> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.generect.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Search realtime companies > Search fresh companies with advanced filters (revenue, department headcount, growth). Response time 5-60 sec. Billed per result returned. ## Use Case: Search fresh company data with full realtime filters. ## Pricing This is a billable endpoint — you are charged for each result returned. If no results are found, the request is free. Your price decreases automatically as your lifetime spend grows. [Check your current tier and pricing →](https://beta.generect.com/settings/billing) ## OpenAPI ````yaml post /api/v1/search/realtime/companies/ openapi: 3.0.3 info: title: Generect API description: >- Welcome to the Generect API documentation. Here we will help you integrate and use our API. API base url: `https://api.generect.com` — every path below is relative to this host. Newer endpoints live under `/api/v1/...`, legacy endpoints under `/api/...`; use each path exactly as documented. Protocol: `HTTPS` # Authentication Get your API token from the Generect app settings and send it in the `Authorization` header with the required `Token` prefix. Example: `Authorization: Token xxxxxxxxx` # Rate limits You can request data depending on your data plan and account balance (default: 10000/month). Pricing depends on the operation and the number of results returned, and may increase with additional data flags. For exact pricing, see each endpoint's Pricing section or your billing settings: https://beta.generect.com/settings/billing # Note _Every endpoint must include the trailing `/`. Requests without the trailing slash may fail._ version: 1.0.0 contact: {} servers: - url: https://api.generect.com security: - apiKey: [] tags: - name: 1. Auth description: Login and get user info - name: 2. Transactions description: List of latest transactions in your account - name: 3. Leads description: Fetch information about leads by _link/name/ICP_. - name: 4. Companies description: Fetch information about companies by link/name/ICP. - name: 5. Preview description: Search masked database leads for preview and reveal workflows. - name: 6. Enrich description: Enrich leads and companies by internal or external identifiers. - name: 7. Email description: Find and validate email addresses. - name: 8. Accounts description: Account profile, usage, and transactions. - name: 9. Search description: Database and realtime lead, company, and company-lead search. - name: 10. Phone description: Find phone numbers for leads. - name: 11. Webhooks description: Register and manage async job notifications. paths: /api/v1/search/realtime/companies/: post: tags: - 9. Search summary: Search realtime companies description: >- Search fresh companies with advanced filters (revenue, department headcount, growth). Response time 5-60 sec. Billed per result returned. requestBody: required: true content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/RealtimeCompanySearchRequest' responses: '200': description: Full realtime company search results content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/SearchCompaniesResponse' example: data: companies: - linkedin_id: '1035' name: Microsoft domain: microsoft.com results_count: 530 meta: amount_charged: 21.2 '400': description: Validation error or insufficient balance. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' examples: Validation error: value: status: error status_code: 400 detail: headcounts: - Object with name=999 does not exist. Insufficient funds: value: status: error status_code: 400 detail: Insufficient funds in the account. '401': $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized' '403': $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden' '429': $ref: '#/components/responses/TooManyRequests' components: schemas: RealtimeCompanySearchRequest: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/CompanySearchRequest' - type: object properties: revenues_range: type: object description: >- Revenue filter with min/max (e.g. {"min": 1000000, "max": 50000000}). properties: min: type: number max: type: number department_headcount: type: object description: >- Filter by department size (e.g. {"name": "engineering", "min": 10, "max": 100}). properties: name: type: string min: type: number max: type: number headcount_growth: type: object description: >- Filter by headcount growth percentage (e.g. {"min": 5, "max": 50}). properties: min: type: number max: type: number hiring_on_linkedin: type: boolean description: Filter for companies actively hiring on LinkedIn. default: false linkedins_links: type: array items: type: string description: Filter by specific LinkedIn company URLs. SearchCompaniesResponse: type: object properties: data: type: object description: Search results. properties: companies: type: array description: Company profiles — see the example for the full field set. items: type: object results_count: type: integer description: Total number of companies matching the query. meta: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Meta' Error: type: object description: Standard error envelope returned for 4xx/5xx responses. properties: status: type: string example: error status_code: type: integer example: 400 detail: description: >- Human-readable message (string) for most errors, or a field-level validation map ({ field: [messages] }) for 400 validation errors. example: Insufficient funds in the account. CompanySearchRequest: type: object properties: industries: type: array items: type: string description: >- Industries of the target companies; a company is included if it matches at least one. Values follow LinkedIn's industry taxonomy. Examples: "Software Development", "Financial Services", "Information Technology". exclude_industries: type: array items: type: string description: Industries to exclude. headcounts: type: array items: type: string description: >- Company size, as employee-count ranges; a company is included if it falls into at least one. Allowed values: "1-10", "11-50", "51-200", "201-500", "501-1000", "1001-5000", "5001-10000", "10 000+". locations: type: array items: type: string description: >- Company headquarters locations — matches across cities, states/regions and countries; a company is included if its HQ matches at least one. Examples: "United States", "San Francisco, California, United States", "Germany". exclude_locations: type: array items: type: string description: Locations to exclude. company_types: type: array items: type: string description: >- Company types: "Public Company", "Privately Held", "Non Profit", "Government Agency", "Educational", etc. num_of_followers: type: array items: type: string description: >- Follower count ranges: "1-50", "51-100", "101-1000", "1001-5000", "5001+". keywords: type: array items: type: string description: >- Free-text keywords matched across company profiles (name, description, specialties); a company is included if it contains at least one. OR logic, max 10 keywords, up to 40 characters each. Examples: "platform", "marketplace", "developer tools". technologies: type: array items: type: string description: Technologies used by the company. company_names: type: array items: type: string description: Search by specific company names. exclude_ids: type: array items: type: string description: Exclude companies by LinkedIn ID or URN. exclude_domains: type: array items: type: string description: Exclude companies by domain. limit_by: type: integer description: Maximum number of companies to return (1-1600). offset_by: type: integer description: Number of companies to skip (0-1599, for pagination). strict: type: array items: type: string description: Fields to apply strict matching on (e.g. "company_locations"). example: industries: - Software Development headcounts: - 51-200 locations: - United States limit_by: 50 Meta: type: object description: Operation metadata returned in every data/meta response. required: - amount_charged properties: amount_charged: type: number description: >- Actual amount charged for this request in USD, computed from your pricing tier. 0 for free operations and for not-found results (No Data — No Charge). status: type: string description: Set to "error" when the operation finished with an error. error: type: string description: Error details; present only when the operation failed. time_cached: type: string format: date-time description: >- When the cached result set was originally collected (returned by database company search when results are served from a previous identical search). responses: Unauthorized: description: Missing or invalid API token. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' example: status: error status_code: 401 detail: Authentication credentials were not provided. Forbidden: description: Authenticated, but the account/plan is not allowed to use this endpoint. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' example: status: error status_code: 403 detail: You do not have permission to perform this action. TooManyRequests: description: Rate limit exceeded — retry later. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' example: status: error status_code: 429 detail: Request was throttled. securitySchemes: apiKey: type: apiKey in: header name: Authorization description: 'Use the required Token prefix. Example: Authorization: Token xxxxxxxxx' ````