# YC Startup Directory Scraper: Batches, Founders & Hiring (`physealabs/yc-startup-directory-scraper`) Actor

Search Y Combinator startups by batch, industry, tag, team size or hiring status: company details, batch, tags, website & job openings. No API key. By Physea Labs · Liminal. 90% OFF first week!

- **URL**: https://apify.com/physealabs/yc-startup-directory-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [jay casey](https://apify.com/physealabs) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 startup delivereds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

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

## YC Startup Directory Scraper: Batches, Founders & Hiring

> 🔥 **Launch Sale: 90% OFF for the first week!** Every price below is already the regular, below-market rate, and launch week takes 90% off on top.

Export Y Combinator startups by batch (W24, S25...), industry, region, team size, status and hiring flag, with one-liner, website, tags and location. Optionally enrich with founders (LinkedIn/X), open jobs, socials and founding year. No login, no API key.

### What can YC Startup Directory Scraper do?

Pick batches and filters. We read the public YC directory (via the daily-refreshed yc-oss mirror), filter by industry, tags, region, status, team size and hiring flag, then optionally open each company's public ycombinator.com page to add founders, open jobs and socials.

| What you get | Features |
|---|---|
| 🚀 Every YC company: batch, one-liner, website, tags, location | 🗂️ Filter by batch, industry, tag, region, status, size |
| 👩‍💻 Founders with title, LinkedIn and X | 📅 Batch input in any style: W24, Winter 2024, winter-2024 |
| 💼 Open YC jobs with salary/equity ranges | ⚡ Static JSON source: 5,000+ companies in seconds |
| 🟢 Hiring flag, team size, stage, top-company flag | 📤 CSV, Excel, JSON, API, Zapier, Make, n8n |

### Who this is for

- Founders and sales teams selling to fresh YC batches
- Investors and scouts tracking new cohorts
- Recruiters targeting hiring startups by stage and size
- Researchers mapping YC by industry and region

### What you get back

| Field | Type | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| `name` | `string/null` | name |
| `batch` | `string/null` | batch |
| `one_liner` | `string/null` | one liner |
| `website` | `string/null` | website |
| `industry` | `string/null` | industry |
| `location` | `string/null` | location |
| `team_size` | `integer/null` | team size |
| `is_hiring` | `boolean` | is hiring |
| `status` | `string/null` | status |
| `founders_count` | `integer` | founders count |
| `open_jobs_count` | `integer` | open jobs count |
| `yc_url` | `string/null` | yc url |

Full rows carry 35 fields; see the **Output** tab for the complete schema. A sample (trimmed) row:

```json
{
  "name": "Legora",
  "batch": "Winter 2024",
  "industry": "B2B",
  "is_hiring": true,
  "founders_count": 2
}
```

### What you need to provide

| Field | Type | Required | What it does | Sample |
|---|---|---:|---|---|
| `batches` | `array` | No | W24, S25, F24, X25 or Winter 2024. Leave empty to search the whole directory. | `["W24"]` |
| `industries` | `array` | No | B2B, Fintech, Healthcare, Consumer, Industrials, Education... Matches industry and sub-industry. | `["B2B"]` |
| `tags` | `array` | No | Generative AI, Developer Tools, SaaS, Robotics... | `—` |
| `regions` | `array` | No | United States of America, Europe, Remote, San Francisco, India... | `—` |
| `searchQuery` | `string` | No | All words must appear in the name, one-liner, description or tags, e.g. 'voice agents'. | `—` |
| `statuses` | `array` | No | Active, Acquired, Public or Inactive. Leave empty for all. | `—` |
| `hiringOnly` | `boolean` | No | Keep companies flagged as hiring on the YC directory. | `true` |
| `topCompaniesOnly` | `boolean` | No | Only companies on YC's top companies list. | `false` |
| `minTeamSize` | `integer` | No | 0 = no minimum. | `0` |
| `maxTeamSize` | `integer` | No | 0 = no maximum. | `0` |
| `enrichFromYcPage` | `boolean` | No | Read each company's public YC page for founders (with LinkedIn/X), open jobs, LinkedIn/X/GitHub/Crunchbase, founding year and group partner. Slower; charged per enriched company. | `true` |
| `maxItems` | `integer` | No | Cap on rows (and cost). Largest teams and YC top companies come first. | `10` |

#### Quick start

1. Click **Try for free**.
2. Press **Start**. The sample input finishes in well under a minute with no keys or accounts.
3. Replace the sample with your own list and run again.
4. Download the dataset as CSV, Excel or JSON, or pull it from the API.

### Pricing

Pay per result, no subscription. **Launch Sale: 90% OFF for the first week!**

- `startup-scraped`: **$0.001** (startup delivered, $1 per 1,000). One startup row from the directory after your filters.
- `startup-enriched`: **$0.002** (startup enriched, $2 per 1,000). Founders, open jobs and socials added from the company's public YC page. Only charged when enrichment is on and the page returned data.
- For comparison: $0.003-0.01 per company on YC directory scrapers.
- Set a max cost per run in the run options and the run stops cleanly when it hits it.
- Normal Apify platform usage (compute, optional proxy) applies.

### Limits and honest notes

- Directory data comes from the public yc-oss mirror of the YC directory, refreshed daily; brand-new edits can lag by a day.
- Founder emails are not collected. Only public profile links shown on YC pages.
- Enrichment reads one public page per company, so 500 enriched companies take a few minutes.
- All collection is done by this Actor itself over public sources; it never calls other paid Actors.

### Code and API

Same input as the Console sample:

```json
{
  "batches": [
    "W24"
  ],
  "industries": [
    "B2B"
  ],
  "hiringOnly": true,
  "enrichFromYcPage": true,
  "maxItems": 10
}
```

```sh
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/physealabs~yc-startup-directory-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d @input.json
```

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient
items = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN").actor("physealabs/yc-startup-directory-scraper").call(run_input={"batches": ["W24"], "industries": ["B2B"], "hiringOnly": true, "enrichFromYcPage": true, "maxItems": 10})
```

It also works from Zapier, Make, n8n and Apify schedules.

### About

Built by **[Physea Labs](https://physea.ai) · Liminal**: the same grounded-research engine that powers Liminal's checked answers, packaged as a plain scraper. No AI guesswork in the data, every row is traceable to its public source.

Need the next step, like scoring these results, deciding which accounts to pursue or writing a cited brief? Liminal by Physea Labs does that on top of data like this. Questions or a missing field? Open an issue on this Actor and we usually ship fixes within days.

# Actor input Schema

## `batches` (type: `array`):

W24, S25, F24, X25 or Winter 2024. Leave empty to search the whole directory.

## `industries` (type: `array`):

B2B, Fintech, Healthcare, Consumer, Industrials, Education... Matches industry and sub-industry.

## `tags` (type: `array`):

Generative AI, Developer Tools, SaaS, Robotics...

## `regions` (type: `array`):

United States of America, Europe, Remote, San Francisco, India...

## `searchQuery` (type: `string`):

All words must appear in the name, one-liner, description or tags, e.g. 'voice agents'.

## `statuses` (type: `array`):

Active, Acquired, Public or Inactive. Leave empty for all.

## `hiringOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Keep companies flagged as hiring on the YC directory.

## `topCompaniesOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Only companies on YC's top companies list.

## `minTeamSize` (type: `integer`):

0 = no minimum.

## `maxTeamSize` (type: `integer`):

0 = no maximum.

## `enrichFromYcPage` (type: `boolean`):

Read each company's public YC page for founders (with LinkedIn/X), open jobs, LinkedIn/X/GitHub/Crunchbase, founding year and group partner. Slower; charged per enriched company.

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

Cap on rows (and cost). Largest teams and YC top companies come first.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "batches": [
    "W24"
  ],
  "industries": [
    "B2B"
  ],
  "hiringOnly": true,
  "topCompaniesOnly": false,
  "minTeamSize": 0,
  "maxTeamSize": 0,
  "enrichFromYcPage": true,
  "maxItems": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `startups` (type: `string`):

One row per result (startups). Status rows mark inputs that returned nothing, so gaps are never silent.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "batches": [
        "W24"
    ],
    "industries": [
        "B2B"
    ],
    "hiringOnly": true,
    "enrichFromYcPage": true,
    "maxItems": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("physealabs/yc-startup-directory-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 = {
    "batches": ["W24"],
    "industries": ["B2B"],
    "hiringOnly": True,
    "enrichFromYcPage": True,
    "maxItems": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("physealabs/yc-startup-directory-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 '{
  "batches": [
    "W24"
  ],
  "industries": [
    "B2B"
  ],
  "hiringOnly": true,
  "enrichFromYcPage": true,
  "maxItems": 10
}' |
apify call physealabs/yc-startup-directory-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,physealabs/yc-startup-directory-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/qW01ZoAWJUP1rIlOh/builds/NvlPhr5v2xQ1AZC0K/openapi.json