# BORG Y Combinator company directory (`acid-base/borg-y-combinator-directory-scraper`) Actor

Export the complete public YC company directory or exact filtered subsets. No login or API key required.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/acid-base/borg-y-combinator-directory-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Daniel Yates](https://apify.com/acid-base) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, Lead generation, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$0.80 / 1,000 yc companies

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## BORG Y Combinator company directory

Export the public Y Combinator company directory as structured data without a login, customer credential, or committed API key.

### What it returns

Each row contains the YC company identity, profile URL, company website, descriptions, team size, industry, batch, status, hiring/nonprofit/top-company flags, tags, regions, launch date, and collection provenance.

The product does **not** claim founder emails or private contact data. Those fields are not part of the current public directory contract.

### Completeness

The YC directory currently exposes a public Algolia search contract. The Actor discovers that contract from the served page, reads the exact source cardinality, partitions the directory by YC batch, and refuses any truncated, overlapping, contaminated, or cardinality-inconsistent result.

`OUTPUT.completeSource` is true only when an unfiltered run recovered every identity YC reported. `OUTPUT.completeSelection` is true when every record matching the selected filters was recovered, even when `maxItems` intentionally limits emitted rows.

### Inputs

- `query`: optional full-text search.
- `batches`, `industries`, `regions`, `statuses`: exact public facet values.
- `isHiring`, `topCompany`, `nonprofit`: optional boolean filters.
- `maxItems`: 1–10,000 records after completeness verification.
- `sortBy`: newest launch, company name, or team size.

### Custody

This package materializes Borg candidate `apify/store/candidate/y-combinator-directory-scraper` at payload address `sha256:18818fc032d983d24e62e5005a25583a0db87ac692f8083bc4f22e58dcd3afa6`. The target-specific runtime is a clean public artifact; Borg’s market intelligence and productization machinery do not ship inside it.

# Actor input Schema

## `query` (type: `string`):

Optional full-text company search.

## `batches` (type: `array`):

Exact public batch labels, for example Winter 2024 or Summer 2013.

## `industries` (type: `array`):

Exact public YC industry facet values.

## `regions` (type: `array`):

Exact public YC region facet values.

## `statuses` (type: `array`):

Exact public YC status facet values.

## `isHiring` (type: `boolean`):

Set true for companies YC currently marks as hiring.

## `topCompany` (type: `boolean`):

Set true for companies YC marks as top companies.

## `nonprofit` (type: `boolean`):

Set true for YC nonprofits.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum records emitted after the complete selected source has been verified.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Choose deterministic output ordering after the complete selected YC source has been verified.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxItems": 100,
  "sortBy": "launch_date_desc"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `datasetItems` (type: `string`):

Verified YC company records emitted to the default dataset.

## `runSummary` (type: `string`):

Per-run source cardinality, completeness, filters, and product identity stored under OUTPUT.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "maxItems": 100,
    "sortBy": "launch_date_desc"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("acid-base/borg-y-combinator-directory-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "maxItems": 100,
    "sortBy": "launch_date_desc",
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("acid-base/borg-y-combinator-directory-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "maxItems": 100,
  "sortBy": "launch_date_desc"
}' |
apify call acid-base/borg-y-combinator-directory-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,acid-base/borg-y-combinator-directory-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/HyYWqeV0yQnYlv6K6/builds/Y5VyDXfXv2Wjfpplf/openapi.json