LinkedIn profiles in n8n: enrich a list of LinkedIn URLs with one HTTP Request node

• n8n, self-hosted or n8n Cloud. Nothing to install: the workflow uses only n8n's own nodes.
• A Datacircle API key: sign up with your work email and it's on your dashboard, with the $5 credit, 4,000 profiles through Up2Data.
• A list where each item has a linkedin_url, like https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates.

In n8n, add a credential of the type Header Auth. Name: Authorization. Value: Token, a space, then your key. Save it as Datacircle API key. Both HTTP Request nodes below use it, and the key stays out of the workflow's JSON when you share it.

Never Error keeps one private profile from stopping the run: every answer comes out of the node, and its statusCode says what it is. Batching sends one URL at a time, a second apart. Or copy the node and paste it on your canvas:

{
  "nodes": [
    {
      "parameters": {
        "method": "POST",
        "url": "https://api.datacircle.dev/v1/profiles/enrich",
        "authentication": "genericCredentialType",
        "genericAuthType": "httpHeaderAuth",
        "sendHeaders": true,
        "headerParameters": {
          "parameters": [
            {
              "name": "X-Data-Provider",
              "value": "up2data"
            }
          ]
        },
        "sendBody": true,
        "bodyParameters": {
          "parameters": [
            {
              "name": "url",
              "value": "={{ $json.linkedin_url }}"
            }
          ]
        },
        "options": {
          "batching": {
            "batch": {
              "batchSize": 1,
              "batchInterval": 1000
            }
          },
          "response": {
            "response": {
              "fullResponse": true,
              "neverError": true
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "name": "Up2Data",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",
      "typeVersion": 4.2,
      "position": [
        440,
        300
      ],
      "credentials": {
        "httpHeaderAuth": {
          "id": "datacircle",
          "name": "Datacircle API key"
        }
      },
      "id": "71dd5be5-3c66-4982-8e15-f2421444e60a"
    }
  ],
  "connections": {}
}

A 200 carries Up2Data's own profile in body.data, and what the call cost and your balance after it in body.datacircle_meta. Every field, jobs, schools and skills included: LinkedIn Profile API.

A Switch node on {{ $json.statusCode }} sends each answer down its own branch:

Up2Data takes $1 a day per account (800 profiles), with a shared daily limit for all customers, then answers 429 until 00:00 UTC; HarvestAPI has no daily limit. So past 800 profiles in a day, the workflow sends each URL to HarvestAPI, through the same key: a GET with the URL as a query parameter and X-Data-Provider: harvestapi. HarvestAPI answers a 200 even when it finds nothing; then body.element is null and the row says not found (HarvestAPI). A call your balance can't cover answers 402. Add funds, from $5, on your dashboard.

Download the workflow (JSON), then in n8n open a new workflow and import it from the file, or paste its contents on the canvas. Pick your Datacircle API key credential on the two HTTP Request nodes. Swap the LinkedIn URLs node, two example URLs, for your own source: a Google Sheets, Airtable or CRM node whose items have a linkedin_url. After the five branches, add the node that writes the rows back.

Every branch ends with the same columns, so one write node takes them all:

We ran this file on n8n 2.42.6, self-hosted, against a stand-in of the API that answers as its reference does. With four URLs, a profile came out found, a private one not found for free, a company page not a profile URL for free, and a profile past the daily limit found (HarvestAPI). With a wrong key, every row came out error 401, and nothing stopped the run.

From the pricing, per profile, taken from your balance with nothing added:

So a sheet of 1,000 URLs run in one day, every profile found, costs $1.00 for the first 800 through Up2Data and $0.74 for the other 200 through HarvestAPI: $1.74. Spread over two days, 500 a day, they fit in your account's Up2Data limit: $1.25.

The same call from Python: get LinkedIn profile data with Python. In a Google Sheet, without n8n: LinkedIn profiles in Google Sheets. From a Clay table: Clay alternative. What Apify's LinkedIn profile actors cost next to it: Apify LinkedIn profile scraper alternative; and every vendor's price per 1,000: LinkedIn profile API pricing compared.