

As the chief customer support officer of Proxycurl, I have been receiving emails seeking clarifications on our service reliability from customers who swing between our service and Mantheos'. I quote one email: One of our other vendors informed us there have  been significant changes to the Professional Social Network

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Happy Lunar New Year! We added 1.5M Irish profiles into LinkDB

I am happy to share that we just added 1.5M Irish profiles to LinkDB. With this update, Ireland is now an officially supported region in Proxycurl's suite of services. Now, you can: * List Irish employees with our Employee Listing API Endpoint * Purchase a snapshot of 1.5M

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Happy 2022! We added 6.3M Australians to LinkDB

I am happy to share that we just added 6.3M Australian profiles to LinkDB. With this update, Australia is now an officially supported region in Proxycurl's suite of services. Now, you can: * List Australian employees with our Employee Listing API Endpoint * Purchase a snapshot of 6.3M