# YCombinator Companies Scraper | 5,900+ YC Startup Directory

A developer tools tool your agent can run on one prepaid apifare key. Page: https://apifare.com/tools/haketa/ycombinator-companies-scraper

## What you need

An apifare key with credits (sign up: POST https://apifare.com/v1/signup {"email": "..."}; new accounts get 500 free credits). No other account or key.

## Inputs

- `query` (string): Search keyword (optional)
- `batches` (array): YC batch
- `statuses` (array): Company status
- `industries` (array): Industry
- `regions` (array): Region / country
- `stages` (array): Company stage

The most relevant fields; the search result's input_schema lists all of them.

## Price

5 credits reserved per run, settled to the run's true cost, never more than 20 credits (1 credit = $0.01). Failed runs are refunded. Exact numbers: https://apifare.com/capabilities

## Run it

1. Find it: MCP search_apis, or GET https://apifare.com/v1/search?q=YCombinator%20Companies%20Scraper%20%7C%205%2C900%2B%20YC%20Startup%20Directory with Authorization: Bearer <token>. Take the result named "YCombinator Companies Scraper | 5,900+ YC Startup Directory"; it carries a proxy_route.
2. Run it: MCP proxy_call with that proxy_route and the input JSON (apifare-mcp over stdio), or POST the proxy_route over HTTP with the input JSON as the body and the same Authorization header.
3. On HTTP 402, relay the body's human_readable field to your human verbatim, wait, then retry the same call. Every other error and its fix: https://apifare.com/errors.md