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LinkedIn API for Company Directory

I'm trying to use the LinkedIn API to search for companies, not users. I specifically don't want users - only companies.

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 - here and here

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.

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?

I'm planning on implementing this in Ruby, but that's not really what I'm concerned about.

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