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LinkedIn Profile Search API
Find LinkedIn profiles by job title and location. Returns name, headline, and profile URL. Web-search backed — no login required.
Part of: LinkedIn Profile Search API
How to call it
Send one POST to api.upapi.io/linkedin-profile-search.post with your key in the X-Api-Key header and the parameters below as a JSON body. Each call spends 15 weighted units of your monthly quota. The operation times out after 120 seconds. Identical requests are served from cache for 600 seconds, unbilled.
POST https://api.upapi.io/linkedin-profile-search.post
LinkedIn Profile Search API reference
Request parameters
- keyword
- stringrequired — Job title or skill to search (e.g. 'Data Engineer')
- location
- string — Location filter (e.g. 'Tunisia', 'New York')
- proxyUrl
- string — Residential exit to route the web search through (DDG blocks datacenter IPs). Falls back to the DDGS_PROXY env var.
- maxResults
- integer — Max profiles to return
Response fields
- query
- stringrequired
- keyword
- stringrequired
- message
- stringrequired
- success
- booleanrequired
- location
- stringrequired
- profiles
- arrayrequired
- profiles[].url
- stringrequired
- profiles[].name
- stringrequired
- profiles[].headline
- stringrequired
- profiles[].position
- integerrequired
- profiles[].linkedinPath
- stringrequired
- elapsedMs
- integerrequired
- fetchedAt
- stringrequired
- totalFound
- integerrequired
Example request and response
The example response is generated from this operation’s published output schema — it shows the shape and field names, not values from a recorded call.
{
"keyword": "Data Engineer",
"maxResults": 50
}{
"query": "typescript",
"keyword": "example",
"message": "example",
"success": false,
"location": "example",
"profiles": [
{
"url": "https://github.com",
"name": "example",
"headline": "example",
"position": 1,
"linkedinPath": "example"
}
],
"elapsedMs": 1,
"fetchedAt": "example",
"totalFound": 1
}Code snippets
cURL
curl -X POST https://api.upapi.io/linkedin-profile-search.post \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
-d '{ "keyword": "Data Engineer", "maxResults": 50 }'JavaScript
const response = await fetch('https://api.upapi.io/linkedin-profile-search.post', {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
},
body: JSON.stringify({
"keyword": "Data Engineer",
"maxResults": 50
}),
});
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);Python
import requests
response = requests.post(
'https://api.upapi.io/linkedin-profile-search.post',
headers={
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
},
json={
"keyword": "Data Engineer",
"maxResults": 50
},
)
print(response.json())Go
package main
import (
"bytes"
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"io"
"net/http"
)
func main() {
payload := []byte(`{ "keyword": "Data Engineer", "maxResults": 50 }`)
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://api.upapi.io/linkedin-profile-search.post", bytes.NewBuffer(payload))
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
client := &http.Client{}
resp, err := client.Do(req)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
defer resp.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
var result map[string]any
json.Unmarshal(body, &result)
fmt.Println(result)
}PHP
<?php
$payload = json_encode([
'keyword' => 'Data Engineer',
'maxResults' => 50,
]);
$ch = curl_init('https://api.upapi.io/linkedin-profile-search.post');
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
CURLOPT_POST => true,
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $payload,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
'Content-Type: application/json',
'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY',
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$data = json_decode($response, true);
var_dump($data);Ruby
require 'net/http'
require 'uri'
require 'json'
uri = URI('https://api.upapi.io/linkedin-profile-search.post')
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = uri.scheme == 'https'
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.path)
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
request['x-api-key'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
request.body = { "keyword": "Data Engineer", "maxResults": 50 }.to_json
response = http.request(request)
puts JSON.parse(response.body)Java
import okhttp3.*;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import java.util.Map;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
String json = "{ \"keyword\": \"Data Engineer\", \"maxResults\": 50 }";
RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(json, MediaType.get("application/json"));
Request request = new Request.Builder()
.url("https://api.upapi.io/linkedin-profile-search.post")
.post(body)
.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
.addHeader("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
.build();
try (Response response = client.newCall(request).execute()) {
Map<?, ?> result = mapper.readValue(response.body().string(), Map.class);
System.out.println(result);
}C#
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Http.Json;
using System.Text.Json;
using var client = new HttpClient();
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY");
var payload = JsonSerializer.Deserialize<object>("{ \"keyword\": \"Data Engineer\", \"maxResults\": 50 }");
var response = await client.PostAsJsonAsync("https://api.upapi.io/linkedin-profile-search.post", payload);
var result = await response.Content.ReadFromJsonAsync<JsonElement>();
Console.WriteLine(result);Frequently asked questions
How much does the LinkedIn Profile Search API cost per call?
Each call spends 15 weighted units of your plan's monthly quota. Full pricing is at https://upapi.io/pricing.
How do I authenticate to the LinkedIn Profile Search API?
Send your key in the X-Api-Key header. A free guest key is available without creating an account.
Are LinkedIn Profile Search API responses cached?
Yes — identical requests are served from cache for 600 seconds, and a cache hit is not billed.