Pull Y Combinator Startup Data via API
Stop fighting Y Combinator's anti-bot stack manually. Send the URL, get the data back. JS rendering, proxy rotation, and bot detection handled in a single request.
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How Developers Use Y Combinator
Teams hit Y Combinator's directory for three things: pulling every company in a batch, collecting funding details per startup, and surfacing recently funded companies by sector.
Track YC batches
Pull every company in any YC batch - name, one-liner, batch year, sector, founder social links. Feeds startup-research and competitor-tracking workflows.
Fetch startup funding details
Pull YC startup funding data including total raised, round counts, and lead investor names per company. Feeds startup-research and investor-tracking workflows.
Find recently funded startups
Filter YC's directory by recency and sector to surface startups that just announced funding or product launches.
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How Y Combinator API works
Manually collecting data from Y Combinator is slow, limited and hard to scale. That's why more and more teams choose our API.
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Install our Python SDK (or Node, Go, PHP, Ruby - pick your stack). Each Y Combinator scrape becomes a single function call. No proxy rotation, no headless Chrome to manage.
Pass any Y Combinator URL to our endpoint along with your API key. We handle the page rendering and bot bypass, you receive parsed HTML or structured JSON.
When Y Combinator pages need more, gain advanced parameters. render_js for JavaScript, stealth_proxy for CAPTCHAs, country_code for geo-targeting, ai_extract_rules for natural-language data extraction.
Y Combinator Scraper API - One Call In. Clean Data Out
Pull Y Combinator startup directory pages at scale. Company name, one-liner, batch year, sector, founder profiles, funding rounds, and social links all parse in one call.
Send a natural-language spec via ai_extract_rules and get structured JSON of YC startup pages back, no selectors required.
AI Web Scraping
Capture full-page Y Combinator startup screenshots through our Screenshot API. Useful for visual records of startup directory pages.
Screenshot API
Scrape Google search to extract relevant Y Combinator results, allowing you to efficiently gather data on startups and innovations showcased by this leading accelerator.
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Click, scroll, wait for dynamic content to appear, or just run some custom JavaScript code. Our JavaScript scenarios simulate real user behavior.
JavaScript Scraping API
Pull YC startup pages as clean Markdown, ready to feed into an LLM for startup-research or competitor-tracking workflows.
Markdown Scraper API
Scrape Y Combinator data by creating automated workflows that integrate with n8n, streamlining your scraping tasks for enhanced efficiency.
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Public Y Combinator Data. Parsed and Structured
Every Y Combinator startup page returns company name, one-liner, batch year, sector, founder profiles, funding rounds, and social links.
Setup in Under Five Minutes
Clear examples in Python, Node.js, cURL, and the request builder. Copy the snippet, swap in your API key, send the request.
DocumentationSend a URL. Get Structured Y Combinator Data
Pass any URL from Y Combinator's public pages to our endpoint. Our renderer executes the page's JS and returns parsed data, extract_rules for CSS selectors, ai_extract_rules for AI-driven extraction.
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Whatever the programming language you enjoy, we have written code examples in Java, Python, Go, PHP, cURL and JavaScript.
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Our extensive knowledge base covers the most frequent use cases with code samples.
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GDPR and CCPA compliant
ScrapingBee does not collect or store personal data from scraped sites unless their user explicitly requests it.
CAPTCHA bypass capacity
We handle proxy rotation to avoid IP-based blocking. With headless browser rendering, we mimic real user browsing behaviour and reduce the blocking risk.
Scalable
The platform scales smoothly with thousands of headless browsers and rotating proxies, ensuring fast, reliable performance even during traffic spikes.
Speed and accuracy
We deliver fast, reliable results in 1-5 seconds with high accuracy across most sites, even JavaScript-heavy ones.
Y Combinator Scraper FAQs
Yes. Our dashboard request builder lets you paste a URL, set parameters, and copy the generated snippet in Python, Node, Go, PHP, Ruby, or cURL.