# Crunchbase Companies Scraper (`neuro-scraper/crunchbase-companies-scraper`) Actor

Crunchbase Companies Scraper SD - Crunchbase Companies Scraper is a company data tool that extracts Crunchbase companies from Crunchbase News funding coverage: name, Crunchbase URL, amount raised, round type, article and date, filtered by keyword, category, date and minimum amount.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/neuro-scraper/crunchbase-companies-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Neuro Scraper](https://apify.com/neuro-scraper) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.49 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

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Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

./README.md

# Actor input Schema

## `newsCategory` (type: `string`):

Find companies in this Crunchbase News category, by name: Venture, Seed funding, Artificial intelligence, Fintech, M\&A, IPO, Cybersecurity ... The category id is looked up on every run. Each company linked in a matching article becomes a row.

## `newsQuery` (type: `string`):

Find companies in Crunchbase News articles that match this keyword, e.g. "series a", "fintech" or "robotics" (WordPress search: a loose word match).

## `announcedAfter` (type: `string`):

Only articles published on or after this day, e.g. 2026-09-01 (YYYY-MM-DD).

## `announcedBefore` (type: `string`):

Only articles published on or before this day, e.g. 2026-10-01 (YYYY-MM-DD).

## `minAmountUsd` (type: `integer`):

Only companies with a dollar amount of at least this much in the same sentence of the article, e.g. 10000000 for rounds of $10M and up. Investors named in that sentence ("led by ...") match too.

## `maxAmountUsd` (type: `integer`):

Only companies with a dollar amount of at most this much in the same sentence of the article, e.g. 5000000 for rounds up to $5M.

## `roundTypes` (type: `array`):

Only companies whose sentence names one of these: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel, Series A ... Series K, Venture, Venture Debt, Debt, Growth Equity, Private Equity, Convertible Note, Grant, IPO, SPAC, Acquisition. Matched in the article text (applied here, not by Crunchbase).

## `skipInvestors` (type: `boolean`):

Leave out organizations the sentence names as backers ("led by ...", "... participated"), so the list holds the funded companies. The role is guessed from the article wording and shown in mentionRole.

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

How many company rows to return. The Actor reads Crunchbase News page after page (20 articles each) until this many companies are found or the archive ends.

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

Crunchbase organization pages to open in a headless browser, e.g. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/airbnb or the permalink airbnb. Measured 2026-10-09: Crunchbase answered our only test (US residential IP) with a Cloudflare block page, so expect these to fail; a failed profile is logged and not charged.

## `fetchProfiles` (type: `boolean`):

Off (default): fast news rows. On: opens every found company's profile page in a headless browser; when Cloudflare blocks it (measured 2026-10-09) the row keeps its news fields with profileStatus "blocked", and after 3 blocks in a row no more profiles are tried.

## `rawMode` (type: `boolean`):

Profile mode only: adds `rawCards` (every property and card the profile page delivers) to each row and saves the page HTML in the key-value store as PAGE-<permalink>.html.

## `maxSessions` (type: `integer`):

Profile mode only: on a Cloudflare block or check the Actor tries a new browser session (new proxy IP) up to this many times. It never answers a CAPTCHA.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Residential proxy in the United States is the default. Crunchbase News needs no special proxy; profile pages are behind Cloudflare.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "newsCategory": "Venture",
  "minAmountUsd": 10000000,
  "skipInvestors": false,
  "maxItems": 20,
  "fetchProfiles": false,
  "rawMode": false,
  "maxSessions": 3,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}
```

# 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 = {
    "newsCategory": "Venture",
    "minAmountUsd": 10000000,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("neuro-scraper/crunchbase-companies-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 = {
    "newsCategory": "Venture",
    "minAmountUsd": 10000000,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "US",
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("neuro-scraper/crunchbase-companies-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 '{
  "newsCategory": "Venture",
  "minAmountUsd": 10000000,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}' |
apify call neuro-scraper/crunchbase-companies-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,neuro-scraper/crunchbase-companies-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/qf9RrpfhP8lbqnbq3/builds/vKlZEmWad1kUK6xLd/openapi.json