Reputation: 188
Is there any LinkedIn Rest API available to search people with first and last name?
I am not able to find anything on their developer website.
I found this url from some other question: http://api.linkedin.com/v1/people-search:(people:(id))?first-name=bill&last-name=gates
But when I am trying to hit this url from APIGee REST console I am getting response as 403 permission denied. I am using oAuth with my LinkedIn account.
I am currently using free account on LinkedIn, is because of that.
Upvotes: 14
Views: 43803
Reputation: 21
You can use LinkedIn Public Search Results Scraper API to achieve this. Here is an example. Response for a profile found look like this:
{
"id": "jimmy-neutron-b914a91a5",
"name": "Jimmy Neutron",
"occupation": "Chief Executive Officer at NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration",
"location": "Houston, TX",
"last_job": "NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration",
"last_education": "Harvard University",
"thumbnail": "https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C4D03AQE7YG6jwNNy2Q/profile-displayphoto-shrink_200_200/0/1584908070871?e=1620259200&v=beta&t=QJREJQLCsAIaDiQCOZJ6Nu6QoyUPWK8ytJAWU52icRU",
"link": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmy-neutron-b914a91a5?trk=people-guest_people_search-card"
},
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 216
Now LinkedIn does not provide search people apis for the reason for data-stealing. thanks
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 696
You have to get Vetted API access from Linkedin in order to do People Search. For more information please look into this link
Upvotes: 7