YC Startup Directory Scraper — Companies, Founders & Jobs

Get the entire Y Combinator startup directory as clean, typed JSON: every company with batch, status, industry, team size and tags — plus founders (names, bios, LinkedIn) and open jobs with salary and equity ranges. Search it, filter it, or export all ~6,000 companies for about $3. No login, no browser, no per-run minimum.

Why this actor?

• One actor, the whole directory — companies, founder profiles, and job postings. Most alternatives cover only one of the three.
• Aggressive pricing — $0.0005 per company and $0.001 per job, no start fee. The field charges $0.001–$0.05 per record plus run fees.
• No founder emails, ever. Founder items carry public directory data only (name, title, bio, LinkedIn/Twitter). If you need contact harvesting, this is not your tool.
• Typed, flat, LLM/agent-ready output — numeric team_size, ISO dates, absolute URLs, explicit booleans (is_hiring, top_company, nonprofit), classified error items instead of junk rows.
• Fast and cheap to run — HTTP-only against YC's own public search API and pages, 256 MB memory, seconds per query. Usage costs stay pennies.
• Maintained by an automated monitor that runs contract checks against the live actor and flags drift the day it happens — reliability is the product.

Input

Search + filters (all optional, combine freely):

{
  "search": "fintech",
  "batch": ["W25", "Summer 2024"],
  "industry": ["B2B"],
  "region": ["Europe"],
  "tags": ["AI"],
  "status": ["Active"],
  "hiringOnly": true,
  "maxCompanies": 100,
  "includeDetails": true,
  "includeJobs": true
}

Or direct lookup by slug/URL:

{
  "companySlugs": ["airbnb", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stripe"],
  "includeDetails": true
}

Full directory export: empty search, no filters, maxCompanies: 0 → ~6,000 company records.

Batch short forms are accepted: W25 = Winter 2025, S24 = Summer 2024, F24 = Fall 2024, SP25/X25 = Spring 2025.

Output

One item per company (type: "company"), one per job (type: "job"), and free classified error items (type: "error").

{
  "type": "company",
  "slug": "airbnb",
  "name": "Airbnb",
  "batch": "Winter 2009",
  "status": "Public",
  "one_liner": "Book accommodations around the world.",
  "website": "http://airbnb.com",
  "yc_url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/airbnb",
  "team_size": 6132,
  "industry": "Consumer",
  "regions": ["America / Canada", "United States of America"],
  "tags": ["Marketplace", "Travel"],
  "is_hiring": false,
  "top_company": true,
  "launched_at": "2012-01-17T08:20:56.000Z",
  "year_founded": 2008,
  "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/airbnb/",
  "founders": [
    { "name": "Brian Chesky", "title": "CEO", "bio": "…", "linkedin_url": "…", "twitter_url": null }
  ],
  "error": null,
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-19T12:00:00.000Z"
}

{
  "type": "job",
  "company_slug": "artifact-2",
  "company_name": "Artifact",
  "title": "Software Engineer",
  "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/artifact-2/jobs/7189rpl-software-engineer",
  "location": "Los Angeles, CA, US",
  "employment_type": "Full-time",
  "role": "Engineering",
  "salary_range": "$95K - $140K",
  "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.70%",
  "visa": "US citizen/visa only",
  "skills": ["Python", "React", "TypeScript"],
  "error": null,
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-19T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Pricing

Event	Price
Company record	$0.0005
Job record	$0.001
Error items	free

No actor-start fee. A 100-company filtered pull costs $0.05; the full ~6,000-company directory export costs about $3.

Use cases

• Deal sourcing / market maps — every YC company in a sector, batch, or region as one dataset.
• Recruiting and job search — live YC startup roles with salary, equity, visa and skills, filterable by batch and industry.
• Sales intelligence — hiring startups by industry with team size and socials (signal, not scraped emails).
• Research & LLM agents — typed JSON that drops straight into a RAG index, spreadsheet, or agent tool call.

FAQ

Where does the data come from? YC's own public directory (ycombinator.com/companies) and its public search index — the same data any visitor sees, fetched politely over plain HTTP.

Do you return founder emails? No, and we never will. Public founder profiles only.

Can results change between runs? Yes — the directory is live (team sizes, hiring flags, statuses and new batches change). Each item carries scraped_at.

What about Work at a Startup (workatastartup.com)? Out of scope for v1; job data comes from each company's public YC page.