Ask HN: Has anyone had success with LinkedIn APIs?

Posted by ashfernandez on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @02:49PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Howdy folks. Has anyone here had success with using LinkedIn APIs to utilize people's Linkedin profile information?

What do I mean exactly? Looking to see if anyone has had success finding LinkedIn APIs to:

1. Pull profile information such as name, company, work history, education (currently, you can do this as a PDF download, but it requires users to manually do this)

2. Pull company information on their company LinkedIn page such as the 'About' section and website

Has anyone had success finding LinkedIn APIs to do this? If so, what did you have to do to get access?

Thank you!

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone had success with LinkedIn APIs? by altdataseller on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @04:14PM (#40869576)

Nope, Microsoft aren't idiots. If they gave away this API access for free, this would cannabalize Sales Navigator and their paid products

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone had success with LinkedIn APIs? by JLCarveth on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @03:21PM (#40869187)

I had to pull my company's most recent posts from our socials, LinkedIn was the only one where I gave up. LinkedIn was the only company that wanted a privacy policy, and also made you apply to gain access to the API.

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone had success with LinkedIn APIs? by ashfernandez on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @04:35PM (#40869725)

Oh.. so there is a way to get profile and company info if you go through their application process?

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone had success with LinkedIn APIs? by FrenchDevRemote on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @03:13PM (#40869112)

Nope, it's very limited, scraping is the way to go IMO

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone had success with LinkedIn APIs? by ashfernandez on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @04:36PM (#40869726)

Any recommendations for 3rd party companies that offer this?

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone had success with LinkedIn APIs? by yamumsahoe on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @08:05PM (#40871236)

theorg.com zoominfo.com repvue.com

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone had success with LinkedIn APIs? by sirspacey on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @10:46PM (#40871941)

I’ve worked with a dozen solutions and built several of my own to do this. Buzz.ai is my recommended solution. Great API, handles all the problems for you.

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone had success with LinkedIn APIs? by rl1987 on Saturday July 06, 2024 @09:23AM (#40890317)

Just use one of the many data providers that scrape (or maybe buy?) LI data and resell it via API (Nubela/Proxycurl, Prospeo...).

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