Data sources
Public, licensed or yours. Never scraped.
Several intent tools scrape LinkedIn or drive your LinkedIn account. LinkedIn's User Agreement forbids it and LinkedIn enforces it: hiQ Labs ended under a permanent injunction, and Proxycurl shut down in 2025 after being sued. ReadyBuyerFinder doesn't do either, so your account and your company's reputation are not at risk.
| Signal | Source | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Startup and tech news | Inc42, Entrackr, YourStory and TechCrunch RSS feeds | Headlines and summaries only; we store the facts and link to the article. |
| Global news | GDELT 2.0 (open data) | Funding, appointments, expansion and keyword mentions worldwide. |
| US funding filings | SEC EDGAR Form D (public) | New securities offerings by US companies. |
| Hiring | Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby public job-board APIs | Endpoints that companies publish for their own careers pages. |
| Company websites | Our crawler, respecting robots.txt | Homepage description and the tools a site loads (tech stack). |
| Developer communities | Hacker News (Algolia API) | Keyword and competitor mentions. |
| New Indian companies | MCA company master on data.gov.in (Open Government Data licence) | Your key (free from data.gov.in). Newly registered companies, and CIN lookups for Indian companies. |
| More job postings | TheirStack API | Your key. Job posts beyond the public job boards above. |
| Job changes | People Data Labs API (its own licensed dataset) | Your key. People who recently started a role that matches your personas. |
| Posts on X | X API recent search | Your key (X bills per use). Keyword and competitor mentions. |
| Reddit posts | Reddit API search | Your Reddit app id and secret. Keyword and competitor mentions. |
| Your website | The ReadyBuyerFinder pixel | Visiting companies by IP; people only after they identify themselves. |
| Your data | CSV upload, the REST API and our Chrome extension | Event lists, engagement exports, CRM lists you have the right to use, pages you save yourself. |
| Emails | Our own pattern finder and MX checks; Hunter, Prospeo and Reoon when a key is set | Work emails and verification. Your key, or ours where we provide one. |
| Phones | People Data Labs | Your key. Indian numbers are normalised to +91 and checked for the mobile format. |
"Your key" means the source switches on when you save your own API key under Settings, or when we have set up a platform key for it. You use each provider under its own terms.
What we never do
- Scrape LinkedIn or buy scraped LinkedIn datasets
- Log in to, or automate, your LinkedIn account from ReadyBuyerFinder
- Crawl job sites whose terms forbid it (for example Naukri)
- Read LinkedIn or Naukri pages with our Chrome extension (on those sites you type the details yourself)
- Covertly identify individual website visitors
- Sell the data we process for you
LinkedIn post engagement
Bring engagers in by CSV from tools you are allowed to use, or connect ReachDak, which runs with your consent and its own safety limits. ReadyBuyerFinder scores and writes messages for them like any other signal.
If you use HeyReach, ReadyBuyerFinder can push leads that have a LinkedIn URL into your HeyReach campaign. HeyReach is your own tool; ReadyBuyerFinder itself never logs in to or automates LinkedIn.