Typeaheads

Typeahead endpoints power autocomplete UIs and, just as importantly, make sure the values you send to search filters are ones Fiber can resolve cleanly. All of them support partial inputs with ranked results, so a few keystrokes is enough. All four are POST and share a 240 requests/minute rate limit.

Each operation name links to its full schema reference.

Company typeahead and its modes

The company, school & investor autocomplete searches companies, schools, and investors by name. Send the partial name as startsWith; the optional orgType filter picks what you want:

• omit it to search all organization types,
• school: only schools/universities,
• investor: only VC firms/funds/angels.

Each suggestion returns the canonical name, all known names, domains, and the LinkedIn slug and org ID, everything needed to pin the exact organization in a follow-up search or filter. A call that finds nothing is free.

Company typeahead results are relevance-ranked and capped at 20 suggestions per call; a typeahead is about finding the single right value, not filtering a list.

Location typeahead

Send a query of up to 100 characters: a city name or ZIP/postal code, complete ("New York") or partial ("san fr"). Neighborhoods, street addresses, states, and countries are not supported. Two things come back:

• data — candidate places with their latitude/longitude (plus name and address). Feed a point into the radial-distance location strategy to search within N miles or kilometers of it.
• presetRegions — matching metro-area presets (SF Bay Area, Greater New York, and other major metros), each with a slug, geometry, and its major cities. Pass the slug to the preset-region location strategy and you cover the whole metro without assembling city lists yourself.

A location query answered only by preset regions is free.

Skills typeahead

Search professional skills by prefix: query in, up to 20 ranked suggestions out, each a { skill, rank } pair with rank 1 the best match. Use it to build skill pickers, or to normalize free-text skill lists before applying skills filters in people search. It's free, so wiring it to every keystroke costs nothing.

Job title synonym expansion

Job-title synonym expansion takes one job title (up to 200 characters) and expands it into synonyms and related variations ("SDR" → a family of sales-development titles). Set limit to control how many suggestions come back (1–50, default 10); the response is a flat list of titles, with your original title left out. Feed the expanded set into job-title filters to improve yield instead of matching a single exact string.

Advice

• Always resolve through typeaheads when building UIs. Values picked from typeahead resolve deterministically in filters; free text invites misses.
• Use school/investor modes for education and funding flows (see the callout above).
• Expand titles rather than guessing variants. The synonym endpoint captures naming variants you'd never enumerate by hand.
• Use the free reference lists for fixed vocabularies. Metros, regions, states, technologies, tags, languages, and NAICS codes each have a free list under /v1/enums/ that you can load once and cache instead of calling a typeahead per keystroke.
• Mind which calls are billed. Skills typeahead is free at any frequency; the other three cost a credit per call, so debounce them behind a short pause rather than firing per keystroke.

Credits

Skills typeahead is free. Company, location, and job-title calls are 1 credit each, with two free paths: a company lookup that returns no matches, and a location lookup answered by preset regions alone. All four share the 240 requests/minute limit, and chargeInfo on every response is the authoritative record of what you paid. See Billing & credits. Credit amounts are defaults — custom pricing is available for bulk use cases.