LinkedIn Scraping API
Extract professional profiles, job listings, and company information from LinkedIn. Ideal for talent sourcing, lead generation, and competitive business insights.
Use Cases
How teams use this API to build powerful applications
Recruiting & Talent Sourcing
Find potential candidates by scraping profiles that match certain skills or titles. For example, gather a list of software engineers in a specific city with experience in Python to approach for job openings.
Sales Lead Generation
Build a database of leads by extracting profiles of decision-makers at target companies. Sales teams can get names, titles, and companies of prospects to inform their outreach, without relying on official APIs or manual searches.
Job Market Analysis
Analyze job posting trends by scraping LinkedIn jobs. Track how many roles are open in a given field, what skills employers seek, and how job demand changes over time in different regions.
Competitive Intelligence
Monitor competitors’ hiring and company growth. By scraping job listings and company pages, you can see which departments are expanding or gather data on company size and new positions that indicate strategic moves.
API Endpoints
Available endpoints for the Linkedin API
/v1/linkedin/profile Get Profile
Extract complete profile information including experience, education, skills, and connections.
Parameters
profile_url string required LinkedIn profile URL include_posts boolean Include recent posts /v1/linkedin/company Get Company
Retrieve company information, employee count, locations, and recent updates.
Parameters
company_url string required LinkedIn company page URL /v1/linkedin/jobs Search Jobs
Search for job listings with detailed information and application links.
Parameters
query string required Job search query location string Job location experience_level string Entry, Mid, Senior, Executive /v1/linkedin/posts Get Posts
Extract posts from profiles or company pages with engagement metrics.
Parameters
profile_url string required Profile or company URL Features
What makes this API powerful and reliable
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the Linkedin API
Do I need to log into a LinkedIn account for this to work?
No, our API targets publicly visible information or uses anonymous sessions. We do not use your personal account, so you won’t need to provide login credentials. However, data that is private or only visible to logged-in connections will not be accessible.
Can you get emails or contact info from profiles?
No, personal contact information (emails, phone numbers) is typically not public on LinkedIn profiles. Our scraper only captures what a public viewer can see: profile photo, headline, experiences, education, etc. For contact info, users would need to have made it public, which is rare.
Will LinkedIn detect the scraping?
We employ techniques like proxy rotation, simulated browser behavior, and rate limiting to avoid detection. LinkedIn is quite protective, so we ensure scrapes are distributed and mimic normal browsing. It’s important users also stay within reasonable request volumes.
Can I scrape my own connections or use this for sending messages?
The API is read-only and focused on publicly available data. It cannot send messages or access the “My Network” section that requires login. It’s designed for data collection like profiles and job posts, not for automating interactions on LinkedIn.
Can I scrape my own connections or use this for sending messages?
The API is read-only and focused on publicly available data. It cannot send messages or access the “My Network” section that requires login. It’s designed for data collection like profiles and job posts, not for automating interactions on LinkedIn.
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