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No, Proxycurl's Professional Social Network API only scrapes public Professional Social Network profiles. Contact information of profiles are not present on these public profile pages, so we are not able to provide that information as well. However, we have announced an Email Extraction API endpoint that will allow

Do you have a budget of $1.99 for testing the service? If so, are you able to head over to the dashboard and make a top-up? $1.99 will yield you 100 credits, which I believe should be plenty for you to evaluate the service. In our early days,

Short answer, yes. Long answer, It depends on the plan you are on There are three types of plans Proxycurl offers: 1. Annual Plan, billed monthly 2. Annual Plan, billed annually 3. Pay-as-you-go, ala-carte credit purchase The 2nd and 3rd plan types won't be the content of discussion

Proxycurl's Employee Listing Endpoint and the Search API are powered by LinkDB. This means that searches are performed within LinkDB. We do not scrape Professional Social Network for employee data or to perform people/company searches. Since LinkDB is not synced with the latest data on Professional Social

We have been listening to your feedback and compliments, and we heard how much you've been loving Proxycurl. Thus the launch of our "Tweet for credits" initiative that serves to reward customers like yourself! What is it about? Simply tweet (or post in the terms of

We often receive inquiries about enabling CORS headers to allow any origin to access the Proxycurl API. However, our policy is to deliberately block requests to the Proxycurl API that are made from a browser client. The reason for this is that it would require exposing the Proxycurl API key

We have three similar API endpoints that seem to perform the same function—these are the Employee Search Endpoint, the Person Search Endpoint, and the Role Lookup Endpoint. However, in actuality, each one has unique nuances. * Employee Search Endpoint - Powered by LinkDB, this endpoint returns a list of employees

Proxycurl API In general, we will refund you if you accidentally purchase credits and spend at most 10 of them. Refunds are granted once per customer. There are three scenarios in which a refund will be provided: 1. A new order has been made (e.g. you bought too many

Professional Social Network connections are not part of the public profile data set, and [we only work with public data](https://nubela.co/blog/is-Professional Social Network-scraping-legal/). Therefore, Professional Social Network connections are not available for us to scrape and we do not scrape them. No, we do not provide

We do not offer any discounts to any classes of organizations.

There is not a maximum length for individual parameters of a search query; rather, your entire query must be at most 4094 characters.

In our API, a 404 is considered a successful query, despite being classified as an error code. You can check our API reference manual sections on credits and status codes for official documentation at any time, but here we will explain the why of this policy. When a request comes

1. Our Employee/Student Listing API endpoint relies on LinkDB, a database that exclusively gathers public Professional Social Network profiles. Consequently, the data we can provide is only as comprehensive as the content available in LinkDB. 2. Professional Social Network's specific heuristics for associating an individual with their

The Reverse Work Email Lookup API endpoint is a search function designed to return the closest match. However, the Reverse Email Lookup can sometimes return false positives. Even Google's search results can be inaccurate at times. It's important to understand that the Reverse Work Email Lookup

The Reverse Work Email Lookup API endpoint is a search function designed to return the closest match. However, the Reverse Email Lookup can sometimes return false positives. Even Google's search results can be inaccurate at times. It's important to understand that the Reverse Work Email Lookup

Yes, you are. Each API call you make is an independent call to our servers, and we bill you each time you make a call. The reality is that running our servers is expensive, and every time you make a request, we do the work to process your request, even

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

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