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New Employee Search Endpoint and more!

This week, we're happy to come to you with updates on a new API endpoint and further refinements to the Proxycurl API. Introducing Employee Search API Endpoint You can now search for Employees of any target company with the Employee Search Endpoint. This new API endpoint is a

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The Ultimate Guide to Alternative Data - What Is It Really?

In recent years, there has been a considerable amount of buzz on alternative data in the investment & finance industries, and there is a good reason for that. This form of data is positively shaping the financial sector by providing alternative viewpoints via real-time signals and unforeseen insights into investment

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We are restructuring Proxycurl, the product, under Proxycurl LLC.

We will be restructuring Proxycurl, the product, under Proxycurl LLC, a US-based holding company, in the coming weeks. The restructuring exercise is an administrative restructuring, and the ownership and management will remain the same. Our invoices will come under Proxycurl LLC's letterhead moving forward. In addition, all contracts

LinkDB - a global database with datasets of LinkedIn People & Company Profiles

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

Don't let the naysayers get to you and tell you this is the era of GPT3 and Cryptocurrency. I will argue that we are in a new age of big data-driven companies. For example, why wait for the right candidate to apply for a role in a company

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The ultimate guide to Proxycurl's LinkedIn Jobs API (with sample code)

Table of contents * Introduction * What's Proxycurl API * Why you should use Proxycurl API * Getting Started * Prerequisites * Getting Your API Key * Getting Your Company's Search ID * Example: Getting A List of Jobs posted by Apple * Example: Getting a Specific Job Details * Summary Introduction LinkedIn is the largest

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LinkedIn Email Finder API

Table of contents * Introduction * Getting Started * Prerequisites * How to get B2B emails with Work Email Lookup API Endpoint * How to get personal emails with Personal Email Lookup API Endpoint * How to get personal numbers with Personal Number Lookup API Endpoint * Summary Introduction It is a common use case to reach

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Why do I get different results with the Lookup endpoints?

This bug has now been fixed! You should always get consistent results when using the Lookup endpoints in the same way. Note that changing the value of similarity_checks may change affect the answer, since this parameter affects how the query behaves as well as any temporarily-cached data. Original answer

Reasons why you are getting 503 HTTP status code errors

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Why am I getting 503 HTTP status code errors?

You might get an erroneous HTTP status code of 503 when you call our API occasionally. This is due to a temporary error. There are many reasons for this: * It could be due to a network error between our internal services or web scraping infrastructure. * It could be due to

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What is Proxycurl's CCPA Policy?

Nubela CCPA Policy - June 28th, 2022 This CCPA Policy is incorporated by reference into the Proxycurl Privacy Policy, and applies only to California consumers and the Personal Information of California consumers. If you are a California resident, the processing of certain personal data about you may be subject to

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Is Proxycurl Compliant with GDPR?

Is Proxycurl Compliant with GDPR? On May 25, 2018, The European Union began enforcing EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) [https://gdpr.eu/what-is-gdpr/#:~:text=The%20General%20Data%20Protection%20Regulation,to%20people%20in%20the%20EU.] in an effort to strengthen the security and protection of the personal data of EU

Send an email to hello@nubela.co to report API issues

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How to Report API Issues

There will always be bugs with Proxycurl API, so sometimes, the API might not be behaving in a way that is predictable for you. You might want to find out why. Please provide our customer support with details so we can come back to you with an appropriate response: * Please

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Coresignal Full Review - Comparisons, Features, Pricing

Proxycurl Coresignal Scrapes LinkedIn profiles live and returns data in <3 seconds "Real-time" API does not return data immediately Core business is in data enrichment via API Core business is in selling datasets Fresh data no older than 29 days; with 90% of profiles scraped in real-time

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Bright Data Full Review - Comparisons, Features, Pricing

Proxycurl Bright Data's LinkedIn Scraper API rate limit of 300 requests/minute; or 432,000 profiles / day). Rate limit can be increased in an Enterprise Plan. No rate limit Profile is fresh Profile is fresh Has skills and contact data No skills and contact data Strong developer API

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PhantomBuster Full Review - Comparisons, Features, Pricing

Proxycurl PhantomBuster Scrapes Public LinkedIn profile Scrapes Private LinkedIn profile No need for you to bring your own LinkedIn account Bring your own LinkedIn account No limits other than API rate limit (300 requests/minute; or 432,000 profiles / day). Rate limit can be increased in an Enterprise Plan. Total

Reasons why the Lookup Endpoints return incorrect results sometimes.

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Why do the Lookup Endpoints return incorrect results sometimes?

This post applies to the following API endpoints: * Company Lookup Endpoint [https://nubela.co/proxycurl/linkedin/company] * Role Lookup Endpoint [https://nubela.co/proxycurl/docs#people-api-role-lookup-endpoint] * Person Lookup Endpoint [https://nubela.co/proxycurl/linkedin] * Work Email Lookup Endpoint [https://nubela.co/proxycurl/email-lookup] Occasionally, our Lookup API endpoints return the

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Proxycurl is having a service outage - 17th May 2022

Updates (so far) * As of 17th May 2022, 6.22PM SGT, we pushed out an update that should bring Person Profile Endpoint back to normalcy. * As of 19th May 2022, 5.12PM SGT, we pushed out an update that should bring Company Profile Endpoint back to normalcy. * As of 25th

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Which data points do we provide on updates/activities from LinkedIn member profiles?

For people profiles, our Person Profile API offers the following: * articles - Articles posted by the user * activities - see the Activity response section of Person Profile Endpoint For companies, our Company Profile API follows the following: * updates - See CompanyUpdate response section of Company Profile Endpoint Do note that

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Search employees with Employee Listing API

We have received feedback that the Employee Listing Endpoint [https://nubela.co/proxycurl/linkedin/list-employee] leans towards being a little obtuse in how it can be used to solve problems. For example, the following steps are what you need to identify Software Engineers working at Apple with Proxycurl today: 1.

Proxycurl API returns profiles of varying levels freshness

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How fresh are profiles returned by the Proxycurl API?

Proxycurl API returns profiles of varying levels of freshness. * Profiles that are less than 29 days old. * Use use_cache=if-recent parameter to enable profile freshness of <= 29 days * On average, 88% of profiles are fetched in real-time when this parameter is provided. * The other 12% of profiles are

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Why do most LinkedIn profiles fetched via the Person Profile Endpoint return a placeholder profile picture?

Our Person Profile Endpoint scrapes public LinkedIn profiles only. And if a user does not share their profile picture publicly, then the profile picture of their public LinkedIn profile would be a placeholder image. We cannot discern if an image is a placeholder picture or not because an image is

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Fetch Skills of LinkedIn Profiles with Person Profile Endpoint

Proxycurl API fetches data from public LinkedIn profiles only. The side effect of public LinkedIn profiles is that it does not have skills data. HR tech companies need skills. For a long time, we could not provide skills data via the Person Profile Endpoint [https://nubela.co/proxycurl/linkedin]. I

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New Zealand is now an officially supported country in LinkDB with 1.5M profiles

I am happy to share that we added 1.5M New Zealand public LinkedIn profiles to LinkDB. With this update, New Zealand is now an officially supported region in Proxycurl's suite of services. Now, you can: * List Kiwi employees with our Employee Listing API Endpoint * Purchase a snapshot

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How to View a LinkedIn Profile as a Public Profile?

Organizations and individuals have several reasons to retrieve LinkedIn profile data. While pulling profile data may seem nefarious, it has several benefits depending on your goals. You might want to scrape profiles for specific industries to collect a list of sales leads. Corporations can use profile data to develop sales

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Which countries does Proxycurl's Person Profile API Endpoint work with?

Proxycurl's Person Profile API Endpoint [https://nubela.co/proxycurl/linkedin] works with LinkedIn profiles of any country, as long as the profile is public. Public LinkedIn profiles can be viewed without being logged into LinkedIn. (See this article for the difference between a public LinkedIn profile VS a

What is the difference between LinkedIn Public Profiles VS LinkedIn Private Profiles? (With Python code samples)

In a nutshell, Public LinkedIn profiles are profiles that any individual can view without being logged into LinkedIn. Private profiles are profiles you see when you are logged into LinkedIn. Public LinkedIn profiles have less information. This article will break down what exactly is missing and what is different. And

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