List a LinkedIn user's recommendations · LinkedIn API
Returns the recommendations a LinkedIn user has received and given. Returns `not_found` when the user does not exist.
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curl https://api.unifapi.com/linkedin/users/{username}/recommendations \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $UNIFAPI_KEY"Parameters
- usernamepathrequired
- LinkedIn vanity username (as in linkedin.com/in/{username}) or entity id (`ACoAA…`).
- 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
- Resolve a public LinkedIn identity into structured profile metadata for enrichment agents.
- Refresh creator, company, or account snapshots without managing source-specific response shapes.
- 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 18 credits ($0.02) 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 18 credits ($0.02) 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 in the data object
A successful List a LinkedIn user's recommendations call returns one data object with these fields.
- receivedobject[]
- Recommendations received in source order when observed.
- givenobject[]
- Recommendations given in source order when observed.
- totalnumber | null
- Total recommendations when observed.
- total_givennumber | null
- Total recommendations given when observed.
- total_receivednumber | null
- Total recommendations received when observed.
Agents & Skills built on LinkedIn
You rarely call List a LinkedIn user's recommendations by hand. These prebuilt agents and skills already read LinkedIn data inside Claude or Codex — start from one of them, or call this endpoint yourself.
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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.
List posts authored by a LinkedIn user
Return posts authored by a LinkedIn user from the profile URL slug as a cursor-paginated list. This operation is capacity-limited; the gateway makes up to 3 total attempts for transient failures.
List LinkedIn profiles similar to a user
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List a LinkedIn user's work experience
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List a LinkedIn user's interests
Returns the companies, groups, schools, newsletters and top voices a LinkedIn user follows. Returns `not_found` when the user does not exist.
List comments a LinkedIn user has written
Returns the public comments a LinkedIn user has left on posts, newest first, with the post each comment belongs to. Paginate with `cursor`.