Simple Request

[Garrett Fisher]

I rifled through the API info and am a bit lost on accessing the data via the API. While I have software development experience, I do not have experience in this world of web APIs. I am looking to get a list of companies, founding date and employee size. Restrictions would be founded 2006 or later, employees no more than 100. US based. 

Any suggestions on a quick way to get this data? I will handle the rest of the data crunching on my PC. 

Or maybe I should read a "..... For Dummies" book?

Thanks!

[Harish Kumar M.]

Hello Garrett,

Reading a "for Dummies" book is not a bad idea at all! If you have some basic programming skills, you could, for instance, pick up a book on python to learn how you could compile data from a API. It should not take more than a couple of hours to pick up the skills and compile a basic set of data. And these are skills that you can build on over time.

One issue though would be the fact that Crunchbase api does not allow advanced searches as of now (coming soon?). So you need to do the search on the website, collate the companies you need and than grab the data using the api.

Finally, you could use a application like http://semgel.com (disclaimer - I work for the company) to get the job done. With just a few clicks, Semgel allows you to search for and gather data from websites like Crunchbase. You can view, navigate and visualize the data for these companies in a intuitive spreadsheet style interface. You can also export data as webpages or as csv files (sample funding list - http://bit.ly/MVB2Pf). Do check it out!

Harish,

http://semgel.com

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