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Crunchbase Scraper

Extract startup profiles, funding rounds, investor networks, and acquisition histories from the Crunchbase business database. Built on spider-browser .

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target
crunchbase.com
success rate
99.9%
latency
~4ms
Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

crunchbase-directory-scraper.ts
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
  stealth: 2,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.crunchbase.com/discover/organization.companies");
await page.content(12000);

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const companies = [];
  document.querySelectorAll("grid-row").forEach(el => {
    const name = el.querySelector("field-formatter a")?.textContent?.trim();
    const funding = el.querySelectorAll("field-formatter")[1]?.textContent?.trim();
    const location = el.querySelectorAll("field-formatter")[2]?.textContent?.trim();
    const employees = el.querySelectorAll("field-formatter")[3]?.textContent?.trim();
    if (name) companies.push({ name, funding, location, employees });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: companies.length, companies: companies.slice(0, 15) });
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();
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Fetch API

One endpoint for crunchbase.com.

Structured JSON from crunchbase.com with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

POST /fetch/crunchbase.com/
Company nameFounded yearFunding totalLast roundInvestorsHQ location
cURL
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/crunchbase.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'
Python
import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/crunchbase.com/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())
Node.js
const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/crunchbase.com/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ return_format: "json" }),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);
Extraction

Fields you can pull.

Company nameFounded yearFunding totalLast roundInvestorsHQ locationEmployee countCategory
Data

Business intelligence

Extract company profiles, contacts, and industry data from crunchbase.com.

Pagination

Directory crawling

Navigate category trees and paginated business directories automatically.

Scale

Bulk enrichment

Process thousands of business profiles for lead generation datasets.

Related

More Directories & Listings scrapers.

Start

Start scraping crunchbase.com.

Grab an API key and call the endpoint above. The first request resolves the config; every request after hits cache.