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Errors
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Companies
Enrich from domain
Enrich from email
Enrich from social network
Count companies
Search companies
Search by name
Search by prompt
Search similar
Ask company
Fetch context
Find email patterns
Fetch analytics
Export analytics
Industries
Search industries
Find similar industries
Lists
Fetch lists
Create list
Fetch companies
Toggle companies
Locations
Search cities
Search counties
Search countries
Search states
Search continents
Actions
Request action
Fetch actions
Teams
Fetch team
Technologies
Search technologies
Utilities
API health
OpenAPI spec

Search industries

Search our industries database and get information such as the number of companies it contains.
GET
https://api.thecompaniesapi.com/v2/industries
Free

Results are sorted by companies_count.

We currently have over 3 million industries in our database.

We can send you a file with our 100,000 most popular industries if you want to use it in your application.

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Query parameters
pagenumber (optional)

The page to fetch (default to 1).

/industries?page=1

searchstring (optional)

An additional search query applied to the industry name.

/industries?search=saas

sizenumber (optional)

The number of industries to be returned (between 1 and 100). Default to 25.

/industries?size=10

Response schema
industriesarray

The industries that match your conditions.

metaobject

The metas information.

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import createClient from '@thecompaniesapi/sdk'

const tca = createClient({ apiToken: 'YOUR_API_TOKEN' })

const response = await tca.searchIndustries({
  search: 'software',
  size: 10
})

const industries = response.data.industries // Industries that match the keyword
const meta = response.data.meta // Meta information

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