LinkedIn profile API

Get a person's profile

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.stophy.dev/v1/linkedin/profile \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "profileId": "satyanadella"
}
'

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({profileId: 'satyanadella'})
};

fetch('https://api.stophy.dev/v1/linkedin/profile', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

import requests

url = "https://api.stophy.dev/v1/linkedin/profile"

payload = { "profileId": "satyanadella" }
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "profileUrl": "<string>",
    "roles": [
      {
        "isCurrent": true,
        "title": "<string>",
        "companyName": "<string>",
        "companyUrl": "<string>",
        "from": "<string>",
        "to": "<string>"
      }
    ],
    "education": [
      {
        "school": "<string>",
        "degree": "<string>",
        "schoolUrl": "<string>",
        "from": "<string>",
        "to": "<string>"
      }
    ],
    "profileId": "<string>",
    "name": "<string>",
    "headline": "<string>",
    "location": "<string>",
    "about": "<string>",
    "followers": 0
  },
  "creditsUsed": 123,
  "requestId": "<string>"
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "cliSessionCompleted",
    "message": "<string>",
    "retryable": true,
    "requestId": "<string>",
    "retryAfterSeconds": 123,
    "requiredCredits": 123,
    "availableCredits": 123,
    "billingUrl": "https://stophy.dev/billing"
  }
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "cliSessionCompleted",
    "message": "<string>",
    "retryable": true,
    "requestId": "<string>",
    "retryAfterSeconds": 123,
    "requiredCredits": 123,
    "availableCredits": 123,
    "billingUrl": "https://stophy.dev/billing"
  }
}

POST

profile

Get a person's profile

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.stophy.dev/v1/linkedin/profile \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "profileId": "satyanadella"
}
'

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({profileId: 'satyanadella'})
};

fetch('https://api.stophy.dev/v1/linkedin/profile', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

import requests

url = "https://api.stophy.dev/v1/linkedin/profile"

payload = { "profileId": "satyanadella" }
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "profileUrl": "<string>",
    "roles": [
      {
        "isCurrent": true,
        "title": "<string>",
        "companyName": "<string>",
        "companyUrl": "<string>",
        "from": "<string>",
        "to": "<string>"
      }
    ],
    "education": [
      {
        "school": "<string>",
        "degree": "<string>",
        "schoolUrl": "<string>",
        "from": "<string>",
        "to": "<string>"
      }
    ],
    "profileId": "<string>",
    "name": "<string>",
    "headline": "<string>",
    "location": "<string>",
    "about": "<string>",
    "followers": 0
  },
  "creditsUsed": 123,
  "requestId": "<string>"
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "cliSessionCompleted",
    "message": "<string>",
    "retryable": true,
    "requestId": "<string>",
    "retryAfterSeconds": 123,
    "requiredCredits": 123,
    "availableCredits": 123,
    "billingUrl": "https://stophy.dev/billing"
  }
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "cliSessionCompleted",
    "message": "<string>",
    "retryable": true,
    "requestId": "<string>",
    "retryAfterSeconds": 123,
    "requiredCredits": 123,
    "availableCredits": 123,
    "billingUrl": "https://stophy.dev/billing"
  }
}

Returns a person’s profile. The profile is identified by its URL or ID.

Request

Exactly one of profileUrl or profileId is required. A request that sets both, or none, fails with invalidRequest.

import { Stophy } from "stophy";

const stophy = new Stophy({ apiKey: process.env.STOPHY_API_KEY });
const result = await stophy.linkedin.profile({ profileId: "satyanadella" });
console.log(result.data);

from stophy import Stophy

stophy = Stophy()  # reads STOPHY_API_KEY
result = stophy.linkedin.profile(profile_id="satyanadella")
print(result["data"])

curl -X POST https://api.stophy.dev/v1/linkedin/profile \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STOPHY_API_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"profileId":"satyanadella"}'

stophy linkedin profile --profileId satyanadella

Response

If successful, the response body contains the standard envelope. data contains the person’s headline, location, about text, roles and education. The following example is a real response, truncated: each list shows one item and long strings are cut.

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "profileId": "satyanadella",
    "profileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/satyanadella",
    "name": "Satya Nadella",
    "headline": "Chairman and CEO at Microsoft",
    "location": "Redmond, Washington, United States",
    "about": "As chairman and CEO of Microsoft, I define my mission and that of my company as empowering every person and every…",
    "followers": 12205170,
    "roles": [
      {
        "title": "Chairman and CEO",
        "companyName": "Microsoft",
        "companyUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft",
        "from": "Feb 2014",
        "isCurrent": true
      }
    ],
    "education": [
      {
        "school": "The University of Chicago Booth School of Business",
        "schoolUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/school/universityofchicagoboothschoolofbusiness",
        "from": "1994",
        "to": "1996"
      }
    ]
  },
  "creditsUsed": 2,
  "requestId": "2fe9dbad-fc48-4890-9751-0b24b596035b"
}

Field	Type	Description
`roles`	object[]	The person’s jobs. `isCurrent` marks the current one.

For every field, see the response schema on this page.

Billing

Each successful request consumes 2 credits, regardless of the number of items returned. Requests that fail, or that return no items, are not billed.

Pagination

This method is not paginated. A single request returns the complete result.

LinkedIn company: Accepts companyUrl. Returns a company’s profile, size and industry.
LinkedIn posts: Accepts profileUrl. Returns a person’s or company’s latest public posts.

Authorizations

Authorization

string

header

required

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.

Body

application/json

profileUrl

string

Link to the LinkedIn profile, like https://www.linkedin.com/in/satyanadella. Send this or profileId.

profileId

string

LinkedIn profile slug, like satyanadella. Send this or profileUrl.

Response

The data, and the credits this call used.

success

any

required

data

object

required

Show child attributes

creditsUsed

integer

required

requestId

string

required

Using the API

Catalog

Account

Search and AI answers

Video

Social

Places and travel

Jobs

Shopping

Apps

Real estate

Ads

LinkedIn profile API

Request

Response

Billing

Authorizations

Body

Response

​Request

​Response

​Billing

​Pagination

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