---
title: "Search people at a company"
method: POST
path: "/search/linkedin/employees"
tags: ["search"]
---

# Search people at a company

`POST /search/linkedin/employees`

People currently associated with a company on LinkedIn. Pass a company URL, vanity slug, or name. Implemented via the cookie people-search path with `currentCompany` (HTML pages of ~10, accumulated to `count`). Optional `keywords` narrows within that company. Same result shape as search people.

## Request body

- object
  - `company` string, required — The company, as its LinkedIn page URL, its vanity slug, or its display name. A URL or slug is exact; a display name is matched to a company page, and a name that matches none is refused rather than searched without the filter.
  - `keywords` string — Optional keywords to narrow people at that company (title, name, skills).
  - `start` integer — Pagination offset into the accumulated employee list (default 0).
  - `count` integer — How many people to return in total (default 10, max 50).

## Response `200`

People at the company

- object
  - `success` true, required
  - `company` string, required — Resolved company key used for the search (slug or name as passed after parse).
  - `items` object[], required
    - `type` 'PEOPLE', required
    - `name` string, required
    - `profileUrl` string, nullable, required
    - `headline` string, nullable, required
    - `location` string, nullable, required
    - `profilePicture` string, nullable, required
    - `networkDistance` 'DISTANCE_1' | 'DISTANCE_2' | 'DISTANCE_3' | 'OUT_OF_NETWORK', nullable, required — LinkedIn network distance: DISTANCE_1=connected, DISTANCE_2=2nd degree, DISTANCE_3=3rd degree, OUT_OF_NETWORK=not connected.
    - `currentPositions` object[], required — Current work positions for this profile.
      - `company` string, nullable, required
      - `role` string, nullable, required
    - `profileUrn` string, nullable, required — LinkedIn profile URN (e.g. urn:li:fsd_profile:ACoAAA...) when available
    - `publicIdentifier` string, nullable, required — Vanity slug from profile URL (e.g. john-doe) when not URN-based
    - `nameMatch` boolean, nullable — True when the search ranker matched the literal name (vs headline/skills). When picking between two same-named people, the one with nameMatch=true is the one the user typed.
    - `badgeText` string, nullable — Profile badge surfaced by LinkedIn (Top Voice / Premium / Verified / Influencer). Indicates investment in the platform and is a useful qualifier weight.
    - `ringStatus` string, nullable — Profile ring status visualised on LinkedIn (OPEN_TO_WORK, HIRING, OPEN_FOR_BUSINESS, etc.). Open intent signal — directly relevant for recruiters, vendors, and sales.
    - `summary` string, nullable — Additional profile snippet returned by the search ranker, distinct from headline. Sometimes contains mutual-connection context or topic affinity (e.g. 'Writes about B2B sales').
    - `actorInsights` string[] — LinkedIn-curated context strings — typical entries: 'X mutual connections', 'Follows {company}', 'Worked at {company}'. Use these directly in personalised outreach openers.
    - `lane` 'public' — Present when this row came from the public lane covering for the connected account. Public data: fields a session would fill may be empty, and the name may be derived from the profile URL.
  - `paging` object, required
    - `start` integer, required
    - `count` integer, required
    - `total` integer, required
  - `hasMore` boolean, required
  - `warnings` object[] — Caveats about this result set. Absent or empty means the search ran exactly as asked.
    - `field` string, required — Which part of the request this is about, or `search` when it is about the whole result set.
    - `value` string, required — The value involved: what was dropped, or a code naming the condition.
    - `type` string, required — What kind of caveat this is. SEARCH_QUOTA: LinkedIn capped this account for the month, so the set is TRUNCATED and not the whole market. PARSE_EMPTY: the page answered and no rows could be read, and LinkedIn did not say the market is empty, so treat it as unread rather than as nobody matching. URL_FACET: a pasted search URL carried a filter this search cannot apply, so it ran wider than the one on screen. ENUM: a value was not recognised and that filter was dropped. LANE_FALLBACK: some or all rows came from the public lane, which fills fewer fields. AND_BLOB / OR_OVERFLOW: the keyword shape over-constrained and was retried or flagged. SEARCH_PLAN: the ask was spread across a search budget rather than paged.
    - `hint` string — One sentence a caller can show a person.
  - `creditsUsed` integer, required — Credits consumed by this call. 0 for free endpoints, cached results, duplicates, and for every query that does not touch LinkedIn.
  - `retryAfter` integer, required — Seconds to wait before another call of the same type. 0 means no wait is needed.
  - `_meta` object — Credit balance carried on every response so a caller never has to ask for it separately. Absent when the caller has no connected account.
    - `credits` object, required
      - `current` number, required — Credits spent this period.
      - `limit` number, nullable, required — Period allowance, or null when unlimited.
      - `remaining` number, nullable, required — Allowance left, or null when unlimited.
      - `percentage` number, required — Share of the allowance spent, 0 to 100.
      - `isUnlimited` boolean, required

## Other responses

- `400` — The server cannot or will not process the request due to something that is perceived to be a client error.
- `401` — Although HTTP specifies "unauthorized", this response means "unauthenticated". Authenticate to continue. NOTE: 401 is also returned with code "linkedin_not_connected" when the caller IS authenticated but has no connected LinkedIn account — connect LinkedIn (not re-authenticate) to continue.
- `403` — The client does not have access rights to the content.
- `404` — The server cannot find the requested resource.
- `409` — The request conflicts with the current state of the server.
- `410` — The requested content has been permanently deleted from the server.
- `422` — The request was well-formed but was unable to be followed due to semantic errors.
- `429` — Rate limit exceeded. Read error.retryAfter for the wait time in seconds.
- `500` — The server encountered a situation it does not know how to handle.
- `502` — LinkedIn returned a server error or the proxy connection failed. Retry after a few seconds.
- `503` — Proxy capacity temporarily exceeded. Retry after a few seconds.

## Changes

> 12 revisions in range; 1 not diffed.

- **2026-08-28** `62bf7284843d` — 1 breaking
  - removed the required property `_meta/credits/accountPlan` from the response with the `200` status
- **2026-08-27** `d5f1141f87e3` — 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/berea/apis/bereach-api/changes/search/linkedin/employees/post.md)

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