Crunchbase Search API

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Crunchbase Data API v4 Autocomplete Search API
  description: 'The Crunchbase Data API (REST v4) provides programmatic access to Crunchbase''s graph of company, funding, investor, and people data - organizations, people, funding rounds, acquisitions, investments, events, and more. It is a read-only RESTful service with four logical surfaces: Entity Lookup (retrieve a single entity and its related "cards"), Search (query a collection with field filters and keyset pagination), Autocomplete (resolve a query string to entity identifiers), and Deleted Entities / Deltas (detect entities removed from the Crunchbase Graph so downstream databases can be reconciled). Access is subscription-gated: the full API requires a Crunchbase Enterprise or Applications license, while a reduced Basic API is available to Crunchbase Basic plan holders. All requests must be made over HTTPS (non-HTTPS calls return 426) and are authenticated with an API key passed either as the `user_key` query parameter or the `X-cb-user-key` header.

    Endpoint paths, HTTP methods, authentication, and rate limits below are grounded in the public Crunchbase developer documentation (data.crunchbase.com/docs). Because live responses are license-gated, request and response object schemas are honestly modeled from the documentation rather than captured from live calls; see x-endpoints-modeled.'
  version: '4.0'
  contact:
    name: Crunchbase
    url: https://about.crunchbase.com/products/crunchbase-api/
  x-endpoints-modeled: Endpoint paths, methods, auth, and rate limits are confirmed from public docs. Detailed field-level request/response schemas are modeled from the documentation because live API responses require a paid Enterprise or Applications license.
servers:
- url: https://api.crunchbase.com/v4/data
  description: Crunchbase Data API v4 (production)
security:
- userKeyQuery: []
- userKeyHeader: []
tags:
- name: Search
  description: Query a collection with field filters and keyset pagination.
paths:
  /searches/{collection}:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Collection'
    post:
      operationId: searchCollection
      tags:
      - Search
      summary: Search a collection
      description: Searches a collection (organizations, people, funding_rounds, acquisitions, and others) using a JSON body of field_ids to return and an array of query filters combined with AND logic. Returns 50 items by default and up to 1000 per request, with keyset pagination via after_id or before_id.
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/SearchRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The matching entities for the search query.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/SearchResponse'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '426':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/UpgradeRequired'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/TooManyRequests'
components:
  responses:
    TooManyRequests:
      description: Rate limit exceeded (200 calls per minute).
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    Unauthorized:
      description: Missing, invalid, or unlicensed API key.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    BadRequest:
      description: The request body or query was invalid.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    UpgradeRequired:
      description: HTTPS is required, or the endpoint requires a higher license tier.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  schemas:
    QueryPredicate:
      type: object
      required:
      - type
      - field_id
      - operator_id
      - values
      properties:
        type:
          type: string
          example: predicate
        field_id:
          type: string
          example: categories
        operator_id:
          type: string
          description: Comparison operator (e.g. includes, eq, gte, lte, between, contains).
          example: includes
        values:
          type: array
          items: {}
    SearchResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        count:
          type: integer
          description: Total number of matching entities.
        entities:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
            properties:
              uuid:
                type: string
              properties:
                type: object
                additionalProperties: true
    SearchRequest:
      type: object
      required:
      - field_ids
      - query
      properties:
        field_ids:
          type: array
          description: The fields to return for each matching entity.
          items:
            type: string
        query:
          type: array
          description: Filter predicates combined with AND logic.
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/QueryPredicate'
        order:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
            properties:
              field_id:
                type: string
              sort:
                type: string
                enum:
                - asc
                - desc
        limit:
          type: integer
          description: Items to return (default 50, maximum 1000).
          default: 50
          maximum: 1000
        after_id:
          type: string
        before_id:
          type: string
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
        code:
          type: integer
        message:
          type: string
  parameters:
    Collection:
      name: collection
      in: path
      required: true
      description: The core entity collection (e.g. organizations, people, funding_rounds, acquisitions).
      schema:
        type: string
        example: organizations
  securitySchemes:
    userKeyQuery:
      type: apiKey
      in: query
      name: user_key
      description: API key passed as the user_key query parameter.
    userKeyHeader:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-cb-user-key
      description: API key passed as the X-cb-user-key request header.