Proxycurl Alternative: Status and Migration

Disclosure: GramScraper publishes this page and sells a competing — but not equivalent — product. We state plainly which Proxycurl use cases GramScraper cannot serve, link to primary sources, and recommend validating any migration against your own required fields.

What Happened to Proxycurl

In January 2025, LinkedIn filed a lawsuit against Proxycurl. In its own shutdown announcement, the company stated it was shutting the product down and that the team had moved on to a new data platform. Its founder's later post confirms the current state directly: Proxycurl is shut down, and its old documentation, blog posts, and code samples should be treated as historical reference only.

Two practical consequences for anyone migrating:

• Old tutorials, snippets, and SDK references that call the former Proxycurl API no longer reflect a live service — do not copy them into a new integration unchanged.
• The proxycurl.com domain no longer serves the original product documentation; it now resolves to a different product. Treat any pre-2025 guide as archival.

Primary sources for this section are linked under Sources and dates.

Capability Comparison: Proxycurl (Historical) vs GramScraper (Current)

This table compares what Proxycurl historically offered with what GramScraper offers today. It is a scope comparison, not a claim that the products are substitutes — they are not, for most Proxycurl workloads.

Which Workload Are You Actually Migrating?

If you needed LinkedIn people or company enrichment

GramScraper is not a replacement. You will want a provider whose product is built around professional-profile and company data, and you should check its licensing and compliance posture carefully — Proxycurl's own shutdown stemmed from legal action over that data. Do not treat public Instagram data as a substitute for professional-network data; they answer different questions.

If you needed public social content and engagement data

Here GramScraper can be a fit for the Instagram portion of your pipeline. It returns public Instagram profile, post, comment, hashtag, search, and location data through documented endpoints, with a Bearer-token API and non-expiring credits. If you also need other networks under the same key, compare breadth: GramScraper is Instagram-first, and a multi-platform provider may suit you better.

To size cost honestly, use the Instagram scraping API pricing comparison and the GramScraper vs ScrapeCreators page, which explains how credit units differ between providers.

Verified Request Examples (curl and Node.js)

Because Proxycurl's API is offline, the examples below cover GramScraper only. They use the documented path and Bearer header; an unauthenticated request returns 401, confirming the endpoint resolves. Replace the placeholder key with one from your dashboard.

curl \
  "https://gramscraper.com/api/instagram/v1/user/by/username?username=natgeo" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer gs_your_key"

const res = await fetch(
  'https://gramscraper.com/api/instagram/v1/user/by/username?username=natgeo',
  { headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.GRAMSCRAPER_API_KEY}` } }
);
const profile = await res.json();
console.log(profile);

Before migrating any real pipeline, confirm the exact fields and pagination behavior your application depends on against the current documentation, and test with public inputs that resemble production.

A Sensible Migration Sequence

1. Write down the exact fields and operations the old integration consumed — not the vendor name.
2. Classify each one: public Instagram content, professional-profile data, or contact data.
3. For professional-profile or contact needs, evaluate providers built for that domain — GramScraper does not cover them.
4. For public Instagram needs, test GramScraper on the free 100 credits with representative inputs.
5. Project volume using the documented credit cost per operation, then pick the smallest pack that fits and grow from there.
6. Keep the old code path behind a flag until the new one is verified in production.

Considering broader options too? Compare GramScraper vs Apify or read five Instagram scraping APIs compared.

Sources and dates

Third-party statements below are quoted or paraphrased from the named primary sources read on the date shown. Confirm current status yourself before relying on it.

• Proxycurl shutdown announcement, including the January 2025 LinkedIn lawsuit — nubela.co/blog/goodbye-proxycurl (read September 22, 2026).
• Founder's 2026 status post: "Proxycurl is shut down… treat old docs as historical reference only" — nubela.co/blog/what-is-proxycurl-api-now-in-2026-im-the-founder (read September 22, 2026).
• proxycurl.com now resolving to a different product — observed directly on the domain (September 22, 2026).
• GramScraper pricing (Free 100 credits; $9 / 10,000; $40 / 50,000; $140 / 200,000; credits never expire) — gramscraper.com/#pricing and /api/docs (checked September 22, 2026).
• GramScraper endpoint paths and Bearer auth — gramscraper.com/docs and the live contract at /api/docs (checked September 22, 2026).