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LinkedIn API

Get in-depth information on LinkedIn professionals, posts, companies, and their employees, jobs, and more, or apply advanced keyword searches using the LinkedIn API
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LinkedIn API
Get in-depth information on LinkedIn professionals, posts, companies, and their employees, jobs, and more, or apply advanced keyword searches using the LinkedIn API
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WHO'S API LINKEDIN FOR?

Turn LinkedIn API data into powerful information for your business, products, or analytics.
Use LinkedIn scraping API to identify opinion leaders in targeted areas, for extensive market analysis and competitor benchmarking, to search for potential customers and employees, make effective business decisions, and other purposes.
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Precious data
Large data volumes
Advanced search
API customization
Use structured and well-organized data to reveal insights and improve your business performance
Get comprehensive datasets on LinkedIn profiles, companies, jobs, posts, and comments
Conduct powerful searches using keywords, phrases, and various filtering options
We provide human support and can customize the API or add new features if needed
WHO'S API LINKEDIN FOR?
Turn LinkedIn API data into powerful information for your business, products, or analytics.
Use LinkedIn scraping API to identify opinion leaders in targeted areas, for extensive market analysis and competitor benchmarking, to search for potential customers and employees, make effective business decisions, and other purposes.
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Precious data
Large data volumes
Advanced search
API customization
Use well-organized data to reveal insights and improve your business performance
Get comprehensive datasets on LinkedIn profiles, jobs, companies, posts, comments
Conduct powerful searches using keywords, phrases, and various filtering options
We provide human support and can customize the API or add new features if needed

WHAT DATA CAN YOU GET WITH THE API FOR LINKEDIN?

LinkedIn members
By having a database of the IDs or usernames of your target profiles, you can get a large amount of data about LinkedIn profiles. These are the most popular data we provide:
ID, username, full name, headline, summary (about), profile photo, and location
Details of recent activity (posts, comments, articles, likes, shares, etc.)
Work experience details (positions, periods of work, locations, descriptions, companies' information)
Learn more in the LinkedIn API documentation.
Details about interests (companies, groups, influencers, etc.)
Number of connections, followers, followings
You can get detailed information about LinkedIn companies based on the ID or universal name list of the target companies. These are the most popular data we provide:
ID, name, logo, website URL, headline and description, headquarter and locations, industry and specialties, company size, and number of employees on LinkedIn
A detailed list of latest posts
A list of open jobs (position, location, date posted; on request)
Learn more in the LinkedIn web service API documentation.
A detailed list of employees (on request)
Using the API for LinkedIn, you can get detailed information about LinkedIn groups based on the ID of the target groups. Below are some of the data you can get:
ID, name, date of creation, logo, description, location, industries, etc.
Lists of owners and managers
Number of group members
Learn more in the LinkedIn API documentation.
Using our LinkedIn API, you can download lots of post data based on IDs or target profiles and companies. Below are some of the data you can get:
Post content: text, language, list of hashtags, list of mentioned profiles, author info
Number of shares, likes, comments, views, etc.
Number of reactions by type (celebrate, support, love, insightful, curious)
You can download comments (selected, or from a specific post) and replies and get data such as author ID, comment text, language, reactions, and the URLs of attachments.
Learn more in the LinkedIn Data APIdocumentation.
URLs of attachments (videos, images, links, etc.)
The LinkedIn API enables you to search for information about posts, jobs, people, companies, and more using keywords or phrases. Depending on the type of search (post search or job search), you can apply appropriate filters to the results:
Post: filtered by sort type (most recent, most relevant), date posted (past month, past week, past 24h), companies, text search query, language, etc.
Job: filtered by sort type, date posted, locations, companies, experience levels (executive, director, internship, etc.), job type (full time, part-time, contract, temporary, etc.), remote or not, etc.
Learn more in the LinkedIn API documentation.
Upon request, we can also provide functionality for searching for users and companies by keywords.
You can create tasks for a one-time or auto data update:
update - simple queued task for updating an item once
auto_update - tasks for monitoring items for some time
When creating an auto update task, you can apply the following parameters:
auto_update_interval - data update interval, for example, every 3600 seconds
auto_update_expire_at - parameter according to which automatic data monitoring will be canceled after the specified date, for example after 2021-04-06T21:42:12
You can additionally specify the callback_url parameter when creating the task. In that case, the updated data will be delivered to this URL every auto_update_interval seconds.
This function is available for all items (post, member, company, group, job search, post search).
You can find how to view all active tasks and how to cancel them in the LinkedIn tasks section.
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INFORMATION FOR DEVELOPERS
You send queries and get appropriate data in JSON format. To start working, you need an access token, which you can get after filling out the form.

Here you can see a step-by-step illustration of how to get data from LinkedIn API on the example of getting info about posts with comments (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/satyanadella_i-am-heartbroken-by-the-current-situation-activity-6792266087523332096-Vd-8/).
INFORMATION FOR DEVELOPERS
You send queries and get appropriate data in JSON format. To start working, you need an access token, which you can get after filling out the form.

Here you can see a step-by-step illustration of how to get data from LinkedIn API on the example of getting info about posts with comments (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/
satyanadella_i-am-heartbroken-by-the-current-situation-activity-6792266087523332096-Vd-8/
).
POST
https://api.data365.co/linkedin/post/satyanadella_i-am-heartbroken-by-the-current-situation-activity-6792266087523332096-Vd-8/update?load_comments=1&max_comments=100&
callback_url=https://YOUR_CALLBACK_URL&access_token=YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN
RESPONSE:
{
"data": null,
"error": null,
"status": "accepted"
}
If you specify the callback_url parameter when creating the task, the post and comments data will be delivered to this URL after the task receives the "finished" status (i.e., after the post is downloaded). In this case, you can skip all the subsequent steps.

If you don't specify the callback_url parameter or need to retrieve the post data you downloaded earlier, you'll also need to follow steps 2-4.
GET
https://api.data365.co/linkedin/post/satyanadella_i-am-heartbroken-by-the-current-situation-activity-6792266087523332096-Vd-8/update?access_token=YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN
RESPONSE:
{
"data": {
"status": "finished"
},
"error": null,
"status": "ok"
}
Step 3. When the status is "finished", make a GET request to get the post data
GET
https://api.data365.co/linkedin/post/satyanadella_i-am-heartbroken-by-the-current-situation-activity-6792266087523332096-Vd-8?access_token=YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN
RESPONSE:
{
"data": {
"appreciation_count": 11957,
"article": null,
"author": {
"id": "19186432",
"name": "Satya Nadella",
"profile_type": "member",
"username": "satyanadella"
},
"author_id": "19186432",
"author_username": "satyanadella",
"carousel": null,
"comments_count": 2426,
"created_time": "2021-05-01T00:00:00",
"document": null,
"empathy_count": 5750,
"hashtags": null,
"id": "6792266087103897601",
"image_urls": null,
"interest_count": 29,
"lang": "en",
"like_count": 143078,
"links": null,
"maybe_count": 49,
"mentioned_profiles": null,
"praise_count": 922,
"shared_post": null,
"shares_count": null,
"text": "I am heartbroken by the current situation in India. I'm grateful the U.S. government is mobilizing to help. Microsoft will continue to use its voice, resources, and technology to aid relief efforts, and support the purchase of critical oxygen concentration devices.",
"url": "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/satyanadella_i-am-heartbroken-by-the-current-situation-activity-6792266087523332096-Vd-8",
"video": null,
"views_count": null
},
"error": null,
"status": "ok"
}
Step 4. When the status is "finished", make a GET request to get the comments on the post
GET
https://api.data365.co/linkedin/post/satyanadella_i-am-heartbroken-by-the-current-situation-activity-6792266087523332096-Vd-8/comments?access_token=YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN
RESPONSE:
{
"data": {
"items": [
{
"appreciation_count": null,
"article": null,
"author": {
"id": "293093790",
"name": "Rohit Grover",
"profile_type": "member",
"username": "rohit-grover-5661a682"
},
"author_id": "293093790",
"author_username": "rohit-grover-5661a682",
"comments_count": 0,
"created_time": "2021-04-26T10:56:55.725000",
"empathy_count": null,
"hashtags": null,
"id": "6792401086469742592",
"image_urls": null,
"interest_count": null,
"lang": "en",
"like_count": 5,
"links": null,
"maybe_count": null,
"mentioned_profiles": null,
"parent_id": "6792266087103897601",
"parent_type": "post",
"praise_count": null,
"text": "After existing for 44 years on this planet, now I have come to the firm conclusion that humans are never equal. They are always divided between haves and haves-not. 80% of the people in India cannot read Mr Satyas message as they belong to the less haves-not class and are suffering the most with little health care. All the people who have liked this post are educated and belong to the haves class. \n\nMaybe I am ill informed about how to respond to posts-- whats there to love about this post. Mr Satya (whom I admire for his humility) has said he is heartbroken. People just respond not even reading and absorbing whats in the message. \n\nAnd US government has already delayed. India helped USA in the time of need last year.",
"url": "https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:
6792266087523332096?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%
3A6792266087523332096%2C6792401086469742592%29"
},
... ... ... ... ...
},
"error": null,
"status": "ok"
}
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ADDITIONAL INFO ABOUT OUR LINKEDIN API

What is LinkedIn API?

LinkedIn API, developed by Data365, is a powerful tool for collecting and storing data for its further analysis from one of the world's largest social networks. Marketing research, identifying public users who fit the company as employees or potential customers, studying mentions of a keyword or phrase, using the obtained data to make decisions – these are not all the possibilities of this powerful web scraping tool.

Thanks to carefully selected and structured LinkedIn data, your business model will always be effective, and the client's brand will be associated only with positive feedback, both from customers and employees. Expand your possibilities and fetch the new customer right now – just contact our specialists and you will get answers to all your questions.

How to learn LinkedIn API?

Our API for developers is a specialized tool designed to allow any corporation, agency or SMB to view the data they are interested in on a social network, save the results, conduct research and draw the appropriate conclusions, without which creating a social media marketing campaign is impossible. Our web service is multifunctional and easy to use if you have a technical background. And for those who have experience with similar Application Programming Interfaces, it is enough to read the free of charge LinkedIn API documentation posted on our website in order to independently understand the principles of operation and settings. And our managers will promptly answer questions that still remain unresolved after studying the docs at any convenient time.

How to set up LinkedIn API?

Almost 500 million people around the world have LinkedIn profiles (most of them are open), so it is not surprising that Social media listening dashboards and Media intelligence companies use it for collecting and storing data, as well as conducting analysis, which is necessary to create a marketing policy for customers and promote them in social networks. You can automate and speed up the process of searching and collecting information using our product, which is based on HTTP and allows you to work with various requests.

To get access to the product, the LinkedIn API developer must submit a service request, which will be promptly processed by our specialists. After that, we will contact the applicant, ask clarifying questions, consult and help you choose the appropriate tariff plan. Later, you will be sent all the information you need to start searching, storing and monitoring data:
key (aka access token);
API request templates for process optimization (Postman collection);
links to documentation, guide, page with examples with sample data that can be obtained using our APIs, articles with instructions on how to use the API, create requests, etc. All this information can be useful for you to develop measures to promote customers, analyze the received data and generate reports, including graphs.
Don't search for information manually – use our unique development and devote more time to rest or other useful things!

How to use LinkedIn API?

Using our tool is quite simple, since it is based on HTTP and all the necessary information about requests, characteristics and data collection principles can be found in the LinkedIn API docs. Useful articles are also posted on the Resources page, where you will always find useful information: links to documentation, articles (instructions), blogs, etc.

Due to the fact that the tool uses a standard protocol for transferring hypertext, the principle of its operation and the formation of requests is similar for all social networks and data processed and stored on the server. For example, our API is based on two key methods for adding or replacing data (POST) and for getting the appropriate information when the data is processed (GET).

Write to us and we will tell you how the API works and help you create a particular request. In addition, you can always find one or another specific example on our website.

How to get data from LinkedIn API?

To get the necessary LinkedIn API data for its further analysis and formation of conclusions and recommendations, the developer will need to work with only two main parameters – the Path and the Query.

Without the first parameter, it will not be possible to determine the endpoint, which is, in fact, the goal for which you are searching and collecting data. The list of components of the Path is quite wide: the ID of the user, post, comment or other object, the name of the company or the follower (in case you want to study their profile and posts or comments), a specific URL link, etc.

As for the Query, this parameter allows you to customize the request (this is the task that the user submits to the API for execution) for your specific goals. For example, you can always upload additional data, limit the amount of uploaded data by a specific filter, sort and filter data that has already been received.

Is any LinkedIn private API available as an alternative to LinkedIn public API?

Yes, our Data365 LinkedIn API is a new LinkedIn private API that provides clients with extensive sets of data about LinkedIn profiles, business, jobs, posts, and comments. Our API for LinkedIn allows questing information about posts and jobs, and also to filter the obtained results by various parameters depending on the search type. With our API, you get an opportunity to individualize API to your requirements or add new features. Moreover, you are ensured with human support during full collaboration time.

LinkedIn provides developers with Linkedin public APIs in such scope as Consumer, Compliance, Learning, Marketing, Sales, and Talent. The mission of Consumer API is to improve your entrance and share content, Compliance API is monitoring and running communications, Learning API is to unify Learning content, Marketing API is running advertising on LinkedIn, Sales API is managing customer relationships to increase sales, Talent API is improving candidate sourcing and recruiting process.
As a whole, they provide a simple and successive representation of people, companies, jobs, and relationships between them.

Data365 LinkedIn API is more like a Compliance API, namely Profile API, Post API, Organization Lookup API, etc. It should admit that Compliance APIs have some restrictions on access to data. Some permissions are required to perform actions with different types of data. Also, not all official APIs are fit to be called daily to check on updates.

Our LinkedIn private API is focused on gathering data and is easier to access. You only need an access token to receive data such as LinkedIn members, posts, companies, groups, etc. Obtained data with our LinkedIn API are a powerful base for your marketing analysis and business as a whole.

Our API for LinkedIn can be efficiently applied to develop a marketing strategy, to analyze the market and forecast its development, to analyze rivals, to study consumers and hunt for high-skilled personnel, to run a marketing audit, and much more.

It should be concluded that compared to LinkedIn public API, our LinkedIn private API is easier to deal with - no restrictions, special permissions. So, if your objective is to gather numerous data from one of the major social networks Data365 LinkedIn API will brilliantly cope with this task.

What is LinkedIn REST API and why is its value to use?

Data365 LinkedIn API is REST API, which means it focuses on resources (i.e.different types of data, not actions) and how resources are accessed. Also it includes some concepts that enable standard RESTful principles at scale, model data consistently, and finally, ensure a well-structured end-to-end soft developer practice. Nowadays REST is one of the most popular ways of interaction and data exchange of the server displacing almost all other designs.

In Data 365 LinkedIn API we apply two key HTTP request methods concerning information:
POST request to register or add data, i.e. to supplement the Data365 database with new LinkedIn data, or to update existing ones.
GET request to receive data, just transfer, i.e. a query to Data365 databases, to receive the data collected after the POST query was finished.

After completing the request, the user gets a response in JSON format that provides a lighter, simpler, and more flexible message format and increases communication speed. JSON is an alternative to another extension with similar functionality - XML, and a very popular format, because it does not require a lot of resources, and productivity grows with it several times.

Below you can see a LinkedIn REST API example for POST and GET requests.

A POST request example to update a LinkedIn search for posts:
https://api.data365.co/v1.1/linkedin/post/search/update
A GET request example to get posts for a LinkedIn search:
https://api.data365.co/v1.1/linkedin/post/search/posts
More detailed information you can find at our LinkedIn REST API documentation at
https://api.data365.co/v1.1/linkedin/docs.
Obtain structured and well-organized data with Data365 REST API LinkedIn to improve your business performance.
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