all companies

[Will]

Hi all,

If I wanted to get every single company's data. ie; http://api.crunchbase.con/v/1/company/facebook.js, but for all companies on crunchbase, how would I go about doing this?

Thanks,
Will

[Anthony]

Hi Will,

You should be able to grab an index of all companies by the following call: http://api.crunchbase.com/v/1/companies.js. More on this described on the doc: http://www.crunchbase.com/api and search for "List Entities".

--Anthony

[Will]

Yes, however, that retrieves a list of the companies. I'm seeking to retrieve the companies and their profiles. Thanks for your help.

Will

[Anthony]

It's ideal that you iterate through that index, use the permalink and feed it back into the single profile api call. The reason we don't have it all in one batch is because of the data size returned for each queried profile. --Anthony

[Will]

So the only possible way is to manually do 50000+ (however many companies) single profile api calls? That is fine, but I just wanted to make sure.

[Anthony]

Yes, that'll be the way to retrieve all profiles for each company.