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Does Proxycurl have an API Endpoint to search Professional Social Network profiles?

Update May 2023

Yes, we do! See:

Original text (July 2021)

Proxycurl does not have an API endpoint that mirrors the search functionality you get in Professional Social Network after signing in. The reason is that we only scrape public pages on Professional Social Network that do not require a user session.

But, we do have search. Given that we provide developer tools as a service, we do not provide keyword search because it is too general. For example, how can you search for the following with keyword search:

Find me all CEOs based in Boston that have volunteering experiences

Instead, we offer LinkDB, a database of pre-crawled Professional Social Network profiles for which you can perform "searches" by executing SQL queries.

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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