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Nubela CCPA Policy - June 28th, 2022 This CCPA Policy is incorporated by reference into the Proxycurl Privacy Policy, and applies only to California consumers and the Personal Information of California consumers. If you are a California resident, the processing of certain personal data about you may be subject to
Is Proxycurl Compliant with GDPR? On May 25, 2018, The European Union began enforcing EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) [https://gdpr.eu/what-is-gdpr/#:~:text=The%20General%20Data%20Protection%20Regulation,to%20people%20in%20the%20EU.] in an effort to strengthen the security and protection of the personal data of EU
There will always be bugs with Proxycurl API, so sometimes, the API might not be behaving in a way that is predictable for you. You might want to find out why. Please provide our customer support with details so we can come back to you with an appropriate response: * Please
This post applies to the following API endpoints: * Company Lookup Endpoint * Role Lookup Endpoint * Person Lookup Endpoint * Work Email Lookup Endpoint Occasionally, our Lookup API endpoints return the wrong results. False positives, to be precise. This happens because our Lookup Endpoints is a search function. Even Google gets search results
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
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'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
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
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
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
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
No, Proxycurl is not able to fetch connections of users for two reasons..
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.
Yes we do! You can use the Company Search Endpoint & Person Search Endpoint.
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
When we scrape a public Professional Social Network profile for example with our Person Profile API, we are served with a temporary CDN URL by Professional Social Network which usually begins with https://media-exp... Some of our customers store the temporary CDN URL which expires in an unpredictable manner. To
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.
Proxycurl is a pay-as-you-go service. Credits cost US$0.01 / credit. Credit cost varies with API endpoints. You can check out the API documentation [https://nubela.co/proxycurl/docs#enrichment-api] for the price (in credits) of various API endpoints. We offer volume pricing for our Enterprise plans You have to
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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.
We only scrape public profiles, and it turns out that Skills data is not a part of public profiles. We can only return what we can scrape, as such we do not scrape Skills data. However, we are working with external partners to help you enrich skills data via Person
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
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
