# Company Search - Find Companies Hiring for Any Role (`hirebase/company-search`) Actor

Find companies that are actively hiring, filtered by industry, size, HQ location, funding stage and keywords - with open-roles counts and a sample of their current postings. Built for lead generation and prospecting: every record chains straight into the Hirebase job scrapers by company slug.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/hirebase/company-search.md
- **Developed by:** [Hirebase](https://apify.com/hirebase) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Company Search - Find Companies Hiring for Any Role

Find the **companies that are actually hiring**, filtered by industry, size, HQ location, funding stage and keywords - each one returned with its open-roles count and a sample of its current postings. Built on [Hirebase](https://www.hirebase.org), which scrapes company career pages directly, so hiring signal is first-hand rather than inferred.

Hiring is the strongest buying signal most B2B teams have. A company that just opened five engineering roles is staffing up; a company with nothing open is not.

**Why this actor?**

- 🏢 **Company records, not job rows** - one row per company, with size, industry, HQ, funding stage, LinkedIn and website.
- 📈 **Open-roles count on every record** - the hiring signal itself, not a proxy for it.
- 🎯 **"Hiring for X"** - keep only companies with open roles in a category, e.g. *Sales Jobs* or *Software Engineer Jobs*.
- 🧾 **Sample postings included** - the newest live roles per company, so you can see what they're staffing.
- 🔗 **Chains into the job scrapers** - every record carries a `companySlug` you can paste into Job Search, AI Job Search or any ATS actor to pull that company's full job list.
- 💸 **Non-hiring companies are never billed** - they're filtered out before anything is saved.

### How to use it

1. Describe the companies you want under **What kind of company?**, or use the industry, size, funding and HQ filters.
2. Optionally set **Hiring for** to a job category to keep only companies staffing that function.
3. Set **Max companies** and run.

### Example input

```json
{
  "query": "developer tools",
  "companySizes": ["51-200", "201-500"],
  "hiringForCategory": "Software Engineer Jobs",
  "maxResults": 5,
  "samplePostings": 3
}
```

### Output

A real record from that run (description and some blocks trimmed for length):

```json
{
  "companyName": "Duffel",
  "companySlug": "duffelhq",
  "companyWebsite": "https://duffel.com",
  "linkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/duffelhq",
  "openRoles": 3,
  "currentOpenRoles": 3,
  "hiringForCategory": "Software Engineer Jobs",
  "hiringForCategories": ["Engineering Jobs", "Information Technology Jobs", "Software Engineer Jobs"],
  "industries": ["Tech, Software & IT Services", "Recreation & Travel"],
  "companyType": "Startup",
  "sizeRange": { "min": 51, "max": 200 },
  "founded": 2017,
  "hqCity": "Greater London",
  "hqRegion": "England",
  "hqCountry": "United Kingdom",
  "fundingInfo": { "type": "Series B", "total_rounds": 3, "last_funding_round": "Nov 28, 2019" },
  "meanOpinionScore": 7,
  "samplePostings": [
    {
      "id": "6aaab2d4efeef95e95dcaf29",
      "jobTitle": "Senior Software Engineer",
      "datePosted": "2026-09-16",
      "locationType": "Remote",
      "location": "London, United Kingdom",
      "experienceLevel": "Senior",
      "salaryRange": { "min": 100000, "max": 150000, "currency": "GBP", "period": "yearly" },
      "applicationLink": "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/duffel/cb927b23-0b7d-4fe2-a3c5-c12a0040445d"
    }
  ]
}
```

Other companies from the same run: **Baseten** (34 engineering roles, San Francisco), **Kombo** (2, New York), **Augment Code** (1, Palo Alto).

Each record also includes sub-industries, products and services, culture summary, parent company and subsidiaries, aliases, stock info, recruiting-agency flags, and a `companyData` block matching the one the job actors attach to every job. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel, or pipe into Make, n8n, Zapier, Google Sheets, Clay or your CRM.

### Two counts, and why they differ

- **`openRoles`** - roles Hirebase lists for the company (scoped to your category). This is the hiring-signal number.
- **`currentOpenRoles`** - roles live in job search right now, the exact figure the job scrapers return for that company.

For large employers the first is higher, because the company index retains listings the live search has already dropped. Amazon, for example: 622 sales roles listed, 334 live. Small companies usually match exactly. Sample postings always come from the live set, so they're current, and a company with listings in the index but **no roles live right now is skipped** (and not charged) - about 1 in 10 in our tests.

### Great for

- **Lead generation and prospecting** - build account lists of companies expanding right now, filtered by size, geography and funding stage.
- **Recruiting and staffing** - find employers hiring for the roles you place.
- **Competitive and market research** - see who's staffing up in a sector, and in which functions.
- **Sales triggers** - run it on a schedule and watch open-roles counts move.

### Pricing

Pay per result - you are only charged for companies actually saved, up to **1,000 per run**. Companies filtered out for having no open roles are never charged.

### FAQ

**Do I need an API key?**
No - API access is built into the actor. Set your filters and run.

**How do I get a company's full job list?**
Copy its `companySlug` into the *Company slug* input of Job Search, AI Job Search, or any of the ATS scrapers.

**Does the HQ filter find companies hiring in a location?**
No - it filters by where the company is headquartered. For jobs in a place, use a job scraper with its location filter. Use full region names: `Texas`, not `TX`.

**Why does a sales-sounding job appear under an engineering category?**
Category tags come from Hirebase's classification of each posting, and they can be broad - a "Sales Enablement Lead" at a dev-tools company is tagged as engineering. The filter itself is exact; the tagging is the judgement call.

**Can I search without any filters?**
Only if you tick *Allow unfiltered search*. Without filters the API returns an arbitrary slice of the whole company index, which you'd be charged for, so it's off by default.

**Can I run it on a schedule?**
Yes - run it on an Apify Schedule and track how each company's open-roles count changes over time.

**Is this legal?**
The data comes from publicly posted job listings and public company information, accessed via the Hirebase API.

# Actor input Schema

## `query` (type: `string`):

Full-text search across company name, description, products and services, tech stack and culture (e.g. <code>developer tools</code>, <code>climate tech</code>, <code>remote-first</code>).

## `companyKeywords` (type: `array`):

Keyword matches across company text, one per line. Narrower than the full-text search above.

## `industries` (type: `array`):

Company industry sectors.

## `subIndustries` (type: `array`):

Narrower sub-industry tags (e.g. <code>Fintech</code>, <code>Medical Practices</code>), one per line.

## `companySizes` (type: `array`):

Company headcount buckets.

## `companyTypes` (type: `array`):

Startup, enterprise, non-profit and so on.

## `fundingTypes` (type: `array`):

Latest or known funding stage. The <code>Post IPO</code> values are a good proxy for public companies.

## `hqLocations` (type: `array`):

One per line, as <code>City, Region, Country</code>, <code>City, Country</code> or just <code>Country</code> (e.g. <code>Austin, Texas, United States</code>). Use full region names - <code>TX</code> matches nothing. This filters where the company is based, not where its jobs are.

## `companyName` (type: `string`):

Exact or partial company name.

## `companyWebsite` (type: `string`):

Match a company by its website URL.

## `hideRecruitingAgencies` (type: `boolean`):

Exclude staffing and recruiting agencies, so results are the employers themselves.

## `hiringForCategory` (type: `string`):

Only keep companies with open roles in this job category - the "companies hiring for X" filter. Leave empty to keep companies hiring for anything.

## `onlyHiring` (type: `boolean`):

Skip companies with no roles live right now (in the "Hiring for" category, when one is set). They are never saved, so you are not charged for them.

## `samplePostings` (type: `integer`):

How many current job postings to include with each company (0-20). Set to 0 for company records and role counts only.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of companies to save (up to 1,000 per run). You are only charged for companies actually returned.

## `allowUnfilteredSearch` (type: `boolean`):

Run even when no company filter is set. Off by default, because an unfiltered search returns an arbitrary slice of the whole company index that you would be charged for.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "query": "developer tools",
  "hideRecruitingAgencies": true,
  "onlyHiring": true,
  "samplePostings": 5,
  "maxResults": 25,
  "allowUnfilteredSearch": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Every matching company, one dataset item per company.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "query": "developer tools"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("hirebase/company-search").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "query": "developer tools" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("hirebase/company-search").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "query": "developer tools"
}' |
apify call hirebase/company-search --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,hirebase/company-search"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/j1bF39a0ZYf7IDHEZ/builds/GnYv3CaBdjCFKggae/openapi.json