What was Proxycurl and why did it shut down?
Proxycurl was a LinkedIn data API that provided programmatic access to LinkedIn people profiles, company data, and job postings. It had approximately 200k customers and $10M ARR before shutting down. LinkedIn filed a lawsuit against Proxycurl in January 2025, and Proxycurl ceased operations in July 2025. Customers who relied on it for hiring signals, sales intelligence, and job data feeds are now migrating to alternative sources.
Proxycurl served multiple use cases:
- People profile enrichment - retrieving contact and career data from LinkedIn member profiles.
- Company data - firmographic data from LinkedIn company pages.
- Job posting data - LinkedIn job listings used as hiring signals for sales intelligence and recruitment automation. This is the use case Techmap directly addresses.
Techmap replaces the job posting layer only. For people profile enrichment and contact data, a dedicated contact enrichment provider is needed alongside Techmap.
Why Techmap covers the job data use case
If your Proxycurl integration used job postings as a hiring signal - to identify companies that are actively recruiting in specific roles, locations, or tech stacks - Techmap provides that data at greater scale and with deeper history than Proxycurl offered.
What Techmap replaces in the Proxycurl stack:
- LinkedIn job postings - ~1M per month from 166 countries, as one of Techmap's 127+ sources.
- Hiring signals - company name, job title, location, skills, and posting date for identifying actively recruiting companies.
- Broader job market context - 8.2M total postings from 250 countries, including non-LinkedIn postings from direct ATS career pages and other job boards.
- Historical hiring data - 405M+ postings from January 2020 for trend analysis across time.
What Techmap does not replace:
- LinkedIn member profile data (name, email, work history, skills, connections).
- Company firmographic data from LinkedIn company pages.
- Contact enrichment (email addresses, phone numbers).
Techmap vs Proxycurl: Job Data Comparison
| Feature | Techmap | Proxycurl (job data) |
|---|---|---|
| Current availability | Yes - active | Shut down July 2025 |
| LinkedIn jobs/month | ~1M (avg.) from 166 countries (→ Explore) | LinkedIn-sourced (when active) |
| Total new postings/month | 8.2M from 127+ sources (→ Explore) | LinkedIn only |
| Countries covered | 250 countries & territories (→ Explore) | LinkedIn global (when active) |
| Historical data | 405M+ from January 2020 | Not available |
| People / contact data | Not included - job postings only | Was included (email, phone, LinkedIn profile) |
| Data formats | JSON, CSV, XML, RSS/ATOM, Parquet | JSON (when active) |
| Delivery options | API, AWS S3, AWS Data Exchange | JSON API (when active) |
| Self-serve / free tier | Yes (RapidAPI free tier) | Was available (paid) |
| GDPR compliant | Yes (EU-based storage) | - |
Why teams choose Techmap for the job posting signal layer
Techmap is purpose-built for job posting data at scale. For sales intelligence teams that used Proxycurl to identify hiring signals, Techmap provides broader coverage - LinkedIn plus 126 other sources - with historical depth and enterprise delivery that Proxycurl never offered.
Key advantages for job posting use cases:
- ~1M LinkedIn jobs/month: LinkedIn posting coverage from 166 countries - the core Proxycurl job data signal. (→ Explore)
- 127+ additional sources: ATS career pages, job boards, and employment offices - signals Proxycurl did not offer. (→ Explore)
- 250 countries and territories: Broader geographic coverage for global hiring signal detection. (→ Explore)
- Historical archive: 405M+ postings from January 2020 - trend analysis Proxycurl could not provide.
- Bulk AWS delivery: Hourly S3 exports for high-volume sales intelligence pipelines.
- GDPR-compliant EU storage: Job posting data only - no personal profile data compliance concerns.
- Volume and Startup discounts: Reduced pricing for larger data volumes and qualifying Startups.
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