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How CoffeeSpace Powers Its Tinder-Like Cofounder Matching App with Proxycurl

We at Proxycurl have had the privilege of speaking with Hazim, the CEO and co-founder of CoffeeSpace, a Tinder/Hinge-like platform for co-founder matching. Intrigued? We’re here to tell you all about it: its origins, core idea and features, challenges faced, and the tech stack that powers its data-matching

18 Clearbit competitors - ratings and reviews, pricing and more

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The Most In-Depth Guide to 18 Clearbit Competitors & Alternatives

Possibly the most in-depth breakdown of 18 Clearbit competitors & alternatives that covers features, ratings, prices and more. Specially made for sales and marketing teams.

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Your Network, Your Rewards: Earn with Our New Referral Program

Good news: Proxycurl finally has a referral program! Here's how to use it.

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You Can Now Add Team Members to Your Proxycurl Account

You've been asking for this for a while, and we've finally delivered...

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Comparing the 13 Best Data Enrichment Tools

The 13 best data enrichment tools currently available on the market in 2024.

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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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How Lior Neu-ner Bootstrapped His Job Board, Remote Rocketship, to Over 350,000 Unique Visitors per Month

Learn how Lior profitably bootstrapped his niche job board, Remote Rocketship, to over 350,000 monthly unique visitors.

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19 Best Data Enrichment APIs in 2025

Learn the purpose of a data enrichment API and the top 19 data enrichment APIs of 2025. 1. Proxycurl 2. Clearbit 3. ZoomInfo

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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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How to Automate Cold Calling Lead Generation

Learn how to programmatically find prospects, and enrich your existing prospects with accurate contact information and more.

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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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How to Get a LinkedIn Profile’s Contact Information Programmatically

Learn how to find the contact information of any given LinkedIn profile programmatically with our B2B enrichment API.

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Does Proxycurl’s Third-Party LinkedIn API Scrape Contact Information From LinkedIn Profiles?

You have questions. We have answers. This time about contact information enrichment.

I’d Like to Cancel My Proxycurl Plan, Do I Have to Incur Any Cancellation Fee?

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I’d Like to Cancel My Plan, Do I Have to Incur Any Cancellation Fee?

Short answer, yes. Long answer, It depends on the plan you are on There are three types of plans Proxycurl offers: 1. Annual Plan, billed monthly 2. Annual Plan, billed annually 3. Pay-as-you-go, ala-carte credit purchase The 2nd and 3rd plan types won't be the content of discussion

Skip the web scraping team, proxies, LinkedIn accounts, and beyond. Just grab our B2B dataset instead.

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LinkDB: A Comprehensive LinkedIn Dataset of Over 485 Million People and Company Profiles

Skip the web scraping team, proxies, LinkedIn accounts, and beyond. Just grab our B2B dataset instead.

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How to Automate LinkedIn Messaging (without LinkedIn’s Messaging API)

The idea of being able to programmatically message anyone on LinkedIn, the world's largest social networking site, is quite appealing. But is it possible?

Meta v. Bright Data web scraping legal court case battle

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This Is Why Meta Lost the Scraping Legal Battle to Bright Data

Meta took Bright Data to court, and the results are probably not as you expect...

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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 LinkedIn for employee data or to perform people/company searches. Since LinkDB is not synced with the latest data on LinkedIn, you might experience:

retrieving a list of all employees with the linkedin api

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Can You Retrieve a List of Employees at a Given Company With the LinkedIn API?

LinkedIn is full of tons of B2B data, especially in relation to employment. What if you could effortlessly tap into this data and use it for your benefit?

Proxycurl tweet for credits feature launch

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Need more credits? We've got you covered, simply tweet.

We have been listening to your feedback and compliments, and we heard how much you've been loving Proxycurl. Thus the launch of our "Tweet for credits" initiative that serves to reward customers like yourself! What is it about? Simply tweet (or post in the terms of

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Comparing the 18 Best LinkedIn Automation Tools (2025 Update)

LinkedIn can be a great resource for any business, but it’s even better with automation. Discover the top 18 LinkedIn Automation tools in 2025

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