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title: "TheCompaniesAPI / Search companies by segment"
description: "The Companies API tool thecompaniesapi-companies-get on looot: input fields, $0.0019 per result, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python."
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Searches companies with a segmentation query. Send query or search; size, page and the sort fields order the list.

- **Tool id:** `thecompaniesapi-companies-get`
- **Provider:** [The Companies API](/providers/thecompaniesapi)
- **Job:** [Find companies matching a filter](/reference/jobs/company-search) (`company.search`)
- **Price:** $0.0019 per result. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `actionId` | number | no |   |
| `domainsToExclude` | string | no |   |
| `linkedinToExclude` | string | no |   |
| `page` | number | no |   |
| `query` | array | no |   |
| `search` | string | no |   |
| `searchFields` | array | no |   |
| `simplified` | boolean | no |   |
| `size` | number | no |   |
| `sortFields` | array | no |   |
| `sortKey` | string | no |   |
| `sortOrder` | string | no |   |

## Output

Shape of the run's `result`, checked against 2 real answers:

```txt
{ meta: { cost, total, credits, perPage, lastPage, firstPage, currentPage, freeRequest, maxScrollResultsReached }, companies: { meta: { score, mysqlId, syncedAt, similarity }, urls: { registrar }, about: { name, industry, nameAlts: string[], languages: string[], nameLegal, industries: string[], yearFounded, businessType, totalEmployees, yearFoundedPlace, totalEmployeesExact }, assets: { cover: { ... }, logoSquare: { ... } }, domain: { tld, state, domain, status, registrar, domainName }, socials: { github: { ... }, twitter: { ... }, youtube: { ... }, facebook: { ... }, linkedin: { ... }, instag... ...
```

The shape is cut here. Signed in, `looot inspect thecompaniesapi-companies-get` prints all of it.

## 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":"thecompaniesapi-companies-get","input":{},"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-get",
    input: {},
    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-get",
        "input": {},
        "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` as `endpointId`; see [the job page](/reference/jobs/company-search).