Y Combinator Companies Scraper | Directory API, No Key
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$0.60 / 1,000 company scrapeds
Y Combinator Companies Scraper | Directory API, No Key
Every YC company via the directory own public search API - no login, no browser. Filter by batch, industry or hiring status. Incremental mode returns only new companies since your last run. Name, description, team size, tags, launch date. $0.60 per 1,000 rows.
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$0.60 / 1,000 company scrapeds
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Hriday Rungta
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Y Combinator Companies Scraper — directory's own API, no key
Every YC company — no login, no browser. Reads the exact same public, read-only search API the official YC directory page's own search box uses. Turn on incremental mode and every run after the first returns only companies new since the previous one.
$0.60 per 1,000 rows. No start fee.
What you get
One row per company: name, oneLiner, longDescription, website, location, teamSize,
industry, industries, tags, batch, status, stage, isHiring, topCompany,
launchedAtIso, and ycUrl.
What this Actor does not include: founder names or emails. Those require scraping each company's individual profile page and are not part of the directory's own search index this Actor reads from - reported honestly as out of scope rather than guessed or fabricated.
How this works
YC's own directory page (ycombinator.com/companies) loads its search results from a public
Algolia index using a key embedded directly in the page for the page's own search box to use.
This Actor calls that same index directly. The key is a "secured" Algolia key, but decoding it
shows it is scoped read-only to the public directory data (tagFilters: ["ycdc_public"]) - the
same data any visitor's browser already receives, just read directly instead of through the page.
Incremental mode
Uses YC's own by-launch-date index, verified strictly newest-first, so paging can stop the moment it reaches a company you already have. The mark advances only from companies this run actually saved, and always advances even on a capped run - the same fix this developer's Reddit Actor needed after a real bug there.
Input at a glance
| Input | Default | Notes |
|---|---|---|
searchQuery | — | free-text search |
batch | — | e.g. "Summer 2013" |
industry | — | e.g. "Fintech" |
isHiring | any | any / hiring / not hiring |
mode | all | all or changes |
maxItems | 500 | cost cap — billed once per row saved |
firstRunSince | 90 days | changes mode only; "all" backfills the full directory |
Billing
Pay per event, charged once per company row saved, no start fee:
| Event | Price | When |
|---|---|---|
company-scraped | $0.0006 | one company row |
Set maxItems as your cost cap.
