# ScraperSocial, free: LinkedIn profile API

> Give it a LinkedIn profile URL or a public handle and get back the person's headline, follower count, location, current company and about text as JSON.

ScraperSocial's LinkedIn profile API on its Free trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. It returns 5 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sections we check: Experience, Headline, About, Location, Followers.
We haven't run ScraperSocial through [our LinkedIn profile API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-profile-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 1,005 plans for LinkedIn profile APIs by price. Half the plans cost $10.00 per 1,000 profiles or less.
[Village's $1 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/village/1-monthly-core-post-v2-people-enrich-enrich-person-cached-only/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 profiles: as little as $0.0000039. Village's $1 monthly plan covers up to 259,200,000 profiles a month at no extra cost.
Village's $1 monthly plan covers any number of profiles on the call named “[Enrich Person (Bulk), cached only](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/village/1-monthly-core-post-v2-people-enrich-bulk-enrich-person-bulk-cached-only/llms.txt)”.
[Bridgly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/bridgly/300-pack/llms.txt), [Reverse Contact](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/reverse-contact/449-monthly/llms.txt) and [DataForB2B](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/dataforb2b/499-monthly/llms.txt) are the best LinkedIn profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free
- [LinkedIn profile API: 80+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrapersocial.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.scrapersocial.com/v1/linkedin/profile`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scrapersocial.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://scrapersocial.com/linkedin/profile-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- Sold by: ScraperSocial (https://scrapersocial.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 38%
- Experience: ✓ current job
- Headline: ✓
- About: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Followers: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Give it a LinkedIn profile URL or a public handle and get back the person's headline, follower count, location, current company and about text as JSON.

## Data

- Freshness: 12 hours
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to use the API to: access private, login-gated or paywalled content, or attempt to, harass, stalk, dox or surveil individuals, or build profiles of specific private individuals across platforms, send spam or unsolicited outreach at scale, violate applicable law, including data-protection law that applies to your use of the data in your jurisdiction, resell raw API access wholesale under your own brand without written permission (building products on top of the API is what it's for, that's fine and encouraged), probe, overload or interfere with the service, or evade rate limits and metering. You are responsible for how you use the data you retrieve, including compliance with the target platforms' terms as they apply to you and with intellectual-property and privacy rights in downloaded media.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 25 credits
- Enough for: about 12 calls

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.33
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of url or handle. Optional: include_email, fresh
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/linkedin/profile

## About the plan

- Plan: Free trial
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

platform, username, name, headline, followers, following, about, verified, location, current company, profile URL

## ScraperSocial's plans (6)

- [ScraperSocial, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, 12 hours
- [ScraperSocial, top-up from $4.50](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scrapersocial/top-up-from-4-50/llms.txt): $9.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, 12 hours
- [ScraperSocial, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scrapersocial/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, 12 hours
- [ScraperSocial, $5 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scrapersocial/5-monthly/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, 12 hours
- [ScraperSocial, $54 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scrapersocial/54-yearly/llms.txt): $9.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, 12 hours
- [ScraperSocial, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scrapersocial/contact-us/llms.txt): 38% complete, 12 hours

## ScraperSocial's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1/linkedin/profile`: [ScraperSocial, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)

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- [ScraperSocial: Facebook page API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-page-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: Facebook post API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-post-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: Instagram post API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: Instagram profile API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: LinkedIn post comment API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-comment-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
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- [ScraperSocial: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: Threads post API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/threads-post-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: Threads profile API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/threads-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: TikTok profile API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: TikTok video API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: X post API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: X profile API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/scrapersocial/top-up-from-4-50/llms.txt)

## ScraperSocial: LinkedIn profile API alternatives

- [Coresignal, $3,000 monthly, Scale, POST /rtapi/v2/employee/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/coresignal/3000-monthly-scale-post-rtapi-v2-employee-scrape/llms.txt): $9.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, live
- [Thirdwatch on Apify, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/thirdwatch-on-apify/19-monthly/llms.txt): $9.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, live
- [ApiCave, $45 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/apicave/45-monthly/llms.txt): $9.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, live
- [0xGollum on Apify, $1 pack](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/0xgollum-on-apify/1-pack/llms.txt): $9.00 per 1,000, 38% 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 2026-11-05.

- https://scrapersocial.com/api/linkedin?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/linkedin/profile-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing