# /otta/companies/search

`POST /api/otta/companies/search`

Price: 5 credits

Search Otta tech companies. Filter by company name, employee-count band, business sectors / industries and job locations. Returns company cards with name, logo, short description, employee-count band, business sectors, total funding and the locations they hire in.

## How to use it

Search Otta (Welcome to the Jungle) tech companies and discover startups by sector, size and location. Filter by keyword (company name), company_sizes, sectors and locations. Returns company cards; use otta/companies with an alias from a card to get the full enriched profile.

## Parameters

- `access-token` (string, required)

## Request body

- `timeout` (integer) — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
- `keyword` (string) — Company name to filter by (default: "")
- `count` (integer, required) — Max number of companies to return (min: 1)
- `company_sizes` (array) — Filter by company employee-count band (default: []; one of: "1-20", "21-100", "101-200", "201-500", "501-1000", "1001+")
- `sectors` (array) — Filter by business sectors / industries (default: []; one of: "Accelerator", "Accessibility", "Accounting", "Advertising", "Aerospace", "Age-tech", "Agency", "Agriculture", "Analytics", "API", "Art", "Artificial Intelligence", "Augmented Reality", "Automation", "B2B", "B2C", "Banking", "Beauty", "Big data", "Biology", "Biotechnology", "Blockchain", "Bookkeeping", "Business Intelligence", "Capital Markets", "Cars", "Charity", "Childcare", "Cloud Computing", "Communication", "Community", "Compliance", "Computer Vision", "Construction", "Consulting", "Consumer Appliances", "Consumer Goods", "Content", "Credit cards", "Credit Scoring", "Crowdfunding", "Cryptocurrency", "Customer service", "Cyber Security", "D2C", "Data Analysis", "Data Integration", "Data Sharing", "Data storage", "Dating", "Deep Tech", "Delivery", "Dentistry", "Design", "DevOps", "Digital Media", "Discount", "Drones", "eCommerce", "Education", "Electric Vehicles", "Energy", "Enterprise", "Entertainment", "Environmental", "eSports", "Events", "Fashion", "Femtech", "Financial Services", "Fintech", "Fitness", "Flexible working", "Flights", "Flowers", "Food", "Foreign exchange", "Fraud", "Freight", "Fundraising", "Furniture", "Gambling", "Gaming", "Governments", "Hardware", "Healthcare", "Home improvement", "Hospitality", "HR", "Identity", "Incubator", "Insurance", "Interior design", "Internal tools", "Internet of Things", "Investing", "Kids", "Languages", "Lead generation", "Learning", "Legal", "Lending", "Lifestyle", "Location services", "Logistics", "Machine Learning", "Manufacturing", "Market research", "Marketing", "Marketplace", "Media", "MedTech", "Mencare", "Mental health", "Mobile", "Mobility", "Mortgages", "Music", "Nature", "Navigation", "Networking", "No-Code", "Nutrition", "Office", "Outsourcing", "Payments", "Personal finance", "Personal health", "Pets", "Printing", "Privacy", "Procurement", "Product", "Product Management", "Productivity", "Property", "Publishing", "Real Estate", "Recruitment", "Regtech", "Renting", "Retail", "Reviews", "Ridesharing", "Robotics", "SaaS", "Sales", "Science", "Security", "Sharing Economy", "Social", "Social Impact", "Social Media", "Sports", "Strategic Intelligence", "Subscription", "Supply Chain", "Sustainability", "Telecommunications", "Ticketing", "Toys", "Trading", "Training", "Transport", "Travel", "Tutoring", "Venture Capital", "Video", "Virtual Reality", "Visualisation", "Web 3.0", "Web Design", "Weddings", "Wellbeing")
- `locations` (array) — Filter by office or remote job locations (default: []; one of: "AMSTERDAM", "AUSTIN_US", "BARCELONA", "BERLIN", "BIRMINGHAM", "BOSTON_US", "BRISTOL", "CAMBRIDGE", "CARDIFF", "CHICAGO_US", "DENVER_US", "DUBLIN", "EDINBURGH", "GLASGOW", "LEEDS", "LONDON", "LOS_ANGELES_US", "MANCHESTER", "MIAMI_US", "NEW_YORK_US", "NOTTINGHAM", "OXFORD", "PARIS", "REMOTE_CANADA", "REMOTE_EUROPE", "REMOTE_FRANCE", "REMOTE_GERMANY", "REMOTE_IRELAND", "REMOTE_NETHERLANDS", "REMOTE_SPAIN", "REMOTE_UK", "REMOTE_US", "SAN_FRANCISCO_BAY_AREA_US", "TORONTO", "VANCOUVER")
- `currency` (string) — Currency for funding amounts (default: "GBP"; one of: "CAD", "EUR", "GBP", "USD")

## Response

### 200 — Successful Response

- `@type` (string) (default: "OttaCompanyCard")
- `id` (string, nullable)
- `alias` (string, nullable)
- `name` (string, nullable)
- `image` (string, nullable)
- `favicon` (string, nullable)
- `primary_colour` (string, nullable)
- `short_description` (string, nullable)
- `live_job_count` (integer, nullable)
- `size` (string, nullable)
- `sectors` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "OttaSector")
  - `id` (string, nullable)
  - `value` (string, nullable)
- `total_funding` (object, nullable)
  - `@type` (string) (default: "OttaMoney")
  - `amount` (integer, nullable)
  - `currency` (string, nullable)
- `job_locations` (array) (default: [])

## Errors

### 422 — Validation Error

The request body did not validate

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.