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

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

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

Get the latest Proxycurl Search updates!

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

Get the latest Proxycurl Search updates!

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

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

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

Access API Logs in Your Proxycurl Dashboard

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/

Access API Logs in Your Proxycurl Dashboard

The VC's Guide to Uncovering Stealth Startups to invest in to generate alpha

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

The VC's Guide to Uncovering Stealth Startups to invest in to generate alpha

Definitive guide to regular expressions (regex) and Proxycurl Search API

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

Definitive guide to regular expressions (regex) and Proxycurl Search API

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

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&

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

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

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

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

Why Does the Reverse Work Email Lookup Return Incorrect Results, and Can It Be Fixed? Here's to know why.

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

Why Does the Reverse Work Email Lookup Return Incorrect Results, and Can It Be Fixed? Here's to know why.

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

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

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

Employee Listings Sorting and Rate Limit Changes for Free APIs

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

Employee Listings Sorting and Rate Limit Changes for Free APIs

Introducing Proxycurl's Search API

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

Introducing Proxycurl's Search API

Am I Charged for Making the Same API Calls Repeatedly?

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

Am I Charged for Making the Same API Calls Repeatedly?

Is LinkedIn web scraping legal in 2024? Yes it is.

Is LinkedIn Scraping Legal? Updated 2024

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

Is LinkedIn web scraping legal in 2024? Yes it is.

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

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

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

Historic Employee Count and same-step enrichment for Lookups

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

Historic Employee Count and same-step enrichment for Lookups

Scraping LinkedIn? Use an API like Proxycurl's to do it easily and at scale

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

Scraping LinkedIn? Use an API like Proxycurl's to do it easily and at scale

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Changelog 14th Feb 2023 - Free layoffs "Data Pack," Improved Person Lookup and Person Profile Endpoint, UI Tweaks, and more!

Dear you, Happy Valentine's day, and here's our valentine to you! In this week's changelog series, I have a special gift worth $11326.67 for all our VC customers. Do read to the end for that! Use the resolve_numeric_id parameter liberally! We

1 in 3 Ex-Google Employees in $15B Startups (2023 Layoffs)

1 in 3 Ex-Google Employees In $15 Billion Worth Of Startups [2023 Layoffs]

From a life of corporate toiling to startup stardom, droves of ex-Googlers have turned their talents to the startup world. The result? A collective $15 Billion worth of venture-funded startups now call ex-Googlers their own. Who are these ex-Googlers exactly? Which geographical locations are they from? What kind of industries

1 in 3 Ex-Google Employees in $15B Startups (2023 Layoffs)

Changelog 6th Feb 2023 - Multiple API keys, fresh Employee Count, country filter, follower count, and MORE!

Changelog 6th Feb 2023 - Multiple API keys, fresh Employee Count, country filter, follower count, and MORE!

This week, we dropped an update with some changes you might like. I will also be sending these "changelog" updates a bit more frequently so you can keep abreast. You can also track these changelog articles under the changelog tag on our blog. Track follower count on people&

Changelog 6th Feb 2023 - Multiple API keys, fresh Employee Count, country filter, follower count, and MORE!

Revealing our $124 cold-email hack that got us $83333 in monthly recurring revenue

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Revealing our $124 cold-email hack that got us $83333 in monthly recurring revenue

You got a new product and need a hack to get it into the market. This hack costs $124, and it Proxycurl to a million dollars in annual revenue. This is my go-to market plan right after I finish building Proxycurl, and I will break down how I did it

Revealing our $124 cold-email hack that got us $83333 in monthly recurring revenue

Ultimate Guide To All 21 Proxycurl APIs: Enrich People & Company Profiles

Ultimate Guide To All 21 Proxycurl APIs: Enrich People & Company Profiles

At Proxycurl, we pride ourselves with the many data enrichment APIs that we offer to our clients to power their applications. Not just the sheer number of it, but the quality of these APIs, in 8 in-depth features which will be covered in this post. If you heard about us

Ultimate Guide To All 21 Proxycurl APIs: Enrich People & Company Profiles

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