# Get recent companies

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/get-recent-companies/13774>\
**Category:** APIs & Integrations\
**Tags:** companies\
**Created:** [March 31, 2019, 3:05pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/get-recent-companies/13774 "2019-03-31T15:05:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![chriz](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/chriz/32/43030_2.png) [@chriz](https://community.hubspot.com/u/chriz)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2019, 3:05pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/get-recent-companies/13774/1 "2019-03-31T15:05:08Z")

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Hi,

for the recent contacts, there’s **one** endpoint that will return the recent updated OR created contacts.  
See [https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/methods/contacts/get\_recently\_updated\_contacts](https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/methods/contacts/get_recently_updated_contacts)

I need exactly this for the companies. The api-documentation for the companies however only says “recently modified companies”.  
See [https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/methods/companies/get\_companies\_modified](https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/methods/companies/get_companies_modified)  
What does this mean? Does this mean I’ll get the same result as for the modifieds contacts (updates OR created) or does this mean I only get the recent updated companies?

To be clear, I need an endpoint which returns the recent updated AND created companies.

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**Author:** ![chriz](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/chriz/32/43030_2.png) [@chriz](https://community.hubspot.com/u/chriz)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2019, 3:12pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/get-recent-companies/13774/2 "2019-03-31T15:12:58Z")

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Ooook, I found it out by myself. it is returning indeed created and modified companies. I’d like to request to make this more clear in the docu pretty plz…

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**Author:** ![chriz](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/chriz/32/43030_2.png) [@chriz](https://community.hubspot.com/u/chriz)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2019, 3:20pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/get-recent-companies/13774/3 "2019-03-31T15:20:27Z")

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One last comment on this.  
I’ve seen this on quite a few different apis. Recent contacts and recent companies basically share the same idea, but it seems like this is developed by a complete different group of people. The params used for the different apis are named different, the function is slightly different… I mean honestly it is doing the same thing but instead of returning contacts, it is returning companies. Why not using the same parameters, same name…

To me it seems like each api is created by a different person…

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**Author:** ![IsaacTakushi](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/isaactakushi/32/70387_2.png) [@IsaacTakushi](https://community.hubspot.com/u/IsaacTakushi)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 9:29pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/get-recent-companies/13774/4 "2019-04-01T21:29:56Z")

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Hi, @chriz.

Thanks for your feedback! I’ve updated [the endpoint’s documentation](https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/methods/companies/get_companies_modified).

To be transparent, these APIs _were_ designed by different teams. We are working hard to make _all_ of HubSpot’s APIs more consistent going forward!