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LinkedIn data without risking your account.
Unofficial LinkedIn API libraries, browser extensions and automation tools usually work by logging in as you: your cookie, your session, your account. LinkedIn's user agreement prohibits automated access, and accounts that do it get restricted. An API that reads public pages never touches your account.
- Your login
- Never asked
- Your cookie
- Never asked
- Data
- Public only
- Profile
- $0.004
Updated 16 October 2026
Where the risk sits
| Approach | Runs as | Risk to your account |
|---|---|---|
| Unofficial API libraries | Your logged-in session | Yours: restrictions fall on the account used |
| Browser extensions and automation tools | Your browser and cookie | Yours |
| Account-based APIs | Each user's connected account | Each connected account |
| A public-data API (this one) | Nobody's account | None to your account |
What you give up
- Anything behind a login: private profiles, your network, your inbox and messages.
- Actions: connecting, messaging, posting. Use LinkedIn's own API or tools on your account for those.
Questions people ask.
Can using an unofficial LinkedIn API get me banned?
It can get the account it runs on restricted. LinkedIn's user agreement prohibits scraping and automated access with your account; how strictly it acts varies.
Does this API ever use my LinkedIn account?
No. It never asks for a LinkedIn login, password, cookie or session.
Sources (1)
- LinkedIn User Agreement, seen 16 October 2026
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