Y Combinator Scraper

🚀 Y Combinator Scraper

Export the whole Y Combinator startup directory and every open role on Work at a Startup as clean, structured rows — no account or login needed. The Y Combinator Scraper filters companies by batch, industry, region, status and hiring, returns founders, social links, team size and open jobs, and can track what changed since the last run: new companies, team-size and status changes, hiring switched on or off, new and removed jobs. Built for startup sales lists, recruiting pipelines, VC and market research, and anyone who wants a YC change feed instead of re-exporting 6,000 companies every week.

✨ Features

• 🏢 Every YC company: 6,000+ companies across all batches with name, one-liner, description, website, batch, status (Active / Public / Acquired / Inactive), stage, industry, tags, regions, location, team size, hiring flag, Top Company flag, launch date and former names.
• 🎯 Directory filters: batches (Summer 2026 or S26), industries, regions, status, hiring only, Top Companies only, plus the same free-text search as the directory search box.
• 👤 Company details: founders with title, bio, LinkedIn and X, the company's LinkedIn, X, Facebook, Crunchbase and GitHub links, year founded, group partner, number of open roles, Launch YC posts and press coverage.
• 💼 Every open role: jobs mode walks all hiring companies matching your filters and returns each posting with title, role category, employment type, location, remote flag, salary range, equity range, minimum experience, visa policy, required skills, posting age and apply link — filter by role category and location.
• 📝 Job details: the full job description and interview process for each posting.
• 🔔 Change tracking: turn on trackChanges, schedule the run, and get only what changed — new companies or jobs as full rows, field-level company changes (teamSize, status, isHiring, stage, tags, oneLiner, location, website, batch, topCompany, name) with before and after values, and companies or jobs that disappeared. A run where nothing changed returns nothing and costs nothing.
• ⚡ Fast: the entire directory in under a minute, every open role at all 1,400+ hiring companies in about half a minute. No browser, no proxies.
• 💸 Pay per row: one price per company, job and change row; detail rows cost a little more.

🛠️ How It Works

1. Pick a mode – companies for one row per company, jobs for one row per open role at the matching hiring companies.
2. Filter – choose batches, industries, regions, status, hiring / Top Company flags or a search query. In jobs mode add a role category and a location word (Remote, London, New York).
3. Optionally enrich – turn on scrapeDetails for founders and links (companies) or the full description and interview process (jobs).
4. Optionally track – turn on trackChanges and give the memory a name. The first run saves a baseline and returns rows as usual; every later run with the same name returns only change rows plus full rows for anything new.
5. Run – every row lands in the dataset with a type of company, job or change, ready for JSON, CSV or Excel export or an API call.

💰 Pricing

Event	Price	What you get
company	$0.002	One company row with 25 directory fields
company-detail	$0.005	The company row plus founders, social and Crunchbase links, year founded, launches and press
job	$0.002	One job row with salary, equity, experience, visa, skills, location and apply link
job-detail	$0.004	The job row plus the full description and interview process
change	$0.001	One change row: a new, changed or removed company or job, with before and after values

Examples: all 6,200 YC companies = $12.40; the 230 companies of one batch with founders = $1.15; every open engineering role (about 2,800) = $5.60; a daily change feed on a batch that adds 2 companies and changes 5 fields = 2 × $0.002 + 7 × $0.001 = $0.011.

⚠️ Good to know

• Batch names accept both forms: Summer 2026 or S26, Winter 2025 or W25, Fall 2026 or F26, Spring 2026 or X26. Industry and region names must match the directory spelling (B2B, Fintech, Healthcare, United States of America, Europe, Remote).
• Jobs mode always uses hiring companies. Role and location filters are applied to each posting; the location word is matched anywhere in the posting's location text, so Remote keeps remote-friendly roles.
• Job postings show their age as reported by YC (postedAgo, e.g. 4 days); YC does not publish exact posting dates. New jobs are detected by their id, so change tracking does not depend on these strings.
• With trackChanges on, the run always scans everything that matches the filters so removals can be detected reliably. maxItems only caps how many rows are saved, so raise it on the baseline run if you want the full export in the dataset — the saved memory covers the whole set either way.
• A removal is reported only after a complete scan; if some pages could not be fetched, the run reports new rows and field changes but skips removals rather than guessing.
• Change rows reflect what the YC directory shows, not verified corporate events: a status change to Acquired means YC updated the listing.
• Founder emails are not available on the public directory and are not collected.

📊 Sample Output Data

One company row with details, one job row and two change rows:

[
    {
        "type": "company",
        "id": 33969,
        "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/opentag",
        "name": "OpenTag",
        "slug": "opentag",
        "oneLiner": "Model Agnostic AI coworker in Slack",
        "description": "OpenTag is an AI coworker in your Slack with full context on your company. It answers questions and takes real work off your plate. It also keeps your wiki up t…",
        "website": "https://www.tryopentag.com/",
        "batch": "Summer 2026",
        "status": "Active",
        "stage": "Early",
        "industry": "B2B",
        "subindustry": "B2B",
        "industries": ["B2B"],
        "tags": ["AIOps", "Artificial Intelligence", "B2B", "Workflow Automation", "Enterprise Software"],
        "regions": ["United States of America", "America / Canada"],
        "location": "San Francisco, CA, USA",
        "teamSize": 3,
        "isHiring": false,
        "topCompany": false,
        "nonprofit": false,
        "launchedAt": "2026-08-18T22:54:31.000Z",
        "formerNames": ["Gini Agent", "Gini", "OpenTag", "Open Tag"],
        "logoUrl": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3523399de943bf46e546a3bb703261d27fd2fa69.png",
        "yearFounded": 2026,
        "city": "San Francisco",
        "country": "US",
        "linkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/109881466",
        "twitterUrl": null,
        "facebookUrl": null,
        "crunchbaseUrl": null,
        "githubUrl": null,
        "founders": [
            {
                "name": "Tony Kam",
                "title": "Founder/CEO",
                "bio": "Co-founder and CEO at OpenTag. Previously at Tesla and founded Lilac Labs (S24). Studied EECS at Ber…",
                "linkedinUrl": "https://linkedin.com/in/tonyshekkam",
                "twitterUrl": "https://twitter.com/kamikariat",
                "isActive": true
            }
        ],
        "groupPartner": "Jared Friedman",
        "openJobs": 0,
        "launches": [
            {
                "title": "OpenTag - Model Agnostic Claude Tag",
                "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/T8R-opentag-model-agnostic-claude-tag",
                "date": null
            },
            {
                "title": "Gini: AI coworker that lives in Slack",
                "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Sz9-gini-ai-coworker-that-lives-in-slack",
                "date": null
            }
        ],
        "news": [],
        "scrapedAt": "2026-09-19T11:04:25.910Z"
    },
    {
        "type": "job",
        "id": 110036,
        "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/nitrode/jobs/KZbQlmq-game-developer",
        "title": "Game Developer ",
        "companyId": 30286,
        "companyName": "Nitrode",
        "companySlug": "nitrode",
        "companyUrl": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/nitrode",
        "companyBatch": "Winter 2025",
        "companyOneLiner": "Frontier AI research to advance game development",
        "role": "Engineering",
        "roleType": "Full stack",
        "jobType": "Full-time",
        "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)",
        "isRemote": true,
        "salaryRange": "$95K - $145K",
        "equityRange": null,
        "minExperience": "3+ years",
        "visa": "US citizen/visa only",
        "skills": ["Unreal Engine", "Unity", "Blender"],
        "postedAgo": "4 days",
        "lastActiveAgo": null,
        "hiringManager": null,
        "applyUrl": "https://account.ycombinator.com/authenticate?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.workatastartup.com%2Fapplication%3Fsignup_job_id%3D110036&defaults%5BsignUpActive%5D=true&defaults%5Bwaas_company%5D=30286",
        "scrapedAt": "2026-09-19T11:04:32.423Z"
    }
]

Build your YC startup list, hiring pipeline or change feed with the Y Combinator Scraper today! 🚀