crunchbase-people

name	crunchbase-people
description	Fetch detailed people profiles from Crunchbase including job history, investments, founded organizations, and social links.

crunchbase-people

Fetch detailed people profiles from Crunchbase including job history, investments, founded organizations, and social links.

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-people.mjs auth

Usage

# View person by permalink (from Crunchbase URL)
node crunchbase-people.mjs view mark-zuckerberg
node crunchbase-people.mjs view elon-musk

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

# Section commands (all support --count=N --after-id=UUID,
# except `education` — Crunchbase's education card rejects a limit,
# so the script always returns the full education list)
node crunchbase-people.mjs investments marc-andreessen --count=50
node crunchbase-people.mjs exits elon-musk
node crunchbase-people.mjs education mark-zuckerberg
node crunchbase-people.mjs news elon-musk --count=20

Commands

Command	Description
auth	Authenticate via Chrome (one-time)
view <permalink|uuid>	Fetch full person details with all cards
investments <permalink|uuid>	Personal investments (org, round, amount, lead)
exits <permalink|uuid>	IPO and acquisition exits
education <permalink|uuid>	Education history (degree, school, year)
news <permalink|uuid>	Press and news articles

Account tier

All commands work on the free Crunchbase account. Only the cross-entity advanced-search search (separate skill) requires Crunchbase Pro.

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/people/{uuid}
3. Section commands — Use the overrides endpoint POST /v4/data/entities/people/{permalink}/overrides?field_ids=[...]&section_ids=[...] to fetch paginated section data

Available cards: overview_fields

Available fields: identifier, first_name, last_name, primary_job_title, primary_organization, location_identifiers, short_description, description, gender, linkedin, twitter, facebook, num_founded_organizations, num_investments_funding_rounds, num_exits, num_current_jobs, num_past_jobs, born_on, died_on, rank_person, current_organizations, attended_schools, featured_job

Data storage

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

Session expiry

Re-run auth on 401/403 errors.