# 🎉 Y Combinator Founders (`prog-party/y-combinator-founders`) Actor

This Y Combinator Founder Actor retrieves data from Y Combinator, allowing to filter, and returns a list of founders as a Dataset.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/prog-party/y-combinator-founders.md
- **Developed by:** [Prog Party](https://apify.com/prog-party) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 14 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
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## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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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.

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

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# README

## Y Combinator Founders Actor

This Y Combinator Founder Actor retrieves data from Y Combinator, allowing to filter, and returns a list of founders as a Dataset.

### INPUT

Input of this actor should be JSON containing filter specification. Allowed filters are:

| Field | Type | Description | Allowed values |
| ----- | ---- | ----------- | -------------- |
| limit | Number | Maximum amount of companies to return | Any number value |
| companyName | String | Filter by name. The filter checks if the company name contains the input value. | Any string value |
| name | String | Filter by name. The filter checks if the first or last name contains the input value. | Any string value |

Example result:

```json
{
    "limit": 10,
    "companyName": "Y Combinator",
    "name": "Sam"
}
```

### OUTPUT

Once the actor finishes, it will add each founder to the Dataset.

Example result:

```json
{
	"id": 585,
	"firstName": "Sam",
	"lastName": "Altman",
	"fullName": "Sam Altman",
	"currentCompany": null,
	"hackerNewsId": "sama",
	"avatarThumb": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/avatars/53d3aaf413bcd879484bbe18904199aeddfbaa1d.jpg",
	"currentTitle": null,
	"companySlug": "loopt",
	"topCompany": false,
	"allCompaniesText": "Y Combinator, Loopt",
	"industries": [
		"Consumer",
		"Social"
	],
	"parentIndustries": [
		"Consumer"
	],
	"subIndustries": [
		"Consumer -> Social"
	],
	"currentRegion": "Unspecified",
	"titles": [],
	"batches": [
		"S05"
	],
	"tags": [
		"ycdc_public"
	]
}
```

# Actor input Schema

## `limit` (type: `integer`):

Maximum amount of companies to return.

## `companyName` (type: `string`):

Filter by company name. The filter checks if the company name contains the input value.

## `name` (type: `string`):

Filter by name. The filter checks if the first or last name contains the input value.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "limit": 10,
  "companyName": "Y Combinator",
  "name": "Sam"
}
```

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("prog-party/y-combinator-founders").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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("prog-party/y-combinator-founders").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 '{}' |
apify call prog-party/y-combinator-founders --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,prog-party/y-combinator-founders"
        }
    }
}
```

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/COO1dOa9jMObjoRuB/builds/QuM7Om8XKgpkFvaEC/openapi.json