LinkedIn
Find a person by name
Find someone's LinkedIn profile from their name (and optionally company). Runs a site:linkedin.com/in Google search via serper.dev, then hydrates the top matches with a full profile fetch each — returning the search snippet alongside the parsed profile. Charged once regardless of how many matches hydrate; a match whose profile is momentarily unavailable is returned with profile: null.
Costs 10 credits per request.
Authorization
ApiKeyAuth X-API-Key<token>
API key created in the extractr dashboard (ext_live_...). Also accepted as Authorization: Bearer.
In: header
Request Body
application/json
TypeScript Definitions
Use the request body type in TypeScript.
Response Body
application/json
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curl -X POST "https://example.com/linkedin/find_person" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "first_name": "Bill", "last_name": "Gates" }'{ "query": "string", "count": 0, "matches": [ { "profile_url": "string", "serp_title": "string", "serp_snippet": "string", "profile": { "slug": "williamhgates", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates", "name": "Bill Gates", "headline": "Chair, Gates Foundation and Founder, Breakthrough Energy", "summary": "string", "location": "Seattle, Washington, United States", "country": "US", "image": "string", "followers": 40563000, "connections": 500, "job_titles": [ "Co-chair", "Founder" ], "positions": [ { "company": "Microsoft", "company_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft", "start_year": 1975, "end_year": null } ], "education": [ { "school": "Harvard University", "school_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/school/harvard-university/", "start_year": 1973, "end_year": 1975 } ] } } ]}{ "error": { "code": "invalid_api_key", "message": "The provided API key is invalid or has been revoked." }}{ "error": { "code": "invalid_api_key", "message": "The provided API key is invalid or has been revoked." }}{ "error": { "code": "invalid_api_key", "message": "The provided API key is invalid or has been revoked." }}{ "error": { "code": "invalid_api_key", "message": "The provided API key is invalid or has been revoked." }}{ "error": { "code": "invalid_api_key", "message": "The provided API key is invalid or has been revoked." }}{ "error": { "code": "invalid_api_key", "message": "The provided API key is invalid or has been revoked." }}{ "error": { "code": "invalid_api_key", "message": "The provided API key is invalid or has been revoked." }}