Y Combinator Companies Scraper

Pull every Y Combinator company across every batch, with founders, social URLs, application Q&A, demo-day video, photos, and partner. One click. 30+ fields per company. Filter by 14 dimensions or paste any /companies search URL straight from your browser.

Why This Scraper?

• 40+ fields per company including founders (full name, title, bio, avatar, LinkedIn, Twitter), LinkedIn / Twitter / Crunchbase / GitHub / Facebook URLs, demo-day and application videos, application answers, photos, primary YC partner with avatar and profile URL.
• Open job postings per company with title, role, location, salary range, equity range, visa requirements, and apply URL.
• News mentions and Launch YC product launches with title, body, and date.
• 14 filter dimensions: free-text query, batches, industries, subindustries, regions, tags, statuses, stages, hiring only, top-ranked, nonprofits, has demo-day video, has application video, has application answers.
• Two input modes: pick filters in a form, or paste any /companies URL from your browser (multi-URL supported).
• Fast: a typical filtered run finishes in seconds; full-corpus runs finish in minutes.
• Resumable: each company is pushed to the dataset as it lands, so an aborted run still keeps everything collected so far.

Data You Get

Sample shape, values are illustrative placeholders, not from a live company.

Field	Example
id	00000
slug	example-co
name	Example Co
url	https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/example-co
oneLiner	One sentence company pitch.
longDescription	Longer multi-paragraph description from the application.
website	https://example.com
batch	W24
batchName	Winter 2024
status	Active
stage	Seed
industry	B2B
subindustry	B2B -> Productivity
industries	["B2B", "Productivity"]
tags	["SaaS", "AI"]
regions	["United States of America", "Remote"]
allLocations	San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
teamSize	8
yearFounded	2024
launchedAt	1700000000
isHiring	true
topCompany	false
nonprofit	false
formerNames	[]
logoUrl	https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/logos/0000000000000000000000000000000000000000.png
smallLogoUrl	https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0000000000000000000000000000000000000000.png
linkedinUrl	https://www.linkedin.com/company/example-co
twitterUrl	https://twitter.com/example_co
crunchbaseUrl	https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/example-co
githubUrl	https://github.com/example-co
facebookUrl	https://www.facebook.com/example-co
demoDayVideoUrl	https://example-cdn.ycombinator.com/dday/000.mp4
appVideoUrl	https://example-cdn.ycombinator.com/app/000.mp4
primaryGroupPartner	Partner Name
companyPhotos	["https://.../photo-0000.jpg"]
cityTag	san-francisco-bay-area
founders	[{fullName: "Founder Name", title: "CEO", bio: "Sample bio.", avatarUrl: "...", linkedinUrl: "...", twitterUrl: "...", isActive: true}]
founderCount	2
primaryGroupPartner	{id: 0, fullName: "Partner Name", url: "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/partner-name", avatarUrl: "..."}
jobPostings	[{id: 0, title: "Senior Engineer", url: "...", location: "Remote", type: "Full-time", role: "eng", salaryRange: "...", equityRange: "...", visa: "Open to all"}]
jobPostingCount	9
jobsUrl	https://www.workatastartup.com/companies/example-co
newsItems	[{title: "Article title", url: "https://example.com/article", date: "Jan 01, 2026"}]
newsCount	5
launches	[{id: 0, title: "Launch announcement title", body: "Body of the Launch YC post."}]
launchCount	1
hasAppVideo	false
hasDemoDayVideo	false
hasQuestionAnswers	false
appAnswers	[]
freeResponseAnswers	[]
scrapedAt	2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z

How to Use

1. Most-recent batch with full enrichment

{
  "mode": "search",
  "batches": ["Winter 2026", "Spring 2026"],
  "fetchDetails": true,
  "maxListings": 100
}

2. AI agents in B2B, hiring only

{
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "ai agents",
  "industries": ["B2B"],
  "tags": ["Artificial Intelligence", "AI"],
  "isHiring": true,
  "fetchDetails": true,
  "maxListings": 50
}

3. Top YC companies, public ones, all batches

{
  "mode": "search",
  "topCompany": true,
  "statuses": ["Public", "Acquired"],
  "fetchDetails": true,
  "maxListings": 0
}

4. URL mode, multi-URL paste

{
  "mode": "url",
  "urls": [
    "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?batch=Winter%202024",
    "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?batch=Summer%202024",
    "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/example-co"
  ],
  "fetchDetails": true
}

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
mode	enum (search / url)	search	Pick one mode. The other mode's fields are ignored.
query	string	""	Free-text query across name + one-liner + description.
batches	string[]	["Winter 2026", "Spring 2026"]	YC batch names. Accepts long form (Winter 2024) or short codes (W24).
industries	string[]	[]	Top-level industry: B2B, Consumer, Healthcare, Fintech, Industrials, etc.
subindustries	string[]	[]	Refined industry, e.g. Fintech -> Payments.
regions	string[]	[]	HQ region, e.g. United States of America, Europe, India, Remote.
tags	string[]	[]	Topic tags, e.g. SaaS, Generative AI, Developer Tools.
statuses	string[]	[]	One or more of Active, Inactive, Acquired, Public.
stages	string[]	[]	One or more of Seed, Early, Growth.
isHiring	boolean	false	Only companies with active job postings.
topCompany	boolean	false	Only YC top-ranked companies.
nonprofit	boolean	false	Only nonprofit companies.
hasDemoDayVideo	boolean	false	Only companies with a public demo-day video.
hasAppVideo	boolean	false	Only companies whose application video is public.
hasAppAnswers	boolean	false	Only companies whose application answers are public.
sortBy	enum	relevance	relevance or launch-date-desc.
urls	string[]	[]	URL mode only. Any /companies search URL or detail URL.
fetchDetails	boolean	true	Adds founders, social URLs, app Q&A, video URLs, photos, partner, jobs, news, launches.
maxListings	integer	20	Cap on total companies. 0 = unlimited (all ~5,800 across the public index).
maxPages	integer	0	Cap on search pages per query. 0 = no cap (walk until maxListings is hit or the result set ends).
proxy	object	default	Apify proxy in default mode is recommended. Switch to a different group in the Proxy section if you ever observe throttling.

Output Example

Sample record, values are illustrative placeholders, not from a live company.

{
  "id": 0,
  "slug": "example-co",
  "objectID": "0",
  "name": "Example Co",
  "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/example-co",
  "oneLiner": "One sentence company pitch.",
  "longDescription": "Longer multi-paragraph description from the application.",
  "website": "https://example.com",
  "batch": "W24",
  "batchName": "Winter 2024",
  "status": "Active",
  "stage": "Seed",
  "industry": "B2B",
  "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity",
  "industries": ["B2B", "Productivity"],
  "tags": ["SaaS", "AI"],
  "regions": ["United States of America", "Remote"],
  "allLocations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote",
  "teamSize": 8,
  "yearFounded": 2024,
  "launchedAt": 1700000000,
  "isHiring": true,
  "topCompany": false,
  "nonprofit": false,
  "formerNames": [],
  "logoUrl": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/logos/0000000000000000000000000000000000000000.png",
  "smallLogoUrl": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0000000000000000000000000000000000000000.png",
  "location": "San Francisco, CA, USA",
  "city": "San Francisco",
  "country": "United States",
  "linkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/example-co",
  "twitterUrl": "https://twitter.com/example_co",
  "facebookUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/example-co",
  "crunchbaseUrl": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/example-co",
  "githubUrl": "https://github.com/example-co",
  "demoDayVideoUrl": "https://example-cdn.ycombinator.com/dday/000.mp4",
  "appVideoUrl": "https://example-cdn.ycombinator.com/app/000.mp4",
  "appAnswers": null,
  "freeResponseAnswers": null,
  "primaryGroupPartner": "Partner Name",
  "companyPhotos": ["https://example-cdn.ycombinator.com/photos/0000.jpg"],
  "founders": [
    {
      "userId": 0,
      "fullName": "Founder Name",
      "title": "CEO",
      "bio": "Founder bio text.",
      "avatarUrl": "https://example-cdn.ycombinator.com/avatars/0000.jpg",
      "linkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/founder-name",
      "twitterUrl": "https://twitter.com/founder_name"
    }
  ],
  "founderCount": 1,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"
}

Plan Requirement

• Works on any Apify plan, including the free tier.
• A 100-company filtered run with fetchDetails=true finishes in about a minute.
• A full-corpus run (~5,800 companies) with fetchDetails=true finishes in roughly 30 minutes.