LinkedIn profile data, ready for your code

Two ways to scrape LinkedIn, one balance

pineapi supports two inputs: search filters to discover profiles, or profile URLs to look up people you already know. Both use the same prepaid balance.

LinkedIn scraper API for developers

• Set filters, get every matching profile as JSON.
• 53 fields per profile plus 16 nested collections, versioned under /v1/.
• No LinkedIn account, no session cookie, no proxies to rotate.

POST /v1/profile-searches

# Generate once; reuse this ID when retrying the same request.
PINEAPI_REQUEST_ID=$(uuidgen)
curl $PINEAPI_BASE_URL/v1/profile-searches \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $PINEAPI_KEY" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $PINEAPI_REQUEST_ID" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"current_job_titles":["Head of Talent"],"locations":["Spain"],"max_items":100}'

Read the API reference

Use your AI assistant

• Give Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor a compact API integration brief.
• Use an assistant with HTTP tools to search or look up URLs.
• Includes spending checks, polling, pagination and error handling.

Job title · location · industry · headcount · seniority · school · years of experience

Copy the assistant brief

The API supports filter searches and lookup by profile URL. Both return the same 53 fields plus 16 nested collections. URL lookup has no search minimum.

How scraping LinkedIn profiles works here

pineapi uses an asynchronous workflow: create a run, poll its status, then download the results.

1. Describe who you are looking for

   Set the filters: titles, locations, industries, schools, company headcount, seniority, years of experience. Then say how many profiles you want back, from 25 to 2,000 in blocks of 25.

2. Get the matching profiles

   pineapi runs the search and returns every match as 53 named fields plus 16 nested collections. Searches take minutes; lookups usually take seconds. These are not completion guarantees.

3. Pay for the profiles delivered

   $0.012 per profile that comes back, with a $0.12 minimum per search. A search that fails is not billed at all.

Four things you can check yourself

pineapi claims these and nothing beyond them. Each one is verifiable from your own side of the API on the first day you use it, which is the only kind of claim worth making in a category where every vendor says the same adjectives.

What you get back for every profile

pineapi returns 53 top-level fields per profile plus 16 nested collections, listed here in full. Dates are ISO dates rather than "Dec 2025" strings, endorsement counts are integers rather than "22 endorsements", and is_current is a boolean rather than the word "Present".

{
  "id": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-0000000000de",
  "ordinal": 0,
  "public_identifier": "morgan-duarte-006",
  "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/redacted-1383",
  "requested_url": null,
  "first_name": "Morgan",
  "last_name": "Duarte",
  "full_name": "Morgan Duarte",
  "headline": "Working across product and engineering teams to ship things people use. Interested in systems ",
  "about": "Working across product and engineering teams to ship things people use. Interested in systems that stay simple as they grow. Working across product and engineering teams to ship things people use. Interested in systems that stay simple as they grow. Working across product and engineering teams to ship things people use. Interested in systems that stay simple as they ",
  "location_text": "Spain",
…

16 nested collections

Email addresses are not returned. Field names are versioned under /v1/ and are not renamed, because pipelines and agents cache the shape of a response and a silent rename breaks them quietly.

Five fields LinkedIn does not publish

pineapi computes these from the work history rather than passing LinkedIn's raw shape through, and they are the reason the record is worth more than its source.

LinkedIn scraping pricing: $0.012 per profile

$0.012per profile delivered · $12 per 1,000 · $0.12 minimum per search

pineapi charges $0.012 for every profile delivered, $12 per thousand, with a $0.12 minimum per search, which is the price of ten profiles. There is no subscription, no seat fee and no monthly minimum, and lookup has no search minimum. Top up from $5; credit does not expire.

A search that fails is not billed. A search that completes and matches nobody is billed the $0.12 minimum, because the search ran. Duplicates within a run are discarded and not billed. A profile delivered again in a separate run is billed again.

See the full pricing and calculator

Compare pineapi with other LinkedIn data tools

pineapi differs from the usual options in how the bill is built and in what each one needs from you. The table compares pricing models and setup requirements rather than a snapshot of rates that would go stale.

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What people use pineapi for

pineapi is bought for three jobs, and the form asks which one you are doing so the reply arrives with a worked example rather than a brochure.

What pineapi collects, and what it does not

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Last updated 2026-10-19