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Profiles

Resolve a public LinkedIn profile URL or vanity slug to a typed person record.

The Profiles surface returns a typed Profile record — name, headline, location, current and past roles, education, skills, certifications. Every profile is captured through the end user's own LinkedIn session via the LinkFetch Chrome extension; we never hit a fake account on your behalf.

Get profile by URL or slug

The cache-first read. Returns the full structured profile. On a cache miss the API returns 422 extension_required and the extension captures the row from the user's signed-in tab; the next call hits the cache and returns 200.

GET/v1/profiles5 credits
Get Profile
Full profile for a LinkedIn member by slug or URL.

Reads our cache. If the row isn't cached, returns 422 with a hint to run the LinkFetch Chrome extension on a signed-in tab — the extension will post the capture to /v1/profiles/ingest.

parameters
This endpoint resolves through the Chrome extension when the row isn't cached. Open it in the full playground to capture via extension.
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url and slug are interchangeable — supply whichever you have on hand. Pass a full https://www.linkedin.com/in/<slug>/ URL or the bare slug. The response includes the profile's entityUrn tail; keep it if you plan to call profile-posts or post-reactions later.

Recent posts by profile

GET/v1/profiles/{slug}/posts3 credits
Get Profile Posts
Recent posts from a profile.

Cache-first read off the per-user profile-posts cache. On miss the playground triggers the extension to fetch the dash-graphql `feedDashProfileUpdatesByMemberShareFeed` page on the user's signed-in tab, normalize, and POST to `/v1/profiles/{slug}/posts/ingest`. Each item carries `activity_id`, `ugc_post_urn`, reaction/comment/share counts, and `posted_at` derived from the activity-id snowflake.

parameters
This endpoint resolves through the Chrome extension when the row isn't cached. Open it in the full playground to capture via extension.
open in full playground →

Returns the most recent activity authored by the profile, paginated. Pair with GET /v1/posts/:id to enrich each entry with reaction counts and full body. Useful for warm-intro context and "who has been talking about X" digests.

Ingest profile (extension write-path)

POST/v1/profiles/ingest5 credits
Ingest Profile
Extension-side write path. Reference only — not runnable from here.

Called by the LinkFetch Chrome extension after it captures a profile from a signed-in LinkedIn tab. Upserts the row and debits credits atomically. GDPR-suppressed slugs return 410.

parameters
urlstring<url> · in body · required

Canonical linkedin.com/in/<slug> URL.

profileobject<Profile> · in body · required

Normalised payload — see packages/shared/src/profile.ts.

fetched_atstring<ISO-8601> · in body · optional

When the extension captured the page. Defaults to now.

This endpoint isn’t directly callable — it’s invoked by the LinkFetch extension or another LinkFetch service. The shape above is documented so you can build matching integrations.

open in full playground →

This route exists for the LinkFetch extension. It POSTs a freshly captured profile from the user's signed-in tab and the API normalises, caches, and debits credits atomically. You do not call this yourself — it's documented so you can build matching integrations or replicate the contract from a server-to-server pipeline if you have one of our enterprise plans.

Notes

  • 5 credits per call regardless of profile size.
  • Profiles cache for 30 days; pass ?fresh=true to force a re-capture.
  • Suppressed profiles (under DSR) return 410 gone permanently — including via the extension capture path.