LinkedIn Search API: Find People by Profession in 1 Second, No Login

GET/v1/linkedin?type=people&title=accountants&num=3

{
  "type": "linkedin-search",
  "query": "",
  "tookMs": 426,
  "accessible": true,
  "totalAvailable": 1213411,
  "returned": 3,
  "source": "live",
  "people": [
    {
      "name": "Abdur Rehman Mehboob",
      "headline": null,
      "currentTitle": null,
      "currentCompany": null,
      "servicesOffered": "Bookkeeping, Accounting, Financial Consulting, Project Management, Career Development Coaching, Leadership Development, Public Speaking, Financial Accounting, Financial Analysis, Financial Planning",
      "location": "Karāchi",
      "profileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/abdur-rehman-finance-professional",
      "publicIdentifier": "abdur-rehman-finance-professional",
      "photo": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D4D03AQHkdYDieL5o4A/profile-displayphoto-scale_200_200/B4DaBfIz..I8Ac-/0/1788302542257?e=1790208000&v=beta&t=83weY-RemU7fbR_qaX0KopLtYvtoPji9zR4QRQr7Bow",
      "searchSource": "services"
    },
    {
      "name": "Tahir I. Qureshi CIPS FRI CRES SRES SRS ABR®",
      "headline": null,
      "currentTitle": null,
      "currentCompany": null,
      "servicesOffered": "Commercial Real Estate, Mortgage Lending, Commercial Lending, Real Estate Appraisal, Public Speaking, Training, Negotiation, Leadership Development, Educational Consulting, Real Estate",
      "location": "Mississauga, ON",
      "profileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/tahir-i-qureshi-cips-fri-cres-sres-srs-abr%C2%AE-70854526",
      "publicIdentifier": "tahir-i-qureshi-cips-fri-cres-sres-srs-abr%C2%AE-70854526",
      "photo": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/C4D03AQFJOitKrdPY3Q/profile-displayphoto-shrink_200_200/profile-displayphoto-shrink_200_200/0/1643507084905?e=1790208000&v=beta&t=ZxtiWwVoyhLBnjQKW46tIw3Cd_KKKbMRIBA0gtsJx1I",
      "searchSource": "services"
    },
    {
      "name": "Vikas Bansal",
      "headline": null,
      "currentTitle": null,
      "currentCompany": null,
      "servicesOffered": "Business Consulting, Financial Consulting, Tax Advisory, Financial Accounting, Financial Advisory, Tax Preparation, Project Management",
      "location": "Chandigarh, India",
      "profileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/vikas-bansal-35b9a712",
      "publicIdentifier": "vikas-bansal-35b9a712",
      "photo": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D5603AQG1gRwcLkOMNg/profile-displayphoto-shrink_200_200/B56ZXYwdjtGQAg-/0/1743098340690?e=1790208000&v=beta&t=A8dAwZbFGvu-ShBnXAv_SMQWLIX0XSN0oNKKjotutRE",
      "searchSource": "services"
    }
  ],
  "_note": "showing 3 of the people this call returned, trimmed for page weight"
}

GET/v1/linkedin?type=profile&url=linkedin.com/in/satyanadella

{
  "type": "linkedin-profile",
  "url": "linkedin.com/in/satyanadella",
  "tookMs": 800,
  "accessible": true,
  "profile": {
    "id": "satyanadella",
    "name": "Satya Nadella",
    "firstName": "Satya",
    "lastName": "Nadella",
    "headline": "Chairman and CEO at Microsoft",
    "currentTitle": null,
    "titleSource": null,
    "currentCompany": "Microsoft",
    "companyState": "public",
    "about": "As chairman and CEO of Microsoft, I define my mission and that of my company as…",
    "followerCount": 12152382,
    "connectionsCount": null,
    "location": {
      "linkedinText": "Redmond, Washington, United States",
      "countryCode": "US",
      "parsed": {
        "text": "Redmond, Washington, United States",
        "countryCode": "US",
        "regionCode": null,
        "country": "United States",
        "countryFull": "United States",
        "state": "Washington",
        "city": "Redmond"
      }
    },
    "experience": [
      {
        "position": null,
        "location": "Greater Seattle Area",
        "companyName": "Microsoft",
        "companyLinkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft/",
        "companyUniversalName": "microsoft",
        "duration": null,
        "description": null,
        "experienceGroupId": null,
        "startDate": null,
        "endDate": null,
        "companyLogo": {
          "url": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D560BAQH32RJQCl3dDQ/company-logo_100_100/B56ZYQ0mrGGoAU-/0/1744038948046/microsoft_logo?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=rr_7_bFRKp6umQxIHErPOZHtR8dMPIYeTjlKFdotJBY",
          "sizes": [
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              "width": 100,
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            }
          ]
        },
        "domain": "news.microsoft.com",
        "companyIndustry": "Software Development",
        "companySize": "10,001+ employees",
        "companyHeadquarters": "Redmond, Washington",
        "companyLinkedInId": "1035"
      },
      {
        "position": null,
        "location": null,
        "companyName": "WAVE PROFESSIONAL CLINICAL COUNSELORS INC.",
        "companyLinkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/wave-professional-clinical-counselors-inc.",
        "companyUniversalName": "wave-professional-clinical-counselors-inc.",
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        "companyLinkedInId": "58189149",
        "companyNameSource": "logo_match",
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        "companyName": "Fred Hutch",
        "companyLinkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/fredhutch",
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        "schoolName": "The University of Chicago Booth School of Business",
        "schoolLinkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/school/universityofchicagoboothschoolofbusiness/",
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}

The problem

Finding people on LinkedIn means logging in

The search box is behind an account, the account gets restricted if you search too much, and the tools that automated it used fake profiles and got shut down. You know the profession and the city. You still cannot get the list.

209

professions LinkedIn lists publicly

logins or cookies needed

What that costs youLists bought from a stale database. Hours of manual search. An account you are afraid to lose.

The fix

A live read of LinkedIn does not

CrustAPI reads LinkedIn’s public pages the moment you ask. Find a person by name, or everyone in a profession and a city, with name, headline, location, the services they offer and the profile link, in 1 second.

By name or by profession and city Up to 50 people a search Services offered, as a field Empty searches are free

You get the people. Cheaper. Fresher. Easier.

Live read : noun

We read the page the moment you ask. Not a copy from last month.

The people you want, from LinkedIn, live, in one request

1 second. One bill. Nothing to babysit.

Try for free

The process

Here’s how you get the people you want

STEP 1

Your people in one line. Or no code at all

Pick one of the 209 professions and a city, or type a name, in the playground or in one line of code.

accountants Run

Zero setup. Zero babysitting.

· 1 SECOND LATER ·

STEP 2

Up to 50 people. Right now

Each with name, headline, location, the services they list and the profile link. Ready for a spreadsheet, a CRM or a full profile read.

Field	What comes back
name	Abdur Rehman Mehboob
servicesOffered	Bookkeeping, Accounting, Financial Consulting, Project Management, Career Development Co…
location	Karāchi
profileUrl	https://www.linkedin.com/in/abdur-rehman-finance-professional
publicIdentifier	abdur-rehman-finance-professional
+ headline, current title and company where public, photo, and the other people on this search

People who are there today.

Real profiles, liveServices as a field, since skills are no longer publicOne price per search, every person included

· PAY ONLY FOR RESULTS · EMPTY SEARCHES ARE FREE ·

STEP 3

Go deeper. Every profile in full

Add enrich=true and each person comes back as a full profile in the same request. Or take the links and read the ones you want.

Ask for	What comes back
enrich=true	the full profile for each person
location=Austin, Texas	one city only
title=realtors	a different profession
+ profile, company, jobs, posts and refresh

Search, then read. No login.

Try for free

· FREE TO TRY · YOUR BALANCE NEVER EXPIRES ·

Works with your stack

LangChain n8n MCP

Clay

What we do so you don’t

We read LinkedIn for you. Live

You get the rows you want. Right today. For less.

PAY ONLY FOR RESULTS. WRONG RESULT, MONEY BACK.

We read it live

The moment you ask. Up to 50 people per search, by name or by profession and city, from LinkedIn’s public pages.

We keep it working

LinkedIn changes its pages all the time. We keep the read working through every change, so you never run, patch or babysit a scraper.

We clean it

Names split. Locations as text. Services offered as a field. Profile links ready for a full read.

Guaranteed right

You pay only when data comes back. Empty results cost nothing. Report a wrong result and the money comes back.

★

BONUS: A data expert on email

Stuck on a field, a filter or a weird result? Email support@crustapi.com and a data expert answers within a day. Not a bot.

Try for free

All without

Proxies or browsersnothing to run, patch, or babysit

A vendor per sourceone account, one bill

Paying for failuresempty results come back free

Bonus

Or let your AI do it

Plug in our MCP server. Your agent does the rest, paying per result.

→ MCP

Pricing

How much does it cost?

Pay as you go. One price per search, every person included, and you pay only when people come back. Larger deposits get lower rates for those funds until they are spent.

Searches	Cost	Rate
1,000	$1.96	$1.96 per 1,000, pay as you go
25K	$49	$1.96 per 1,000 with a $49 deposit
100K	$149	$1.49 per 1,000 with a $149 deposit
500K	$549	$1.10 per 1,000 with a $549 deposit
2.5M	$1,999	$0.80 per 1,000 with a $1,999 deposit
10M	$6,500	$0.65 per 1,000 with a $6,500 deposit
50M	$27,500	$0.55 per 1,000 with a $27,500 deposit
100M	$50,000	$0.50 per 1,000 with a $50,000 deposit
250M	$100,000	$0.40 per 1,000 with a $100,000 deposit
More	Custom	Ongoing feeds, managed delivery, or volume below the ladder. Tell us what you need.

$6 free every month, no card. A search that returns nothing costs nothing. Your paid balance never expires.

Reference

What you get per person

Field	What it holds
name	the person
headline	their headline, where public
currentTitle	their title, where public
currentCompany	where they work now
servicesOffered	the services they list
location	where they are
profileUrl	the profile address
publicIdentifier	the profile slug
photo	the picture
searchSource	where the match came from

How to use

How do I use the LinkedIn People Search API?

1
Create a free account. No credit card required.
2
Pick a profession and a city, or type a name.
3
Add enrich=true if you want full profiles in the same request.
4
Download the list as a spreadsheet, use your API key, or tell your AI tool to pull it.

In code it is one line:

curl "https://crustapi.com/v1/linkedin?type=people&title=accountants&num=3" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY"

Input

What can I set?

Parameter	What it does	Example
type	people to find many. profile to get one.	people
title	A profession from LinkedIn’s 209 public categories, plural, like accountants.	accountants
keywords	A name, when you are looking for one person.	Satya Nadella
location	A city with its full state or country name.	Austin, Texas
limit	People per search, up to 50.	50
enrich	Return each person’s full profile in the same request.	true

FAQ

Common questions

One request that finds people on LinkedIn as data: by name, or by profession and city across the 209 service categories LinkedIn publishes. Name, headline, location, services and profile link, with no login.

By name, and by profession from LinkedIn’s list of 209 categories. A profession that is not on the list comes back empty, free, with a note saying so. The playground shows the whole list.

Up to 50 a search. A single city returns about ten; leave the city out and the search fans across many.

1 second. That is the median a customer sees, measured through crustapi.com on the day this page was built.

$1.96 for every 1,000 searches, with lower rates for larger individual deposits. A search that returns nothing costs nothing. $6 free every month, no card. Full profiles use the Person rate per profile returned.

We read the public pages LinkedIn shows anyone, logged out, and never use accounts, cookies or fake profiles. That is the distinction that ended the vendors who did. Public, logged-out collection has repeatedly defeated computer-fraud and contract claims. Check your own use case. We are not lawyers.

Find people on LinkedIn in 1 second
Or you don’t pay

Finding people on LinkedIn means logging in

A live read of LinkedIn does not

The people you want, from LinkedIn, live, in one request

Here’s how you get the people you want

Your people in one line. Or no code at all

Up to 50 people. Right now

Go deeper. Every profile in full

We read LinkedIn for you. Live

We read it live

We keep it working

We clean it

Guaranteed right

BONUS: A data expert on email

All without

Or let your AI do it

How much does it cost?

What you get per person

How do I use the LinkedIn People Search API?

What can I set?

Common questions

Find people on LinkedIn in 1 second
Or you don’t pay

Every LinkedIn endpoint

Finding people on LinkedIn means logging in

A live read of LinkedIn does not

The people you want, from LinkedIn, live, in one request

Here’s how you get the people you want

Your people in one line. Or no code at all

Up to 50 people. Right now

Go deeper. Every profile in full

We read LinkedIn for you. Live

We read it live

We keep it working

We clean it

Guaranteed right

BONUS: A data expert on email

All without

Or let your AI do it

How much does it cost?

What you get per person

How do I use the LinkedIn People Search API?

What can I set?

Common questions

What is a LinkedIn people search API?

Can I search by any keyword?

How many people come back?

How fast is it?

What does it cost?

Is it legal?

Find people on LinkedIn in 1 secondOr you don’t pay

Every LinkedIn endpoint

Find people on LinkedIn in 1 second
Or you don’t pay