/v1/actions/linkedin-search-companies/run/liveSearch LinkedIn Companies extracts a list of companies from a LinkedIn company search so you can feed B2B prospecting and market-mapping workflows directly from LinkedIn filters. You get the company rows LinkedIn returns for your query — name, URL, industry, headcount band — as structured JSON. It targets sales, growth, and research teams building target-account lists from the public LinkedIn search surface.
The action runs on the LinkedIn level and uses your authenticated LinkedIn session on Edges.
You pass a LinkedIn company search URL (any filter combination — industry, size, location, keyword) and Search LinkedIn Companies iterates the result pages on your behalf. Edges walks pagination, normalizes each row, and returns a clean array of company objects with stable fields.
Every request is signed with your connected LinkedIn session and paced to stay within LinkedIn's activity guidance. The action supports async execution, which is the right mode once your result set crosses a couple of pages.
Reach for Search LinkedIn Companies when you need a company set defined by LinkedIn's filter logic — industry, size, headquarters region, keyword — rather than by an external list. It is the cheapest way to turn a prospecting hypothesis into a working account list.
It plugs into the LinkedIn profile and company data API use case. Teams run it as step one in an ABM pipeline, then chain extraction actions to deepen each row before loading to CRM.
Search LinkedIn Companies is almost always step one. Once you have the list, feed it into Extract LinkedIn Similar Companies to widen the set or Search LinkedIn Company Employees to roll down to people.
It depends on how deep LinkedIn paginates your search. Tighter filters return fuller sets; very broad searches will hit LinkedIn's pagination ceiling. Expect hundreds to low thousands per well-scoped query.
Your LinkedIn account. Searches are executed through the session you connect to Edges, and results reflect what your account can see.
Yes. The output companyId and companyUrl drop directly into Extract LinkedIn Company Profile, Extract LinkedIn Followers, or Visit Company for warm-up flows.
Run Search LinkedIn Companies from the Edges library, wire it into your ABM pipeline through Zapier, Make, or n8n, or call it from the Edges API directly. Browse the full Actions library to pick the enrichment actions that follow.
curl -X POST "https://api.edges.run/v1/actions/linkedin-search-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": {
"linkedin_company_search_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/example-profile",
"custom_data": "example_value"
}
}'[
{
"company_name": "Example Name",
"description": "example_value",
"short_description": "example_value",
"followers": "example_value",
"linkedin_company_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/example-profile",
"linkedin_company_id": "example-123",
"linkedin_company_handle": "example-123"
}
]