Crunchbase Organization Scraper

An Apify Actor that scrapes comprehensive company data from Crunchbase organization pages.

Features

• Extracts detailed company profiles including overview, financials, and key metrics
• Scrapes funding rounds, acquisitions, and investor information
• Collects team data: founders, executives, board members, and advisors
• Gathers news articles and press mentions
• Retrieves technology stack and web traffic data
• Supports authentication via browser cookies
• Optional proxy configuration for anti-blocking

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
urls	array	Yes	List of Crunchbase organization URLs (up to 5)
cookies	array	Yes	JSON array of authentication cookies exported from your browser
skipSections	boolean	No	Skip all additional sections for faster scraping. Default: false
sectionsToSkip	array	No	List of specific sections to skip: people, financial_details, tech_details, news_and_analysis
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Apify Proxy settings for anti-blocking

Example Input

{
    "urls": [
        "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/databricks",
        "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai"
    ],
    "cookies": [
        {
            "name": "cookie_name",
            "value": "cookie_value",
            "domain": ".crunchbase.com"
        }
    ],
    "sectionsToSkip": ["people"]
}

To skip multiple sections:

{
    "urls": ["https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/databricks"],
    "cookies": [...],
    "sectionsToSkip": ["people", "news_and_analysis"]
}

Output

The scraper returns structured JSON data including:

• Company Overview: Name, legal name, description, status, founded date
• Scores & Trends: Crunchbase rank, trend scores
• Contact Info: Website, social links, headquarters location
• Industries: Categories and industry classifications
• Financials: Revenue range, total funding, valuation
• Funding Rounds: Date, amount, investors for each round
• Acquisitions: Companies acquired with details
• People: Founders, executives, board members, advisors
• News: Recent articles and press mentions
• Technology: Tech stack and web traffic metrics

Getting Cookies

1. Log in to Crunchbase in your browser
2. Install a cookie export extension (e.g., "Get cookies.txt LOCALLY")
3. Export cookies as JSON for crunchbase.com
4. Paste the JSON array into the cookies input field

Local Development

# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Install Playwright browsers
playwright install chromium

# Run locally
python -m src.main

Deployment

This Actor is designed to run on the Apify platform.

# Deploy using Apify CLI
apify push

Dependencies

• apify>=3.1.0 - Apify SDK for Actor orchestration
• playwright>=1.57.0 - Browser automation
• beautifulsoup4>=4.14.3 - HTML parsing
• lxml>=6.0.1 - XML/HTML parsing backend

License

ISC