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 networks. It is a full-time job keeping up with professional networks's bot detection and layout changes.
Enrich Layer has just gone live with an update that introduces a new feature – the ability to turn the platform Company Profile URLs into structured profile data. In this article, I will share how you can fetch structured data of the platform company profiles with no more than a long line of code.
The beauty of Enrich Layer API is that you do not have to concern yourself with the tedious task of building a professional networks scraper. Be it one profile or a million profile, today or three months from now, your code to get structured data of the platform Companies will remain the same one-liner python code.
What kind of data can you get by scraping the platform company profiles?
With Enrich Layer Company Profile Endpoint, you can get everything in the "About" page of a the platform Company profile. These include phone numbers, funding data, and office locations.
The following table will specify everything that the Enrich Layer Company Profile Endpoint will return:
Key Description
description The overview section in the About page
website The listed website on the profile
industry Industry of the company
company_size Listed range of company headcount
company_size_on_the platform Total employees on the platform that declared themselves to be staff of said company
hq Address of company's headquarters
company_type Enumerator of company type. Could be PUBLICLY_HELD or PRIVATELY_HELD
founded_year The year that this company is founded in
specialities List of specialities
locations List of locations
name Name of the company
tagline Tagline of the company
universal_name_id Month and year of the user's birthday (Dependent on profile's privacy settings)
profile_pic_url Profile picture of the
background_cover_image_url Wechat contact information (Dependent on profile's privacy settings)
funding_data Crunchbase data of said company's funding data
phone Phone number