# Y Combinator Company Profile Scraper (`ahmdshrif/yc-company-profile-scraper`) Actor

Extracts structured company profile data (name, description, founders, team size, location, batch, status, and open roles) from individual Y Combinator company pages.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ahmdshrif/yc-company-profile-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Ahmed Ashraf](https://apify.com/ahmdshrif) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Automation, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: 5.00 out of 5 stars

## Pricing

$1.00 / 1,000 company profile scrapeds

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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

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

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# README

## Y Combinator Company Profile Scraper

Extracts structured company profile data — name, description, founders, team size, location, batch, status, industries, and open roles — from individual Y Combinator company pages. Built for investors, recruiters, and researchers who need clean, structured data on YC-backed companies without manually copying fields off each company page.

### Why this scraper

- Parses the company data straight out of the page's embedded JSON payload instead of scraping visible DOM elements with CSS selectors, so results don't break when YC changes its page layout or styling.
- Covers founders, batch code, team size, and current hiring counts alongside the standard profile fields — data that requires piecing together multiple page sections.
- Priced per successfully parsed company, so you only pay for records that actually came back complete.

### Output fields

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| company\_name | string | Official company name |
| company\_url | string | Canonical YC company page URL |
| one\_liner | string | Short tagline describing the company |
| long\_description | string | Full description text from the meta description / about section |
| founded\_year | integer | Year the company was founded |
| founders | string | Comma-separated list of founder names |
| team\_size | integer | Current employee count as listed on the page |
| location | string | City/region where the company is based |
| batch | string | YC batch code, e.g. S09, W21 |
| status | string | Company status, e.g. Active, Acquired, Public |
| industries | string | Comma-separated industry/tag labels |
| website\_url | string | Company's external website URL |
| hiring\_roles\_count | integer | Number of open roles currently listed as hiring |
| logo\_url | string | URL of the company logo image |

### Input

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stripe" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 50
}
```

`startUrls` is a list of YC company page URLs to scrape. `maxItems` caps how many URLs are processed in a run.

### Output

```json
{
  "company_name": "Stripe",
  "company_url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stripe",
  "one_liner": "Economic infrastructure for the internet.",
  "long_description": "Economic infrastructure for the internet. Founded in 2009 by John Collison and Patrick Collison, Stripe has 7000 employees based in San Francisco. Stripe is hiring for 3 roles in engineering.",
  "founded_year": 2009,
  "founders": "Patrick Collison, John Collison",
  "team_size": 7000,
  "location": "San Francisco",
  "batch": "S09",
  "status": "Active",
  "industries": "Banking as a Service, Fintech, SaaS",
  "website_url": "http://stripe.com",
  "hiring_roles_count": 3,
  "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e5ccedd9995f6524b4a0379062eb67f7c991613e.png"
}
```

### Pricing

Pay-per-result at **$0.001 per company scraped** — you're charged only for company URLs successfully parsed into a full profile. A run covering 500 companies costs $0.50.

### Use cases

- Building a sourcing list of YC-backed companies by batch for an investor pipeline or scouting report.
- Tracking hiring activity across a set of YC companies to identify recruiting targets for a talent agency.
- Enriching a CRM or research database with founder names, locations, and industry tags for market mapping.

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Pages to export.

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

Stop after this many records.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxItems": 50
}
```

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ahmdshrif/yc-company-profile-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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ahmdshrif/yc-company-profile-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 '{}' |
apify call ahmdshrif/yc-company-profile-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,ahmdshrif/yc-company-profile-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/bN3TrmadAzYPgb7lt/builds/v3JAMhLIx62LC1Vu9/openapi.json