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Professional Social Network is suing Mantheos - What you should know

As the chief customer support officer of Proxycurl, I have been receiving emails seeking clarifications on our service reliability from customers who swing between our service and Mantheos'. I quote one email: One of our other vendors informed us there have  been significant changes to the Professional Social Network

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Happy Lunar New Year! We added 1.5M Irish profiles into LinkDB

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

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Happy 2022! We added 6.3M Australians to LinkDB

I am happy to share that we just added 6.3M Australian profiles to LinkDB. With this update, Australia is now an officially supported region in Proxycurl's suite of services. Now, you can: * List Australian employees with our Employee Listing API Endpoint * Purchase a snapshot of 6.3M

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How to maximize throughput on Proxycurl?

More often or not, Proxycurl is not the bottleneck for your application. On a regular account, every account has a rate limit of 300 requests every minute. So, in theory, you can make 432,000 API requests per day, which amounts to $4320 per day at a minimum. This brings

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15+M UK profiles added to LinkDB

I am happy to share that we just added 15+M UK profiles to LinkDB. With this update, United Kingdom is now an officially supported region in Proxycurl's suite of services. Now, you can: * List UK employees with our Employee Listing API Endpoint * Purchase a snapshot of 15+

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Does Proxycurl scrape a Professional Social Network profile for posts?

Yes, we do for people profiles, with caveats. The articles and activities values in our [Person Profile Endpoint](https://nubela.co/proxycurl/docs#people-api-Professional Social Network-person-profile-endpoint) describe a profile's post activities. However, given that we scrape public Professional Social Network profiles, our API can only scrape what is

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How stable is Proxycurl for scraping Professional Social Network?

The short answer is -- as stable as Professional Social Network lets us be. It is a constant cat-and-mouse game with Professional Social Network. Given that we scrape public Professional Social Network profiles only. There are quite a few moving parts that we have no control over, such as: * If

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Introducing Role Lookup API endpoint

Proxycurl's Lookup Search endpoint takes in a company_name and the role you want to reach out to, and bam. It returns you the Professional Social Network profile URL of the person of interest.

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How to change your login email address in Proxycurl?

The customer support staff at Proxycurl can help you change your email address. However, it is not a direct change. What we can do is to transfer credits from one account to another. We are not able to help you move over 1. the credit cards added to the original

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8.7M Canadian profiles added to LinkDB

I am happy to share that we just added 8.7+ Canadian profiles to LinkDB. With this, Canada is now an officially supported region in Proxycurl's suite of services. Now, you can: * List Canadian employees with our Employee Listing API Endpoint * Query Canadian profiles in LinkDB * Purchase a

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Proxycurl Vs. People Data Labs

US employers struggle to find workers to keep up with the economy’s recovery from the pandemic-caused recession. Although the job market is picking up all over the US, the unemployment rate still fell from 5.8% to 6.1% in May. Employers can close the labor gap is to

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Why is the API so slow?

Proxycurl scrapes public Professional Social Network profiles in real-time and on-demand. Web scraping takes time, and on average. Every API Request dispatches a real-time job to scrape a profile. Because each API request is a job to scrape a profile live, it takes about 5-6 seconds to complete and the