Companies

Search known companies

Changed on Oct 20, 2026

Searches the built-in company list. Free. For any other name use POST /v1/companies:resolve.

Scope: sourcing:read.

get/v1/lookups/companies

Request

Base URL: https://api.recruitmcp.com
URL: https://api.recruitmcp.com/v1/lookups/companies
Auth: one of:
- HTTP bearer
- OAuth 2 (authorization code, authorization URL https://recruitmcp.com/oauth/authorize, token URL https://recruitmcp.com/oauth/token, scopes: sourcing:read)

Query parameters

qstring required

Part of a company name.

limitinteger

How many items to return. Default 25, at most 100.

cursorstring

next_cursor from the previous response. An invalid cursor is 400 invalid_request, message Invalid cursor.

Headers

RecruitMCP-Version'2026-10-13'

API version. Defaults to the version the key was created with. Supported: 2026-10-13.

RecruitMCP-Customerstring

Act inside this customer (cus_…). Ignored for keys bound to a customer, which always act inside theirs.

Response

Matches.

object'list' required

next_cursorstring nullable required

Pass as cursor for the next page. Null on the last page.

has_moreboolean required

Example response

{
  "object": "list",
  "data": [
    {
      "query_name": "Paperkiln",
      "company_name": "Paperkiln",
      "company_id": "51207",
      "company_url": "https://companies.example.com/paperkiln",
      "universal_name": "paperkiln",
      "industry": "Computer Software",
      "employee_count": 400,
      "website": "https://example.com",
      "not_found": false
    }
  ],
  "next_cursor": null,
  "has_more": false,
  "cost": {
    "credits": 1,
    "cached_items": 0,
    "live_items": 1,
    "upstream_calls": 1
  }
}

Changes

Oct 20, 2026ad27b35513a6 Revision changes
- warning
  added the new approval_forced enum value to the / response property for the response status
- warning
  added the new approval_forced enum value to the / response property for the response status
- warning
  added the new approval_forced enum value to the / response property for the response status
- warning
  added the new approval_forced enum value to the / response property for the response status

Operation history