LinkedIn Company Scraper

The Actor resolves one or more public LinkedIn company pages to structured records containing industry, size, headquarters, specialties, affiliated and similar pages, and recent updates. It accepts either bare company handles or full /company/ URLs, and requires no LinkedIn account or session cookie.

Accepted input

Field	Type	Default	Description
company_handle	array of strings	—	Required. LinkedIn company handles or /company/ URLs.
maxItems	integer	100	Maximum companies fetched. 0 removes the limit.

{
  "company_handle": [
    "microsoft",
    "https://www.linkedin.com/company/google/"
  ],
  "maxItems": 100
}

The handle is the final path segment of the company URL, not the display name: linkedin.com/company/microsoft has the handle microsoft. Both forms above are equivalent, since a URL is reduced to its /company/ segment before the request is made. Country subdomains, trailing slashes, and query strings are removed. Entries that reduce to the same handle are deduplicated before any request is issued.

Response fields

One record per company.

Field	Contents
company_handle	The handle used to fetch the record
name	Company name
industry	Industry classification
tagline	Tagline shown under the name
description	About text
website	External website URL
company_size	Employee-count band as displayed, e.g. 10,001+ employees
employee_count	Number of employees listed on LinkedIn
headquarters	Headquarters location
address	Full address, where published
type	Company type, such as Public Company or Privately Held
founded	Year founded
phone	Telephone number, where published
specialties	Specialties listed on the page
followers	Follower count
logo	Logo image URL
similar_pages	Companies LinkedIn shows as similar
affiliated_pages	Affiliated company pages, such as regional or divisional entities
updates	Recent posts published by the page
activity	Recent public activity
jsonld	The page's raw JSON-LD block

{
  "company_handle": "microsoft",
  "name": "Microsoft",
  "industry": "Software Development",
  "company_size": "10,001+ employees",
  "headquarters": "Redmond, Washington",
  "founded": 1975,
  "website": "https://news.microsoft.com/"
}

Behaviour on partial results

Companies are fetched one request per handle. A handle that cannot be retrieved — because the page does not exist, has been renamed, or the request failed after the client's own retries — is logged as a warning and skipped. The run continues and completes normally, so one bad handle neither discards earlier results nor prevents later handles from being fetched.

The number of records returned can therefore be lower than the number of handles supplied. The run log names every handle that was skipped.

Fields the company page does not publish are returned as null rather than omitted. employee_count, founded, and phone are the ones most often absent, since LinkedIn does not require them.

Frequently asked questions

Where is a company handle found? In the company page URL, as the segment after /company/. For linkedin.com/company/microsoft/about/ the handle is microsoft. Supplying the whole URL works equally well, so the segment does not need to be extracted by hand.

Is a LinkedIn account or session cookie required? No. Only publicly visible company pages are read. No credentials or logged-in session are supplied, so nothing is associated with a personal account.

Why do company_size and employee_count differ? company_size is the self-reported band the company selected when creating the page, such as 1,001-5,000 employees. employee_count is the number of LinkedIn members who list the company as their employer. The two are independent, and the second is frequently the smaller of the two for companies whose workforce is not predominantly on LinkedIn.

What are affiliated_pages and similar_pages? affiliated_pages are pages the company itself links as related entities — regional subsidiaries, business units, acquired brands. similar_pages are companies LinkedIn's own recommendation surface associates with the page, typically competitors or organisations in the same sector. The first is declared by the company, the second inferred by LinkedIn.

Are employees of the company returned? No. The record describes the company page. Employee lists are a separate surface and are not part of this Actor's output.

Does the Actor return the company's job postings? No. updates contains posts published by the page, which may incidentally include hiring posts, but structured job listings are not included. LinkedIn Jobs Scraper searches job postings by keyword and location.

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