LinkedIn Person Details

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.

Endpoint

GET /v1/linkedin/person

Price: $0.006 per request Free tier: 50 requests/month

Parameters

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

Response Fields

Field	Type	Description
`urn`	string	LinkedIn member URN
`public_identifier`	string	Public profile slug
`url`	string	Profile URL
`first_name`	string	First name
`last_name`	string	Last name
`full_name`	string	Full name
`headline`	string	Profile headline
`about`	string	About section
`location`	string	Location as shown on the profile
`country_code`	string	Two-letter country code
`profile_picture`	string	Profile photo URL
`cover_image`	string	Cover image URL
`followers`	integer	Number of followers
`connections`	integer	Number of connections
`is_premium`	boolean	Has LinkedIn Premium
`is_creator`	boolean	Has creator mode on
`open_to_work`	boolean	Shows the Open to Work badge
`experience`	array	Positions, in profile order
`experience[].title`	string	Job title
`experience[].company`	string	Company name
`experience[].company_id`	string	LinkedIn company ID (empty when the company has no LinkedIn page, as are `company_url` and `company_logo`)
`experience[].company_url`	string	Company page URL
`experience[].company_logo`	string	Company logo URL
`experience[].location`	string	Position location
`experience[].employment_type`	string	`full_time`, `part_time`, `contract`, `freelance`, `self_employed`, `internship`, `seasonal`, … (empty when not set)
`experience[].description`	string	Position description
`experience[].start_date`	object/null	`{"year", "month"}`; `month` is null when only the year is set
`experience[].end_date`	object/null	Same shape; null for a current position
`experience[].is_current`	boolean	Current position
`education`	array	Schools
`education[].school`	string	School name
`education[].school_id`	string	LinkedIn school ID
`education[].school_url`	string	School page URL
`education[].school_logo`	string	School logo URL
`education[].degree`	string	Degree
`education[].field_of_study`	string	Field of study
`education[].description`	string	Description
`education[].start_date`	object/null	`{"year", "month"}`
`education[].end_date`	object/null	`{"year", "month"}`
`skills`	array	Skills
`skills[].name`	string	Skill name
`skills[].endorsements`	integer	Number of endorsements (a skill with one endorsement may show 0)
`certifications`	array	Licenses and certifications
`certifications[].name`	string	Certification name
`certifications[].authority`	string	Issuing organization
`certifications[].issued_date`	object/null	`{"year", "month"}`
`languages`	array	Languages
`languages[].name`	string	Language
`languages[].proficiency`	string	`elementary`, `limited_working`, `professional_working`, `full_professional`, or `native_or_bilingual` (empty when not set)
`honors`	array	Honors and awards
`honors[].title`	string	Award title
`honors[].issuer`	string	Issuer
`honors[].issued_date`	object/null	`{"year", "month"}`
`honors[].description`	string	Description
`publications`	array	Publications
`publications[].title`	string	Title
`publications[].publisher`	string	Publisher
`publications[].published_date`	object/null	`{"year", "month"}`
`publications[].url`	string	Publication URL
`volunteering`	array	Volunteer experience
`volunteering[].role`	string	Role
`volunteering[].organization`	string	Organization
`volunteering[].start_date`	object/null	`{"year", "month"}`
`volunteering[].end_date`	object/null	`{"year", "month"}`; null when ongoing
`projects`	array	Projects
`projects[].title`	string	Project title
`projects[].description`	string	Description
`projects[].start_date`	object/null	`{"year", "month"}`
`projects[].end_date`	object/null	`{"year", "month"}`
`source`	string	`"LinkedIn"`
`domain`	string	`"linkedin.com"`

Example Request

cURL

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

Python

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"
}