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R: Search for Companies on LinkedIn

searchCompanies

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Search for Companies on LinkedIn

Description

searchCompanies searches across LinkedIn's companies pages based on keywords, location, and industry.

Usage

searchCompanies(token, keywords, location = NULL, industry = NULL)

Arguments

`token`	Authorization token.
`keywords`	A keyword used anywhere in a company's listing. Multiple words should be separated by a space.
`location`	LinkedIn geography code, found here: https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/reference/geography-codes.
`industry`	LinkedIn industry code, found here: https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/reference/industry-codes.

Details

In order to narrow the search down by location or industry, you must look up the proper input codes on the linkedin website. The geography codes can be found here: https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/reference/geography-codes, and the industry codes can be found here: https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/reference/industry-codes.

Value

Returns a list, information includes company id, company name, universal name, website, twitter handle, employee count, founded date, number of followers, and company description.

Author(s)

Michael Piccirilli michael.r.piccirilli@gmail.com

Examples

## Not run: 

search.comp <- searchCompanies(in.auth, keywords = "LinkedIn")


## End(Not run)