crunchbase-school

name	crunchbase-school
description	Fetch detailed school profiles from Crunchbase including type, program, enrollment, alumni, and founder alumni stats.

crunchbase-school

Fetch detailed school profiles from Crunchbase including type, program, enrollment, alumni, and founder alumni stats.

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-school.mjs auth

Usage

# View school by permalink (from Crunchbase URL)
node crunchbase-school.mjs view stanford-university
node crunchbase-school.mjs view massachusetts-institute-of-technology

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

# Section commands (all support --count=N --after-id=UUID)
node crunchbase-school.mjs alumni stanford-university --count=50
node crunchbase-school.mjs funding_rounds massachusetts-institute-of-technology
node crunchbase-school.mjs investments stanford-university
node crunchbase-school.mjs exits stanford-university
node crunchbase-school.mjs news stanford-university --count=20
node crunchbase-school.mjs current_employees stanford-university
node crunchbase-school.mjs advisors stanford-university
node crunchbase-school.mjs sub_organizations stanford-university

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

Available cards: overview_fields_extended, overview_company_fields

Available fields: identifier, short_description, description, operating_status, school_type, school_method, school_program, location_identifiers, categories, num_enrollments, founded_on, website_url, num_alumni, num_founder_alumni, rank_org_school

Available sections: alumni, funding_rounds, investments, exits, news, current_employees, advisors, sub_organizations

Data storage

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

Session expiry

Re-run auth on 401/403 errors.