LinkedIn tools

Checking a person before outreach, reading how they describe themselves.

• A company page, use linkedin_get_company.
• An email address, use leads_get_email.
• A person's full employment record, use leads_get_person.

One record. The profile's handle, name, bio, followers, location, experience[] (the companies and schools on the profile, with dates but no titles), recent_posts[] (their latest posts, for linkedin_get_comments) and related (similar profiles), with other profile fields where LinkedIn fills them. null or empty = the platform does not publish it.

1 credit. Cached 24 hours.

Sizing a company from its own page, confirming an industry and a headcount band before outreach.

• A company's own posts, use linkedin_get_company_posts.
• A richer firmographic record, use leads_get_company.
• A person, use linkedin_get_profile.

One record. The page's handle, name, bio, followers, website, location, industry, employees (LinkedIn's own headcount), founded, company_type, topics (its specialties), people (the few employees the page shows, with profile URLs and usually no title) and related (similar pages), with other profile fields where LinkedIn fills them. null or empty = the platform does not publish it. kind is company. running_ads and ad_library_id are always null here: the page does not say whether the company advertises; ads_get_advertiser_ads with platform linkedin and the company name does.

1 credit. Cached 24 hours.

Watching what a competitor publishes, judging cadence and engagement.

• Posts by topic across LinkedIn, use linkedin_search_posts.
• One post in full, use linkedin_get_post.

A list. Each row has posts with author, created_at, text (cut at 2000 characters) and transcript. The listing carries no engagement, views or media, so those are null; linkedin_get_post has likes, comments and media for one post. created_at is approximate: the platform shows an age such as "3 weeks ago", so it is exact only to that unit.

1 credit per page. Cached 6 hours.

A row from a search is worth the detail, or you have a URL and nothing else.

• The commenters as rows to page or export, use linkedin_get_comments.
• A company's whole feed, use linkedin_get_company_posts.

One record with Each row has the one post, with author and author_followers, created_at, text (cut at 2000 characters), likes, comments, shares, saves, views, media, duration_s, links, transcript and top_comments[]. top_comments are up to 10 commenters with their profile URLs, the same people linkedin_get_comments returns as rows. null or empty = the platform does not publish it. media is video only for a video stream; a photo, a document carousel or a GIF reads image.

1 credit. Cached 6 hours.

Pulling the people who engaged with a post: a competitor's launch, a thought leader in your category, your own post. Each author_url goes straight into linkedin_get_profile or leads_get_person.

• Every comment on a busy post (LinkedIn shows up to 10 to a logged-out reader, so a post with 200 comments returns 10).
• Reactions, which LinkedIn does not show at all.
• Many posts at once, use linkedin_search_posts, whose rows carry the same commenters in top_comments.

A list. Each row has one comment each: author (the profile's slug, the part after /in/ or /company/), author_url (on www.linkedin.com), text (cut at 2000 characters). LinkedIn gives no time, likes or replies for a comment, so those are null. meta.cursor is always null: there is no next page.

1 credit. Cached 6 hours.

"what is being said about X on LinkedIn", finding the people posting about a category.

• One company's posts, use linkedin_get_company_posts.
• Finding people to contact, use leads_search_people.

A list, ranked. Each row has posts with author and author_followers, created_at, text (cut at 2000 characters), likes, comments, shares, saves, views, media, duration_s, links, transcript and top_comments[]. top_comments are up to 10 commenters per post with their profile URLs, so one page names the people engaging with a topic; transcript is what a video post says. media is video only for a video stream; a photo, a document carousel or a GIF reads image. null or empty = the platform does not publish it. created_at is approximate: the platform shows an age such as "3 weeks ago", so it is exact only to that unit.

1 credit per page. Cached 6 hours.