# /downdetector/companies/search

`POST /api/downdetector/companies/search`

Price: 1 credit

Find companies on one Downdetector country site by name

## How to use it

Resolve a service name to the `alias` and numeric `id` the company endpoint takes on that country site; the alias is the slug segment of the service's status URL. Matching is not prefix-only and not strictly by name — a query returns near neighbours as well, so 'netflix' also surfaces other streaming services. The source answers with at most four suggestions however broad the query, so this resolves a name you already have rather than enumerating a sector; the directory endpoint is what lists a whole country's roster. Results carry identity only — name, alias and id, no status or report data — so follow up on the company endpoint for the outage view. A query under two characters is rejected, and an unknown name comes back as an empty list rather than an error. Search the country site you intend to query: a company present in one country is often absent or differently named in another.

## Parameters

- `access-token` (string, required)

## Request body

- `timeout` (integer) — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
- `query` (string, required) — Search term, 2 to 100 characters — the source rejects anything shorter (examples: "netflix", "vodafone", "banco"; minLength: 2; maxLength: 100)
- `count` (integer, required) — Max number of companies to return (min: 1; max: 4)
- `country` (string) — Country site to read. Downdetector runs one site per country and each keeps its own service list, aliases and reports (default: "us"; one of: "ae", "ar", "at", "au", "az", "bd", "be", "bg", "bh", "br", "ca", "ch", "cl", "co", "cr", "cz", "de", "dk", "do", "dz", "ec", "eg", "es", "fi", "fr", "gb", "gr", "gt", "hk", "hr", "hu", "id", "ie", "il", "in", "it", "jo", "jp", "ke", "kr", "ma", "mx", "my", "ng", "nl", "no", "nz", "pa", "pe", "ph", "pk", "pl", "pr", "pt", "py", "ro", "rs", "sa", "se", "sg", "si", "sk", "th", "tn", "tr", "tw", "ua", "us", "uy", "ve", "vn", "za")

## Response

### 200 — Successful Response

- `@type` (string) (default: "DowndetectorCompany")
- `id` (string, required)
- `country` (string, required) (one of: "ae", "ar", "at", "au", "az", "bd", "be", "bg", "bh", "br", "ca", "ch", "cl", "co", "cr", "cz", "de", "dk", "do", "dz", "ec", "eg", "es", "fi", "fr", "gb", "gr", "gt", "hk", "hr", "hu", "id", "ie", "il", "in", "it", "jo", "jp", "ke", "kr", "ma", "mx", "my", "ng", "nl", "no", "nz", "pa", "pe", "ph", "pk", "pl", "pr", "pt", "py", "ro", "rs", "sa", "se", "sg", "si", "sk", "th", "tn", "tr", "tw", "ua", "us", "uy", "ve", "vn", "za")
- `domain` (string, required)
- `name` (string, nullable)
- `alias` (string, nullable)
- `url` (string, nullable)
- `image` (string, nullable)
- `website` (string, nullable)
- `status` (string, nullable) (one of: "success", "warning", "danger")
- `category` (object, nullable)
  - `@type` (string) (default: "DowndetectorCategory")
  - `id` (string, nullable)
  - `name` (string, nullable)
  - `alias` (string, nullable)
- `contact` (object, nullable)
  - `@type` (string) (default: "DowndetectorContact")
  - `support_url` (string, nullable)
  - `email` (string, nullable)
  - `phone` (string, nullable)
  - `phone_extra` (string, nullable)
  - `status_page_url` (string, nullable)
  - `twitter_username` (string, nullable)
  - `facebook_url` (string, nullable)
  - `whatsapp` (string, nullable)
  - `complaint_forum_url` (string, nullable)
  - `complaint_forum_label` (string, nullable)
  - `published` (boolean, nullable)
- `page_title` (string, nullable)
- `page_description` (string, nullable)
- `description` (string, nullable)
- `rating` (number, nullable)
- `rating_count` (integer, nullable)
- `reports_max` (integer, nullable)
- `baseline_min` (integer, nullable)
- `baseline_max` (integer, nullable)
- `report_points` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "DowndetectorReportPoint")
  - `timestamp` (string, required)
  - `reports` (integer, nullable)
  - `baseline` (integer, nullable)
- `sparkline` (array) (default: [])
- `problem_types` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "DowndetectorProblemType")
  - `id` (string, nullable)
  - `name` (string, nullable)
  - `reports` (integer, nullable)
  - `share_percent` (number, nullable)
- `indicators` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "DowndetectorIndicator")
  - `id` (string, nullable)
  - `name` (string, nullable)
  - `label` (string, nullable)
  - `parent_id` (string, nullable)
  - `parent_name` (string, nullable)
  - `trending` (boolean, nullable)
- `comments` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "DowndetectorComment")
  - `author` (string, nullable)
  - `text` (string, nullable)
  - `image` (string, nullable)
  - `created_at` (string, nullable)
- `top_cities` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "DowndetectorCity")
  - `id` (string, nullable)
  - `name` (string, nullable)
  - `alias` (string, nullable)
- `shows_cities` (boolean, nullable)
- `report_locations` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "DowndetectorGeoPoint")
  - `longitude` (number, required)
  - `latitude` (number, required)
- `map_settings` (object, nullable)
  - `@type` (string) (default: "DowndetectorMapSettings")
  - `zoom` (integer, nullable)
  - `height` (integer, nullable)
  - `latitude` (number, nullable)
  - `longitude` (number, nullable)
  - `region` (string, nullable)
  - `radius_km` (integer, nullable)
  - `boundary_wkt` (string, nullable)
  - `orientation` (string, nullable)
- `tweets_domain` (string, nullable)
- `related_sites` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "DowndetectorRelatedCompany")
  - `url` (string, nullable)
  - `domain` (string, nullable)
  - `country_code` (string, nullable)
  - `country_name` (string, nullable)

## Errors

### 422 — Validation Error

Query rejected by the source as too short or too long

What to do: Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.

- `detail` (array)
  - `loc` (array, required)
  - `msg` (string, required)
  - `type` (string, required)
  - `input` (any)
  - `ctx` (object)

### 408

The request ran past its time limit

What to do: Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.

### 412

The entity was not found, or a precondition failed

What to do: Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.

### 429

Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted

What to do: When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.

### 500

Something broke on our side

What to do: Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.

### 529

Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded

What to do: Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

## Response envelope

Success: Array of objects (may be empty if no results)

Error: Error may coexist with partial results if it occurs mid-execution. Check X-Error header and status code.

Every response carries these headers:

- `X-Error` — Error message text (present only on error)
- `X-Request-ID` — Unique request identifier
- `X-Execution-Time` — Execution time in seconds
- `X-Result-Count` — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
- `X-Total-Available-Results` — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
- `X-Warning` — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
- `X-Retry-After` — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.