Linkedin API for Company Directory

LinkedIn API for Company Directory

Update: There is now an official API: https://developer-programs.linkedin.com/documents/company-search

The official API does not seem to have this feature. However they do have a URL where you can pass in a search for companies and it will return a JSON response with the company name, logo URL, number of employees, and a link to the company profile.

For instance a search of "citr" would be

http://www.linkedin.com/ta/federator?query=citr&types=company,group,sitefeature

Which returns

{
   "sitefeature":{
      "resultList":[

      ]
   },
   "company":{
      "resultList":[
         {
            "id":"1195260",
            "headLine":"<strong>CiTR<\/strong> SHINDIG",
            "displayName":"CiTR SHINDIG",
            "subLine":"Entertainment; 1-10 employees",
            "url":"http://www.linkedin.com/companies/1195260"
         },
         {
            "id":"2641",
            "headLine":"<strong>Citr<\/strong>ix Systems",
            "imageUrl":"http://media03.linkedin.com/mpr/mpr/shrink_40_40/p/3/000/043/32b/0076ade.png",
            "displayName":"Citrix Systems",
            "subLine":"Computer Software; 1001-5000 employees",
            "url":"http://www.linkedin.com/companies/2641"
         },
         {
            "id":"7659",
            "headLine":"<strong>Citr<\/strong>oen",
            "imageUrl":"http://media01.linkedin.com/mpr/mpr/shrink_40_40/p/3/000/01d/3d0/277c145.png",
            "displayName":"Citroen",
            "subLine":"Automotive; 10,001+ employees",
            "url":"http://www.linkedin.com/companies/7659"
         },
         {
            "id":"260214",
            "headLine":"PSA Peugeot <strong>Citr<\/strong>oën",
            "imageUrl":"http://media02.linkedin.com/mpr/mpr/shrink_40_40/p/2/000/021/0b7/07c4193.png",
            "displayName":"PSA Peugeot Citroën",
            "subLine":"Automotive; 10,001+ employees",
            "url":"http://www.linkedin.com/companies/260214"
         },
...

Is it possible to search for a person or company in LinkedIn's API?

LinkedIn has limited its API access some time ago. See the details. Inorder to do a person search you should get vetted API access from linkedin

Linkedin Company Search API : Get All Counts

According to LinkedIn API Documentation

count: The number of jobs to return. Values can range between 0 and
110. The default value is 10. The total results available to any user depends on their account level.

And according to Python LinkedIn Documentation example (although, this is not a search_company, but search_job method, this solution should also work for search_company):

application.search_job(selectors=[{'jobs': ['id',
                                            'customer-job-code',
                                            'posting-date']}],
                       params={'title': 'python', 'count': 2})
# Output
{u'jobs': {u'_count': 2,
  u'_start': 0,
  u'_total': 206747,
  u'values': [{u'customerJobCode': u'0006YT23WQ',
    u'id': 5174636,
    u'postingDate': {u'day': 21, u'month': 3, u'year': 2013}},
   {u'customerJobCode': u'00023CCVC2',
    u'id': 5174634,
    u'postingDate': {u'day': 21, u'month': 3, u'year': 2013}}]}}

You should pass params dictionary with count key.

Getting all public basic profile information from Linkedin API

The current linkedin api I think only works for its own profile. There's not an API for retrieve information of the other profiles, you'll need write your own scraper

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