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LinkedIn API
Public profiles, company pages and their updates, job listings, and ads from LinkedIn's Ad Library.
Overview
Research people, companies, hiring and advertising on LinkedIn: public profiles, company pages, job listings and the Ad Library. You get what LinkedIn shows a logged-out visitor. We never sign in to a LinkedIn account.
Source: linkedin.com.
Endpoints
Call it
Each endpoint is a web address. Request it with GET, put your API key in the x-api-key header, and you get JSON back. For example, LinkedIn profile:
curl "https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/linkedin/profile?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fwilliamhgates" \-H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"Use it in Claude
Connect LurkAPI to Claude and ask in plain English. Each endpoint is a tool Claude can call:
| Tool | Endpoint |
|---|---|
linkedin_profile | LinkedIn profile |
linkedin_company | LinkedIn company page |
linkedin_company_posts | LinkedIn company posts |
linkedin_search_jobs | Search LinkedIn jobs |
linkedin_job | LinkedIn job details |
linkedin_search_ads | Search LinkedIn ads |
linkedin_ad | LinkedIn ad details |
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