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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 best ones currently available.

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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,

contact api

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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The Ultimate Guide to LinkedIn X-Ray Searches (2024 Update)

A definitive guide to searching for and extracting interesting LinkedIn profiles at scale with LinkedIn X-ray searches.

faq

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 (2024 Update)

LinkedIn can be a great resource for any business, but it’s even better with automation….

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How To Delete My Proxycurl Account?

You have the option to delete your Proxycurl account at any time within your Proxycurl dashboard. After successfully deleting your account, here's what to expect: * Loss of access to all your Proxycurl credits. * No more access to your old Proxycurl account. * Permanent removal of your account and personal

New Proxycurl monthly auto top ups limit

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Changelog: You can now limit your monthly auto top-ups

Following the previous update on the new smaller auto top-up amounts, we've now added the ability to limit your monthly auto top-up amount. Specifically, you can choose between one of these four limits: * $1,000 * $2,000 * $5,000 * $10,000 For those of you who run Proxycurl

New Proxycurl annual plan with more credits and lower cost per credit

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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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The Definitive Guide to LinkedIn Automation

Learn the two different types of LinkedIn automation actions, and how you can use them for your benefit.

It's easier than you think to build a job board. Let us show you.

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How to Build a Job Board with Our LinkedIn Job Scraping API

Interested in creating your own job board? Here’s the easiest way to get your job board created – all without requiring doing any scraping of your own, or requiring submissions from companies.

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Changelog: You can now auto top-up in smaller amounts

We have good news for you! We've added two smaller denominations of auto top-ups: * $10 * $50 Some of you are working hard to scale up your businesses and applications, while thoroughly enjoying using our products doing so. These two new options could help you manage the costs better

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