How to get the company id from Linkedin Company URL in PHP?

Question

I have the Linkedin company URL as follows,

http://in.linkedin.com/company/abb

and the company ID for ABB limited is 277579. Essentially you can also reach ABB through http://www.linkedin.com/company/277579.

But if I have only http://in.linkedin.com/company/abb. Is it possible to get the company ID through this URL? Does parsing the URL help? Seeking any good method to get the company ID.

Is there any other way to do without using Linkedin API?

Hope I am clear with my question. Any help would be appreciated.

@Dr.Dan thanks. can you help me on how to implement it on PHP? — user1518659, Dec 10 '12 at 08:46
Googling `how to use the linkedin api php` will give plenty of good starting points. — Pekka, Dec 10 '12 at 08:52
@Pekka Is linkedin API paid one? It says unauthorized usage all the time. — user1518659, Dec 10 '12 at 08:54
Did you register your app? https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/quick-start-guide — Pekka, Dec 10 '12 at 08:54
@Pekka No. I dont want to. Its Like I am wondering whether we can parse the result of 'http://in.linkedin.com/company/abb' to get the company ID. — user1518659, Dec 10 '12 at 08:56
No. The API is the only way for a PHP app to get information from linkedin. Like most such sites, they are protecting their data from bots ripping it without permission. — Pekka, Dec 10 '12 at 09:00

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 13 '15 at 00:46

Type in your company name in the autocomplete field. Wait until your company name appears as a result. Then click on your company name. Click on Get Code.

<script src="//platform.linkedin.com/in.js" type="text/javascript"> lang: en_US</script>
<script type="IN/FollowCompany" data-id="162479" data-counter="top"></script>

e.g. data-id="162479" is the ID for Apple Company Page

https://developer.linkedin.com/plugins/follow-company

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 26 '15 at 20:53

I don't know of a way to get this with PHP, so programmatically discovering a company's id may not be an option this way.

However, if you set up a MITM between yourself and LinkedIn.com, you can discover all the network activity between your browser and LinkedIn. A quick way to do this is is by using https://www.owasp.org/index.php/ZAP or http://mitmproxy.org/.

LinkedIn sends the company id of any company page you visit to their ad partners at doubleclick. An example request I discovered is:

https://ad.doubleclick.net/adi/linkedin.dart/biz-overview;optout=false;lang=en;tile=2;sz=300x250;s=0;v=6;u=jDh5sSdmpllmbkt1lndQdCt7;mod=950;title=ic;func=cre;func=edu;coid=744212;coid=2408664;ind=69;ind=80;csize=c;csize=d;occ=290;occ=294;occ=382;pocc=82;pocc=41;pocc=10;zip=20009;cntry=us;reg=97;sub=0;con=j;edu=19947;gy=2011;deg=400;dgcls=200;gdr=m;age=23;seg=773;seg=805;seg=546;seg=1039;seg=683;seg=535;seg=682;seg=1048;seg=748;seg=543;seg=9001;grp=122208;grp=49362;grp=3981403;grp=40456;grp=2229435;sjt=627;sjt=517;sjt=75;fos=100173;fos=100189;company=1273631;tile_p=2;adsuite=v2.2.5-min;sfadapter=t;ord=4824126317418

Within the request parameters, find the "company" param, and its value should be the numeric company id you need:

company=1273631

To verify it is the correct company id, tack it onto the end of a LinkedIn company page:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/1273631

Voila, it works!

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 27 '15 at 16:54

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You can download the content of site and find

encodeURIComponent('company=12345')

which appears to be valid company id. Just parse it to get ID.

answered Feb 27 '15 at 16:54

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 27 '15 at 16:50

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a simple way would be to do a file_get_contents on the company page to get the html source and look for "company%3D" and grab the number between that and the next "%"

answered Feb 27 '15 at 16:50

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just noticed this question is two years old. sorry. – gavtaylor Feb 27 '15 at 16:52
this works well too, much better for a programmatic implementation – Andrew Feb 27 '15 at 21:04

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 09 '16 at 12:01

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Why not just hover over the 'follow'/'unfollow' of the company/showcase page, this shows the id in the url ?

Or have I missed something ?

answered Mar 09 '16 at 12:01

John McGeechan

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered May 29 '15 at 14:30

<html>
<head>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://platform.linkedin.com/in.js">
      api_key: [API KEY]
    </script>       
    <script type="text/javascript">     
        function onGetSuccess(data) {
            console.log(data);              
            for(var i in data.values){
                document.getElementById("company").innerHTML = data.values[i].name + " / " + data.values[i].id;
            }               
        }
        function onError(error) {
            console.log(error);
        }           
        function GetCompanyLinkedIn() {
            var url = "/companies/?/updates/format=json&is-company-admin=true";
            IN.API.Raw(url)     
            .method("GET")
            .result(onGetSuccess)
            .error(onError);            
        }           
    </script>
</head>
<body id="body">
    <div >          
        <script type="IN/Login">
            Hello, <?js= firstName ?> <?js= lastName ?>
            <p id="company" >
                <button type="button" onclick="GetCompanyLinkedIn()">Get company id('s)</button>
            </p>                    
        </script>                   
    </div>      
</body>

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Jun 30 '15 at 20:11

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Confirming that Andrew's solution worked. Inside the page source, there are multiple scripts with a company%3... data attribute with the company ID; mine was not visible since the URL was customized.

answered Jun 30 '15 at 20:11

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Oct 29 '22 at 14:18

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View page source by pressing ctrl(command)+alt(option/shift)+c
search the page source by pressing ctrl(cmd) + f
input "urn:li:fsd_company:" in the search section and normally the first match will give the company's id(if not,refresh the page)

answered Oct 29 '22 at 14:18

Wang Wei

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score -1 · Answer 9 · answered Nov 02 '16 at 23:02

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Hover over the follow button on your company page. https://www.linkedin.com/company/follow/submit?id=6667854&fl=stop&ft=0_Y3kiyf

The ID "6667854"

It works as I followed my company page from another site where it's implemented.

answered Nov 02 '16 at 23:02

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he was actually looking for a way to do this in PHP automatically. – Duane Lortie Nov 02 '16 at 23:52

score -1 · Answer 10 · edited Apr 05 '17 at 11:41

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try .htaccess file and type the following line

rewriterule ^http://in.linkedin.com/company/abb http://www.linkedin.com/company/277579

edited Apr 05 '17 at 11:41

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answered Apr 04 '17 at 20:09

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