What causes a slow API
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Why is the API so slow?

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Proxycurl scrapes public Linkedin 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 API to return results.

If profile freshness is of a lower priority for you, you can add `use-cache=if-present` to the request parameter. This will return cached profiles immediately.

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