getCompany function

Retrieve Company Profile Information

getCompany retrieves company profiles using a company Id, a universal name, or an email domain.

getCompany(token, universal_name = NULL, email_domain = NULL,
  company_id = NULL, partner = 0)

Arguments

• token: Authorization token.
• universal_name: LinkedIn universal company name. This is the exact name seen at the end of the URL on the company page on linkedin.com.
• email_domain: The email domain used by the company.
• company_id: LinkedIn company ID.
• partner: Indicate whether you belong to the Partnership Program. Values: 0 or 1

Returns

Returns company profile data, such as LinkedIn ID, name, universal-name, email-domains, company-type, ticker, website-url, industries, status, twitter handle, employee-count-range, specialties, locations, description, founded-year, and number of followers.

The output when specifying the universal_name or company_id will be in a list, whereas the output when specifying the email_domain will be a dataframe.

Details

The 'universal name' needs to be the exact name seen at the end of the URL on the company page on linkedin.com.

Examples

## Not run:

company.name <- getCompany(token=in.auth, universal_name="Facebook")

company.email <- getCompany(token=in.auth, email_domain = "columbia.edu")

# Main Columbia Name:
company.id <- getCompany(token=in.auth, company_id = company.email$company_id[14])
## End(Not run)

Author(s)

Michael Piccirilli michael.r.piccirilli@gmail.com

See Also

searchCompanies