linkedin-people-search
The public LinkedIn members with a given first and last name, one row per member: name, profile URL, headline, location, and the company and school summary LinkedIn shows ("Microsoft, +4 more"). For finding the right profile before you read it with linkedin-profile. first_name and last_name are the name; limit caps the members. About 2 s from our own search; about 1 minute when only the second source finds the name.
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What this recipe returned on its last run. No key needed to look.
Fields
8 columns on every row. null means the site does not state it.| field | type | meaning |
|---|---|---|
| name | The member's name as LinkedIn shows it. | |
| profile_url | The member's public profile, on www.linkedin.com. | |
| profile_id | The profile's public id, the part after /in/. | |
| headline | The member's headline or current company ("Chairman and CEO at Microsoft"); null when none is shown. | |
| location | Where the member is, as LinkedIn shows it; null when the search result does not show it. | |
| experience | The company LinkedIn shows for the member ("Microsoft", or "Microsoft, +4 more"); null when none is shown. | |
| education | The school LinkedIn shows for the member; null when none is shown. | |
| avatar | The member's photo URL; null from our search and when the member has LinkedIn's default picture. |
null means the site does not state it.
How it behaves
Cost. search pages; records if none found. A failed run costs 0.
Freshness 1 d. The same input within 1 d is served from cache at 0 units.
How it answers. Answers at once for one input; a large run goes as a job you poll.
Questions about this recipeQuestions
Short answers. The API reference has the long ones.
Call POST /recipes/linkedin-people-search with your key and first_name and last_name and limit. You get rows with the 8 fields above. The recipe is tested against the live site every 6 hours.
search pages; records if none found. A failed run costs 0. The same input within 1 d costs 0.
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The health check runs every 6 hours against the live site. A failing recipe shows as failing on this page until we fix it.
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