Social platforms

List LinkedIn profiles similar to a user · LinkedIn API

GET/linkedin/users/{username}/similar
$$min $0.02

Returns LinkedIn profiles that LinkedIn shows as similar to a user ("People also viewed").

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Request
curl https://api.unifapi.com/linkedin/users/{username}/similar \
  -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.
Overview

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.
Response shape

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

200400401402404429500502503

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.

Response fields

Fields on each record in data

A successful List LinkedIn profiles similar to a user 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.
Run it

Agents & Skills built on LinkedIn

You rarely call List LinkedIn profiles similar to a user 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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LinkedIn company analyzer

Followers, employee count, industry, HQ and specialties for any LinkedIn company.

LinkedIn profile analyzer

Look up the headline, location, website and public badges for a LinkedIn member.

Agents

Social Selling AgentCompetitive Intelligence AgentLead & Company Research AgentLinkedIn Agent

Skills

LinkedIn Data SkillCompetitor Launch MonitorLinkedIn Account Research AgentBuying Signal MonitorCompetitor ProfilingAccount News Signals
Related endpoints

More LinkedIn operations

Combine endpoints from the same platform, then join the results with other UnifAPI categories without changing authentication or response parsing.

GET/linkedin/users/{username}/recommendations

List a LinkedIn user's recommendations

Returns the recommendations a LinkedIn user has received and given. Returns `not_found` when the user does not exist.

GET/linkedin/users/batch

Get up to 50 LinkedIn profiles by URL

Returns full LinkedIn profiles for up to 50 profile URLs or usernames in one request (repeat `url` or comma-separate). Each result carries its own lookup status; billing is per profile returned.

GET/linkedin/users/{username}

Get a LinkedIn user profile by URL slug

Returns the canonical LinkedIn profile for the given URL slug (`public_identifier`). Returns 404 not_found if no such user exists.

GET/linkedin/users/{username}/experience

List a LinkedIn user's work experience

Returns a LinkedIn user's employment history: companies, titles, dates, locations and descriptions.

GET/linkedin/users/{username}/interests

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.

GET/linkedin/users/{username}/comments

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`.

All LinkedIn API endpoints