Get user profile — LinkedIn API

Returns profile information for a public LinkedIn member: headline, location, and a simple list of job titles and school/employer names. Fields the member has restricted are omitted.

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GET/v1/linkedin/users/{username}1 credit per request

Example response200OK

{
  "data": {
    "@context": [
      "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#",
      "https://konbiniapi.com/ns/social#"
    ],
    "type": "Person",
    "id": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/reidhoffman",
    "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/reidhoffman",
    "name": "Reid Hoffman",
    "preferredUsername": "reidhoffman",
    "summary": "Creator, Top Voice",
    "location": "United States, US",
    "address": {
      "addressLocality": "United States",
      "addressCountry": "US"
    },
    "followerCount": 2783363,
    "icon": {
      "type": "Image",
      "url": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D4E03AQExample/profile-displayphoto-shrink_800_800/0/1700000000000"
    },
    "role": [
      "Co-Founder, Executive Board Chair",
      "Co-Founder, Board Member"
    ],
    "affiliation": [
      "Manas AI",
      "Greylock"
    ],
    "education": [
      "Stanford University",
      "Oxford University"
    ],
    "language": [
      "English"
    ]
  }
}

Make the request.

One authenticated GET to /v1/linkedin/users/{username}. Authentication and error conventions stay consistent across endpoints. This page shows the path, parameters, response shape, limits, and credit rule for this operation.

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Full reference for this endpoint

const response = await fetch("https://api.konbiniapi.com/v1/linkedin/users/satyanadella", {
  headers: { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" }
});

const data = await response.json();

Parameters1

usernamerequiredIn · PathType · stringLinkedIn username

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