Y Combinator Companies and Their Open Jobs

Y Combinator scraper — YC companies scraper, YC startup list, YC jobs.

Paste one or more YC company slugs or ycombinator.com/companies/<slug> page URLs. Each becomes one row: profile fields (one-liner, description, batch, status, industry, team size, location, website, year founded) plus its currently listed open jobs. Founders' public display names shown on the page are read as part of the page, but a founder's personal social link or email is never put on the row — only the company's own LinkedIn/Twitter links.

Input

Field	What it does
Company slugs or URLs	One or more YC company slugs (e.g. airbnb) or full page URLs (e.g. https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/airbnb). Leave blank to try the public sitemap for a list; as of this build no public sitemap lists individual company pages (see SOURCE_TERMS.md), so a blank list returns zero rows and says why.
Batches	Optional list of batch names, e.g. Summer 2025. Leave blank for all batches.
Only companies that are hiring	Off by default. When on, a company whose page shows no open jobs is left out.
Include open jobs	On by default. When off, open_jobs is null and only the profile fields are filled.
Maximum rows	Hard ceiling on rows returned, and therefore on the cost of the run. Default 100, maximum 6,000.
Proxy configuration	Optional Apify proxy. Off by default, including on a local run.

Pricing

Pay per result. $0.004 per company row. No start fee. Every dataset row bills from row one, including an error row for an entry that could not be read. A run that returns no rows costs nothing. Maximum rows is the spend cap.

Output (one row per company)

One example row from a real local run on 2026-09-21 against https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/whatnot (open_jobs trimmed to 2 of the 143 the page listed that day):

{
  "yc_url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/whatnot",
  "name": "Whatnot",
  "one_liner": "Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in the U.S.",
  "long_description": "Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in the U.S., connecting buyers and sellers in real-time across any category – from collectibles like trading cards to comics, fashion, sneakers, and more.",
  "batch": "Winter 2020",
  "status": "Active",
  "industry": null,
  "subindustry": null,
  "tags": ["Marketplace", "E-commerce"],
  "team_size": 1500,
  "location": "Los Angeles, CA",
  "country": "US",
  "website": "https://www.whatnot.com/careers/discover",
  "year_founded": 2019,
  "is_hiring": true,
  "open_jobs": [
    {
      "title": "Account Executive",
      "location": "San Francisco, CA / New York, NY / Los Angeles, CA / Remote (US)",
      "type": "Full-time",
      "salary_range": null,
      "equity_range": null,
      "job_url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/whatnot/jobs/kQEqWHN-account-executive"
    },
    {
      "title": "Account Executive, UK",
      "location": "London, UK / Remote (US)",
      "type": "Full-time",
      "salary_range": null,
      "equity_range": null,
      "job_url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/whatnot/jobs/nfB7rqn-account-executive-uk"
    }
  ],
  "linkedin_company_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/whatnot-inc/",
  "twitter_company_url": "https://twitter.com/whatnot",
  "fetched_at": "2026-09-21T17:19:44Z",
  "error": null
}

Field	What it holds
yc_url	Canonical company page URL, no query string
name / one_liner / long_description	From the company profile. long_description is capped at 1,500 characters.
batch / status	YC batch (e.g. Winter 2020) and current status (e.g. Active, Public)
industry / subindustry / tags	Category fields shown on the page, when published
team_size / location / country	As shown on the page
website	Company's own site link
year_founded	Whole-number year, when published
is_hiring	true when the page lists at least one open job, else false; null if job data could not be read
open_jobs	List of {title, location, type, salary_range, equity_range, job_url}; null when Include open jobs is off
linkedin_company_url / twitter_company_url	The company's social links only, never a founder's personal profile
fetched_at	When this run read the page, in UTC
error	null on success; otherwise a short reason (e.g. HTTP 404 not found) and every other field on the row is null

What this does not do

• It does not discover a company list on its own today: no public YC sitemap lists individual company pages as of 2026-09-21 (checked live; see SOURCE_TERMS.md). You supply the slugs or URLs.
• It does not call the site's search backend (Algolia). It reads only the page you named.
• It does not output a founder's personal social link, email, or phone number — only public display names/titles and the company's own social links.
• It does not log in, use cookies, or solve a CAPTCHA. A block becomes one error row, not a bypass attempt.
• It does not invent a field it could not read; an unreadable field is null, never guessed.
• It does not resolve the conflict between robots.txt (which technically allows the page path) and Y Combinator's Terms of Use (which forbid scraping outright). Read SOURCE_TERMS.md before you run this against the live site — that document does not soften what the Terms say.

Limits

• Maximum rows is 1–6,000 (default 100). The run stops there.
• One request per second against ycombinator.com, sequential, no concurrency.
• A blocked or missing company page becomes one error row for that entry; a hard block (HTTP 401/403/429/451/503, or a CAPTCHA page) stops the run rather than continuing to hammer the site.

Refunds and support

Refunds: if a run returns zero rows for a valid input, email operations@ustechautomations.com within 7 days and we refund that run. Support: same address, replies within 2 business days.