LinkedIn API
LinkedIn Profile thin API
Lightweight profile: name, avatar, location, followers, and a basic experience/education list (company + dates only, no job titles, descriptions, or skills; past companies may be redacted). For full experience detail, skills, certifications, connections, and verified flags use linkedin.profile.
POST/v1/run/linkedin.profile_thin
Uptime
100.00%
30d · 17 calls
Requests
17
30d · weekly, last 12 wks
Response
9.5s
median · 30d
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requireFieldsarrayOptional; 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.
Sample response
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{
"data": {
"about": "A short example description of this item.",
"articles": [
{
"createdUtc": 12.5,
"headline": "Example title",
"url": "https://example.com/page"
}
],
"avatarUrl": "https://example.com/image.jpg",
"education": [
{
"endDate": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
"school": "example",
"schoolUrl": "https://example.com/page",
"startDate": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z"
}
],
"experience": [
{
"company": "Acme Inc",
"companyUrl": "https://example.com/page",
"endDate": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
"startDate": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z"
}
],
"followers": 12500,
"location": "example",
"name": "Example title",
"recentPosts": [
{
"activityType": "general",
"createdUtc": 12.5,
"id": "a1b2c3d4",
"text": "A short example description of this item.",
"url": "https://example.com/page"
}
]
},
"found": true
}Response interface
interface LinkedinProfileThinResponse {
data: {
about?: string;
articles?: {
createdUtc?: number;
headline: string;
url?: string;
}[] | null;
avatarUrl?: string;
education?: {
endDate?: string;
school: string;
schoolUrl?: string;
startDate?: string;
}[];
experience?: {
company: string;
companyUrl?: string;
endDate?: string;
startDate?: string;
}[];
followers?: number;
location?: string;
name: string;
recentPosts?: {
activityType?: string;
createdUtc?: number;
id: string;
text?: string;
url?: string;
}[] | null;
} | null;
found: boolean;
}Full parameter and response reference - every field, type, and example for this endpoint.
Reference
Request, response, and price
Last verified 2026-09-16 · uptime and latency measured over 30dPOST /v1/run/linkedin.profile_thin
curl -X POST https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/linkedin.profile_thin \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $ANYAPI_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates"}'| Field | Type | Example value |
|---|---|---|
| Request body | ||
| url | string | "https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates"Full LinkedIn profile URL. |
| requireFields | array | 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 | ||
| data | object | The profile result, or null when not found. |
| data.aboutcan require | string | About/summary text of the profile. |
| data.articlescan require | object[] | The profile's published articles, or null when the serving source does not publish them. |
| data.articles[].createdUtccan require | number | UTC epoch timestamp in seconds (Unix time). Multiply by 1000 for a JS Date in milliseconds. |
| data.articles[].headlinecan require | string | Headline of the article. |
| data.articles[].urlcan require | string | Canonical URL of the article. |
| data.avatarUrlcan require | string | URL of the profile avatar image. |
| data.educationcan require | object[] | Education entries. |
| data.education[].endDatecan require | string | End date of study. |
| data.education[].schoolcan require | string | Name of the school. |
| data.education[].schoolUrlcan require | string | URL of the school page. |
| data.education[].startDatecan require | string | Start date of study. |
| data.experience | object[] | Work experience entries (company and dates only in this basic tier). Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity. |
| data.experience[].companycan require | string | Name of the company. |
| data.experience[].companyUrlcan require | string | URL of the company page. |
| data.experience[].endDatecan require | string | End date of the role. |
| data.experience[].startDatecan require | string | Start date of the role. |
| data.followerscan require | integer | Number of followers. |
| data.locationcan require | string | Location of the profile owner. |
| data.namecan require | string | Full name of the profile owner. |
| data.recentPostscan require | object[] | The profile's recent posts, or null when the serving source does not publish them. |
| data.recentPosts[].activityTypecan require | string | Type of activity for the post. |
| data.recentPosts[].createdUtccan require | number | UTC epoch timestamp in seconds (Unix time). Multiply by 1000 for a JS Date in milliseconds. |
| data.recentPosts[].idcan require | string | Unique identifier of the post. |
| data.recentPosts[].textcan require | string | Text content of the post. |
| data.recentPosts[].urlcan require | string | Canonical URL of the post. |
| found | boolean | Whether the profile was found. |
| Price | ||
| Price per request | USD | $0.0008 |
| Price /1k req | USD | $0.80 |
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, and a basic experience/education list (company + dates only, no job titles, descriptions, or skills; past companies may be redacted). For full experience detail, skills, certifications, connections, and verified flags use linkedin.profile. AnyAPI routes each request across 2 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 9.5 seconds across 17 measured calls.
It costs from $0.80 per 1,000 requests, in US dollars with no subscription and no monthly minimum. You fund one USD wallet, each call draws it down, and a failed request costs $0.
Lightweight profile: name, avatar, location, followers, and a basic experience/education list (company + dates only, no job titles, descriptions, or skills; past companies may be redacted). For full experience detail, skills, certifications, connections, and verified flags use linkedin.profile. The response is normalized JSON with the same envelope every AnyAPI endpoint returns, so parsing a second endpoint is a change of URL and nothing else.
Over the last 30 days, 100.0% of LinkedIn profile thin calls through AnyAPI succeeded, with a median response time of 9.5 seconds across 17 measured calls. These are AnyAPI's own measurements of traffic through the gateway, recomputed continuously, not a published service-level target.
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