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Re:AOL: Hand Over Crunchbase and Nobody Gets Hurt by brown9-2 on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @04:37PM (#2384324)
There is an API for getting data out of Crunchbase: http://www.crunchbase.com/help/api

I used it a few months back for a personal project where I thought the Crunchbase data set of summary information about startups would be useful - turned out this data wasn't useful for what I wanted to do; I was hoping to built up a corpus of words for a "startup idea Markov generator" but I found that the submissions ended up resembling regular English too much.

I don't recall any type of rate-limiting by the API, nor does it seem like you need to register to use it.

API documentation (from the above link): http://groups.google.com/group/crunchbase-api/web/api-v1-doc...

Re:AOL: Hand Over Crunchbase and Nobody Gets Hurt by russtrpkovski on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @04:39PM (#2384342)