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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

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How often is LinkDB updated?

LinkDB is updated with every real-time (API) request to scrape a Professional Social Network profile. Essentially, this methodology keeps data on LinkDB constantly updated to the count of (up to) millions of profiles a day.

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Is Professional Social Network Scraping GDPR compliant?

What is Proxycurl? Proxycurl is an API to scrape Professional Social Network profiles at scale. Proxycurl’s Professional Social Network API can scrape 1 million Professional Social Network profiles in a day. Not only does Proxycurl scrape the profiles of people, but it also scrapes profiles of companies and jobs.

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The profile returned is missing experience data!

Proxycurl only scrapes public Professional Social Network profiles. Sometimes, the privacy settings of a profile keep certain portions of a private profile hidden publicly. We can only return what exists on the public profile. This is why the profile returned might be missing some data that is otherwise present on

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I am getting a lot of 503 "Scraping failed" errors

Our API succeeds 90+% of the time. It turns out that our scraping infrastructure is limited and inconsistent because we are dealing with external targets such as Professional Social Network which is very erratic when it comes to rate limits, particularly with their public profiles. We notice 503s occur more

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Why is it that I am getting 404s when the profile is valid?

Proxycurl only scrapes public Professional Social Network profiles. Some Professional Social Network profiles do not have public profiles (due to privacy settings). And if the public profile does not exist, then we are not able to scrape it. This is when we return 404. You can verify that a profile