crunchbase-acquisition

name	crunchbase-acquisition
description	Fetch detailed acquisition data from Crunchbase including acquirer/acquiree details, price, terms, and deal status.

crunchbase-acquisition

Fetch detailed acquisition data from Crunchbase including acquirer/acquiree details, price, terms, and deal status.

Prerequisites

• Node.js 22+
• If CDP connection fails during auth, launch Chrome yourself with https://www.crunchbase.com as the initial URL (see chrome-cdp agent guidance)
• If Chrome is already running via CDP but no Crunchbase tab is open: node skills/chrome-cdp/scripts/cdp.mjs open https://www.crunchbase.com
• If the user is not logged in to Crunchbase, ask them to log in in the Chrome window, then re-run auth

Setup

node crunchbase-acquisition.mjs auth

Usage

# View acquisition by permalink (from Crunchbase URL)
node crunchbase-acquisition.mjs view google-acquires-fitbit

# View by UUID
node crunchbase-acquisition.mjs view 6acfa7da-1dbd-936e-d985-cf07a1b27711

# Section commands (all support --count=N --after-id=UUID)
node crunchbase-acquisition.mjs news google-acquires-fitbit --count=20

How it works

1. auth — Extracts cookies from Chrome via CDP
2. view — Resolves permalink to UUID via search API, then fetches entity with cards from /v4/data/entities/acquisitions/{uuid}
3. Section commands — Use the overrides endpoint POST /v4/data/entities/acquisitions/{permalink}/overrides?field_ids=[...]&section_ids=[...] to fetch paginated section data

Available cards: overview_fields

Available fields: identifier, acquiree_identifier, acquirer_identifier, announced_on, price, acquisition_type, status, terms, disposition_of_acquired, completed_on, acquiree_categories, acquirer_categories, acquiree_short_description, acquirer_short_description, acquiree_locations, acquirer_locations, short_description, acquiree_funding_total, acquirer_funding_total, acquiree_num_funding_rounds, acquirer_num_funding_rounds

Available sections: news

Data storage

~/.local/share/showrun/data/crunchbase-acquisition/
├── session.json     Auth cookies
└── cache/           Acquisition detail JSON files

Session expiry

Re-run auth on 401/403 errors.