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title: "Icypeas / count matching companies"
description: "Icypeas tool icypeas-find-companies-count on looot: input fields, $0 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python."
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Count how many companies in Icypeas's dataset match a filter query, before paying to retrieve them. Sync: \{success, total\}. Free. Same `query` shape as icypeas-find-companies.

- **Tool id:** `icypeas-find-companies-count`
- **Provider:** [Icypeas](/providers/icypeas)
- **Job:** [Count company search](/reference/jobs/company-search-count) (`company.search.count`)
- **Price:** $0 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `query` | object | yes | Filter object for the company dataset. Each field takes \{include:[...], exclude:[...]\} (open text) unless noted: name, lid (LinkedIn public id, e.g. "google" from linkedin.com/company/google), urn (numeric LinkedIn id), companyId (domain, URN, LinkedIn URL or vanity name), type (Privately Held \| Sole Proprietorship \| Self-Employed \| Partnership \| Public Company \| Nonprofit \| Educational Institution \| Government Agency), industry, location (alpha-2 country code preferred; a comma narrows it, e... |

## Output

Shape of the run's `result`, checked against 61 real answers:

```txt
{ total, success, validationErrors: { type, field, actual: {}, message, expected, humanReadableMessage }[] }
```

## Run it

Every call needs your API token in `LOOOT_TOKEN`; [Sign in](/get-started/sign-in#use-the-token-in-scripts-and-agents) shows how to get one. Each run also needs a new idempotency key, so a retry never pays twice. With `wait: 30` the answer comes back inline when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise you get the running run back: poll `GET /v1/runs/<runId>`.

Example input with placeholder values:

<CodeGroup>

```bash curl
curl -X POST "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"icypeas-find-companies-count","input":{"query":{"industry":{"include":["Real Estate"]},"headcount":{">":10}}},"wait":30}'
```

```js JavaScript
const response = await fetch("https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.LOOOT_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    endpointId: "icypeas-find-companies-count",
    input: {
      query: {
        industry: {
          include: ["Real Estate"],
        },
        headcount: {
          ">": 10,
        },
      },
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);
```

```python Python
import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LOOOT_TOKEN']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "endpointId": "icypeas-find-companies-count",
        "input": {
            "query": {
                "industry": {
                    "include": ["Real Estate"],
                },
                "headcount": {
                    ">": 10,
                },
            },
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))
```

</CodeGroup>

To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send `job:company.search.count` as `endpointId`; see [the job page](/reference/jobs/company-search-count).