Business data

Crunchbase Scraper

crunchbase.com

Crunchbase is served through a dedicated plugin endpoint rather than the generic page fetch. Give it an organization - its slug, the part after /organization/ in the profile URL such as stripe, or the full profile URL - and it reads the data the profile page loads and returns the organization already parsed: name, legal name, short and full description, logo, website, headquarters, operating, company and IPO status with stock symbol and exchange, employee range, industries and industry groups, the CB rank with its 90-day trend, the growth and heat scores, founders, the last funding type, counts of funding rounds, investors, acquisitions, investments and employee profiles, the funding rounds with their lead investors, investors, acquisitions, investments, exits, sub-organizations, key people with their titles, board members, similar companies, products, contact email, phone, social links, monthly web visits, technology counts, Crunchbase's predictions, key events such as product launches, partnerships, layoffs and executive changes with their press sources, offices and recent news. Only have a name? Pass query instead and get up to 25 matching organizations with their slugs. Know what it can reach: it reads what a signed-out visitor sees, so values Crunchbase shows only to paying users (founding, closing and IPO dates, funding totals, round dates and amounts, acquisition prices, exits, valuation) come back null, paywalledFields names the ones Crunchbase holds for the organization, and lists such as funding rounds or key people hold what the public profile shows, not a full export. No Crunchbase account or API key is involved.

What you can extract

• Name, legal name, short and full description, logo, website and headquarters
• Operating, company and IPO status, stock symbol and exchange, employee range, industries and industry groups
• CB rank with its 90-day trend, growth and heat scores with their 90-day change
• Founders, key people with titles and start dates, and board members
• Funding rounds with lead investors, investors, acquisitions, investments, exits and sub-organizations, with their counts
• Similar companies, products, contact email, phone and social links
• Monthly web visits and their change, technology counts, predictions, key events with press sources, offices and recent news
• Search by company name: up to 25 matches with slug, URL, short description and logo
• Paywalled values (dates, funding totals, round amounts, acquisition prices, valuation) come back null and are named in paywalledFields

Dedicated endpoints

How to scrape it

curl -X POST \
  -H "X-ScrapeUnblocker-Key: $SU_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.scrapeunblocker.com/companies/crunchbase?organization=stripe"

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.scrapeunblocker.com/companies/crunchbase",
    headers={"X-ScrapeUnblocker-Key": SU_API_KEY},
    params={"organization": "stripe"},
)
print(resp.text)

import { ScrapeUnblockerClient } from 'scrapeunblocker';

const su = new ScrapeUnblockerClient({ apiKey: process.env.SU_API_KEY });

const org = await su.crunchbaseCompany('stripe');
const matches = await su.crunchbaseCompany({ query: 'Revolut', maxResults: 5 });
console.log(org);
console.log(matches);

Requests are POST and take their parameters in the query string. Browser rendering always happens - there is no flag to enable.

Example response

{
  "organization": {
    "name": "Stripe",
    "slug": "stripe",
    "url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stripe",
    "legalName": "Stripe, LLC.",
    "shortDescription": "Stripe enables businesses to accept payments, manage billing, and embed financial services into digital platforms.",
    "website": "https://stripe.com",
    "headquarters": {
      "city": "South San Francisco",
      "region": "California",
      "country": "United States",
      "continent": "North America",
      "text": "South San Francisco, California, United States"
    },
    "operatingStatus": "active",
    "companyType": "for_profit",
    "ipoStatus": "private",
    "foundedOn": null,
    "employeeRange": "5001-10000",
    "industries": [
      "Billing",
      "Compliance",
      "E-Commerce Platforms",
      "Finance"
    ],
    "rank": 36,
    "rankDelta90d": 6.2,
    "growthScore": 95,
    "heatScore": 82,
    "founders": [
      {
        "name": "John Collison",
        "slug": "john-collison",
        "url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/person/john-collison",
        "type": "person"
      },
      {
        "name": "Patrick Collison",
        "slug": "patrick-collison",
        "url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/person/patrick-collison",
        "type": "person"
      }
    ],
    "lastFundingType": "Secondary Market",
    "fundingTotal": null,
    "numFundingRounds": 25,
    "numInvestors": 75,
    "numAcquisitions": 24,
    "fundingRounds": [
      {
        "name": "Secondary Market - Stripe",
        "url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/stripe-secondary-market--9d7e5ac9",
        "type": "Secondary Market",
        "announcedOn": null,
        "moneyRaised": null,
        "numInvestors": 1,
        "leadInvestors": [
          {
            "name": "Robinhood Ventures",
            "slug": "robinhood-ventures",
            "url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/robinhood-ventures",
            "type": "organization"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "keyPeople": [
      {
        "name": "Steffan Tomlinson",
        "slug": "steffan-tomlinson",
        "url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/person/steffan-tomlinson",
        "type": "person",
        "title": "Chief Financial Officer",
        "startedOn": "2023-08-02"
      }
    ],
    "similarCompanies": [
      {
        "name": "Checkout.com",
        "slug": "checkout-com",
        "url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/checkout-com",
        "type": "organization"
      },
      {
        "name": "Nuvei",
        "slug": "nuvei",
        "url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/nuvei",
        "type": "organization"
      }
    ],
    "webTraffic": {
      "monthlyVisits": 203227314,
      "monthlyVisitsChange": 0.0693545159706943
    },
    "paywalledFields": [
      "foundedOn",
      "fundingTotal",
      "lastFundingAt",
      "numExits"
    ]
  },
  "slug": "stripe"
}

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