LinkedIn Person's Profile

Retrieves a person's public LinkedIn profile data, including their name, photo, location, follower count (followers), about/bio summary, recent posts, work experience, education, articles, activity feed, publications, projects, recommendations, and similar profiles.

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LinkedIn Person's Profile
GET /v1/linkedin/profile

Retrieves a person's public LinkedIn profile data, including their name, photo, location, follower count (followers), about/bio summary, recent posts, work experience, education, articles, activity feed, publications, projects, recommendations, and similar profiles.

Authentication: x-api-key
Example URL: https://api.datawake.ai/v1/linkedin/profile?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fparrsam%2F

Parameters:
- url (query · string · required) = https://www.linkedin.com/in/parrsam/

Overview

WakeScrap exposes this LinkedIn endpoint as a live-data API. The platform keeps the documented request and response shape stable while unifying auth, request tracking, and credits billing.

Required params: url.

Headers

x-api-key string required

Your Wake API access key.

Example:

YOUR_API_KEY

Query Parameters

url string required

The URL of the LinkedIn profile to get

Example:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/parrsam/


              curl 'https://api.datawake.ai/v1/linkedin/profile?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fparrsam%2F' \
  -H 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json'


              const response = await fetch("https://api.datawake.ai/v1/linkedin/profile?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fparrsam%2F", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
    'Accept': 'application/json',
  },
});

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);


              import requests

response = requests.request(
    "GET",
    "https://api.datawake.ai/v1/linkedin/profile?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fparrsam%2F",
    headers={
        "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Accept": "application/json",
    },
)

print(response.json())


              $ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.datawake.ai/v1/linkedin/profile?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fparrsam%2F",
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
        'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY',
        'Accept: application/json',
    ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

echo $response;


              client := &http.Client{}
req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.datawake.ai/v1/linkedin/profile?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fparrsam%2F", nil)
if err != nil {
    panic(err)
}

req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
req.Header.Set("Accept", "application/json")

resp, err := client.Do(req)
if err != nil {
    panic(err)
}
defer resp.Body.Close()

body, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))


              HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
    .uri(URI.create("https://api.datawake.ai/v1/linkedin/profile?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fparrsam%2F"))
    .header("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
    .header("Accept", "application/json")
    .method("GET", HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.noBody())
    .build();

HttpResponse<String> response = HttpClient.newHttpClient()
    .send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());

System.out.println(response.body());


              {
  "success": true,
  "name": "Sam Parr",
  "image": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/C4E03AQH3Vz1qV_rNVQ/profile-displayphoto-shrink_200_200/profile-displayphoto-shrink_200_200/0/1633389534107?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=8x4PIfTIYFOvp...",
  "location": "Westport, Connecticut, United States",
  "followers": 64803,
  "connections": "",
  "about": "I founded The Hustle, a business news media company with $12 when I was around 25 years…",
  "recentPosts": [
    {
      "title": "Super excited to watch the success of a company built by a Gauntlet AI grad: One missed contract renewal can cost your company $100k, $250k or more.…",
      "activityType": "Posted by Austen Allred",
      "link": "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/austenallred_super-excited-to-watch-the-success-of-a-company-activity-7333305862695919617-zTPI",
      "image": "https://static.licdn.com/aero-v1/sc/h/53n89ecoxpr1qrki1do3alazb"
    }
  ],
  "experience": [
    {
      "@type": "Organization",
      "name": "Hampton",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/myhampton",
      "location": "Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area",
      "member": {
        "@type": "OrganizationRole",
        "description": "******* ** * ****** ****** ********** ********* *** *************, ******** *** ****. <**><**>**'** ** * *** ****, *** ***...* *****.<**><**>*****://***.***********.***/"
      }
    }
  ],
  "articles": [
    {
      "headline": "RANT: How to PROPERLY analyze risk",
      "author": "Sam Parr",
      "datePublished": "2017-09-17T13:08:55.000+00:00",
      "image": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/C5612AQG9YbLJodxr8g/article-cover_image-shrink_720_1280/article-cover_image-shrink_720_1280/0/1520096757452?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=USPma8tkR65yo...",
      "articleBody": "I've been talking to a few people who want to leave...."
    }
  ],
  "activity": [
    {
      "title": "Othership is this cool suana place in NYC. The founder is hosting a bunch of Hampton members for a special session + a talk on how he built the…",
      "activityType": "Shared by Sam Parr",
      "link": "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/parrsam_exclusive-othership-session-qa-with-founder-activity-7328134812047704064-4NUL",
      "image": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/sync/v2/D4D27AQGJaeiyu-gbrA/articleshare-shrink_1280_800/B4DZbLDrHUHsAU-/0/1747163460743?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=rZtGF2kjhFfLy-TZil0d_bakH4UfHnK-dcx..."
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "@type": "EducationalOrganization",
      "name": "Belmont University",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/school/belmont-university/",
      "member": {
        "@type": "OrganizationRole",
        "startDate": 2008,
        "endDate": 2012
      }
    }
  ],
  "publications": [
    {
      "name": "How my partner and I created a unique company in tough times",
      "url": "http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324694904578602013087282582.html&urlhash=SvYD"
    }
  ],
  "projects": [
    {
      "name": "Hustle Con 2015",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethyin",
      "dateRange": "2015",
      "description": "",
      "contributors": [
        {
          "name": "...",
          "link": "...",
          "image": "..."
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "recommendations": [
    {
      "name": "Jackie M.",
      "link": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackiemooney",
      "image": "https://static.licdn.com/aero-v1/sc/h/9c8pery4andzj6ohjkjp54ma2",
      "text": "“I got to know Sam over 2 years of working at The Hustle. We grew from a company of 4 to 15 in that time and there was never a dull moment- anyone who knows Sam knows that he adds ..."
    }
  ],
  "similarProfiles": [
    {
      "link": "https://ca.linkedin.com/in/stevemcody",
      "name": "Steve Cody",
      "image": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D5603AQEl17hna0u1ew/profile-displayphoto-shrink_400_400/profile-displayphoto-shrink_400_400/0/1673387873184?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=pN-Y2CS1AQ8AO..."
    }
  ]
}


              {
  "error": {
    "code": "invalid_request",
    "message": "One or more required parameters are missing or invalid."
  }
}


              {
  "error": {
    "code": "unauthorized",
    "message": "Invalid or missing x-api-key header."
  }
}


              {
  "error": {
    "code": "insufficient_credits",
    "message": "This request requires available credits before execution."
  }
}