How to scrape Crunchbase using Python in 2024 (Easy Guide)

1. crawlee-python

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   Crawlee—A web scraping and browser automation library for Python to build reliable crawlers. Extract data for AI, LLMs, RAG, or GPTs. Download HTML, PDF, JPG, PNG, and other files from websites. Works with BeautifulSoup, Playwright, and raw HTTP. Both headful and headless mode. With proxy rotation.

   

   By the end of this blog, we'll explore three different ways to extract data from Crunchbase using Crawlee for Python. We'll fully implement two of them and discuss the specifics and challenges of the third. This will help us better understand how important it is to properly choose the right data source.

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3. crunchbase-crawlee

   2 1 2 4.5 Python

   

   The complete source code is available in my repository. Have questions or want to discuss implementation details? Join our Discord - our community of developers is there to help.

4. flow-pipeline

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   A set of tools and examples to run a flow-pipeline (sFlow, NetFlow)

   

   The reason is that Crunchbase uses Cloudflare to protect against automated access. This is clearly visible when analyzing traffic on a company page:

5. Poetry

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6. jmespath.py

   5 35 2,277 0.0 Python

   JMESPath is a query language for JSON.

   

   This significantly simplifies data extraction - we only need to use one Xpath selector to get the JSON, and then apply jmespath to extract the needed fields:

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