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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

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

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

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

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+

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

How to get a list of former employees of Buzzfeed (or any other companies)

There are only three ways to get a list of employees of any company. The goal of this article is to guide you to a fool-proof method to build a list of employees working in any company in a spreadsheet without much menial effort. To get a list of employees

Enrich companies with funding, categories, emails, exits/acquisitions data

Hello! We are constantly adding data sources other than Professional Social Network into Proxycurl API, such as the data powering our Contact API. Happy to share that we're adding 40 new data points to the Company Profile Endpoint, which includes but is not limited to: * Funding data --

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

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.

Why use Proxycurl if you are already using LinkedHelper, Zoominfo, and Professional Social Network Sales Navigator?

In one of my sales outreach, I spoke to a customer who challenged me: We use LinkedHelper and I'm an expert. So I'm not sure what your service would add. Right off the bat, the user is very sales-savvy but not technically savvy because he knows

Contact Number Lookup API is now live!

Today, it's personal phone numbers. So we are live with a new API endpoint today -- Personal Contact Number Lookup API endpoint.

Introducing Personal Email Lookup API

I'm happy to share that we have a new Personal Email Lookup API endpoint, which is live right now in production.

The Ultimate Guide To Advanced Professional Social Network Company Search

I will take you through the various techniques to make a Professional Social Network Company Search. These techniques range from straightforward to advanced, depending on what your needs are.

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

870k Israeli profiles added to LinkDB

I am happy to share that we just added 8.7+ Israeli profiles to LinkDB. With this, Israel is now an officially supported region in Proxycurl's suite of services.

Can Proxycurl scrape Professional Social Network profile connections?

No, Proxycurl is not able to fetch connections of users for two reasons..

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

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

We updated the status code for "scrape failed" event from 429 to 503

We updated the API today with a new 503 error status code. Context -- there are two reasons why you will get an error with the status code of 429. And it has been confusing for users because users assume they made a mistake. The first reason is that your

Why do the `first_name` and `last_name` return incorrectly sometimes in the Person Profile API Endpoint?

There are two reasons why it happens in our Person Profile API Endpoint: 1. The interpretation of first and last names might vary between people. For example, my name is "Steven Goh." Some people might consider "Steven" the first name, and others might consider it last.

5 Sure Hacks To Find Anyone's Personal & Work Emails

In this article, I will exhaustively list down all possible methods you can use to lookup email addresses, personal or work, for anyone on the internet.

Does Proxycurl have an API Endpoint to search Professional Social Network profiles?

Yes we do! You can use the Company Search Endpoint & Person Search Endpoint.

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

We updated our pricing and made Email Lookup API generally available

Hello, For a few months now, Postgresql has been a performance bottleneck for us as we pushed past 1B rows of data. Today, we performed a smooth and uneventful migration to CockroachDB, which I hope will get us to 10B rows of data. Along with this under-the-bonnet infrastructure upgrade, I

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