Crunchbase Organization Scraper

An Apify Actor that scrapes comprehensive company data from Crunchbase organization pages using Playwright browser automation.

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, web traffic data, and Bombora interest signals
• 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: financial_details, tech_details, people, 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 outputs data to the default dataset with the following structure:

• Company Overview: Name, legal name, operating status, company type, founded date, country, domain
• Contact Info: Phone number, email
• Industries: Array of industry categories
• Founders & Hub Info: Founder names, related hubs, hub tags
• Scores: Growth score, Crunchbase rank, heat score with trends
• Funding Rounds: Date, amount, investors, funding type for each round
• Sections (optional):
  • financial_details: Investors, acquisitions, total funding, lead investors
  • tech_details: Tech stack, web traffic, Bombora interest signals
  • people: Board members, team members with counts
  • news_and_analysis: Recent news articles with dates, sources, titles, URLs

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
npm install

# Run locally
npm start

Deployment

This Actor is designed to run on the Apify platform.

# Deploy using Apify CLI
apify push

Dependencies

• apify - Apify SDK for Actor orchestration
• puppeteer - Browser automation
• cheerio - HTML parsing

License

ISC