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We're launching our Person Search API, enabling you to discover professionals from our database of 400M+ profiles using flexible search criteria—before committing to live scraping credits.
What's New
Powerful search Filters
Query our database using any combination of:
- Personal identifiers: First name, last name
- Location: Country, city
- Company context: Company name or LinkedIn URL
- Professional details: Industries, current position/title
Efficient Data discovery
The API returns a JSON list with essential profile information, giving you exactly what you need to:
- Evaluate if a profile matches your criteria
- Decide whether to scrape live data or use cached information
- Build your target lists before consuming scraping credits
Web Interface available
Not a developer? Use our web-based search interface with the same powerful filters to explore and export results directly from your browser.
Why It Matters
Cost-Effective Prospecting
Find and validate profiles before spending credits on full data extraction. Search helps you identify the right targets, then choose when to pull detailed information.
Database-First Approach
Leverage our massive data lake to discover professionals without immediate live scraping. Get results faster while reducing your dependency on real-time extraction.
Flexible Workflow
Search returns lightweight profile identifiers. Once you've found your targets, use our standard endpoints to retrieve full profile data—either from cache (if recently updated) or via live scraping.
## How to Use It
- Search: Query with your criteria to get matching profile IDs and basic info
- Review: Analyze the results to confirm they meet your needs
- Extract: Use profile URLs with our existing endpoints for complete data
We've restored and optimized our activities endpoints for both persons and companies.
What you can now access
For Persons:
- Recent posts, comments, and reactions
- Detailed post information with engagement metrics
- Activity history from a social profile URL
For Companies:
- Company posts and activity feeds
- Post comments, reactions
- Track company engagement and thought leadership
Use case:
Build activity feeds, track professional engagement, or analyze company positioning for your AI product.Need a specific subset of our 400M+ profile database? You can now request custom datasets tailored to your exact requirements.
What's New
Custom Dataset builder
Select your target criteria:
- Geographic focus: Specific countries or regions
- Industry filters: Target sectors and verticals
- Company size: Small businesses, mid-market, or enterprise
Direct commercial contact
Once you've defined your requirements, submit your request directly to our sales team. We'll review your needs and work with you to deliver the exact dataset you're looking for.
Why It matters
Tailored data access
Get exactly the data you need without processing millions of irrelevant profiles. Perfect for one-time enrichment projects, market research, or building specialized datasets.
Simplified procurement
Express your interest with clear criteria upfront. Our team can quickly assess feasibility, provide pricing, and deliver your custom dataset—no back-and-forth required.
We're introducing comprehensive visibility into your API usage with our new Logs Dashboard & Reporting feature, giving you complete transparency and faster issue resolution.
What's new
Dedicated Logs Dashboard
You now have access to a dedicated logs page where you can track and analyze all your API activity in one place.
Detailed Call Tracking
Every API call is now fully visible with:
- Complete request and response details
- Data freshness indicator (cache vs. live scraping)
- Credit consumption per call
- Timestamp and execution details
- Success/error status
- JSON Response
Response ID & Error Reporting
All API responses now include a
responseId
in the metadata
object. Use this ID to:- Report errors or false positives directly to our team
- Reference specific calls when reaching out to support
- Help us diagnose and resolve issues faster
Better Feedback Loop
This feature creates a direct line between your experience and our team. When you flag an issue, we can immediately identify the exact call, investigate the root cause, and respond faster than ever.
Why It Matters
- Full transparencyinto your credit usage and data freshness
- Faster troubleshootingwith detailed logs and reportable response IDs
- Better data qualitythrough streamlined feedback and issue resolution
- Usage optimizationby understanding cache hits vs. fresh calls
We've shipped three major improvements to make ScrapIn more powerful and flexible for your use case.
Email Finder Endpoints
You can now discover professional email addresses in two ways:
- From Social Profile: Provide a person's LinkedIn URL and get their email address
- From Name + Company: Supply first name, last name, and company domain or name to find matching email addresses
Perfect for enriching your data pipelines without requiring LinkedIn URLs upfront.
Configurable Cache Duration
We've added the
cacheDuration
parameter to some endpoints (more to come, read the documentation to be updated), giving you full control over data freshness:cacheDuration: "2 weeks" | "1 day" | "4 hours" | [custom duration]
How it works:
- Set your acceptable data freshness threshold
- We'll return cached data within your specified window (faster, lower credits)
- Older data triggers a fresh lookup from our retention center
- Balance speed, cost (half of credit if we hit the cache), and accuracy based on your needs
API Logs Visibility
Monitor all your API activity directly in the ScrapIn dashboard:
- View complete call history with timestamps and responses
- Track cache hit/miss rates and performance metrics
- Debug issues faster with detailed request logs
- Understand your usage patterns at a glance
We're excited to introduce Person Change Alerts, a new way to stay updated on professional profile changes without the cost of live scraping.
When we detect updates to a profile, we automatically notify your system via webhook with the complete updated profile data. Each notification costs just 0.5 credits—50% less than a standard live scrape request.
This is perfect for keeping your dataset fresh, powering real-time AI features, and avoiding redundant scrapes when you're monitoring the same profiles multiple times.
We are pleased to announce that with the last update we added back as a boolean option for Person Profile both followerCount & CreationDate.
We have a couple of important updates to share,
going into effect today.
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Charging for 404s on LinkedIn URLs
We will now charge 1 credit for 404 (not found) responses on all live scraping endpoints, except for our person match and company search endpoints (see table below). This change better aligns with our costs, as we must perform a live scrape to return a 404 response.
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Improved Company Data Handling
The company object in the person profile endpoint now has a 3-month cache period, while person data remains uncached. This reduces the number of LinkedIn scrapes, improving stability and performance overall. If you need the most up-to-date company profile, you can always retrieve it via the dedicated company endpoint (https://api.scrapin.io/v1/enrichment/company).
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Fixes
- Employee Count Range on Company Profiles (via dedicated endpoint)
- Language Proficiency Levels on Profiles
We’re excited to announce improvements to two of our core API endpoints:
What’s new in v1.1.0?
POST method:
We’ve transitioned from GET
to POST
for more flexibility and security.Boolean filters:
You can now use true/false
flags in the request body to retrieve only the data you need.These changes bring faster response times and more efficient API usage, especially when working with large datasets or customized output needs.
Explore the new documentation here: https://docs.scrapin.io/introduction
Credit usage remains the same:
Regardless of how many boolean fields you enable in your request, each API call still costs just 1 credit.
Deprecation notice:
The previous version (v0) will be deprecated in 3 months, so we recommend updating your integrations soon.