/linkedin/public/user

POST /api/linkedin/public/user

Price: 1 credit

Get a LinkedIn member's public profile by alias or profile URL

How to use it

Get a LinkedIn member's public profile by alias or profile URL. Returns name, location, follower and connection counts, current and past companies, schools, and the sections the public profile shows (languages, certifications, volunteering, projects, organizations, recommendations, posts, reposts, articles). Job titles and degrees the public profile hides are null.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• user string required — LinkedIn profile alias, or a full profile URL (examples: "williamhgates", "https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates"; minLength: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "LinkedinPublicUser")
• internal_id object nullable
  • type string required (one of: "fsd_company", "fsd_group", "fsd_profile", "fsd_skill", "activity", "comment", "company", "group", "geo", "pulse", "member", "person", "industry", "ugcPost", "job", "message", "conversation", "media", "share", "linkedInArticle")
  • value string required
• name string required
• first_name string nullable
• last_name string nullable
• alias string required
• url string required
• headline string nullable
• follower_count integer nullable
• image string nullable
• background_image string nullable
• description string nullable
• location string nullable
• country_code string nullable
• country string nullable
• city string nullable
• job_titles array nullable
• is_creator boolean (default: false)
• is_top_voice boolean (default: false)
• experience array nullable
  • @type string (default: "LinkedinPublicExperience")
  • position string nullable
  • company object nullable
    • @type string (default: "LinkedinUserExperienceCompany")
    • name string required nullable
    • urn object nullable
      • type object required (see schema LinkedinURNPrefix)
      • value string required
    • url string nullable
    • alias string nullable
    • industry object nullable
      • type string required (one of: "industry")
      • value string required
    • industry_full object nullable
      • @type string (default: "LinkedinIndustry")
      • urn object required (see schema LinkedinURN_Literal_industry__)
      • name string required
      • hierarchy string required
      • description string required
    • industry_name string nullable
    • employee_range string nullable
    • logo_url string nullable
  • interval string nullable
  • period string nullable
  • start_date string nullable — Role start, `YYYY-MM` or `YYYY`.
  • end_date string nullable — Role end, `YYYY-MM` or `YYYY`. Absent while ongoing.
  • location string nullable
  • description string nullable
• education array nullable
  • @type string (default: "LinkedinPublicEducation")
  • company object nullable
    • @type string (default: "LinkedinUserEducationCompany")
    • name string required nullable
    • urn object nullable
      • type object required (see schema LinkedinURNPrefix)
      • value string required
    • url string nullable
    • alias string nullable
    • industry object nullable
      • type string required (one of: "industry")
      • value string required
    • industry_full object nullable
      • @type string (default: "LinkedinIndustry")
      • urn object required (see schema LinkedinURN_Literal_industry__)
      • name string required
      • hierarchy string required
      • description string required
    • employee_range string nullable
    • logo_url string nullable
  • major string nullable
  • interval string nullable
  • start_date string nullable — Study start, `YYYY-MM` or `YYYY`.
  • end_date string nullable — Study end, `YYYY-MM` or `YYYY`.
  • description string nullable
• awards array nullable
• similar_profiles array nullable
• connection_count integer nullable — Number of connections; null when LinkedIn shows only `500+`.
• is_connection_count_capped boolean — True when LinkedIn shows `500+` connections instead of a number. (default: false)
• websites array nullable
  • @type string (default: "LinkedinPublicWebsite")
  • label string nullable
  • url string required
• languages array nullable
  • @type string (default: "LinkedinUserLanguage")
  • name string required
  • level string nullable
• certificates array nullable
  • @type string (default: "LinkedinPublicCertificate")
  • name string required
  • company object nullable
    • @type string (default: "LinkedinUserCertificateCompany")
    • name string required
    • urn object nullable
      • type string required (one of: "fsd_company", "company")
      • value string required
    • url string nullable
  • created_at string nullable
  • label string nullable
  • url string nullable
  • expires_at string nullable
• honors array nullable
  • @type string (default: "LinkedinUserHonor")
  • name string required
  • issued_by string nullable
  • issued_at string nullable
  • text string nullable
• skills array nullable
  • @type string (default: "LinkedinUserSkill")
  • name string required
  • urn object nullable
    • type string required (one of: "fsd_company", "fsd_group", "fsd_profile", "fsd_skill", "activity", "comment", "company", "group", "geo", "pulse", "member", "person", "industry", "ugcPost", "job", "message", "conversation", "media", "share", "linkedInArticle")
    • value string required
• volunteering array nullable
  • @type string (default: "LinkedinPublicVolunteering")
  • position string nullable
  • company object nullable
    • @type string (default: "LinkedinUserExperienceCompany")
    • name string required nullable
    • urn object nullable
      • type object required (see schema LinkedinURNPrefix)
      • value string required
    • url string nullable
    • alias string nullable
    • industry object nullable
      • type string required (one of: "industry")
      • value string required
    • industry_full object nullable
      • @type string (default: "LinkedinIndustry")
      • urn object required (see schema LinkedinURN_Literal_industry__)
      • name string required
      • hierarchy string required
      • description string required
    • industry_name string nullable
    • employee_range string nullable
    • logo_url string nullable
  • cause string nullable
  • interval string nullable
  • start_date string nullable
  • end_date string nullable
  • period string nullable
  • description string nullable
• projects array nullable
  • @type string (default: "LinkedinPublicProject")
  • name string required
  • url string nullable
  • interval string nullable
  • start_date string nullable
  • end_date string nullable
  • description string nullable
• courses array nullable
  • @type string (default: "LinkedinPublicCourse")
  • name string required
  • number string nullable
• recommendations array nullable
  • @type string (default: "LinkedinPublicRecommendation")
  • name string nullable
  • alias string nullable
  • text string required
• recommendation_count integer nullable
• services array nullable
• organizations array nullable
  • @type string (default: "LinkedinPublicOrganization")
  • name string required
  • position string nullable
  • interval string nullable
  • start_date string nullable
  • end_date string nullable
  • description string nullable
• posts array nullable
  • @type string (default: "LinkedinPublicPost")
  • url string required
  • title string nullable
  • text string nullable
  • published_at integer nullable
  • like_count integer nullable
  • comment_count integer nullable
• reposts array nullable
  • @type string (default: "LinkedinPublicRepost")
  • url string required — The reposted post.
  • author object nullable — Author of the reposted post.
    • @type string (default: "LinkedinPublicRepostAuthor")
    • name string required
    • url string nullable
  • text string nullable
  • images array nullable
  • published_at integer nullable — When the reposted post was published, unix seconds.
  • reaction_count integer nullable — Reactions of every type on the reposted post.
  • comment_count integer nullable
• articles array nullable
  • @type string (default: "LinkedinPublicArticle")
  • url string required
  • title string nullable
  • image string nullable
  • published_at integer nullable
  • like_count integer nullable
  • comment_count integer nullable

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — Profile not found or not publicly available Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.