/v1/actions/linkedin-extract-similar-companies/run/liveExtract LinkedIn Similar Companies takes a LinkedIn company URL and returns the set of companies LinkedIn considers similar — adjacent products, competitors, and peers in the same category. It runs on the LinkedIn level and is the fastest way to turn a single known account into a discovery-ready list of lookalikes for ABM, market mapping, or competitive research.
The action gives you the raw similar-company object (name, URL, industry, headcount band) so you can merge it into your own account list without re-scraping.
You pass in a LinkedIn company URL or companyId, Edges requests the similar-companies panel through your authenticated LinkedIn session, and the list is parsed into a typed JSON array. The operation is synchronous for a single seed company — you get the full list in one call.
The action runs on Edges infrastructure, browser-less and rate-paced, so you do not manage throttling yourself. If the seed company has no similar-companies panel (rare, but happens for very small or very new pages), Edges returns an empty list rather than an error.
Use this action when you have one good account and want ten more like it — without manually Googling competitors or waiting for a firmographic vendor to match. It fits the LinkedIn profile & company data API use case and slots into ABM list-building, market research, and competitor monitoring workflows.
Extract LinkedIn Similar Companies is typically the discovery step in a pipeline: seed with known customers, expand to lookalikes, then enrich.
LinkedIn exposes a bounded similar-companies panel per company — typically 10 to 20 entries. Extract LinkedIn Similar Companies returns the full panel up to your optional limit. For broader discovery, run the action across multiple seed companies and dedupe.
Your account. The similar panel respects LinkedIn's visibility rules for the session making the request, and Edges routes every call through the connected account you control.
Yes. A common chain is Extract LinkedIn Similar Companies → [Extract LinkedIn Company Profile](/actions/linkedin-extract-company) → [Search LinkedIn Company Employees](/actions/linkedin-search-company-employees) → CRM. The output is a plain array of company records that any company-level action can consume.
Run Extract LinkedIn Similar Companies against your top accounts from the Edges dashboard, or wire it into an ABM pipeline through the Edges API. Browse the full Actions library to compose discovery with enrichment and outreach.
curl -X POST "https://api.edges.run/v1/actions/linkedin-extract-similar-companies/run/live" \
-H "X-API-KEY: <YOUR_API_KEY>" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"identity_ids": [
"your-identity-uuid"
],
"identity_mode": "direct",
"input": {
"custom_data": "example_value",
"linkedin_company_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/example-profile",
"linkedin_company_id": 10
}
}'[
{
"industry": "example_value",
"followers_count": "example_value",
"linkedin_company_id": "example-123",
"company_name": "Example Name",
"linkedin_company_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/example-profile"
}
]