Proxycurl API is a developer's tool. And the chances are that if you can code, you will have no problem scraping a website, unless it is Professional Social Network. It is a full-time job keeping up with Professional Social Network's bot detection and layout changes.
Proxycurl has just gone live with an update that introduces a new feature -- the ability to turn Professional Social Network Company Profile URLs into structured profile data.
In this article, I will share how you can fetch structured data of Professional Social Network company profiles with no more than a long line of code.
The beauty of Proxycurl API is that you do not have to concern yourself with the tedious task of building a Professional Social Network scraper. Be it one profile or a million profile, today or three months from now, your code to get structured data of Professional Social Network Companies will remain the same one-liner python code.
What kind of data can you get by scraping Professional Social Network company profiles?
With [Proxycurl Company Profile Endpoint](https://nubela.co/proxycurl/Professional Social Network/company), you can get everything in the "About" page of a Professional Social Network Company profile. These include phone numbers, funding data, and office locations.
The following table will specify everything that the Proxycurl Company Profile Endpoint will return:
| Key | Description |
|---|---|
| description | The overview section in the About page |
| website | The listed website on the profile |
| industry | Industry of the company |
| company_size | Listed range of company headcount |
| company_size_on_Professional Social Network | Total employees on Professional Social Network that declared themselves to be staff of said company |
| hq | Address of company's headquarters |
| company_type | Enumerator of company type. Could be PUBLICLY_HELD or PRIVATELY_HELD |
| founded_year | The year that this company is founded in |
| specialities | List of specialities |
| locations | List of locations |
| name | Name of the company |
| tagline | Tagline of the company |
| universal_name_id | Month and year of the user's birthday (Dependent on profile's privacy settings) |
| profile_pic_url | Profile picture of the |
| background_cover_image_url | Wechat contact information (Dependent on profile's privacy settings) |
| funding_data | Crunchbase data of said company's funding data |
| phone | Phone number |
| html_src | (Optional) HTML source of this Professional Social Network Profile. To have this value shown, please include src=include in the Proxycurl request. |
Example with code
Proxycurl Company Profile Endpoint is like any other ReST API. Make a request, and get something back.
Here, I will make a request in Python with the requests library.
from pprint import pprint
import requests
api_endpoint = 'https://nubela.co/proxycurl/api/Professional Social Network/company'
Professional Social Network_profile_url = 'https://www.professionalsocialnetwork.com/company/gojektech/'
api_key = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
header_dic = {'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + api_key}
response = requests.get(api_endpoint,
*params*={'url': Professional Social Network_profile_url},
*headers*=header_dic)
pprint(response.json())
In no more than 4 seconds, I will get back this result back in JSON format:
{'background_cover_image_url': 'https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C511BAQGaR4Ivd9F9-A/company-background_200/0?e=1596247200&v=beta&t=nik1PHzJd7m7EhRIFcqVMESIxzKc9idEvH14b-lUjqw',
'company_size': [201, 500],
'company_size_on_Professional Social Network': 569,
'company_type': 'PRIVATELY_HELD',
'description': 'Gojek is a Super App. It’s one app for ordering food, '
'commuting, digital payments, shopping, hyper-local delivery, '
'and two dozen services. It is Indonesia’s first and '
'fastest-growing decacorn building an on-demand empire.\n'
'\n'
'In the last 36 months, the startup’s total order volumes have '
'grown to 1100x and diversified into 20+ verticals. The '
'company runs the equivalent of three Indian unicorns rolled '
'into one.\n'
'\n'
'A total of 2,000,000 drivers collectively cover an average '
'distance of 16.5 million kilometers each day, making Gojek '
'Indonesia’s de facto transportation partner. Gojek is a verb. '
'Gojek is a way of life. It is quite simply the operating '
'system of Indonesia. 400+ engineers spread across Jakarta, '
'Singapore and India make software decisions that impact '
'entire Southeast Asia.\n'
'\n'
'Gojek Tech is the product development and training center of '
'Gojek. The tech team comprises of developers, data '
'scientists, designers, and product managers who work on '
'product innovation, mining data, and crafting consumer '
'experiences. The average age of the team is 29 and it runs '
'one of the largest JRuby, Java and Clojure & Go clusters in '
'Asia.',
'founded_year': 2015,
'funding_data': {'$type': 'com.Professional Social Network.voyager.organization.FundingData',
'companyCrunchbaseUrl': 'https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/go-jek?utm_source=Professional Social Network&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Professional Social Network_companies&utm_content=profile_cta',
'fundingRoundListCrunchbaseUrl': 'https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/go-jek/funding_rounds/funding_rounds_list?utm_source=Professional Social Network&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Professional Social Network_companies&utm_content=all_fundings',
'lastFundingRound': {'$type': 'com.Professional Social Network.voyager.organization.FundingRound',
'announcedOn': {'$type': 'com.professionalsocialnetwork.common.Date',
'day': 3,
'month': 6,
'year': 2020},
'fundingRoundCrunchbaseUrl': 'https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/go-jek-series-f--983516e8?utm_source=Professional Social Network&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Professional Social Network_companies&utm_content=last_funding',
'fundingType': 'SERIES_F',
'investorsCrunchbaseUrl': 'https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/go-jek-series-f--983516e8?utm_source=Professional Social Network&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Professional Social Network_companies&utm_content=all_investors',
'leadInvestors': [{'$type': 'com.Professional Social Network.voyager.organization.Investor',
'image': {'$type': 'com.Professional Social Network.voyager.common.ImageViewModel',
'attributes': [{'$type': 'com.Professional Social Network.voyager.common.ImageAttribute',
'imageUrl': 'https://media-exp1.licdn.com/media-proxy/ext?w=800&h=800&f=n&hash=YsQ89YghUULWcvihMyY2mOmaGp0%3D&ora=1%2CaFBCTXdkRmpGL2lvQUFBPQ%2CxAVta5g-0R6pgQ4UwRQj4b2E4F-i60NSRpbVDW68GXDp5IbcPzK9IJmOO_u_9wJLZ3VcwVNnYKroHG-wRozvRNavLIht0_jkJpD4cThXO0x6g1ZF_NZ0L0hw4cPyUr2oOXgB3u9KaT2xO-jhYVNvBCc7pPWKNNSWOVMW',
'sourceType': 'URL'}]},
'investorCrunchbaseUrl': 'https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/paypal?utm_source=Professional Social Network&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Professional Social Network_companies&utm_content=investor',
'name': {'$type': 'com.Professional Social Network.voyager.common.TextViewModel',
'text': 'PayPal'}},
{'$type': 'com.Professional Social Network.voyager.organization.Investor',
'image': {'$type': 'com.Professional Social Network.voyager.common.ImageViewModel',
'attributes': [{'$type': 'com.Professional Social Network.voyager.common.ImageAttribute',
'imageUrl': 'https://media-exp1.licdn.com/media-proxy/ext?w=800&h=800&f=n&hash=GmeEU%2BXGM652rteZWAUKEz4nabs%3D&ora=1%2CaFBCTXdkRmpGL2lvQUFBPQ%2CxAVta5g-0R6pgQ4UwRQj4b2E4F-i60NSRpbVDW68GXDp5IbcPzK9IJmOO_u_9wJLZ3VcwVNnYKroHG-wRozvRNavLIht0_jkJpD4cThXO0x6g1ZF_NZ0Kx0h4I2uAezxay9fwPVSOzWtJu8',
'sourceType': 'URL'}]},
'investorCrunchbaseUrl': 'https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/facebook?utm_source=Professional Social Network&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Professional Social Network_companies&utm_content=investor',
'name': {'$type': 'com.Professional Social Network.voyager.common.TextViewModel',
'text': 'Facebook'}}],
'moneyRaised': {'$type': 'com.professionalsocialnetwork.common.MoneyAmount',
'amount': '375000000',
'currencyCode': 'USD'},
'numOtherInvestors': 0},
'numFundingRounds': 10,
'updatedAt': 1592331991},
'hq': {'city': 'Bengaluru',
'country': 'IN',
'geographic_area': 'Karnataka',
'is_hq': True,
'line_1': 'Diamond District, Tower-B, 4th Floor',
'postal_code': '560008'},
'industry': 'Internet',
'locations': [{'city': 'Bengaluru',
'country': 'IN',
'geographic_area': 'Karnataka',
'is_hq': True,
'line_1': 'Diamond District, Tower-B, 4th Floor',
'postal_code': '560008'},
{'city': 'Jakarta Selatan',
'country': 'ID',
'geographic_area': 'Jakarta',
'is_hq': False,
'line_1': 'Pasaraya Blok M, Jalan Sultan Iskandarsyah II No.1, '
'RT.3/RW.1, ',
'postal_code': '12160'},
{'city': 'Sinagpore',
'country': 'SG',
'geographic_area': 'Singapore',
'is_hq': False,
'line_1': '8 Shenton Way, AXA Tower',
'postal_code': '068811'},
{'city': 'Gurgaon',
'country': 'IN',
'geographic_area': 'Gurgaon',
'is_hq': False,
'line_1': '1st Floor, Tower A, Building 8A, DLF Cyber Hub',
'postal_code': '122002'}],
'name': 'Gojek Tech',
'phone': None,
'profile_pic_url': 'https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C510BAQFYcIg1UROecg/company-logo_400_400/0?e=1604534400&v=beta&t=6xZrLFeAJUT5gMRHViZ4G3l4zAUH7_g6jsW0jTHuUNg',
'specialities': [],
'tagline': '',
'universal_name_id': 'gojektech',
'website': 'https://www.gojek.io'}
Managed service to scrape public Professional Social Network profiles
I wish there is more, but this is it. Proxycurl manages the changes in Professional Social Network layout and bot detection, so all you have to do is make the above requests a million times with different companies and concern yourself with product design.
Leave the hard stuff to us.
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