LinkedIn job details

When to use this

Use a job id or url from job search. Returns the public listing: title, company, location, how long ago it was posted and the applicant count as LinkedIn shows them, the full description as plain text (lists as - lines) and LinkedIn's criteria. The exact listing date is in job search. A listing LinkedIn no longer has is not_found.

Parameters

All parameters go in the query string.

Example request

Replace YOUR_API_KEY with your key, or set LURKAPI_KEY for the code. Get a free key.

curl "https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/linkedin/job?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fjobs%2Fview%2F4415336738" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const params = new URLSearchParams({
  url: "https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4415336738",
});
const res = await fetch(`https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/linkedin/job?${params}`, {
  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.LURKAPI_KEY },
});
const data = await res.json();
if (!data.success) throw new Error(`${data.code}: ${data.error}`);
console.log(data);

import os
import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/linkedin/job",
    params={
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4415336738",
    },
    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["LURKAPI_KEY"]},
    timeout=60,
)
data = res.json()
if not data["success"]:
    raise RuntimeError(f"{data['code']}: {data['error']}")
print(data)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured from the live API and trimmed to a couple of items. Strings over 96 characters (mostly signed media URLs) are cut short and end in ….

{
  "success": true,
  "credits_remaining": 999991,
  "credits_charged": 1,
  "id": "4415336738",
  "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4415336738/",
  "title": "Executive Director, Regional Employment",
  "company": {
    "name": "Carthage College",
    "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/school/carthage-college/",
    "logo": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D560BAQFg0x8fIYw5CA/company-logo_10…"
  },
  "location": "Kenosha, WI",
  "postedAgo": "5 months ago",
  "applicants": "47 applicants",
  "description": "The Executive Director will lead the implementation of a regional strate…",
  "seniority": "Not Applicable",
  "employmentType": "Full-time",
  "industries": "Higher Education"
}

Response fields

Every field of a successful response. [] marks a list: a[].b is the b of each item in a. nullable fields can be null; optional fields can be missing.

Caching and freshness

Responses are cached for up to 1 hour, so a repeat call within that window can return the same data. It still costs 1 credit.

Errors

Errors return { success: false, error, code, docs } with the HTTP status below. Validation errors, 401/402/429 rejections and 5xx failures are free; not_found is charged (how charging works). All error codes.

Use it in Claude

Once LurkAPI is connected to Claude, this endpoint is the linkedin_job tool. Ask in plain English, for example:

Use LurkAPI's linkedin_job with url "https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4415336738" and summarize what you find.

Claude calls linkedin_job with arguments like these, and each call costs 1 credit:

{
  "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4415336738"
}

Tool results are compact to save tokens: no nulls or empty lists, one URL per image or video, transcripts as plain text unless you pass timestamps=true. A result over 45,000 characters comes in parts: its _note gives the offset for the rest, and later parts are free for 15 minutes. trim=false returns the full response.