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Reputation: 2082

Linkedin full name search results

I've build an app that connects with LinkedIn and allows me to search users. It uses the linkedin api with aouth.

Some parameters you can use are: first-name / last-name / keywords To search for a person you could for example use first and last name

If you don't no where to split a (foreign) name LinkedIn suggests to use the full name with the keywords parameter (see https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/people-search-api).

Example

A name like Zubair Ali:

keywords: Zubair Ali or Zubair+Ali or Zubair%20Ali
has no results

first-name: Zubair
last-name: Ali
has more then 100 results

I know Zubair Ali is easy to split but it's just an example i know that gives no results and i want to use a full name search so that i can use names from a full name database that also contain names like Wang Chin Hu and Peter van der Veen. Is there a fix for this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 770

Answers (1)

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Reputation: 10697

This appears to be related to a known issue that is currently under investigation:

https://developer.linkedin.com/forum/people-search-not-returning-proper-results

Upvotes: 2

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