API Direct

LinkedIn Person Details

GET /v1/linkedin/person

Get a LinkedIn person's profile by profile URL, public slug, or member URN. Returns name, headline, about, location, follower and connection counts, open-to-work status, and the experience, education, skills, certifications, languages, honors, publications, volunteering, and projects sections.

Cost

$0.006 per request

Free tier

50 requests/month

Parameters

url *

LinkedIn profile URL, public slug, or member URN, e.g. https://www.linkedin.com/in/reidhoffman, reidhoffman, or ACoAAAAABL0B3SGhqeNX998wiOuk_8hYA6ojLwg (max 500 characters)

Example Request

curl "https://apidirect.io/v1/linkedin/person?url=reidhoffman" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://apidirect.io/v1/linkedin/person",
    headers={"X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={"url": "reidhoffman"}
)
print(response.json())

Example Response

{
  "urn": "ACoAAAAABL0B3SGhqeNX998wiOuk_8hYA6ojLwg",
  "public_identifier": "reidhoffman",
  "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/reidhoffman",
  "first_name": "Reid",
  "last_name": "Hoffman",
  "full_name": "Reid Hoffman",
  "headline": "Co-Founder, LinkedIn, Manas AI & Inflection AI. Founding Team, PayPal.  Author of Superagency.  Podcaster of Possible and Masters of Scale.",
  "about": "My current priority is investing in and building with AI to benefit humanity...",
  "location": "United States",
  "country_code": "US",
  "profile_picture": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/...",
  "cover_image": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/...",
  "followers": 2795262,
  "connections": 4324,
  "is_premium": true,
  "is_creator": true,
  "open_to_work": false,
  "experience": [
    {
      "title": "Co-Founder, Executive Board Chair",
      "company": "Manas AI",
      "company_id": "106067845",
      "company_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/manas-ai",
      "company_logo": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/...",
      "location": "",
      "employment_type": "",
      "description": "Manas AI leverages proprietary AI, generative computational chemistry...",
      "start_date": {"year": 2025, "month": 1},
      "end_date": null,
      "is_current": true
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "school": "Università degli Studi di Perugia",
      "school_id": "2052604",
      "school_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/school/universit-degli-studi-di-perugia/",
      "school_logo": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/...",
      "degree": "Honorary Doctorate",
      "field_of_study": "Human Sciences",
      "description": "",
      "start_date": {"year": 2024, "month": 5},
      "end_date": {"year": 2024, "month": 5}
    }
  ],
  "skills": [{"name": "CEOs", "endorsements": 2}],
  "certifications": [],
  "languages": [],
  "honors": [
    {"title": "Sigillum Magnum", "issuer": "University of Bologna", "issued_date": {"year": 2023, "month": 9}, "description": "Sigillum Magnum is a silver-bronze medal realized in 1888..."}
  ],
  "publications": [
    {"title": "Superagency", "publisher": "Authors Equity", "published_date": {"year": 2025, "month": 1}, "url": "https://www.superagency.ai/"}
  ],
  "volunteering": [
    {"role": "Chair, Board of Directors", "organization": "Opportunity@Work", "start_date": {"year": 2016, "month": 6}, "end_date": null}
  ],
  "projects": [],
  "source": "LinkedIn",
  "domain": "linkedin.com"
}

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