# Company Research (`moving_beacon-owner1/company-research`) Actor

Enter a company name and optional website to gather public information into a structured profile. The Actor analyzes the site, recent Google News, and optional job boards to find technologies, contact details, social profiles, industry, locations, products/services, news, and jobs.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/moving\_beacon-owner1/company-research.md
- **Developed by:** [Jamshaid Arif](https://apify.com/moving_beacon-owner1) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, News, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $9.99 / 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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## 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.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Company Research

Give it a **company name** (and optionally a **website**) and this Actor
gathers **public** information from several supported sources into **one
structured profile**. It never invents facts: a field is filled only when a
source actually returned it, and everything that could not be found is listed
explicitly under `notFound`.

### What does this Actor do?

It combines up to three source families into a single profile record:

1. **Website** *(if a URL is given)* — analyses the site for technologies,
   contact info (emails/phones), social profiles, and pulls **industry** and
   **locations** from any embedded JSON-LD `Organization` data. Product/service
   hints are read verbatim from page headings.
2. **News** *(optional, on by default)* — searches **Google News** for recent
   public coverage of the company.
3. **Jobs** *(optional, off by default)* — best-effort lookup of **Greenhouse**
   and **Lever** job boards using a slug guessed from the company name.

Each source is wrapped in its own error handling — one source failing never
aborts the run; it just shows up in `notFound`.

### Why use it?

- Build a quick, **source-cited** company brief for sales, partnerships or
  diligence — every populated field traces back to a URL in `sourceUrls`.
- Because missing data is tracked explicitly, you always know the difference
  between "we checked and found nothing" and "we never looked".

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `companyName` | string (required) | The company to research. |
| `website` | string | Company website URL (optional but recommended). |
| `country` | string | Two-letter country code to bias the news search (optional). |
| `includeNews` | boolean | Search Google News (default `true`). |
| `includeJobs` | boolean | Try Greenhouse + Lever job boards (default `false`). |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Proxy settings (all sources are keyless). |

#### Input example

```json
{
  "companyName": "Acme Corp",
  "website": "https://acmecorp.com",
  "includeNews": true,
  "includeJobs": true
}
```

### Output

**One** profile record per run:

```json
{
  "companyName": "Acme Corp",
  "website": "https://acmecorp.com",
  "industry": "Software",
  "technologies": ["WordPress", "jQuery"],
  "contactInfo": { "emails": ["hello@acmecorp.com"], "phones": ["4155550142"] },
  "socialProfiles": { "facebook": "https://www.facebook.com/acmecorp" },
  "productsServices": ["Our Products", "Consulting Services"],
  "locations": [
    { "street": "100 Market St", "city": "San Francisco", "region": "CA",
      "postalCode": "94105", "country": "US",
      "formatted": "100 Market St, San Francisco, CA, 94105, US" }
  ],
  "news": [
    { "title": "Acme Corp raises Series B", "url": "https://…", "date": "…" }
  ],
  "jobs": [
    { "title": "Backend Engineer", "company": "acmecorp", "location": "Remote",
      "url": "https://boards.greenhouse.io/acmecorp/jobs/1", "source": "greenhouse:acmecorp" }
  ],
  "sourceUrls": ["https://acmecorp.com", "https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=…", "…"],
  "notFound": []
}
```

`sourceUrls` lists every endpoint that contributed data; `notFound` lists every
field that was looked for but not found.

You can download the dataset in JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML.

# Actor input Schema

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

The company to research, e.g. 'Acme Corp'. Used for news search and to guess job-board slugs.

## `website` (type: `string`):

The company's website URL (optional). Used to detect technologies, contact info, social profiles, structured data and locations.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Optional two-letter country code (e.g. 'US', 'GB') to bias the news search.

## `includeNews` (type: `boolean`):

Search Google News for recent public coverage of the company.

## `includeJobs` (type: `boolean`):

Try Greenhouse and Lever job boards using a slug guessed from the company name (best-effort).

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Proxy settings. All sources here are keyless public endpoints.

## `cookies` (type: `string`):

Optional Cookie header string to replay on every request.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "companyName": "Notion",
  "website": "https://www.notion.so",
  "includeNews": true,
  "includeJobs": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

No description

# 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 = {
    "companyName": "Notion",
    "website": "https://www.notion.so"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("moving_beacon-owner1/company-research").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 = {
    "companyName": "Notion",
    "website": "https://www.notion.so",
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("moving_beacon-owner1/company-research").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 '{
  "companyName": "Notion",
  "website": "https://www.notion.so"
}' |
apify call moving_beacon-owner1/company-research --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,moving_beacon-owner1/company-research"
        }
    }
}

```

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/f37pJBjVjoSa0MNp6/builds/xZvwmLXap1PD8pinf/openapi.json