LinkedIn Profile thin API
Lightweight profile: name, avatar, location, followers, public id, current company, and a basic experience/education list (company + dates; job titles, the current-role flag and the connections label only where the source and the profile show them; no descriptions or skills; past companies may be redacted). For full experience detail, skills, certifications, and verified flags use linkedin.profile.
$0.80/1k req, pay per request, no subscription.
{"company": "Northwind Robotics","companyUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/northwind-robotics","startDate": "Mar 2022","endDate": "Present","current": boolean | null,"position": string | null}
Pricing and providers
LinkedIn Profile thin API pricing: one API, 3 interchangeable providers
The cheapest provider serves first. If it fails, the next one takes over in the same call.
A provider marked Not serving stopped answering reliably and was taken out of the rotation, so your calls go to the others. It is put back on its own once it answers reliably again.
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Get LinkedIn profile thin in one request
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{
"found": true,
"data": {
"name": "Elena Vasquez",
"location": "Austin, Texas, United States",
"followers": 8420,
"about": "Engineering leader focused on developer platforms and infrastructure. Previously built payments infra at scale; now leading the platform team at Northwind Robotics.",
"avatarUrl": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D4E03AQHElenaVprofile/profile-displayphoto-shrink_800_800/0/1701000000000?e=1735689600",
"headline": "VP of Engineering at Northwind Robotics",
"experience": [
{
"company": "Northwind Robotics",
"companyUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/northwind-robotics",
"startDate": "Mar 2022",
"endDate": "Present"
},
{
"company": "Cascade Payments",
"companyUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/cascade-payments",
"startDate": "Jul 2017",
"endDate": "Feb 2022"
},
{
"company": "Briar Systems",
"companyUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/briar-systems",
"startDate": "Jun 2014",
"endDate": "Jun 2017"
}
],
"education": [
{
"school": "University of Texas at Austin",
"schoolUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-texas-at-austin",
"startDate": "2010",
"endDate": "2014"
}
],
"recentPosts": [
{
"id": "7281234567890123456",
"url": "https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7281234567890123456",
"text": "Shipped our new deploy pipeline this week, cut rollout time from 40 minutes to 6.",
"activityType": "post",
"createdUtc": 1758585600
}
],
"articles": [
{
"headline": "Why we rebuilt our internal platform team around golden paths",
"url": "https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-we-rebuilt-elena-vasquez",
"createdUtc": 1751328000
}
]
}
}Full parameter and response reference - every field, type, and example for this endpoint.
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One request, one response shape.
Every field you send and every field you get back, each with a real example.
Last verified 2026-10-31 · uptime and latency measured over 30d
Request body
JSON, posted to this endpoint.
- urlstring
https://www.linkedin.com/in/elena-vasquez-eng
Full LinkedIn person profile URL, carrying the profile id after /in/, for example https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates. Any other LinkedIn URL names no person, so it is rejected instead of charged: send a company page to linkedin.company_thin or linkedin.company, and a post to linkedin.post.
- requireFieldsarray
["recentPosts"]
Optional; omit it and routing is unchanged, with the cheapest source serving. Name the output fields this request must be able to return, for example `headline` or `recentPosts`, and it is served only by a source that returns every one of them. Fields you do not name are still returned whenever the serving source has them. This can raise your price: when the cheapest source cannot return a named field, a dearer source serves, and you are quoted and charged its price. A named field can still be absent on a profile that genuinely lacks it. Naming a combination that no single source returns together is refused as invalid input, with no charge.
Response
JSON, one example value per field.
The profile result, or null when not found.
- aboutstring
Engineering leader focused on developer platforms and infrastructure. Previously built payments infra at scale; now leading the platform team at Northwind Robotics.
About/summary text of the profile.
- avatarUrlstring
https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D4E03AQHElenaVprofile/profile-displayphoto-shrink_800_800/0/1701000000000?e=1735689600
URL of the profile avatar image.
- connectionsstringcan require
Connections count as LinkedIn's public label shows it, capped at "500+" (for example "8" or "500+"). Null when the serving source does not publish it.
- followersinteger
8420
Number of followers.
- headlinestringcan require
VP of Engineering at Northwind Robotics
Profile headline, or null when the serving source does not publish it.
- locationstring
Austin, Texas, United States
Location of the profile owner.
- namestring
Elena Vasquez
Full name of the profile owner.
- publicIdentifierstringcan require
LinkedIn public identifier (the /in/ handle), or null when the serving source does not publish it.
The profile's published articles, or null when the serving source does not publish them.
- createdUtcnumbercan require
1751328000
UTC epoch timestamp in seconds (Unix time). Multiply by 1000 for a JS Date in milliseconds.
- headlinestringcan require
Why we rebuilt our internal platform team around golden paths
Headline of the article.
- urlstringcan require
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-we-rebuilt-elena-vasquez
Canonical URL of the article.
The member's current role as the serving source reports it: one entry, or an empty list when the profile shows no current employer. Null when the serving source does not publish it.
- companyLinkedinUrlstringcan require
Company LinkedIn URL, or null when the serving source does not publish it.
- companyNamestringcan require
Company name.
- positionstringcan require
Job title, or null when the serving source does not publish it or the profile hides it.
Education entries.
- endDatestring
2014
End date of study.
- schoolstring
University of Texas at Austin
Name of the school.
- schoolUrlstring
https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-texas-at-austin
URL of the school page.
- startDatestring
2010
Start date of study.
Work experience entries: company and dates, plus the job title and whether the role is current when the serving source publishes them. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
- companystring
Northwind Robotics
Name of the company.
- companyUrlstring
https://www.linkedin.com/company/northwind-robotics
URL of the company page.
- currentbooleancan require
Whether this is a current role, or null when the serving source does not say.
- endDatestring
Present
End date of the role.
- positionstringcan require
Job title, or null when the serving source does not publish it or the profile hides it.
- startDatestring
Mar 2022
Start date of the role.
The profile's recent posts, or null when the serving source does not publish them.
- activityTypestringcan require
post
Type of activity for the post.
- createdUtcnumbercan require
1758585600
UTC epoch timestamp in seconds (Unix time). Multiply by 1000 for a JS Date in milliseconds.
- idstringcan require
7281234567890123456
Unique identifier of the post.
- textstringcan require
Shipped our new deploy pipeline this week, cut rollout time from 40 minutes to 6.
Text content of the post.
- urlstringcan require
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7281234567890123456
Canonical URL of the post.
- foundboolean
true
Whether the profile was found.
- reason"not_found" | "unavailable"
Present only when `found` is false, and says why there is no result. `not_found`: the source states the target does not exist, or returned nothing for it. `unavailable`: the platform did not show this to the source: it may not exist, or it may be visible only to signed-in users. A `found: false` answer is a successful call, not an error, and `costUsd` is what it actually cost.
FAQ
About the LinkedIn Profile thin API
The AnyAPI LinkedIn Profile thin API returns LinkedIn profile thin data as normalized JSON from one POST call to /v1/run/linkedin.profile_thin. Lightweight profile: name, avatar, location, followers, public id, current company, and a basic experience/education list (company + dates; job titles, the current-role flag and the connections label only where the source and the profile show them; no descriptions or skills; past companies may be redacted). For full experience detail, skills, certifications, and verified flags use linkedin.profile. AnyAPI routes each request across 3 sources and falls back automatically when one fails. It costs from $0.80 per 1,000 requests, in US dollars with no subscription and no monthly minimum. Over the last 30 days, 100.0% of LinkedIn profile thin calls through AnyAPI succeeded, with a median response time of 9.9 seconds across 277,821 measured calls.
