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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
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
We have received feedback that the Employee Listing Endpoint 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. Call Employee Listing Endpoint, which would
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
Our Person Profile Endpoint scrapes public Professional Social Network profiles only. And if a user does not share their profile picture publicly, then the profile picture of their public Professional Social Network profile would be a placeholder image. We cannot discern if an image is a placeholder picture or not
Let's start by looking at this snippet of an email from a customer looking to acquire LinkDB Snapshots from us: Hello Steven, I'm back to revisiting this (sorry for the delay). It's down to you and [REDACTED]. [REDACTED] has similar data. They're
Proxycurl API fetches data from public Professional Social Network profiles only. The side effect of public Professional Social Network 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. I am
I am happy to share that we added 1.5M New Zealand public Professional Social Network 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
Organizations and individuals have several reasons to retrieve Professional Social Network 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
Proxycurl's Person Profile API Endpoint works with Professional Social Network profiles of any country, as long as the profile is public. Public Professional Social Network profiles can be viewed without being logged into Professional Social Network. (See this article for the difference between a public Professional Social Network
In a nutshell, Public Professional Social Network profiles are profiles that any individual can view without being logged into Professional Social Network. Private profiles are profiles you see when you are logged into Professional Social Network. Public Professional Social Network profiles have less information. This article will break down what
Professional Social Network sued Mantheos, a real-time Professional Social Network Scraping API service, on 1st February 2022 for fraudulently scraping millions of profiles. In a way, Mantheos is a competitor of ours, and I have always been curious about how they can scrape private Professional Social Network profiles at scale.
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
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
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
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
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+
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
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
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 --
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
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.
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
Today, it's personal phone numbers. So we are live with a new API endpoint today -- Personal Contact Number Lookup API endpoint.
I'm happy to share that we have a new Personal Email Lookup API endpoint, which is live right now in production.