# LinkedIn data without risking your account.

> Unofficial LinkedIn API libraries and browser tools run on your own login, and LinkedIn can restrict it. Get public profile data with no account involved.

Canonical: https://apiforagents.dev/guides/linkedin-data-without-risking-your-account · Updated 2026-10-16

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

## 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

### 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](https://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement), seen 16 October 2026

## Why API for Agents

- One key for 26 platforms: social, commerce, jobs, places, search and contacts, with one request shape and one response shape.
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- Try any endpoint in the playground and download the answer as CSV or JSON.

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