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title: "TheCompaniesAPI / Find a company from a social profile"
description: "The Companies API tool thecompaniesapi-companies-by-social on looot: input fields, $0.0019 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python."
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Finds a company from one of its social profiles. Send one of linkedin, twitter, facebook, github, tiktok, youtube or dribbble. Send one of: linkedin, twitter, facebook, github, tiktok, youtube, dribbble, snapchat.

- **Tool id:** `thecompaniesapi-companies-by-social`
- **Provider:** [The Companies API](/providers/thecompaniesapi)
- **Job:** [Enrich a company from its domain or name](/reference/jobs/company-enrich) (`company.enrich`)
- **Price:** $0.0019 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `angellist` | string | no |   |
| `dribbble` | string | no |   |
| `facebook` | string | no |   |
| `github` | string | no |   |
| `instagram` | string | no |   |
| `linkedin` | string | no |   |
| `pinterest` | string | no |   |
| `refresh` | boolean | no |   |
| `simplified` | boolean | no |   |
| `snapchat` | string | no |   |
| `souncloud` | string | no |   |
| `tiktok` | string | no |   |
| `twitter` | string | no |   |
| `wellfound` | string | no |   |
| `youtube` | string | no |   |

## Output

The run's `result` holds the provider's answer. Signed in, `looot inspect thecompaniesapi-companies-by-social` prints its fields.

## 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:

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```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":"thecompaniesapi-companies-by-social","input":{"linkedin":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/janedoe"},"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: "thecompaniesapi-companies-by-social",
    input: {
      linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/janedoe",
    },
    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": "thecompaniesapi-companies-by-social",
        "input": {
            "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/janedoe",
        },
        "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.enrich` as `endpointId`; see [the job page](/reference/jobs/company-enrich).