LinkedIn Profile Search API

LinkedIn Profile Search finds LinkedIn profile pages by job title and, optionally, location. It builds a web-search query restricted to linkedin.com/in, runs it through a general web search engine and returns the matching profiles as JSON, so you never log in to LinkedIn and the call never contacts LinkedIn itself. The required input is keyword, a job title or skill such as Data Engineer. location narrows the query to a place such as Toronto, and maxResults caps the list; it defaults to 50 and accepts up to 100. Each entry in profiles has a position, a name, a headline, the profile url and its linkedinPath. The response also returns totalFound, the exact query that was run, a message and a fetchedAt timestamp. Because the data comes from search-result listings rather than from LinkedIn, you get only what a search engine shows. The name and headline are read from each result’s title, so headline can come back as an empty string, and the list holds the profiles the engine returned, which can be fewer than maxResults. It does not return a profile’s experience, education, email address or follower count, and it cannot filter by company, seniority or industry. proxyUrl optionally routes the search through a residential proxy, because search engines often block datacenter addresses. When every search attempt fails, the call raises an error instead of returning an empty list. Every call authenticates with your upAPI key. The exact price and cache lifetime are on this page’s FAQ, generated from the same catalog the calls run against.