Search LinkedIn Companies

Find companies on LinkedIn by name, industry, location, and employee count. Returns structured company data: name, profileUrl, summary, industry, location, followersCount, logoUrl. To read a single result in more depth, pass its profileUrl to publicCompany, which adds the full description, follower and employee counts, the website, and recent posts. Detailed firmographics (headquarter address, founding year, specialities, verification status, call to action) are not available from either surface, so do not promise them.

Parameters

keywords (optional): Search terms matched against company name, description, and specialties

Keyword syntax (Boolean operators)

Keywords support LinkedIn Boolean search syntax:

Exact phrase: "artificial intelligence" — matches only that exact phrase
AND: fintech AND payments — both terms required (spaces default to AND)
OR: SaaS OR "cloud computing" — either term
NOT: consulting NOT staffing — exclude unwanted terms
Parentheses: (AI OR ML) AND healthcare — group logic

Operators must be UPPERCASE. Precedence: Quotes > Parentheses > NOT > AND > OR.

Available filters

Pass HUMAN LABELS for location / industry — the server resolves them to LinkedIn IDs via typeahead. Numeric IDs pass through unchanged if you already have them.

Filter	Type	Description
location	string[]	HQ geo labels (e.g. ["Paris","France"]) — resolved server-side
industry	string[]	Industry labels (e.g. ["Software Development"]) — resolved server-side
companySize	string[]	Employee count codes (see below)

Company size codes

Code	Employees
A	1
B	2-10
C	11-50
D	51-200
E	201-500
F	501-1,000
G	1,001-5,000
H	5,001-10,000
I	10,001+

Response fields (per item)

Field	Type	Description
name	string	Company display name
profileUrl	string	LinkedIn company page URL
summary	string\|null	Company tagline/description
industry	string\|null	Primary industry
location	string\|null	HQ location
followersCount	number\|null	Number of LinkedIn followers
logoUrl	string\|null	Company logo, present only when the result entity carries one

Pagination

Default page size: 10, max: 50
Use start + count to paginate. Check hasMore for more pages.

Example workflows

Market research: Search by industry + location → map the competitive landscape
Sales targeting: Search by industry + size → build a list of target accounts
Partnership discovery: Search by keywords + location → find potential partners

Credits

post/search/linkedin/companies

Request body

keywordsstring

Search keywords. Matches against company name, description, and specialties. Optional — you can search by filters alone. Supports LinkedIn Boolean syntax: use double quotes for exact phrases (e.g. "artificial intelligence"), AND to require both terms, OR for alternatives (e.g. SaaS OR "cloud computing"), NOT to exclude (e.g. consulting NOT staffing), and parentheses to group (e.g. (AI OR ML) AND healthcare). Operators must be UPPERCASE.

urlstring

A LinkedIn search URL. The category and every filter the vertical can actually apply are read from it; a facet it carries that this search cannot apply is reported back as a URL_FACET warning rather than applied, so a result set carrying those is WIDER than the URL asked for. Explicit params override anything read from the URL.

locationstring[]

Filter by company HQ location. Pass human labels (e.g. ['Paris','France']) — server resolves to LinkedIn geo IDs via typeahead. Numeric IDs pass through if you already have them.

industrystring[]

Filter by company industry. Pass human labels (e.g. ['Software Development']) — server resolves to LinkedIn industry IDs via typeahead. Numeric IDs pass through if you already have them.

companySizestring[]

Filter by employee count, several bands allowed and combined as OR. Pass a human employee range and it is converted for you, which is the safer form: the underlying codes are A=1, B=2-10, C=11-50, D=51-200, E=201-500, F=501-1000, G=1001-5000, H=5001-10000, I=10001+, and passing the wrong letter searches the wrong band silently rather than failing.

startinteger

Pagination offset into the accumulated result list (default 0). LinkedIn serves about ten companies per HTML page; use multiples of that page size to skip whole pages.

countinteger

How many companies to return in total (default 10, max 50). LinkedIn's HTML search page is fixed at about ten results; the server pages with ?page=N until this total is reached.

Response

List of LinkedIn companies matching the search criteria

successtrue required

category'companies' required

hasMoreboolean required

creditsUsedinteger required

Credits consumed by this call. 0 for free endpoints, cached results, duplicates, and for every query that does not touch LinkedIn.

retryAfterinteger required

Seconds to wait before another call of the same type. 0 means no wait is needed.

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