Top 5 Professional Networks Scrapers in 2023 - Detailed Reviews with Ratings
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đź’ˇOld post - republished with new content You are probably reading this article because you are seeking a solution to fetch fresh Professional Social...
In this first chapter of the "Ultimate Guide to the professional networks API" series, my goal is to get your product integrated with Professional...
In this post, we're going to answer a StackOverflow question. You can still [view the original question on...
No, Enrich Layer's professional networks API only scrapes public professional networks profiles. Contact information of profiles are not present on...
As the CEO of Accountgram, a B2B debt collection specialist with 92 collections under my belt since June 2024, I want to provide you with a no-nonsense...
Our double opt-in process guarantees complete transparency before you commit to the 12-month subscription. With this step, we're assured that you understand...
Learn all about the professional networks API, with comprehensive Python code demos. Dive into the world of professional networks APIs, official and third-party alternatives, and understand how to access and utilize professional networks profile data through Python code examples.
We've heard this product feature request a few times, and we're glad to launch this! It'll give more data quality to your workflows using our API endpoints. To fresh data!
My marketing team and I are attending the Ahrefs Evolve 2024 conference in 2 days time. My objective (as the CEO of the company) in attending this...
We added a new feature to the Employee Count Endpoint: the `at_date` parameter, which will fetch historical employee count data of any company. Check out our docs.
We get it - flexibility is key when it comes to managing your subscription. Whether you're looking to upgrade, downgrade, or even cancel your plan, we've...
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...
In the heels of our recent announcement of the all-new Customer API, I am happy to share that we will now return fresh profile data for Facebook or...
I am pleased to announce that the Customer API is now available in production on Enrich Layer. The Customer API enables you to retrieve a list of customers and...
We have to update our free API offerings due to bad actors abusing our free API offerings. As you already know, we have always offered a suite of free API...
There is a good chance you already know the Boolean search syntax if you're good at googling because a large of advance search expressions are in fact a...
We take the iteration process very seriously at Enrich Layer. After months of development, we have revamped the Search API and this update for the new Search...
Enrich Layer's Employee Listing Endpoint and the Search API are powered by LinkDB. This means that searches are performed within LinkDB. We do not scrape...
In this new year, we're fully committing to our long-term customers with the introduction of a new subscription plans. These changes reflect our growth as a...
We often receive inquiries about enabling CORS headers to allow any origin to access the Enrich Layer API. However, our policy is to deliberately block...
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...
Hello and welcome to our end-of-August changelog! We've added a new feature to our Person Profile Endpoint - the ability to look anyone up by new methods....
Enrich Layer's August 2023 updates are here! Featuring a new endpoint, improvements to existing endpoints, and LinkDB public pricing! Plus a brand-new product...
So, you want to search for people on professional networks. In this article, I will show you step-by-step multiple ways to find a specific person or a broad list of people.
Enrich Layer 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...
Have you ever wanted to integrate Enrich Layer's APIs into your spreadsheet data? Or maybe you don't code - you prefer working within Google Sheets using...
There is not a maximum length for individual parameters of a search query; rather, your entire query must be at most 4094 characters.
We've added API logs to your Dashboard, giving you the power to better understand and debug your use of Enrich Layer. The number of logs you gain...
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...
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...
Happy Easter everyone! While children enjoy their candy, you can look forward to new features this week. Introducing sort_by Parameter in the Employee...
Please be advised that the Reveal API will be deprecated on the 1st of May 2023, at 11am Singapore Time (SGT). After a thorough analysis, we have decided to...
Fetch the historic employee count of any target company. Megan wrote an excellent piece on extracting and analyzing the historic employee count of any...
When we mention lead generation, the single department that most closely-relates or uses lead generation most is sales and marketing. Lead generation is a...
Building a startup is one of the most challenging things to do in life. For bootstrappers, you need to find leads, find users quickly, or risk the venture...
Dear you, Happy Valentine's day, and here's our valentine to you! In this week's changelog series, I have a special gift worth $11326.67 for all our VC...
From a life of corporate toiling to startup stardom, droves of ex-Googlers have turned their talents to the startup world. The result? A collective $15...
This week, we dropped an update with some changes you might like. I will also be sending these "changelog" updates a bit more frequently so you can keep...
You got a new product and need a hack to get it into the market. This hack costs $124, and it Enrich Layer to a million dollars in annual revenue. This is my...
At Enrich Layer, we pride ourselves with the many data enrichment APIs that we offer to our clients to power their applications. Not just the sheer number of...
Enrich Layer is almost three years old, and we are marching towards 5 million (USD) in annual recurring revenue (ARR). In this post, I will tell you exactly...
What do you think of when you first hear "early-stage" startup? A startup with an idea? An MVP? Some revenue, maybe? The answer is, it depends. For...
To connect and address the needs of an audience, a speaker must know her audience - who they are and what they do. The same applies to any serious business....
Developing a thorough Go-to-market (GTM) strategy is essential for launching a product into a market, it can be a new product in an existing market, an...
As businesses look for accurate and up-to-date information to fuel their growth, B2B data providers are becoming increasingly important. These providers...
B2B contact databases are essential resources for any business. They provide comprehensive, up-to-date information on customers, allowing businesses to...
✏️In early 2024, we've implemented further updates to our pricing plans, notably the introduction of Annual Plans - which have cheaper and more credits....
Businesses on a regular basis generate and work with customers' or companies' profiles to achieve their end goals. For any business, the customer base...
professional networks Recruiter is a great tool that helps companies and recruitment agencies find and hire the best candidates for their job...
As you would already know, Professional networking platforms have become essential tools for professionals and businesses. It has tons and tons of valuable...
Identifying your customers' needs and providing an experience personalized for each customer is one of the most effective ways to achieve customer success...
The geo_id parameter in the Job Listing API and Job Listing Count API represents the ID that professional networks prescribes to a region. This...
When you hear the word "Startups," what comes to mind? Most likely, new companies with shiny new ideas for products or services and making the front pages...
Every business will always have a need for lead generation. Lead generation is one primary strategy to hit your revenue target regularly. Apart from...
Zoominfo is great, but it's not for everyone. Find 35 best alternatives to Zoominfo in 2025. 1) Enrich Layer 2) Clearbit 3) professional networks Sales Navigator 4) Crunchbase Pro
Hi! I am happy to share that we just went live with a huge update to the Jobs API. In this update, you can now filter jobs by: * Job flexibility (remote or...
Today, data and information have become crucial to the success of modern businesses. To retrieve information, companies must turn to many different data...
Hiring new talents for your team or organization can be tedious and overwhelming. It requires going through hundreds of applications for weeks to find the...
The importance of data in today’s world cannot be over-emphasized, every piece of information or transaction is data. It is a valuable asset because of how...
We have a new API endpoint released today. I am happy to introduce the new Student Listing API Endpoint. The Student Listing API endpoint: * takes a...
Often today's companies rely on accurate business analytics to reduce the cost of operations and maximize profits. One of the drivers behind this is the...
This week, we're happy to come to you with updates on a new API endpoint and further refinements to the Enrich Layer API. Introducing Employee Search API...
In this article, we'll talk about how you can obtain more data from an email address. Examples of data from an email include contact information about a...
In recent years, there has been a considerable amount of buzz on alternative data in the investment & finance industries, and there is a good reason for...
Table of contents * Introduction * What's Enrich Layer API * Why you should use Enrich Layer API * Getting Started * Prerequisites * Getting Your API Key *...
Don't let the naysayers get to you and tell you this is the era of GPT3 and Cryptocurrency. I will argue that we are in a new age of big data-driven...
Table of contents * Introduction * Getting Started * Prerequisites * How to get B2B emails with Work Email Lookup API Endpoint * How to get personal emails...
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...
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: *...
Enrich Layer CCPA Policy - June 28th, 2022 This CCPA Policy is incorporated by reference into the Enrich Layer Privacy Policy, and applies only to California...
Is Enrich Layer Compliant with GDPR? On May 25, 2018, The European Union began enforcing EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)...
There will always be bugs with Enrich Layer API, so sometimes, the API might not be behaving in a way that is predictable for you. You might want to find out...
Enrich Layer Bright Data's professional networks Scraper API rate limit of 300 requests/minute; or 432,000 profiles / day). Rate limit can be increased...
This post applies to the following API endpoints: * Company Lookup Endpoint * Role Lookup Endpoint * Person Lookup Endpoint * Work Email Lookup Endpoint...
For people profiles, our Person Profile API offers the following: * articles - Articles posted by the user * activities - see the Activity response section...
We have received feedback that the Employee Listing Endpoint leans towards being a little obtuse in how it can be used to solve problems. For example, the...
Enrich Layer API returns profiles of varying levels of freshness. * Profiles that are less than 29 days old. * Use use_cache=if-recent parameter to enable...
Our Person Profile Endpoint scrapes public professional networks profiles only. And if a user does not share their profile picture publicly, then the...
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...
Enrich Layer API fetches data from public professional networks profiles only. The side effect of public professional networks profiles is that it...
I am happy to share that we added 1.5M New Zealand public professional networks profiles to LinkDB. With this update, New Zealand is now an officially...
Enrich Layer's Person Profile API Endpoint works with professional networks profiles of any country, as long as the profile is public. Public...
Organizations and individuals have several reasons to retrieve professional networks profile data. While pulling profile data may seem nefarious, it...
In a nutshell, Public professional networks profiles are profiles that any individual can view without being logged into professional networks....
As the chief customer support officer of Enrich Layer, I have been receiving emails seeking clarifications on our service reliability from customers who swing...
professional networks sued Mantheos, a real-time professional networks Scraping API service, on 1st February 2022 for fraudulently scraping...
I am happy to share that we just added 1.5M Irish profiles to LinkDB. With this update, Ireland is now an officially supported region in Enrich Layer's suite...
I am happy to share that we just added 6.3M Australian profiles to LinkDB. With this update, Australia is now an officially supported region in Enrich Layer's...
More often or not, Enrich Layer is not the bottleneck for your application. On a regular account, every account has a rate limit of 300 requests every minute....
I am happy to share that we just added 15+M UK profiles to LinkDB. With this update, United Kingdom is now an officially supported region in Enrich Layer's...
Yes, we do for people profiles, with caveats. The articles and activities values in our [Person Profile...
There are only three ways to get a list of employees of any company. The goal of this article is to guide you to a fool-proof method to build a list of...
Hello! We are constantly adding data sources other than professional networks into Enrich Layer API, such as the data powering our Contact API. Happy to...
The short answer is -- as stable as professional networks lets us be. It is a constant cat-and-mouse game with professional networks. Given that...
Enrich Layer's Lookup Search endpoint takes in a company_name and the role you want to reach out to, and bam. It returns you the professional networks profile URL of the person of interest.
In one of my sales outreach, I spoke to a customer who challenged me: We use LinkedHelper and I'm an expert. So I'm not sure what your service would add....
Today, it's personal phone numbers. So we are live with a new API endpoint today -- Personal Contact Number Lookup API endpoint.
I'm happy to share that we have a new Personal Email Lookup API endpoint, which is live right now in production.
I will take you through the various techniques to make a professional networks Company Search. These techniques range from straightforward to advanced, depending on what your needs are.
The customer support staff at Enrich Layer can help you change your email address. However, it is not a direct change. What we can do is to transfer credits...
No, Enrich Layer is not able to fetch connections of users for two reasons..
I am happy to share that we just added 8.7+ Israeli profiles to LinkDB. With this, Israel is now an officially supported region in Enrich Layer's suite of services.
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 Enrich Layer's suite of...
We updated the API today with a new 503 error status code. Context -- there are two reasons why you will get an error with the status code of 429. And it...
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...
In this article, I will exhaustively list down all possible methods you can use to lookup email addresses, personal or work, for anyone on the internet.
Yes we do! You can use the Company Search Endpoint & Person Search Endpoint.
Enrich Layer scrapes public professional networks profiles in real-time and on-demand. Web scraping takes time, and on average. Every API Request...
When we scrape a public professional networks profile for example with our Person Profile API, we are served with a temporary CDN URL by Professional...
Hello, For a few months now, Postgresql has been a performance bottleneck for us as we pushed past 1B rows of data. Today, we performed a smooth and...
LinkDB is updated with every real-time (API) request to scrape a professional networks profile. Essentially, this methodology keeps data on LinkDB...
Enrich Layer 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...
Your professional networks Public Profile is a profile of you shown to any user browsing your profile without being logged into . If you are on...
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How to get a list of all employees with Enrich Layer's Employee Listing API Endpoint?
What is Enrich Layer? Enrich Layer is an API to scrape professional networks profiles at scale. Enrich Layer’s professional networks API can scrape 1...
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...
Enrich Layer only scrapes public professional networks profiles. Sometimes, the privacy settings of a profile keep certain portions of a private profile...
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...
Enrich Layer only scrapes public professional networks profiles. Some professional networks profiles do not have public profiles (due to privacy...
Clearbit Connect I was so amazed when Clearbit Connect launched. It was a game-changing product. No other products existed then that made it so easy to find...
Since we launched LinkDB, we have received a barrage of requests for a company profile dataset. We understand that pairing people with companies will help...
There is a certain power in owning things, particularly things that power the guts of your business's product. It is why we self-host GitLab, amongst a ton...
I am happy to share that we performed an exhaustive crawl of all public professional networks Company Profiles, and we have added 17M global companies...
Last week, we push out an update to the Company Profile API. In this update: * We updated the endpoint to return 404 status code when a request is made to...
A few weeks ago, a student at the University of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) contacted me. The student represented a group of...
In a blog post I written, I shared how I got a list of companies seeking to hire software engineers. The crux of the data scraping exercise was our Job...
Enrich Layer API People Profile endpoint crawls public professional networks Profiles. Not all professional networks profiles, even if valid, have...
Problem I got on a call with the CEO of a company that helps businesses recruit tech talents. Let's call this company TechTalentRecruitment. The perfect...
So you are trying to scrape professional networks profiles in bulk. The chances are that you are crawling the public profiles with a proxy (in a very...
I want to close bigger deals by reaching decision-makers directly I am the founder of Enrich Layer. I lead sales for Enrich Layer, and I do this alone. So it is...
We deployed three changes today to Enrich Layer. 1. We have improved the Person Lookup endpoint from 30% accuracy to 89% accuracy. 2. We added a new endpoint...
Steven, the professional networks API you guys offer is excellent. But how do I begin to use the API if I do not even have the profiles? I get this...
Having built the early prototype for [Enrich Layer API]( networks) which turns professional networks...
We launched an update to Enrich Layer today, and it includes two new endpoints for professional networks Jobs. The first endpoint is the Job Profile API...
We went live with V2 of our [professional networks People Profile API]( networks) yesterday. V2 is an...
Enrich Layer API is a developer's tool. And the chances are that if you can code, you will have no problem scraping a website, unless it is Professional Social...
Automation, especially in digital marketing, has become an important progress feature. It can greatly reduce the time spent on menial work so that you can...
professional networks is the most popular social media platform for people to meet one another in a professional setting. I recommend you to read our...
With Enrich Layer API, you can enrich professional networks Profiles at one cent per profile, at scale. Since we introduced Enrich Layer, the feedback has...
This is a technical post separated into two parts. One readable, the other not (to most). I will start with an introduction to Sapiengraph CCTV, and how we,...
A while ago, I wrote the specifications for a Trello-based CRM known as ZIC (zero input CRM) and tasked it to an intern. Nevertheless, the product's...
There are no CRMs out there that is good enough to serve my lazy ass. CRMs require discipline, and if I have to take N minutes of my day to maintain my CRM,...
We sent out the offer letter for our marketer today, and we are ramping up our marketing efforts for Enrich Layer. Since I started writing daily, I have...
> Warning: There is no point to this post. I am writing down some thoughts that I have been incubating in my head. Grab has maxed out its total addressable...
This is the story of how we found we found out the ages of our users without asking for the information. The Ops team needs demographics data Aldy, the CMO...
I almost lost a potential hire today because of a miscommunication between the designer and the business development team during the negotiation process....
This is a two-part series on crawling professional networks in scale. In this first part, we study why professional networks is a hard target to...
This is a two-part series on crawling professional networks in scale. In an earlier article, we studied why professional networks is a hard...