scrape_crunchbase
Scrape Crunchbase company profile (funding rounds, investors, founders). Use for VC and competitive research. Example call: {"company": "stripe"} Cost: $0.005–$0.05 USDC on Base per call.
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What scrape_crunchbase does on GoCreative Agent API
AI agents call scrape_crunchbase to retrieve information from GoCreative Agent API without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
company | string | Yes |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why scrape_crunchbase is rated Low
This tool retrieves and queries data from Crunchbase—funding information, investor details, and founder profiles—without modifying, executing code, deleting, or initiating financial transactions. The example call requests a simple data fetch ('company': 'stripe'). While it scrapes third-party data, the action itself is read-only reconnaissance, placing it squarely in the Read category with low severity.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'scrape_crunchbase' and description 'Scrape Crunchbase company profile (funding rounds, investors, founders).
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The rule that runs scrape_crunchbase safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and GoCreative Agent API, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For scrape_crunchbase, this is the rule to start with:
scrape_crunchbase is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect GoCreative Agent API, apply this rule, and every scrape_crunchbase call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about scrape_crunchbase
Scrape Crunchbase company profile (funding rounds, investors, founders). Use for VC and competitive research. Example call: {"company": "stripe"} Cost: $0.005–$0.05 USDC on Base per call. It is categorised as a Read tool in the GoCreative Agent API MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
scrape_crunchbase accepts 1 parameter: company. Required: company. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the GoCreative Agent API MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for scrape_crunchbase: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches GoCreative Agent API. Nothing to install.
scrape_crunchbase is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the scrape_crunchbase rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for scrape_crunchbase. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
scrape_crunchbase is provided by the GoCreative Agent API MCP server (https://api.gocreativeai.com/mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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