Search LinkedIn people · LinkedIn API
Searches LinkedIn members by keyword, name, title, current or past company, school, industry and location. Paginate with `cursor`.
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curl https://api.unifapi.com/linkedin/search/people \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $UNIFAPI_KEY"
Parameters
- countquery
- The count query parameter for this LinkedIn operation. Use the URL-visible slug or id described in the docs.
- keywordquery
- The keyword query parameter for this LinkedIn operation. Use the URL-visible slug or id described in the docs.
- first_namequery
- The first_name query parameter for this LinkedIn operation. Use the URL-visible slug or id described in the docs.
- last_namequery
- The last_name query parameter for this LinkedIn operation. Use the URL-visible slug or id described in the docs.
- titlequery
- Job title, e.g. `CFO` or `Head of Sales`. Multi-word titles are supported. One title per request: comma-separated titles are rejected.
- current_companyquery
- The current_company query parameter for this LinkedIn operation. Use the URL-visible slug or id described in the docs.
- past_companyquery
- The past_company query parameter for this LinkedIn operation. Use the URL-visible slug or id described in the docs.
- schoolquery
- Comma-separated numeric LinkedIn school IDs, e.g. `1646`. School names are not accepted.
- industryquery
- Comma-separated numeric LinkedIn industry IDs, e.g. `4`. Industry names are not accepted.
- geo_entity_idquery
- The geo_entity_id query parameter for this LinkedIn operation. Use the URL-visible slug or id described in the docs.
- profile_languagequery
- The profile_language query parameter for this LinkedIn operation. Use the URL-visible slug or id described in the docs.
- service_categoryquery
- The service_category query parameter for this LinkedIn operation. Use the URL-visible slug or id described in the docs.
- cursorquery
- Opaque pagination cursor from a previous response's `pagination.next_cursor`. Omit for the first page.
- The parameter for this LinkedIn operation. Use the URL-visible slug or id described in the docs.
This operation is part of the LinkedIn API in the social platforms category. It uses the same Bearer token, request tracing, error model, and billing envelope as every UnifAPI endpoint, so agents can switch between platforms without custom per-vendor glue code.
Use it when a workflow needs LinkedIn public data alongside other social networks, but should still keep one API key, one account balance, and one predictable JSON contract.
Common agent workflows
- Search LinkedIn for public mentions, creators, posts, or topics matching a user query.
- Feed ranked LinkedIn results into research, monitoring, and enrichment workflows.
- Give an AI agent a stable LinkedIn data source without building a per-platform integration.
- Normalize LinkedIn responses into the same UnifAPI envelope used across the catalog.
Unified envelope, platform-native fields
- List-style responses return `data` as an array of top-level records plus optional `pagination` for continuation tokens or cursors.
- The operation has a 9 credits ($0.009) minimum charge, so `billing.records_charged` can be higher than the visible records returned.
- If the workspace balance cannot cover every result, the response can be truncated and `billing.truncated_due_to_balance` tells the caller why.
Response status codes
Billing
This operation charges 1 credit per billable record, with a 9 credits ($0.009) operation minimum. Public responses include billing metadata with credits charged, records charged, and remaining workspace balance. Incorrect Credit deductions caused by platform failures can be restored as billing corrections.
Errors and retries
Authentication, validation, rate-limit, not-found, and provider errors use the unified UnifAPI error format. Agents should log `request_id`, retry only retryable failures, and treat invalid API keys, disabled keys, and expired keys as the same public `unauthorized` error type.
Fields on each record in data
A successful Search LinkedIn people call returns data as an array; each record carries these fields (12 of 48 shown — the docs list the full schema).
- data_idstring | null
- Stable Data API person identifier (`prsn_…`) when observed.
- live_numeric_idstring | null
- Live numeric person identifier, serialized as a string when observed.
- entity_idstring | null
- LinkedIn person entity ID when observed.
- usernamestring | null
- Public LinkedIn handle when observed; falls back to the `/in/` segment of `profile_url`.
- profile_urlstring | null
- Canonical LinkedIn profile URL when observed; falls back to the URL built from `handle`.
- first_namestring | null
- First name when observed.
- last_namestring | null
- Last name when observed.
- full_namestring | null
- Full name when observed; falls back to `first_name` and `last_name` joined with a space.
- headlinestring | null
- Professional headline when observed.
- summarystring | null
- Profile summary when observed.
- profile_picture_urlstring | null
- Primary profile picture URL when observed.
- profile_picturesobject[]
- Profile image variants when observed.
Agents & Skills built on LinkedIn
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More LinkedIn operations
Combine endpoints from the same platform, then join the results with other UnifAPI categories without changing authentication or response parsing.
Search LinkedIn jobs by keyword and filters
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Search LinkedIn posts
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Search LinkedIn companies
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Get a LinkedIn Ad Library ad
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Get a LinkedIn company profile by URL slug
Return a canonicalized LinkedIn company profile by its URL slug (`universal_name`, e.g. `microsoft`), including description, industry, size, headquarters, and the numeric `company_id` that related endpoints use. Useful as the entry point for any company-level research.