LinkedIn data API · Search people

LinkedIn People Search API. Pay per record.

Find people on LinkedIn by title, company, seniority, function, location, school and more, or list the people at one company. Returns full profile rows, priced per profile found.

Price: $0.004 / profile
Billed: Per record
Free to start: $0.10
Endpoint: POST /v1/linkedin

Updated 21 October 2026

What people build with the LinkedIn People Search API

Build an ICP list

Founders of fintech companies in Berlin, heads of data at Series B startups: describe the person and get the profiles.

Map a buying committee

List the people at one company filtered by function and seniority, then enrich the ones that matter.

Source candidates

Search by past titles, schools and years of experience to find people for a role.

Quote it, then run it

1. free quote: the exact price, nothing charged

curl -X POST https://apiforagents.dev/v1/linkedin \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AFA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"op":"searchPeople","company":"stripe","titles":["Head of Data"],"limit":10,"estimateOnly":true}'

2. the same call, run

curl -X POST https://apiforagents.dev/v1/linkedin \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AFA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"op":"searchPeople","company":"stripe","titles":["Head of Data"],"limit":10}'

Inputs

Everything you can send in one searchPeople call. Required inputs first.

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Input	Type	What it does
company	string	A /company/<slug> handle or company URL: search only that company's people. Omit for a global search (then give query and/or titles). ≤400 chars
query	string	≤300 chars
titles	text list	Current job titles, free text ("Founder", "Head of Marketing"); any match.
pastTitles	text list	Titles the person held before, free text. Global search only.
pastCompanies	text list	Company names the person worked at before. Global search only.
schools	text list	School or university names the person attended. Global search only.
locations	text list
industries	text list	Leaf names or " > " paths. Validated against LinkedIn's 434-node taxonomy.
companySizes	enum list	Headcount bands of the person's current employer: 1-10, 11-50, 51-200, 201-500, 501-1000, 1001-5000, 5001-10000, 10001+. Global search only.
seniority	enum list	Seniority bands: cxo, owner_partner, vice_president, director, experienced_manager, entry_manager, strategic, senior, entry, in_training. Any match.
functions	enum list	Job functions: marketing, sales, engineering, finance, operations, product_management, human_resources … Any match.
yearsAtCompany	enum list	Tenure at the current company, in bands: lt_1y, 1_2y, 3_5y, 6_10y, gt_10y.
yearsOfExperience	enum list	Total career length, the same bands as yearsAtCompany.
recentlyChangedJobs	boolean	true: only people who started a new role recently.
recentlyPosted	boolean	true: only people who posted on LinkedIn recently. Global search only.
personNames	text list	Person-name / current employer / HQ / language filters (global search honours all).
currentCompanies	text list	Names of the person's current employer(s). Global search only.
companyHqLocations	text list	Where the current employer is headquartered. Cities, regions or countries as written on LinkedIn ("Bengaluru", "United States").
profileLanguages	text list	Languages listed on the profile, by name ("English", "Hindi").
limit	integer	1-50

What comes back

The fields of every row, always present. Nothing is guessed: a value that could not be measured is null, and the answer's coverage says why.

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Field	Type
publicId	string
urn	string
name	string
firstName	string
lastName	string
headline	string
about	string
location	string
city	string
state	string
country	string
profileUrl	string
avatarUrl	string
coverUrl	string
followers	integer
connections	integer
isPremium	boolean
isOpenToWork	boolean
isHiring	boolean
isVerified	boolean
isCreator	boolean
isInfluencer	boolean
isOpenProfile	boolean
skills	list of string
companyName	string
positions	list of object
education	list of object
certifications	list of object
languages	list of object
projects	list of object
publications	list of object
courses	list of object
honors	list of object
volunteering	list of object
recommendations	list of object
causes	list of string
details	object

details is always the last field: everything else the source sent for that row, under our own field names. Its keys depend on the source that answered, so read them defensively; it is {} when there is nothing more.

A sample answer

Made-up names and values in the real field names, so you can see the shape before you spend anything.

publicId	name	headline	companyName	location	followers
priya-nair	Priya Nair	Head of Marketing · Ledgerly	Ledgerly	Bengaluru, Karnataka, India	5120
arjun-mehta	Arjun Mehta	Marketing Director at Coinmint	Coinmint	Bengaluru, Karnataka, India	3380
kavya-iyer	Kavya Iyer	Head of Growth Marketing, Paylane	Paylane	Bengaluru, Karnataka, India	2750

Pricing

Pay as you go, in US dollars, per record. No subscription, nothing expires, $5 first top-up, and every new agent starts with $0.10 free.

Request	Records	At the list price
One profile	1	$0.004
10 profiles	10	$0.04
A full page	50	$0.2

These are per-record list prices. Some calls also carry a minimum, such as a page of search results, so a small request can cost more than the table shows. The quote ("estimateOnly": true) is free, gives the most your exact request can cost, and the charge then settles to what came back. Records that do not come back are refunded.

Try it without writing code

Open the LinkedIn People Search API in the playgroundThe 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.

Why this one, and not a scraper you run yourself

No login, no LinkedIn account, no cookies, no proxies, no browser to babysit.
When the site changes its pages, your request stays the same: keeping the reads working is our job, not yours.
A fetch that fails costs nothing: it is named in the answer with a reason, and the quote says the most a call can cost before it runs.

Questions people ask.

What filters does the LinkedIn people search support?

Keyword query, current and past titles, current and past companies, schools, locations, industries, company size, company headquarters, seniority, function, years at company, years of experience, recently changed jobs, recently posted, names and profile language.

How much does a people search cost?

$0.004 per profile returned. A global search (no company given) is priced by the page of 25 profiles even when you ask for fewer, so quote first with "estimateOnly": true: the quote is the most the call can cost.

Can I list everyone at a company?

Yes. Pass the company and narrow by title, seniority or function to get the people who matter.

Try it in a minute. $0.10 free.

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.

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Why people pick 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.

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