# Scavio, free, Free, POST /api/v1/linkedin/person/about: LinkedIn profile API

> Get the narrative sections of a LinkedIn member's profile - about text, headline, work experience, education, honours and bio links - as JSON.

Scavio's LinkedIn profile API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. It returns 2 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sections we check: Headline, About.
The cheapest of the 500 plans we rank by price is [PayPerQ, pay as you go, Pay per request with L402, POST /api/minerva/enrich](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/payperq/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-with-l402-post-api-minerva-enrich/llms.txt), at $0.115 per 1,000 profiles.
[Fetchin](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/fetchin/50-monthly-subscription-50k-get-api-v1-profile-get-profile-full/llms.txt), [Bridgly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/bridgly/top-up-from-5/llms.txt) and [HarvestAPI](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/harvestapi/280-pack/llms.txt) are the best LinkedIn profile API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scavio/free-free-post-api-v1-linkedin-person-about
- [Best LinkedIn profile API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scavio.dev/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/linkedin/person/about`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scavio.dev/pricing
- Its API docs: https://scavio.dev/docs/linkedin-person-about
- Sold by: Scavio (https://scavio.dev)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## In the answer

- Completeness: 15%
- Headline: ✓
- About: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 profiles: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Strengths

- Strengths: read live

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Get the narrative sections of a LinkedIn member's profile - about text, headline, work experience, education, honours and bio links - as JSON.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to use the Service to: Violate any applicable law, regulation, or third-party rights. Scrape, redistribute, or resell raw search results as a competing search API service. Circumvent rate limits, authentication mechanisms, or other technical restrictions. Send automated queries designed to overload or degrade the Service. Use the Service for any activity that could cause harm to minors. Transmit malware, viruses, or any destructive code through API requests. Misrepresent your identity or the source of API requests. [...] Search results returned by the API originate from third-party platforms. You are responsible for complying with those platforms' terms of service when using the data.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 50 credits
- Enough for: 50 calls

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of username or url
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/linkedin/person/about

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

about, headline, education summary, positions, education, honors and awards, bio links, response time, credits used, credits remaining

## Scavio's plans (11)

- [Scavio, free, Free, POST /api/v1/linkedin/person/about](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scavio/free-free-post-api-v1-linkedin-person-about/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, live
- [Scavio, top-up from $25, Pay As You Go, POST /api/v1/linkedin/person/about](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scavio/top-up-from-25-pay-as-you-go-post-api-v1-linkedin-person-about/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, live
- [Scavio, $30 monthly, Project, monthly, POST /api/v1/linkedin/person/about](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scavio/30-monthly-project-monthly-post-api-v1-linkedin-person-about/llms.txt): $4.286 per 1,000, 15% complete, live
- [Scavio, $100 monthly, Bootstrap, monthly, POST /api/v1/linkedin/person/about](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scavio/100-monthly-bootstrap-monthly-post-api-v1-linkedin-person-about/llms.txt): $3.571 per 1,000, 15% complete, live
- [Scavio, $250 monthly, Startup, monthly, POST /api/v1/linkedin/person/about](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scavio/250-monthly-startup-monthly-post-api-v1-linkedin-person-about/llms.txt): $2.941 per 1,000, 15% complete, live
- [Scavio, $500 monthly, Growth, monthly, POST /api/v1/linkedin/person/about](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scavio/500-monthly-growth-monthly-post-api-v1-linkedin-person-about/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 15% complete, live
- [Scavio, $288 yearly, Project, yearly, POST /api/v1/linkedin/person/about](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scavio/288-yearly-project-yearly-post-api-v1-linkedin-person-about/llms.txt): $3.429 per 1,000, 15% complete, live
- [Scavio, $948 yearly, Bootstrap, yearly, POST /api/v1/linkedin/person/about](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scavio/948-yearly-bootstrap-yearly-post-api-v1-linkedin-person-about/llms.txt): $2.821 per 1,000, 15% complete, live
- [Scavio, $2,388 yearly, Startup, yearly, POST /api/v1/linkedin/person/about](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scavio/2388-yearly-startup-yearly-post-api-v1-linkedin-person-about/llms.txt): $2.341 per 1,000, 15% complete, live
- [Scavio, $4,788 yearly, Growth, yearly, POST /api/v1/linkedin/person/about](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scavio/4788-yearly-growth-yearly-post-api-v1-linkedin-person-about/llms.txt): $1.995 per 1,000, 15% complete, live
- [Scavio, contact us, Enterprise, POST /api/v1/linkedin/person/about](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scavio/contact-us-enterprise-post-api-v1-linkedin-person-about/llms.txt): 15% complete, live

## Scavio's calls for this API (2)

- `POST /api/v1/linkedin/person/about`: [Scavio, free, Free, POST /api/v1/linkedin/person/about](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scavio/free-free-post-api-v1-linkedin-person-about/llms.txt)
- `POST /api/v1/linkedin/person`: [Scavio, free, Free, POST /api/v1/linkedin/person](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scavio/free-free-post-api-v1-linkedin-person/llms.txt)

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- [Scavio: job postings API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/scavio/free/llms.txt)
- [Scavio: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/scavio/free/llms.txt)
- [Scavio: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/scavio/free/llms.txt)
- [Scavio: LinkedIn profile comment API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-comment-apis/scavio/free/llms.txt)
- [Scavio: LinkedIn profile post API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/scavio/free/llms.txt)
- [Scavio: LinkedIn profile reaction API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-reaction-apis/scavio/free/llms.txt)
- [Scavio: LinkedIn job details API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-details-apis/scavio/free/llms.txt)
- [Scavio: LinkedIn job search API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-search-apis/scavio/free/llms.txt)
- [Scavio: LinkedIn post comment API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-comment-apis/scavio/free/llms.txt)
- [Scavio: LinkedIn post details API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-details-apis/scavio/free/llms.txt)
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- [Scavio: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 11 plans, POST /api/v1/linkedin/person/about](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scavio/free-free-post-api-v1-linkedin-person-about/llms.txt)

## Scavio: LinkedIn profile API alternatives

- [SociaVault, $399 pack](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/sociavault/399-pack/llms.txt): $1.995 per 1,000, 62% complete, live
- [EnvoAPI, $499 monthly, Scale, GET /v1/profiles/details/by-id](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/envoapi/499-monthly-scale-get-v1-profiles-details-by-id/llms.txt): $1.996 per 1,000, 92% complete, live
- [Fetchin, $50 monthly, Subscription 50K, GET /api/v1/profile, Get Profile, full](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/fetchin/50-monthly-subscription-50k-get-api-v1-profile-get-profile-full/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Bridgly, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/bridgly/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 77% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-27.

- https://scavio.dev
- https://scavio.dev/docs/linkedin-person-about
- https://scavio.dev/docs/rate-limits
- https://scavio.dev/docs/search-api
- https://scavio.dev/linkedin-api
- https://scavio.dev/llms.txt
- https://scavio.dev/pricing
- https://scavio.dev/terms