Fortune API endpoint
Use Crawlora's Fortune 500 ranking API to extract supported public Fortune data as structured JSON. This page includes request parameters, cURL examples, response schema, error behavior, credit cost, and a Playground link for testing before integration.
/fortune/rankingReturns rows from a selected Fortune ranking list and year -- the Fortune 500 franchise (including Fortune China 500) or one of Fortune's award/culture rankings. Search, filters, sorting, and pagination are applied against Fortune's public ranking data and validated against that list/year's filter inventory. Developers commonly use this endpoint for data enrichment, monitoring, research dashboards, internal automation, and agent-native workflows that need repeatable structured public web data. Authentication uses the documented Crawlora headers, and usage is metered with the credit cost shown on this page.
Request parameters are generated from the active endpoint catalog. Required values must be sent before Crawlora can call the upstream public web data source.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| list | string | No | fortune500 | Accepted values: fortune500, global500, fortune500-europe, southeast-asia-500, fortune-china-500, 100-fastest-growing-companies, 40-under-40, ai-innovators, aiq, americas-most-innovative-companies, asia-future, best-companies, best-companies-europe, best-companies-southeast-asia, best-large-workplaces-in-technology, best-large-workplaces-parents, best-medium-workplaces, best-medium-workplaces-in-technology, best-places-families, best-places-retire-affordably, best-small-workplaces, best-small-workplaces-aging-services-senior-housing-care, best-small-workplaces-bay-area, best-small-workplaces-biotechnology-pharmaceuticals, best-small-workplaces-chicago-area, best-small-workplaces-construction, best-small-workplaces-consulting-professional-services, best-small-workplaces-financial-services-insurance, best-small-workplaces-for-women, best-small-workplaces-health-care, best-small-workplaces-in-technology, best-small-workplaces-manufacturing-production, best-small-workplaces-millennials, best-small-workplaces-new-york, best-small-workplaces-parents, best-small-workplaces-real-estate, best-small-workplaces-retail, best-small-workplaces-technology, best-small-workplaces-texas, best-workplaces-advertising-marketing, best-workplaces-aging-services-at-home-care, best-workplaces-aging-services-senior-housing-care, best-workplaces-baby-boomers, best-workplaces-bay-area, best-workplaces-biotechnology-pharmaceuticals, best-workplaces-camaraderie, best-workplaces-chicago-area, best-workplaces-construction, best-workplaces-consulting-professional-services, best-workplaces-finance-insurance, best-workplaces-financial-services-insurance, best-workplaces-flexibility, best-workplaces-for-african-americans, best-workplaces-for-asian-americans, best-workplaces-for-diversity, best-workplaces-for-hispanics-and-latinos, best-workplaces-for-retirement, best-workplaces-for-women, best-workplaces-gen-x, best-workplaces-giving-back, best-workplaces-health-care, best-workplaces-manufacturing-production, best-workplaces-millennials, best-workplaces-new-york, best-workplaces-parents, best-workplaces-real-estate, best-workplaces-recent-college-graduates, best-workplaces-retail, best-workplaces-technology, best-workplaces-texas, businessperson-of-the-year, candidates-working-women-times-up, change-the-world, creator-25, crypto, cyber, europes-most-innovative-companies, fintech-innovators-asia, food-drink-women-innovators, fortunate50, future-50, global-best-companies, heroes-of-the-fortune-500, impact20, inner-city-100, international-20, lgbtq-leaders, mejores-companias-latinos-hispanos, modern-board-25, most-fantastical-comic-book-businesses, most-important-private-companies, most-powerful-people, most-powerful-rising-executives, most-powerful-women, most-powerful-women-asia, most-powerful-women-europe-middle-east-africa, most-powerful-women-international, nfty-50, the-ledger-40-under-40, unicorns, women-tech-leaders-europe, worlds-best-workplaces, worlds-greatest-leaders, worlds-most-admired-companies. Defaults to fortune500. | |
| year | string | No | For fortune-china-500, accepted values are 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023; otherwise call fortune-ranking-years for this list's accepted years | ||
| search | string | No | Case-insensitive company-name search; Fortune China 500 searches every displayed row column | ||
| filter | array | No | Repeatable dynamic filter in field:value form; use company for fortune-china-500 or discover list-specific fields and values with fortune-ranking-filters | ||
| sector | string | No | Convenience alias for the live sector filter | ||
| industry | string | No | Convenience alias for the live industry filter | ||
| state | string | No | Convenience alias for the live state filter | ||
| profitable | string | No | Convenience alias; accepts true/false or yes/no | ||
| sort_by | string | No | For fortune-china-500: Company, Rank, Rank of last year, Revenues ($M), Profits ($M); otherwise discover sortable fields with fortune-ranking-filters | ||
| sort_order | string | No | Sort direction Allowed values: asc, desc | ||
| offset | integer | No | Zero-based result offset | ||
| limit | integer | No | Number of rows to return; 0 uses the default 100, maximum 1000 | ||
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/fortune/ranking?sort_order=asc&limit=10" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Send your scraping API key in the x-api-key header. Use the console API Keys page to rotate or select the active key.
Endpoint usage is metered in credits. The plan prices, included credits, limits, and overage rates below match the active backend billing configuration.
| Plan | Price | Included credits | Daily cap | Rate limit | Overage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 2,000 | 500 daily credits | 5/min | No overage |
| Starter | $9/mo | 20,000 | 5,000 daily credits | 15/min | $0.75/1,000 overage credits when enabled |
| Growth | $29/mo | 100,000 | 25,000 daily credits | 45/min | $0.45/1,000 overage credits when enabled |
| Pro | $79/mo | 400,000 | No daily cap | 120/min | $0.30/1,000 overage credits |
| Business | $199/mo | 1,200,000 | No daily cap | 300/min | $0.20/1,000 overage credits |
| Enterprise | $499/mo | 5,000,000 | No daily cap | 1,000/min | $0.12/1,000 overage credits |
This endpoint is executed through Crawlora's managed scraping infrastructure.
Crawlora does not silently return bad data when the upstream page cannot be used.
| Status | Common failure case |
|---|---|
| 400 | Invalid input or missing required parameter |
| 429 | Plan or endpoint rate limit exceeded |
| 500 | Internal execution error |
| 502 | Upstream platform failed, returned unusable HTML, or served a challenge page that could not be resolved |
When possible, Crawlora returns structured error context so your integration can retry, back off, or inspect the request.
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Bad Request | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 503 | Service Unavailable | #/definitions/app.Response |
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"list": "fortune500",
"year": "2026",
"search": "Amazon",
"filters": {},
"sort_order": "asc",
"offset": 0,
"limit": 100,
"total": 1,
"items": [
{
"name": "Amazon",
"order": 1,
"rank": 1,
"slug": "/company/amazon-com/",
"url": "https://fortune.com/company/amazon-com/",
"data": {
"Profitable": "yes",
"Sector": "Retailing"
}
}
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/publicnews.fortuneRankingResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data | fortune.RankingResponse | No | ||||
| data.filters | object | No | ||||
| data.items | array | No | ||||
| data.items[].data | object | No | ||||
| data.items[].name | string | No | ||||
| data.items[].order | integer | No | ||||
| data.items[].rank | integer | No | ||||
| data.items[].slug | string | No | ||||
| data.items[].url | string | No | ||||
| data.limit | integer | No | ||||
| data.list | string | No | ||||
| data.offset | integer | No | ||||
| data.search | string | No | ||||
| data.search_fields | array | No | ||||
| data.search_fields[].field_name | string | No | ||||
| data.search_fields[].options | array | No | ||||
| data.search_fields[].title | string | No | ||||
| data.search_fields[].type | string | No | ||||
| data.sort_by | string | No | ||||
| data.sort_order | string | No | ||||
| data.sortable_fields | array | No | ||||
| data.sortable_fields[].title | string | No | ||||
| data.sortable_fields[].type | string | No | ||||
| data.total | integer | No | ||||
| data.year | string | No |
Use environment variables for secrets and keep Crawlora API keys server-side.
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/fortune/ranking?sort_order=asc&limit=10" \
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