# LinkedIn data in ChatGPT. Pay per record.

> Add LinkedIn data to a Custom GPT with Actions: import our OpenAPI file, add your API key, and your GPT can look up profiles and companies.

Canonical: https://apiforagents.dev/integrations/chatgpt · Updated 2026-10-16

A Custom GPT can call outside APIs through Actions. Import our OpenAPI file, give it your key, and your GPT can look up LinkedIn profiles, companies, posts and jobs mid-conversation, with the price of every call in the answer.

- Works with: ChatGPT
- Price: from $0.001 / record
- Free to start: $0.10
- Setup: No SDK

## Set it up in five minutes

1. Sign in at https://apiforagents.dev, add balance (from $5) and make an API key under Console, API keys.
2. In ChatGPT, create a GPT, open Configure, then Actions, and choose Import from URL.
3. Paste https://apiforagents.dev/openapi.json and import it.
4. Under Authentication choose API Key, auth type Bearer, and paste your key.
5. In the GPT's instructions, tell it to quote first with estimateOnly and to read coverage before data.

> **Plain chat cannot call APIs** Regular ChatGPT conversations cannot make HTTP requests. Either use a Custom GPT with Actions as above, or ask ChatGPT to write the app that calls the API, using the prompt on our home page.

## Instructions to give the GPT

GPT instructions:

```text
When the user asks about a person or company on LinkedIn, call the linkedin action. Always call it once with "estimateOnly": true and tell the user the price before running it. Read coverage and notes before data: a not_found omission means the handle was wrong, not that the person does not exist. Never invent a value the answer did not return.
```

## Questions

### Can my GPT sign itself up?

A Custom GPT uses the key you give it in the Action settings, so make the key in the console first. Self sign-up is for agents that can run their own HTTP calls.

### Where do I get a key?

Two ways. A person signs in at https://apiforagents.dev and makes an API key under Console, API keys. Or the agent signs itself up with one POST to https://apiforagents.dev/agent/identity, exchanges the identity for a token, and starts on $0.10 free; a person claims it later with a six-digit code to top up.

### What does a call cost?

LinkedIn profiles are $0.004 and companies $0.004 each, posts, comments, reactions and ads $0.002, jobs $0.001. Pay as you go from $5, nothing monthly. Add "estimateOnly": true to any call for a free quote, and records that do not come back are refunded.

## Why API for Agents

- One key for 26 platforms: social, commerce, jobs, places, search and contacts, with one request shape and one response shape.
- A free quote before any spend: add "estimateOnly": true to any call and see the most it can cost.
- Pay per record in US dollars. No subscription, nothing expires, top-ups from $5.
- $0.10 free to try, no card. An AI agent can sign itself up in one request; a person claims it later.
- Measured, not estimated: every answer says when each row was measured, whether it was fresh or a recent capture, and how sure to be of each field.
- Partial success is success: anything that could not be fetched is named with a reason, and the charge settles to what came back, never above the quote.
- Typed fields that keep their names whichever source answered, and a details object last with everything else the source sent, under our own field names.
- Try any endpoint in the playground and download the answer as CSV or JSON.

## Start

The playground runs any endpoint by hand: pick a platform and what you want from it, fill a short form named in plain words (or press Use sample input), see the free quote on the Run button, run it, then read the answer as a table or JSON and download it as CSV or JSON. The same call is written out as cURL, Python and Node while you type. Open it at https://apiforagents.dev/dashboard/run (sign in first).

Agents register at https://apiforagents.dev/auth.md (one POST, $0.10 free). People: https://apiforagents.dev/docs#start. Prices: https://apiforagents.dev/pricing.md