# 🚀 Y Combinator Scraper - Rental ($10/month) 🚀

A high-performance web scraper for extracting comprehensive company data from Y Combinator - the world's leading startup accelerator.
Whether you're an investor, founder, researcher, or developer, this tool helps you gather detailed data on 5000+ YC-backed companies.

## Actor Statistics

- Total users: 1
- Monthly users: 1
- Runs succeeded: 100.00%
- Categories: Lead generation, Jobs, News

## Pricing

$10.00/month + usage

## Input Schema

- **url** (type: string): Companies search URL.

Go to the [Y Combinator directory](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/), select any filters of your choice, and once you are done, copy the full URL from the address bar and paste it here.

- **sort\_by** (type: string): Sort by
- **max\_results** (type: integer): Max number of companies to scrape
- **scrape\_company\_details** (type: boolean): This will add an extra request for each company
- **scrape\_job\_posting\_details** (type: boolean): This will add an extra request for each job posting
- **batches** (type: array): Select the batches you want to scrape
- **team\_size\_min** (type: string): Select the minimum team size
- **team\_size\_max** (type: string): Select the maximum team size
- **top\_company** (type: boolean): Only include 💎Top Companies
- **is\_hiring** (type: boolean): Only include companies that are hiring
- **nonprofit** (type: boolean): Only include companies that are nonprofits
- **app\_video\_public** (type: boolean): Only include companies that have a public application video
- **demo\_day\_video\_public** (type: boolean): Only include companies that have a public demo day video
- **app\_answers** (type: boolean): Only include companies that have answered the app answers
- **question\_answers** (type: boolean): Only include companies that have bonus questions
- **regions** (type: array): Only include companies that are in the selected regions
- **industries** (type: array): Only include companies that are in the selected industries

## API example

## 🚀 Y Combinator Scraper - Rental ($10/month) 🚀

- **OpenAPI Version:** `3.1.1`
- **API Version:** `0.0`

A high-performance web scraper for extracting comprehensive company data from Y Combinator - the world's leading startup accelerator. Whether you're an investor, founder, researcher, or developer, this tool helps you gather detailed data on 5000+ YC-backed companies.

### Servers

- **URL:** `https://api.apify.com/v2`

### Operations

#### Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.

- **Method:** `POST`
- **Path:** `/acts/deltaspider~y-combinator-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items`
- **Tags:** Run Actor

##### Request Body

###### Content-Type: application/json

- **`app_answers`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — Only include companies that have answered the app answers

- **`app_video_public`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — Only include companies that have a public application video

- **`batches`**

  `array` — Select the batches you want to scrape

  **Items:**

  `string`, possible values: `"All batches", "Winter 2025", "Summer 2025", "Spring 2025", "Fall 2024", "Summer 2024", "Winter 2024", "Summer 2023", "Winter 2023", "Summer 2022", "Winter 2022", "Summer 2021", "Winter 2021", "Summer 2020", "Winter 2020", "Summer 2019", "Winter 2019", "Summer 2018", "Winter 2018", "Summer 2017", "Winter 2017", "Summer 2016", "Winter 2016", "Summer 2015", "Winter 2015", "Summer 2014", "Winter 2014", "Summer 2013", "Winter 2013", "Summer 2012", "Winter 2012", "Summer 2011", "Winter 2011", "Summer 2010", "Winter 2010", "Summer 2009", "Winter 2009", "Summer 2008", "Winter 2008", "Summer 2007", "Winter 2007", "Summer 2006", "Winter 2006", "Summer 2005"`

- **`demo_day_video_public`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — Only include companies that have a public demo day video

- **`industries`**

  `array` — Only include companies that are in the selected industries

  **Items:**

  `string`, possible values: `"B2B", "B2B -> Analytics", "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "B2B -> Finance and Accounting", "B2B -> Human Resources", "B2B -> Infrastructure", "B2B -> Legal", "B2B -> Marketing", "B2B -> Office Management", "B2B -> Operations", "B2B -> Productivity", "B2B -> Recruiting and Talent", "B2B -> Retail", "B2B -> Sales", "B2B -> Security", "B2B -> Supply Chain and Logistics", "Fintech", "Fintech -> Asset Management", "Fintech -> Banking and Exchange", "Fintech -> Consumer Finance", "Fintech -> Credit and Lending", "Fintech -> Insurance", "Fintech -> Payments", "Consumer", "Consumer -> Apparel and Cosmetics", "Consumer -> Consumer Electronics", "Consumer -> Content", "Consumer -> Food and Beverage", "Consumer -> Gaming", "Consumer -> Home and Personal", "Consumer -> Job and Career Services", "Consumer -> Social", "Consumer -> Transportation Services", "Consumer -> Travel, Leisure and Tourism", "Consumer -> Virtual and Augmented Reality", "Education", "Healthcare", "Healthcare -> Consumer Health and Wellness", "Healthcare -> Diagnostics", "Healthcare -> Drug Discovery and Delivery", "Healthcare -> Healthcare IT", "Healthcare -> Healthcare Services", "Healthcare -> Industrial Bio", "Healthcare -> Medical Devices", "Healthcare -> Therapeutics", "Real Estate and Construction", "Real Estate and Construction -> Construction", "Real Estate and Construction -> Housing and Real Estate", "Industrials", "Industrials -> Agriculture", "Industrials -> Automotive", "Industrials -> Aviation and Space", "Industrials -> Climate", "Industrials -> Drones", "Industrials -> Energy", "Industrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics", "Government", "Unspecified"`

- **`is_hiring`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — Only include companies that are hiring

- **`max_results`**

  `integer` — Max number of companies to scrape

- **`nonprofit`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — Only include companies that are nonprofits

- **`question_answers`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — Only include companies that have bonus questions

- **`regions`**

  `array` — Only include companies that are in the selected regions

  **Items:**

  `string`, possible values: `"Anywhere", "America / Canada", "United States of America", "Remote", "Partly Remote", "Fully Remote", "Europe", "South Asia", "Latin America", "India", "United Kingdom", "Canada", "Southeast Asia", "Africa", "Mexico", "Middle East and North Africa", "France", "Nigeria", "Singapore", "Brazil", "Germany", "Colombia", "Indonesia", "Israel", "East Asia", "Argentina", "Chile", "Spain", "Denmark", "Oceania", "Egypt", "Australia", "Netherlands", "Switzerland", "United Arab Emirates", "Kenya", "Pakistan", "Peru", "Philippines", "Sweden", "China", "Hong Kong", "Ireland", "Malaysia", "South Korea", "Ghana", "Panama", "Vietnam", "Austria", "Norway", "Poland", "Saudi Arabia", "Turkey", "Senegal", "Slovenia", "Estonia", "Finland", "Italy", "Morocco", "Portugal", "Belgium", "Ethiopia", "Greece", "New Zealand", "Puerto Rico", "Romania", "South Africa", "Uganda", "Ukraine", "Venezuela", "Algeria", "Armenia", "Bahrain", "Bangladesh", "Belarus", "Benin", "Costa Rica", "Croatia", "Cyprus", "Czechia", "Democratic Republic of the Congo", "Ecuador", "Georgia", "Hungary", "Iceland", "Iraq", "Ivory Coast", "Japan", "Latvia", "Lithuania", "Namibia", "Nepal", "Russia", "Rwanda", "Seychelles", "Taiwan", "Tanzania", "Thailand", "Uruguay", "Zambia"`

- **`scrape_company_details`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — This will add an extra request for each company

- **`scrape_job_posting_details`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — This will add an extra request for each job posting

- **`sort_by`**

  `string`, possible values: `"default", "launch_date"`, default: `"default"` — Sort by

- **`team_size_max`**

  `string`, possible values: `"1", "5", "10", "25", "50", "100", "250", "500", "1,000+"` — Select the maximum team size

- **`team_size_min`**

  `string`, possible values: `"1", "5", "10", "25", "50", "100", "250", "500", "1,000+"` — Select the minimum team size

- **`top_company`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — Only include 💎Top Companies

- **`url`**

  `string`, default: `"https://www.ycombinator.com/companies"` — Companies search URL. Go to the \[Y Combinator directory]\(https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/), select any filters of your choice, and once you are done, copy the full URL from the address bar and paste it here.

**Example:**

```
{
  "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies",
  "sort_by": "default",
  "max_results": 1,
  "scrape_company_details": false,
  "scrape_job_posting_details": false,
  "batches": [
    "All batches"
  ],
  "team_size_min": "1",
  "team_size_max": "1",
  "top_company": false,
  "is_hiring": false,
  "nonprofit": false,
  "app_video_public": false,
  "demo_day_video_public": false,
  "app_answers": false,
  "question_answers": false,
  "regions": [
    "Anywhere"
  ],
  "industries": [
    "B2B"
  ]
}
```

##### Responses

###### Status: 200 OK

#### Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.

- **Method:** `POST`
- **Path:** `/acts/deltaspider~y-combinator-scraper/runs`
- **Tags:** Run Actor

##### Request Body

###### Content-Type: application/json

- **`app_answers`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — Only include companies that have answered the app answers

- **`app_video_public`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — Only include companies that have a public application video

- **`batches`**

  `array` — Select the batches you want to scrape

  **Items:**

  `string`, possible values: `"All batches", "Winter 2025", "Summer 2025", "Spring 2025", "Fall 2024", "Summer 2024", "Winter 2024", "Summer 2023", "Winter 2023", "Summer 2022", "Winter 2022", "Summer 2021", "Winter 2021", "Summer 2020", "Winter 2020", "Summer 2019", "Winter 2019", "Summer 2018", "Winter 2018", "Summer 2017", "Winter 2017", "Summer 2016", "Winter 2016", "Summer 2015", "Winter 2015", "Summer 2014", "Winter 2014", "Summer 2013", "Winter 2013", "Summer 2012", "Winter 2012", "Summer 2011", "Winter 2011", "Summer 2010", "Winter 2010", "Summer 2009", "Winter 2009", "Summer 2008", "Winter 2008", "Summer 2007", "Winter 2007", "Summer 2006", "Winter 2006", "Summer 2005"`

- **`demo_day_video_public`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — Only include companies that have a public demo day video

- **`industries`**

  `array` — Only include companies that are in the selected industries

  **Items:**

  `string`, possible values: `"B2B", "B2B -> Analytics", "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "B2B -> Finance and Accounting", "B2B -> Human Resources", "B2B -> Infrastructure", "B2B -> Legal", "B2B -> Marketing", "B2B -> Office Management", "B2B -> Operations", "B2B -> Productivity", "B2B -> Recruiting and Talent", "B2B -> Retail", "B2B -> Sales", "B2B -> Security", "B2B -> Supply Chain and Logistics", "Fintech", "Fintech -> Asset Management", "Fintech -> Banking and Exchange", "Fintech -> Consumer Finance", "Fintech -> Credit and Lending", "Fintech -> Insurance", "Fintech -> Payments", "Consumer", "Consumer -> Apparel and Cosmetics", "Consumer -> Consumer Electronics", "Consumer -> Content", "Consumer -> Food and Beverage", "Consumer -> Gaming", "Consumer -> Home and Personal", "Consumer -> Job and Career Services", "Consumer -> Social", "Consumer -> Transportation Services", "Consumer -> Travel, Leisure and Tourism", "Consumer -> Virtual and Augmented Reality", "Education", "Healthcare", "Healthcare -> Consumer Health and Wellness", "Healthcare -> Diagnostics", "Healthcare -> Drug Discovery and Delivery", "Healthcare -> Healthcare IT", "Healthcare -> Healthcare Services", "Healthcare -> Industrial Bio", "Healthcare -> Medical Devices", "Healthcare -> Therapeutics", "Real Estate and Construction", "Real Estate and Construction -> Construction", "Real Estate and Construction -> Housing and Real Estate", "Industrials", "Industrials -> Agriculture", "Industrials -> Automotive", "Industrials -> Aviation and Space", "Industrials -> Climate", "Industrials -> Drones", "Industrials -> Energy", "Industrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics", "Government", "Unspecified"`

- **`is_hiring`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — Only include companies that are hiring

- **`max_results`**

  `integer` — Max number of companies to scrape

- **`nonprofit`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — Only include companies that are nonprofits

- **`question_answers`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — Only include companies that have bonus questions

- **`regions`**

  `array` — Only include companies that are in the selected regions

  **Items:**

  `string`, possible values: `"Anywhere", "America / Canada", "United States of America", "Remote", "Partly Remote", "Fully Remote", "Europe", "South Asia", "Latin America", "India", "United Kingdom", "Canada", "Southeast Asia", "Africa", "Mexico", "Middle East and North Africa", "France", "Nigeria", "Singapore", "Brazil", "Germany", "Colombia", "Indonesia", "Israel", "East Asia", "Argentina", "Chile", "Spain", "Denmark", "Oceania", "Egypt", "Australia", "Netherlands", "Switzerland", "United Arab Emirates", "Kenya", "Pakistan", "Peru", "Philippines", "Sweden", "China", "Hong Kong", "Ireland", "Malaysia", "South Korea", "Ghana", "Panama", "Vietnam", "Austria", "Norway", "Poland", "Saudi Arabia", "Turkey", "Senegal", "Slovenia", "Estonia", "Finland", "Italy", "Morocco", "Portugal", "Belgium", "Ethiopia", "Greece", "New Zealand", "Puerto Rico", "Romania", "South Africa", "Uganda", "Ukraine", "Venezuela", "Algeria", "Armenia", "Bahrain", "Bangladesh", "Belarus", "Benin", "Costa Rica", "Croatia", "Cyprus", "Czechia", "Democratic Republic of the Congo", "Ecuador", "Georgia", "Hungary", "Iceland", "Iraq", "Ivory Coast", "Japan", "Latvia", "Lithuania", "Namibia", "Nepal", "Russia", "Rwanda", "Seychelles", "Taiwan", "Tanzania", "Thailand", "Uruguay", "Zambia"`

- **`scrape_company_details`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — This will add an extra request for each company

- **`scrape_job_posting_details`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — This will add an extra request for each job posting

- **`sort_by`**

  `string`, possible values: `"default", "launch_date"`, default: `"default"` — Sort by

- **`team_size_max`**

  `string`, possible values: `"1", "5", "10", "25", "50", "100", "250", "500", "1,000+"` — Select the maximum team size

- **`team_size_min`**

  `string`, possible values: `"1", "5", "10", "25", "50", "100", "250", "500", "1,000+"` — Select the minimum team size

- **`top_company`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — Only include 💎Top Companies

- **`url`**

  `string`, default: `"https://www.ycombinator.com/companies"` — Companies search URL. Go to the \[Y Combinator directory]\(https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/), select any filters of your choice, and once you are done, copy the full URL from the address bar and paste it here.

**Example:**

```
{
  "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies",
  "sort_by": "default",
  "max_results": 1,
  "scrape_company_details": false,
  "scrape_job_posting_details": false,
  "batches": [
    "All batches"
  ],
  "team_size_min": "1",
  "team_size_max": "1",
  "top_company": false,
  "is_hiring": false,
  "nonprofit": false,
  "app_video_public": false,
  "demo_day_video_public": false,
  "app_answers": false,
  "question_answers": false,
  "regions": [
    "Anywhere"
  ],
  "industries": [
    "B2B"
  ]
}
```

##### Responses

###### Status: 200 OK

\####### Content-Type: application/json

- **`data`**

  `object`

  - **`actId`**

    `string`

  - **`buildId`**

    `string`

  - **`buildNumber`**

    `string`

  - **`containerUrl`**

    `string`

  - **`defaultDatasetId`**

    `string`

  - **`defaultKeyValueStoreId`**

    `string`

  - **`defaultRequestQueueId`**

    `string`

  - **`finishedAt`**

    `string`, format: `date-time`

  - **`id`**

    `string`

  - **`meta`**

    `object`

    - **`origin`**

      `string`

    - **`userAgent`**

      `string`

  - **`options`**

    `object`

    - **`build`**

      `string`

    - **`diskMbytes`**

      `integer`

    - **`memoryMbytes`**

      `integer`

    - **`timeoutSecs`**

      `integer`

  - **`startedAt`**

    `string`, format: `date-time`

  - **`stats`**

    `object`

    - **`computeUnits`**

      `integer`

    - **`inputBodyLen`**

      `integer`

    - **`rebootCount`**

      `integer`

    - **`restartCount`**

      `integer`

    - **`resurrectCount`**

      `integer`

  - **`status`**

    `string`

  - **`usage`**

    `object`

    - **`ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS`**

      `integer`

    - **`DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES`**

      `integer`

    - **`DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES`**

      `integer`

    - **`DATASET_READS`**

      `integer`

    - **`DATASET_WRITES`**

      `integer`

    - **`KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS`**

      `integer`

    - **`KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS`**

      `integer`

    - **`KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES`**

      `integer`

    - **`PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES`**

      `integer`

    - **`PROXY_SERPS`**

      `integer`

    - **`REQUEST_QUEUE_READS`**

      `integer`

    - **`REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES`**

      `integer`

  - **`usageTotalUsd`**

    `number`

  - **`usageUsd`**

    `object`

    - **`ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS`**

      `integer`

    - **`DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES`**

      `integer`

    - **`DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES`**

      `integer`

    - **`DATASET_READS`**

      `integer`

    - **`DATASET_WRITES`**

      `integer`

    - **`KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS`**

      `integer`

    - **`KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS`**

      `integer`

    - **`KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES`**

      `number`

    - **`PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES`**

      `integer`

    - **`PROXY_SERPS`**

      `integer`

    - **`REQUEST_QUEUE_READS`**

      `integer`

    - **`REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES`**

      `integer`

  - **`userId`**

    `string`

**Example:**

```
{
  "data": {
    "id": "",
    "actId": "",
    "userId": "",
    "startedAt": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z",
    "finishedAt": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z",
    "status": "READY",
    "meta": {
      "origin": "API",
      "userAgent": ""
    },
    "stats": {
      "inputBodyLen": 2000,
      "rebootCount": 0,
      "restartCount": 0,
      "resurrectCount": 0,
      "computeUnits": 0
    },
    "options": {
      "build": "latest",
      "timeoutSecs": 300,
      "memoryMbytes": 1024,
      "diskMbytes": 2048
    },
    "buildId": "",
    "defaultKeyValueStoreId": "",
    "defaultDatasetId": "",
    "defaultRequestQueueId": "",
    "buildNumber": "1.0.0",
    "containerUrl": "",
    "usage": {
      "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": 0,
      "DATASET_READS": 0,
      "DATASET_WRITES": 0,
      "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": 0,
      "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": 1,
      "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": 0,
      "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": 0,
      "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": 0,
      "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": 0,
      "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": 0,
      "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": 0,
      "PROXY_SERPS": 0
    },
    "usageTotalUsd": 0.00005,
    "usageUsd": {
      "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": 0,
      "DATASET_READS": 0,
      "DATASET_WRITES": 0,
      "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": 0,
      "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": 0.00005,
      "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": 0,
      "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": 0,
      "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": 0,
      "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": 0,
      "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": 0,
      "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": 0,
      "PROXY_SERPS": 0
    }
  }
}
```

#### Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.

- **Method:** `POST`
- **Path:** `/acts/deltaspider~y-combinator-scraper/run-sync`
- **Tags:** Run Actor

##### Request Body

###### Content-Type: application/json

- **`app_answers`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — Only include companies that have answered the app answers

- **`app_video_public`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — Only include companies that have a public application video

- **`batches`**

  `array` — Select the batches you want to scrape

  **Items:**

  `string`, possible values: `"All batches", "Winter 2025", "Summer 2025", "Spring 2025", "Fall 2024", "Summer 2024", "Winter 2024", "Summer 2023", "Winter 2023", "Summer 2022", "Winter 2022", "Summer 2021", "Winter 2021", "Summer 2020", "Winter 2020", "Summer 2019", "Winter 2019", "Summer 2018", "Winter 2018", "Summer 2017", "Winter 2017", "Summer 2016", "Winter 2016", "Summer 2015", "Winter 2015", "Summer 2014", "Winter 2014", "Summer 2013", "Winter 2013", "Summer 2012", "Winter 2012", "Summer 2011", "Winter 2011", "Summer 2010", "Winter 2010", "Summer 2009", "Winter 2009", "Summer 2008", "Winter 2008", "Summer 2007", "Winter 2007", "Summer 2006", "Winter 2006", "Summer 2005"`

- **`demo_day_video_public`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — Only include companies that have a public demo day video

- **`industries`**

  `array` — Only include companies that are in the selected industries

  **Items:**

  `string`, possible values: `"B2B", "B2B -> Analytics", "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "B2B -> Finance and Accounting", "B2B -> Human Resources", "B2B -> Infrastructure", "B2B -> Legal", "B2B -> Marketing", "B2B -> Office Management", "B2B -> Operations", "B2B -> Productivity", "B2B -> Recruiting and Talent", "B2B -> Retail", "B2B -> Sales", "B2B -> Security", "B2B -> Supply Chain and Logistics", "Fintech", "Fintech -> Asset Management", "Fintech -> Banking and Exchange", "Fintech -> Consumer Finance", "Fintech -> Credit and Lending", "Fintech -> Insurance", "Fintech -> Payments", "Consumer", "Consumer -> Apparel and Cosmetics", "Consumer -> Consumer Electronics", "Consumer -> Content", "Consumer -> Food and Beverage", "Consumer -> Gaming", "Consumer -> Home and Personal", "Consumer -> Job and Career Services", "Consumer -> Social", "Consumer -> Transportation Services", "Consumer -> Travel, Leisure and Tourism", "Consumer -> Virtual and Augmented Reality", "Education", "Healthcare", "Healthcare -> Consumer Health and Wellness", "Healthcare -> Diagnostics", "Healthcare -> Drug Discovery and Delivery", "Healthcare -> Healthcare IT", "Healthcare -> Healthcare Services", "Healthcare -> Industrial Bio", "Healthcare -> Medical Devices", "Healthcare -> Therapeutics", "Real Estate and Construction", "Real Estate and Construction -> Construction", "Real Estate and Construction -> Housing and Real Estate", "Industrials", "Industrials -> Agriculture", "Industrials -> Automotive", "Industrials -> Aviation and Space", "Industrials -> Climate", "Industrials -> Drones", "Industrials -> Energy", "Industrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics", "Government", "Unspecified"`

- **`is_hiring`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — Only include companies that are hiring

- **`max_results`**

  `integer` — Max number of companies to scrape

- **`nonprofit`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — Only include companies that are nonprofits

- **`question_answers`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — Only include companies that have bonus questions

- **`regions`**

  `array` — Only include companies that are in the selected regions

  **Items:**

  `string`, possible values: `"Anywhere", "America / Canada", "United States of America", "Remote", "Partly Remote", "Fully Remote", "Europe", "South Asia", "Latin America", "India", "United Kingdom", "Canada", "Southeast Asia", "Africa", "Mexico", "Middle East and North Africa", "France", "Nigeria", "Singapore", "Brazil", "Germany", "Colombia", "Indonesia", "Israel", "East Asia", "Argentina", "Chile", "Spain", "Denmark", "Oceania", "Egypt", "Australia", "Netherlands", "Switzerland", "United Arab Emirates", "Kenya", "Pakistan", "Peru", "Philippines", "Sweden", "China", "Hong Kong", "Ireland", "Malaysia", "South Korea", "Ghana", "Panama", "Vietnam", "Austria", "Norway", "Poland", "Saudi Arabia", "Turkey", "Senegal", "Slovenia", "Estonia", "Finland", "Italy", "Morocco", "Portugal", "Belgium", "Ethiopia", "Greece", "New Zealand", "Puerto Rico", "Romania", "South Africa", "Uganda", "Ukraine", "Venezuela", "Algeria", "Armenia", "Bahrain", "Bangladesh", "Belarus", "Benin", "Costa Rica", "Croatia", "Cyprus", "Czechia", "Democratic Republic of the Congo", "Ecuador", "Georgia", "Hungary", "Iceland", "Iraq", "Ivory Coast", "Japan", "Latvia", "Lithuania", "Namibia", "Nepal", "Russia", "Rwanda", "Seychelles", "Taiwan", "Tanzania", "Thailand", "Uruguay", "Zambia"`

- **`scrape_company_details`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — This will add an extra request for each company

- **`scrape_job_posting_details`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — This will add an extra request for each job posting

- **`sort_by`**

  `string`, possible values: `"default", "launch_date"`, default: `"default"` — Sort by

- **`team_size_max`**

  `string`, possible values: `"1", "5", "10", "25", "50", "100", "250", "500", "1,000+"` — Select the maximum team size

- **`team_size_min`**

  `string`, possible values: `"1", "5", "10", "25", "50", "100", "250", "500", "1,000+"` — Select the minimum team size

- **`top_company`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — Only include 💎Top Companies

- **`url`**

  `string`, default: `"https://www.ycombinator.com/companies"` — Companies search URL. Go to the \[Y Combinator directory]\(https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/), select any filters of your choice, and once you are done, copy the full URL from the address bar and paste it here.

**Example:**

```
{
  "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies",
  "sort_by": "default",
  "max_results": 1,
  "scrape_company_details": false,
  "scrape_job_posting_details": false,
  "batches": [
    "All batches"
  ],
  "team_size_min": "1",
  "team_size_max": "1",
  "top_company": false,
  "is_hiring": false,
  "nonprofit": false,
  "app_video_public": false,
  "demo_day_video_public": false,
  "app_answers": false,
  "question_answers": false,
  "regions": [
    "Anywhere"
  ],
  "industries": [
    "B2B"
  ]
}
```

##### Responses

###### Status: 200 OK

### Schemas

#### inputSchema

- **Type:**`object`

* **`app_answers`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — Only include companies that have answered the app answers

* **`app_video_public`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — Only include companies that have a public application video

* **`batches`**

  `array` — Select the batches you want to scrape

  **Items:**

  `string`, possible values: `"All batches", "Winter 2025", "Summer 2025", "Spring 2025", "Fall 2024", "Summer 2024", "Winter 2024", "Summer 2023", "Winter 2023", "Summer 2022", "Winter 2022", "Summer 2021", "Winter 2021", "Summer 2020", "Winter 2020", "Summer 2019", "Winter 2019", "Summer 2018", "Winter 2018", "Summer 2017", "Winter 2017", "Summer 2016", "Winter 2016", "Summer 2015", "Winter 2015", "Summer 2014", "Winter 2014", "Summer 2013", "Winter 2013", "Summer 2012", "Winter 2012", "Summer 2011", "Winter 2011", "Summer 2010", "Winter 2010", "Summer 2009", "Winter 2009", "Summer 2008", "Winter 2008", "Summer 2007", "Winter 2007", "Summer 2006", "Winter 2006", "Summer 2005"`

* **`demo_day_video_public`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — Only include companies that have a public demo day video

* **`industries`**

  `array` — Only include companies that are in the selected industries

  **Items:**

  `string`, possible values: `"B2B", "B2B -> Analytics", "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "B2B -> Finance and Accounting", "B2B -> Human Resources", "B2B -> Infrastructure", "B2B -> Legal", "B2B -> Marketing", "B2B -> Office Management", "B2B -> Operations", "B2B -> Productivity", "B2B -> Recruiting and Talent", "B2B -> Retail", "B2B -> Sales", "B2B -> Security", "B2B -> Supply Chain and Logistics", "Fintech", "Fintech -> Asset Management", "Fintech -> Banking and Exchange", "Fintech -> Consumer Finance", "Fintech -> Credit and Lending", "Fintech -> Insurance", "Fintech -> Payments", "Consumer", "Consumer -> Apparel and Cosmetics", "Consumer -> Consumer Electronics", "Consumer -> Content", "Consumer -> Food and Beverage", "Consumer -> Gaming", "Consumer -> Home and Personal", "Consumer -> Job and Career Services", "Consumer -> Social", "Consumer -> Transportation Services", "Consumer -> Travel, Leisure and Tourism", "Consumer -> Virtual and Augmented Reality", "Education", "Healthcare", "Healthcare -> Consumer Health and Wellness", "Healthcare -> Diagnostics", "Healthcare -> Drug Discovery and Delivery", "Healthcare -> Healthcare IT", "Healthcare -> Healthcare Services", "Healthcare -> Industrial Bio", "Healthcare -> Medical Devices", "Healthcare -> Therapeutics", "Real Estate and Construction", "Real Estate and Construction -> Construction", "Real Estate and Construction -> Housing and Real Estate", "Industrials", "Industrials -> Agriculture", "Industrials -> Automotive", "Industrials -> Aviation and Space", "Industrials -> Climate", "Industrials -> Drones", "Industrials -> Energy", "Industrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics", "Government", "Unspecified"`

* **`is_hiring`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — Only include companies that are hiring

* **`max_results`**

  `integer` — Max number of companies to scrape

* **`nonprofit`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — Only include companies that are nonprofits

* **`question_answers`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — Only include companies that have bonus questions

* **`regions`**

  `array` — Only include companies that are in the selected regions

  **Items:**

  `string`, possible values: `"Anywhere", "America / Canada", "United States of America", "Remote", "Partly Remote", "Fully Remote", "Europe", "South Asia", "Latin America", "India", "United Kingdom", "Canada", "Southeast Asia", "Africa", "Mexico", "Middle East and North Africa", "France", "Nigeria", "Singapore", "Brazil", "Germany", "Colombia", "Indonesia", "Israel", "East Asia", "Argentina", "Chile", "Spain", "Denmark", "Oceania", "Egypt", "Australia", "Netherlands", "Switzerland", "United Arab Emirates", "Kenya", "Pakistan", "Peru", "Philippines", "Sweden", "China", "Hong Kong", "Ireland", "Malaysia", "South Korea", "Ghana", "Panama", "Vietnam", "Austria", "Norway", "Poland", "Saudi Arabia", "Turkey", "Senegal", "Slovenia", "Estonia", "Finland", "Italy", "Morocco", "Portugal", "Belgium", "Ethiopia", "Greece", "New Zealand", "Puerto Rico", "Romania", "South Africa", "Uganda", "Ukraine", "Venezuela", "Algeria", "Armenia", "Bahrain", "Bangladesh", "Belarus", "Benin", "Costa Rica", "Croatia", "Cyprus", "Czechia", "Democratic Republic of the Congo", "Ecuador", "Georgia", "Hungary", "Iceland", "Iraq", "Ivory Coast", "Japan", "Latvia", "Lithuania", "Namibia", "Nepal", "Russia", "Rwanda", "Seychelles", "Taiwan", "Tanzania", "Thailand", "Uruguay", "Zambia"`

* **`scrape_company_details`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — This will add an extra request for each company

* **`scrape_job_posting_details`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — This will add an extra request for each job posting

* **`sort_by`**

  `string`, possible values: `"default", "launch_date"`, default: `"default"` — Sort by

* **`team_size_max`**

  `string`, possible values: `"1", "5", "10", "25", "50", "100", "250", "500", "1,000+"` — Select the maximum team size

* **`team_size_min`**

  `string`, possible values: `"1", "5", "10", "25", "50", "100", "250", "500", "1,000+"` — Select the minimum team size

* **`top_company`**

  `boolean`, default: `false` — Only include 💎Top Companies

* **`url`**

  `string`, default: `"https://www.ycombinator.com/companies"` — Companies search URL. Go to the \[Y Combinator directory]\(https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/), select any filters of your choice, and once you are done, copy the full URL from the address bar and paste it here.

**Example:**

```
{
  "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies",
  "sort_by": "default",
  "max_results": 1,
  "scrape_company_details": false,
  "scrape_job_posting_details": false,
  "batches": [
    "All batches"
  ],
  "team_size_min": "1",
  "team_size_max": "1",
  "top_company": false,
  "is_hiring": false,
  "nonprofit": false,
  "app_video_public": false,
  "demo_day_video_public": false,
  "app_answers": false,
  "question_answers": false,
  "regions": [
    "Anywhere"
  ],
  "industries": [
    "B2B"
  ]
}
```

#### runsResponseSchema

- **Type:**`object`

* **`data`**

  `object`

  - **`actId`**

    `string`

  - **`buildId`**

    `string`

  - **`buildNumber`**

    `string`

  - **`containerUrl`**

    `string`

  - **`defaultDatasetId`**

    `string`

  - **`defaultKeyValueStoreId`**

    `string`

  - **`defaultRequestQueueId`**

    `string`

  - **`finishedAt`**

    `string`, format: `date-time`

  - **`id`**

    `string`

  - **`meta`**

    `object`

    - **`origin`**

      `string`

    - **`userAgent`**

      `string`

  - **`options`**

    `object`

    - **`build`**

      `string`

    - **`diskMbytes`**

      `integer`

    - **`memoryMbytes`**

      `integer`

    - **`timeoutSecs`**

      `integer`

  - **`startedAt`**

    `string`, format: `date-time`

  - **`stats`**

    `object`

    - **`computeUnits`**

      `integer`

    - **`inputBodyLen`**

      `integer`

    - **`rebootCount`**

      `integer`

    - **`restartCount`**

      `integer`

    - **`resurrectCount`**

      `integer`

  - **`status`**

    `string`

  - **`usage`**

    `object`

    - **`ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS`**

      `integer`

    - **`DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES`**

      `integer`

    - **`DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES`**

      `integer`

    - **`DATASET_READS`**

      `integer`

    - **`DATASET_WRITES`**

      `integer`

    - **`KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS`**

      `integer`

    - **`KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS`**

      `integer`

    - **`KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES`**

      `integer`

    - **`PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES`**

      `integer`

    - **`PROXY_SERPS`**

      `integer`

    - **`REQUEST_QUEUE_READS`**

      `integer`

    - **`REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES`**

      `integer`

  - **`usageTotalUsd`**

    `number`

  - **`usageUsd`**

    `object`

    - **`ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS`**

      `integer`

    - **`DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES`**

      `integer`

    - **`DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES`**

      `integer`

    - **`DATASET_READS`**

      `integer`

    - **`DATASET_WRITES`**

      `integer`

    - **`KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS`**

      `integer`

    - **`KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS`**

      `integer`

    - **`KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES`**

      `number`

    - **`PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES`**

      `integer`

    - **`PROXY_SERPS`**

      `integer`

    - **`REQUEST_QUEUE_READS`**

      `integer`

    - **`REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES`**

      `integer`

  - **`userId`**

    `string`

**Example:**

```
{
  "data": {
    "id": "",
    "actId": "",
    "userId": "",
    "startedAt": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z",
    "finishedAt": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z",
    "status": "READY",
    "meta": {
      "origin": "API",
      "userAgent": ""
    },
    "stats": {
      "inputBodyLen": 2000,
      "rebootCount": 0,
      "restartCount": 0,
      "resurrectCount": 0,
      "computeUnits": 0
    },
    "options": {
      "build": "latest",
      "timeoutSecs": 300,
      "memoryMbytes": 1024,
      "diskMbytes": 2048
    },
    "buildId": "",
    "defaultKeyValueStoreId": "",
    "defaultDatasetId": "",
    "defaultRequestQueueId": "",
    "buildNumber": "1.0.0",
    "containerUrl": "",
    "usage": {
      "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": 0,
      "DATASET_READS": 0,
      "DATASET_WRITES": 0,
      "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": 0,
      "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": 1,
      "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": 0,
      "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": 0,
      "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": 0,
      "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": 0,
      "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": 0,
      "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": 0,
      "PROXY_SERPS": 0
    },
    "usageTotalUsd": 0.00005,
    "usageUsd": {
      "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": 0,
      "DATASET_READS": 0,
      "DATASET_WRITES": 0,
      "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": 0,
      "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": 0.00005,
      "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": 0,
      "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": 0,
      "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": 0,
      "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": 0,
      "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": 0,
      "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": 0,
      "PROXY_SERPS": 0
    }
  }
}
```

## 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 = {
    "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies",
    "sort_by": "default",
    "max_results": 1000
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("deltaspider/y-combinator-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 = {
    "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies",
    "sort_by": "default",
    "max_results": 1000,
}

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

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies",
  "sort_by": "default",
  "max_results": 1000
}' |
apify call deltaspider/y-combinator-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=deltaspider/y-combinator-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## 🚀 Y Combinator Scraper - Rental ($10/month) 🚀

A high-performance web scraper for extracting comprehensive company data from [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies) - the world's leading startup accelerator.

Whether you're an investor, founder, researcher, or developer, this tool helps you gather detailed data on 5000+ YC-backed companies — perfect for market analysis, investment research, competitive intelligence, and identifying emerging startups.

### ✨ Key Features

#### ✅ Super simple to get started

- Just provide a [Y Combinator URL](https://www.ycombinator.companies) to start scraping company data in 2 steps.
- Alternatively select your filters directly in Apify.

#### ✅ Comprehensive Company Data

- Scrape detailed information from Y Combinator's company directory
- Access data on 5000+ startups across all YC batches
- Real-time data directly from Y Combinator's official sources

#### ✅ Rich Company Information

- Company names, descriptions, and taglines
- Founding year and batch information
- Team size and location data
- Hiring status and job openings
- Industry categories and tags
- Company websites and social links
- Logo and visual assets
- Optional founder details and profiles

#### ✅ Advanced Filtering & Search

- Filter companies by batch (e.g., W24, S23)
- Search by industry vertical (AI, B2B, Consumer, etc.)
- Location-based filtering (SF, NYC, Remote, etc.)
- Custom result limits for controlled data extraction

#### ✅ Bulk Processing & High Performance

- Process entire batches or filtered searches efficiently
- Built-in retry mechanisms for reliability
- Optimized concurrent request handling
- Smart rate limiting for stable performance

#### ✅ Structured Data Output

- Clean, structured JSON output
- Export-ready for analysis, CRM systems, or databases
- Consistent data schema across all companies

***

### 🗂 Use Cases

- **Investors & VCs**\
  Identify promising startups, track portfolio companies, analyze investment trends across YC batches, and discover opportunities early.

- **Founders & Entrepreneurs**\
  Research successful YC companies, analyze competitive landscapes, find potential partners or collaborators, and learn from YC alumni.

- **Market Researchers**\
  Track startup trends, analyze emerging industries, understand YC's impact on various sectors, and identify market gaps.

- **Sales & Business Development**\
  Build targeted lead lists of YC companies, identify potential customers or partners, and understand company growth stages.

- **Recruiters & Talent Acquisition**\
  Discover fast-growing YC startups hiring talent, track company expansions, and identify opportunities at early-stage companies.

- **Job Seekers & Career Changers**\
  Find exciting opportunities at YC startups, discover companies actively hiring, identify fast-growing teams, and explore career paths at innovative companies.

- **Journalists & Analysts**\
  Research YC ecosystem trends, track unicorn trajectories, analyze batch success rates, and identify newsworthy startups.

***

### 🔖 Output Example

#### Standard company data output:

```json
{
  "id": 531,
  "name": "DoorDash",
  "slug": "doordash",
  "former_names": [],
  "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d13287c52acc96909f32342e85c26a33cfdac310.png",
  "website": "http://doordash.com",
  "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA",
  "long_description": "Founded in 2013, DoorDash is a San Francisco-based technology company passionate about transforming local businesses and dedicated to enabling new ways of working, earning, and living. Today, DoorDash connects customers with their favorite local and national restaurants in more than 600 cities across the United States and Canada. By building intelligent, last-mile delivery technology for local cities, DoorDash aims to connect people with the things they care about — one dash at a time. \r\n\r\nRead more at blog.doordash.com, and find us on Glassdoor.",
  "one_liner": "Restaurant delivery.",
  "team_size": 8600,
  "industry": "Consumer",
  "subindustry": "Consumer -> Food and Beverage",
  "launched_at": 1367523459,
  "tags": [
    "Marketplace",
    "E-commerce"
  ],
  "tags_highlighted": [],
  "top_company": true,
  "isHiring": true,
  "nonprofit": false,
  "batch": "Summer 2013",
  "status": "Public",
  "industries": [
    "Consumer",
    "Food and Beverage"
  ],
  "regions": [
    "United States of America",
    "America / Canada"
  ],
  "stage": "Growth",
  "app_video_public": false,
  "demo_day_video_public": false,
  "app_answers": null,
  "question_answers": false,
  "objectID": "531"
}
```

#### With founder details and job postings enabled:

```json
{
	..., // in addition to the standard info (see above):

	"batch_name": "Summer 2013",
	"small_logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d13287c52acc96909f32342e85c26a33cfdac310.png",
	"ycdc_status": "Public",
	"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/logos/7537815bdd5f34914ea5445ea3589061df16769c.png",
	"year_founded": 2013,
	"location": "San Francisco",
	"city": "San Francisco",
	"city_tag": "san-francisco-bay-area",
	"country": "US",
	"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/doordash/",
	"twitter_url": "http://twitter.com/doordash",
	"fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/DoorDash/",
	"cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/doordash",
	"github_url": null,
	"free_response_question_answers": [
		{
			"id": "1",
			"answer": "",
			"question": "How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)"
		},
		... // other questions
	],
	"dday_video_url": null,
	"dday_presenter_id": null,
	"app_video_url": null,
	"ycdc_company_url": "/companies/doordash",
	"fundraising_meeting_url": null,
	"company_photos": [],
	"primary_group_partner": null,
	"founders": [
		{
			"user_id": 14644,
			"is_active": true,
			"founder_bio": null,
			"full_name": "Tony Xu",
			"title": "Founder/CEO",
			"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/1d5915aa4f0da14e3b2e60fc1c3322fc42d58e20.jpg",
			"twitter_url": null,
			"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/xutony",
			"has_email": true,
			"latest_yc_company": {
				"name": "DoorDash",
				"href": "/companies/doordash"
			}
		},
		... // other founders
	],
	"jobPostings": [
		{
			"id": 249,
			"title": "Software Engineer, Android",
			"url": "/companies/doordash/jobs/BV8AJW4Tt-software-engineer-android",
			"applyUrl": "https://account.ycombinator.com/authenticate?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.workatastartup.com%2Fapplication%3Fsignup_job_id%3D249&defaults%5BsignUpActive%5D=true&defaults%5Bwaas_company%5D=531",
			"location": "901 Market, SF, CA 94105",
			"askUs": true,
			"type": "Full-time",
			"role": "eng",
			"roleSpecificType": "Android",
			"salaryRange": "",
			"equityRange": "",
			"minExperience": "3+ years",
			"minSchoolYear": "",
			"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
			"isIncomplete": false,
			"companyUrl": "/companies/doordash",
			"companyLogoUrl": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d13287c52acc96909f32342e85c26a33cfdac310.png",
			"companyName": "DoorDash",
			"companyBatchName": "S13",
			"companyOneLiner": "Restaurant delivery.",
			"hiringManager": {
				"id": 14622,
				"first_name": "Stanley",
				"last_name": "Tang",
				"avatar_thumb": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/avatars/90a4c921fcc51c82efbcea7449f418310c258201.jpg",
				"avatar_medium": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3fd1147ba974d80e6160b07dfef41eb9ee55349c.jpg"
			},
			"createdAt": "over 7 years",
			"lastActive": null,
			"description": "**What You’ll Achieve**\r\n\r\n- Be an owner of the architecture of our Android applications\r\n- Scale our test infrastructure and automate releases\r\n- Introduce tools and best practices that accelerate our development process\r\n- Build awesome product features to improve our marketplace\r\n\r\n**About you**\r\n\r\n- High-energy and courageous - you’ll do what it takes to win\r\n- You’re an owner - driven, focused, and quick to take ownership of your work\r\n- Humble - you’re willing to get into the details and you’re open to feedback\r\n- Adaptable, resilient, and able to thrive in ambiguity - things change quickly in our dynamic startup and you’ll need to be able to keep up!\r\n- Growth-minded - you’re eager to expand your skill set and excited to carve out your career path in a hyper-growth setting\r\n- Desire for impact - ready to take on a lot of responsibility and work collaboratively with your team\r\n\r\n**Qualifications**\r\n\r\n- Eager to work in fast-paced startup environment and a desire to disrupt logistics\r\n- B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or equivalent\r\n- 4+ years developing with Android SDK in a production environment\r\n- Strong systems and OOP knowledge\r\n- Well-versed in Android architecture paradigms\r\n- Expert knowledge of Android testing frameworks and best practices for testing\r\n- High bar for code quality\r\n\r\n**Nice To Haves**\r\n\r\n- Experience working full-stack\r\n- Contributor to open source projects",
			"interview_process": null
		},
		... // other job postings
	],
	"jobsUrl": "https://bookface.ycombinator.com/workatastartup",
	"newsItems": [
		{
			"title": "DoorDash wants to deliver everything - The Hustle",
			"url": "https://thehustle.co/11212022-doordash/",
			"date": "Nov 20, 2022"
		},
		... // other news items
	],
	"newsUrl": "https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/531/company_news",
	"launches": []
}
```

***

### 🚀 Getting Started

### Input

### Method 1 (copy & paste Y Combinator URL)

![image](https://ik.imagekit.io/deltaspider/y-combinator-url-copy.png?updatedAt=1755675678847)

![image](https://ik.imagekit.io/deltaspider/y-combinator-paste-url.png?updatedAt=1755676311332)

### Method 2 (Select filters in Apify)

![image](https://ik.imagekit.io/deltaspider/y-combinator-input-manual.png?updatedAt=1755675678488)

### Method 3 (Via JSON, easy to integrate into your automations)

##### Example 1

```json
{
  "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?industry=Artificial%20Intelligence",
  "scrape_founder_details": true,
  "max_results": 500
}
```

##### Example 2

```json
{
    "app_answers": true,
    "app_video_public": true,
    "batches": [
        "Winter 2025",
        "Summer 2025"
    ],
    "demo_day_video_public": true,
    "industries": [
        "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design",
        "Fintech -> Banking and Exchange"
    ],
    "is_hiring": true,
    "max_results": 50,
    "nonprofit": true,
    "question_answers": true,
    "regions": [
        "Remote",
        "Partly Remote",
        "Europe"
    ],
    "scrape_company_details": true,
    "scrape_job_posting_details": true,
    "sort_by": "launch_date",
    "team_size_min": "1",
    "team_size_max": "10",
    "top_company": true
}
```

#### Configuration Options

- **url**: \[Required] Y Combinator companies URL with optional filters
- **scrape\_founder\_details**: Fetch detailed founder information (default: false)
- **max\_results**: Maximum number of companies to scrape (default: no limit)

#### Supported URL Filters

You can add these filters to the base URL:

- `batch`: YC batch (e.g., W24, S23, F22)
- `industry`: Industry vertical (AI, B2B, Consumer, Fintech, etc.)
- `location`: Company location
- `team_size`: Company size range
- `is_hiring`: Is the Company currently hiring
- ...

***

#### Performance

- Processes 1000+ companies per minute
- Automatic session management for uninterrupted scraping
- Concurrent request handling for optimal speed

#### Data Freshness

- Real-time data directly from Y Combinator's database
- No stale or cached information
- Immediate updates when YC adds new companies or batches

***

### 📊 Output Schema

The scraper returns structured JSON data with the following fields:

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| name | string | Company name |
| slug | string | Unique company identifier |
| description | string | Company description |
| batch | string | YC batch (e.g., W24, S23) |
| year\_founded | number | Founding year |
| location | string | Company headquarters |
| team\_size | string | Employee count range |
| is\_hiring | boolean | Whether company is actively hiring |
| industries | array | Industry categories |
| website | string | Company website URL |
| logo\_url | string | Company logo URL |
| status | string | Current company status |
| tags | array | Special tags (Unicorn, Top Company, etc.) |
| founders | array | Founder details (when enabled) |
| social\_links | object | Social media profiles |

***

### 🤝 Support

For questions, feature requests, or issues, contact us through the Apify platform.
