Unofficial LinkedIn APIs, LinkedIn's own API and Datacircle compared

Other hosted APIs also take an API key and charge per profile. Our LinkedIn profile API pricing comparison lists their prices per 1,000 profiles.

The two libraries you find first are linkedin-api for Python and linkedin-private-api for Node.js. Both sign in to LinkedIn with your account and call Voyager, the private API behind linkedin.com. They cost nothing, but each call runs on your LinkedIn account.

linkedin-api sends your email and password to LinkedIn and keeps the cookie it gets back. Its README says: "This library is not officially supported by LinkedIn. Using this library might violate LinkedIn's Terms of Service. Use it at your own risk." Its tests need "A valid Linkedin user account (don't use your personal account, if possible)". In a test, LinkedIn answered with a challenge after about 900 requests in one session, its README says. Its GitHub repository and its docs site return 404 today, but PyPI still has it.

linkedin-private-api needs "only a working LinkedIn account", its README says, and adds: "Note that using this API might cause your account being banned."

Two paid products, Linked API and Unipile, also run on LinkedIn accounts you connect: see our Linked API alternative and Unipile alternative.

Its Profile API page says: “The use of this API is restricted to those developers approved by LinkedIn.” The page lists no price. Our LinkedIn API alternative lists what LinkedIn's API gives every developer, and what needs LinkedIn's approval.

You send the provider's own request to api.datacircle.dev, with your Datacircle key. That's the only change. Up2Data's request, at $2.375 per 1,000:

curl -X POST "https://api.datacircle.dev/v1/profiles/enrich" \
  -H "Authorization: Token $DATACIRCLE_API_KEY" \
  -H "X-Data-Provider: up2data" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates"}'

Or HarvestAPI's, at $3.70 per 1,000:

curl "https://api.datacircle.dev/linkedin/profile?url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates" \
  -H "Authorization: Token $DATACIRCLE_API_KEY" \
  -H "X-Data-Provider: harvestapi"

Or Fetchin's, at $1.485 per 1,000:

curl "https://api.datacircle.dev/api/v1/profile?profileUrlOrUrn=https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates" \
  -H "Authorization: Token $DATACIRCLE_API_KEY" \
  -H "X-Data-Provider: fetchin"

Our docs' LinkedIn Profile API page has all three providers' requests and answers, field by field. Run the same call on each row of a CSV in Python or Node.js.

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