# How many people actually work at this company?

**Use case:** 

Compare the size band a company claims against the number of LinkedIn members who really list it as their employer, so a stale About page gets caught.

## Input

```json
{
  "companies": [
    "stripe",
    "shopify",
    "microsoft",
    "google",
    "salesforce",
    "hubspot",
    "airbnb",
    "spotify",
    "atlassian",
    "gitlab-com",
    "datadog",
    "mongodbinc"
  ],
  "testRun": false,
  "onlyFound": false,
  "includeKeywords": [],
  "excludeKeywords": [],
  "columns": [
    "companyUrl",
    "slug",
    "name",
    "tagline",
    "description",
    "industry",
    "companySize",
    "employeesOnLinkedIn",
    "headquarters",
    "founded",
    "companyType",
    "website",
    "specialties",
    "followerCount",
    "logoUrl",
    "source",
    "masked"
  ],
  "maxConcurrency": 2,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "query": {
    "label": "Query",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "found": {
    "label": "Found",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "status": {
    "label": "Status",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "message": {
    "label": "Message",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "name": {
    "label": "Name",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "slug": {
    "label": "Slug",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "companySize": {
    "label": "Company size",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "employeesOnLinkedIn": {
    "label": "Employees on linked in",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "followerCount": {
    "label": "Follower count",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "industry": {
    "label": "Industry",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "headquarters": {
    "label": "Headquarters",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "scrapedAt": {
    "label": "Scraped at",
    "format": "string"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [LinkedIn Company Lookup: linkedin company scraper from $5/1k](https://apify.com/accountable_eel/linkedin-company-lookup.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/accountable_eel/linkedin-company-lookup.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


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