title: LinkedIn API for Company Directory
body: <p>I'm trying to use the <strong>LinkedIn API</strong> to search for <em>companies</em>, not <em>users</em>.  I specifically don't want users - only companies.</p>
  
  <p>I had a look at the LinkedIn API Documentation (RTFM and all that), but as far as I can tell it's not supported.  There are 2 posts on the forum which pretty much says this outright - <a href="http://developer.linkedin.com/thread/2175?tstart=0" rel="noreferrer">here</a> and <a href="http://developer.linkedin.com/message/4891#4891" rel="noreferrer">here</a></p>
  
  <p>I'm basically just looking for a simply search interface, similar to what is going on on the LinkedIn homepage.  I also want to display the info coming back in some way.</p>
  
  <p>Am I better off simply doing a manual GET to the website itself?  Would I need to cache the results?  Would I need to manually parse the HTML coming back?</p>
  
  <p>I'm planning on implementing this in Ruby, but that's not really what I'm concerned about.</p>