Crunchbase Startup Activity Monitor

## 🔹 **SECTION 1: Data Collection & Preprocessing**

### 📍 Nodes Involved:

* ✅ `Trigger Manual Test`
* 🌐 `Fetch Crunchbase Updates`
* ✏️ `Extract Company Details`

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### 🧩 1. `Trigger Manual Test` 🖱️

**Purpose:** This node is just for testing. It lets you **manually start** your workflow with a click.

> 💡 In production, replace this with a **cron node** ⏰ if you want this workflow to run **automatically every day**.

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### 🌐 2. `Fetch Crunchbase Updates` (HTTP Request)

**Purpose:** This node sends a request to the [Crunchbase API](https://data.crunchbase.com/docs) to **fetch companies updated in the last 24 hours**.

🔧 Here's what it does:

* Makes a **GET request** to:
  `https://api.crunchbase.com/api/v4/entities/organizations`
* Adds parameters:

  * `user_key`: Your Crunchbase API key 🔐
  * `updated_since`: Yesterday’s date 📅

> ✅ It returns a **list of updated companies** including names, descriptions, locations, and industries.

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### ✏️ 3. `Extract Company Details`

**Purpose:** Crunchbase API data can be complex. This node simplifies things.

🛠 It:

* Extracts **essential fields only** like:

  * Name 🏢
  * Description 📖
  * Location 📍
  * Industry 🏭
  * Last Updated Date 🗓️
* Prepares this data for the AI summarizer in a clean format.

> 💡 This step ensures only the relevant information is passed forward, saving processing time and cost.

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