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People Data Labs Customers: Get 25,000 Proxycurl Credits for FREE

Are you a customer of People Data Labs? Are you happy with your service? Are you certain you're happy with your service? Find out at no cost this month - we're offering you a month of free service on our $299/month plan, which amounts to

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Use Proxycurl's APIs Within Google Sheets: Introducing Sapiengraph!

Have you ever wanted to integrate Proxycurl's APIs into your spreadsheet data? Or maybe you don't code - you prefer working within Google Sheets using familiar formulas rather than writing Python scripts. Introducing Sapiengraph: Proxycurl's new offering for B2B data directly inside Google Sheets!

Public profiles have no LinkedIn connections, and we only work with public profiles

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Do You Provide LinkedIn Connections?

LinkedIn connections are not part of the public profile data set, and we only work with public data. Therefore, LinkedIn connections are not available for us to scrape and we do not scrape them. No, we do not provide LinkedIn connection data.

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Do You Offer Any Discounts for Startups or Nonprofits?

We do not offer any discounts to any classes of organizations.

It can go really long actually - as many as 4904 characters for the entire Search Regex query.

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How Long Can a Search Regex Be?

There is not a maximum length for individual parameters of a search query; rather, your entire query must be at most 4094 characters.

404 is a successful query and will be charged, failed requests such as 503, 429 meanwhile won't be.

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Why Do We Charge Credits for 404s?

In our API, a 404 is considered a successful query, despite being classified as an error code. You can check our API reference manual sections on credits and status codes for official documentation at any time, but here we will explain the why of this policy. When a request comes

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Proxycurl Search May 2023 - Results Now 67% Cheaper & More

📢As of 1 March 2024, we've deprecated this initial version - the Search API V1, and launched the Search API V2, with some amazing updates: • No more regexes, now on Boolean search • No more 35-credit base costs, it's now just 3 credits/result - much much

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Why Do Employee or Student Counts from our API Endpoint Differ from LinkedIn's Data?

1. Our Employee/Student Listing API endpoint relies on LinkDB, a database that exclusively gathers public LinkedIn profiles. Consequently, the data we can provide is only as comprehensive as the content available in LinkDB. 2. LinkedIn's specific heuristics for associating an individual with their employer are not transparent

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Access API Logs in Your Proxycurl Dashboard

We've added API logs to your Proxycurl Dashboard, giving you the power to better understand and debug your use of Proxycurl. The number of logs you gain access to is as follows: Subscription Plan Total Accessible Logs • PAYG • $49/mo plan 5 $299/mo plan 10,000 $899/

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The VC's Guide to Uncovering Stealth Startups

How can you identify a likely founder so that you can be the earliest to invest in their success? In this article, we'll answer this question and show you several specific queries you can plug into the Proxycurl Person Search Endpoint to search for potential founders. Our intent

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Regular Expressions & the Proxycurl Search API

📢As of 1 March 2024, the Proxycurl Search API no longer supports regex, instead we've switched to Boolean search. Check out the announcement post here. But this is itself still a great guide for learning regex. Welcome to the definitive guide to regular expressions (regex) & the Proxycurl

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The Ultimate Guide to LinkedIn Search: Jobs, People, Profiles, Candidates, & More

We heard you want to do a LinkedIn search. Awesome, that's what we're here for! In this article, we'll walk you through several ways to search LinkedIn, including both user interfaces and APIs. We'll also provide some code samples in case you&

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The Ultimate Guide to Company Data APIs (with Python Examples)

Welcome to (or back to) our "Ultimate Guide to" series, in which we discuss different aspects of scraping data from LinkedIn! This time, our topic is: Company Data APIs. There are many reasons you might need a Company Data API, but at its core, a Company Data API

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Why Does the Reverse Work Email Lookup Return Incorrect Results, and Can It Be Fixed?

The Reverse Work Email Lookup API endpoint is a search function designed to return the closest match. However, the Reverse Email Lookup can sometimes return false positives. Even Google's search results can be inaccurate at times. It's important to understand that the Reverse Work Email Lookup

What is LinkedIn Sales Navigator? How to use it? Is it worth it?

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What is the LinkedIn Sales Navigator?

LinkedIn offers a proprietary tool called LinkedIn Sales Navigator that - for a fee, of course - allows the user to apply advanced filtering to LinkedIn's data set. In this tutorial, I will briefly walk you through it so that you can see for yourself what it is

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Employee Listings Sorting and Rate Limit Changes for Free APIs

Happy Easter everyone! While children enjoy their candy, you can look forward to new features this week. Introducing sort_by Parameter in the Employee Listing API Endpoint Ever wondered how to find the most recent employees to join Company X or identify those who just left? How about doing this

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Proxycurl Announces Search!

📢As of 1 March 2024, we've deprecated this initial version - the Search API V1, and launched the Search API V2, with some amazing updates: • No more regexes, now on Boolean search • No more 35-credit base costs, it's now just 3 credits/result • Much faster search

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Am I Charged for Making the Same API Calls Repeatedly?

Yes, you are. Each API call you make is an independent call to our servers, and we bill you each time you make a call. The reality is that running our servers is expensive, and every time you make a request, we do the work to process your request, even

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Is LinkedIn Scraping Legal? Updated 2024

We debunk some myths and affirm some facts while looking at a highly-watched court case.

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Notice of Reveal API Deprecation on 1st of May 2023 at 11am SGT

Please be advised that the Reveal API will be deprecated on the 1st of May 2023, at 11am Singapore Time (SGT). After a thorough analysis, we have decided to discontinue the Reveal API due to the fact that it has not been widely adopted by our customers. This decision has

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Changelog 23rd March 2023 - Historic Employee Count and same-step enrichment for Lookups

Fetch the historic employee count of any target company. Megan wrote an excellent piece on extracting and analyzing the historic employee count of any target company. We open-sourced the code so you can fetch historic data yourself with the Proxycurl API. You can read the article here. Enrich profiles in

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How to Build a LinkedIn Data Scraper

So you want to scrape LinkedIn for data. Maybe you're a dev looking to automate your next remote job search; maybe you're a hiring manager trying to find the perfect candidate; or maybe you're an investor trying to figure out who exactly is joining

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Using Proxycurl's Historic LinkedIn Employee Count Tool for Investment Research

What is Proxycurl's Historic LinkedIn Employee Count Tool, and why is it useful? Proxycurl's Historic LinkedIn Employee Count Tool counts employees during historical snapshots and provides a trend line dating as far back as the user wants (with the caveat that it's only accurate

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Sales & Marketing With Quality Lead Generation: Track Prospects, Get Emails

When we mention lead generation, the single department that most closely-relates or uses lead generation most is sales and marketing. Lead generation is a huge headache for people in sales and marketing. Though there are many channels for finding potential prospects, however to approach quality prospects and get good responses

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Growth Startups: Get Leads, Receive Funding, Hire Talents & Scale Fast

Building a startup is one of the most challenging things to do in life. For bootstrappers, you need to find leads, find users quickly, or risk the venture dying, for funded startups, it is tough to find investors, and venture capitalists and the negotiations might take time thus holding you

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