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The Ultimate Guide to Professional Social Network Search: Jobs, People, Profiles, Candidates, & More

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

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Best Tech Affiliate Program (2024) – Refer Once & Earn for 2 Years

Have you heard of an affiliate program where you can continue to earn from each referral for two years after they sign up? Well, you've come to the right place: We offer such a program here at Proxycurl! And our commission is a lucrative 30% of your referrals&

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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 Professional Social Network! 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

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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

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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

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What is the Professional Social Network Sales Navigator?

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

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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 Professional Social Network Scraping Legal? Updated 2025

Uncover facts and debunk myths on the legality of Professional Social Network Scraping 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 Professional Social Network Data Scraper

So you want to scrape Professional Social Network 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

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Using Proxycurl's Historic Professional Social Network Employee Count Tool for Investment Research

What is Proxycurl's Historic Professional Social Network Employee Count Tool, and why is it useful? Proxycurl's Historic Professional Social Network 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&

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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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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

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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

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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&

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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

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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

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I cold emailed our way to $1M ARR in 18 months. Here's the story.

Proxycurl is almost three years old, and we are marching towards 5 million (USD) in annual recurring revenue (ARR). In this post, I will tell you exactly how we got here. Proxycurl is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and we sell data enrichment services on people and businesses to other businesses looking

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Early Stage Startups: Investments, Stages, Funding - In-Depth

What do you think of when you first hear "early-stage" startup? A startup with an idea? An MVP? Some revenue, maybe? The answer is, it depends. For instance, YC (YCombinator) invests in "early-stage" startups with some of them post-revenue while some of them being nothing more

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Ins & Outs of Demographic Data & Segmentation to Enrich Business

To connect and address the needs of an audience, a speaker must know her audience - who they are and what they do. The same applies to any serious business. Businesses must connect with and understand their customers to create and deliver the right products and services. One way to

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Test Proxycurl API with Postman & Free Credits - No Code

Writing codes to evaluate an API service might be too much work. Luckily, there is Postman. So, what is Postman? The Postman platform is a solution for product engineers to test an API service without writing integration code. It is a user interface tool to build, interact and test the

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