# LinkedIn People Search API. Pay per record.

> Search LinkedIn people by title, company, seniority, location and more. Full profiles at $0.004 each, pay as you go.

Canonical: https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/linkedin/people-search-api · Updated 2026-10-21

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

## 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:

```bash
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:

```bash
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.

| 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.

| 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 playground](https://apiforagents.dev/dashboard/run?platform=linkedin&op=searchPeople): 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.

## 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

### 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.

## 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?platform=linkedin&op=searchPeople (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