# LinkedIn Profile Skills Extractor

> LinkedIn Profile Skills Extractor is a paid API for AI agents from Edges at mpp.orthogonal.com, paid per call via MPP, $0.35/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-12).

Extracts the list of skills and their endorsement counts from a given LinkedIn profile.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://mpp.orthogonal.com/edges/actions/linkedin-extract-people-skills/run/live?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.35/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-12
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: Edges
- Docs: https://docs.edges.run/v1/quickstart
- Website: https://edges.run
- Tags: linkedin, automation, scraping, data, social
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/edges-linkedin-profile-skills-extractor-49032d79
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_n9cYviAoaEqK6bX8xAGAP

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability edges-linkedin-profile-skills-extractor-49032d79 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull all the skills and endorsement counts from this LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johndoe?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to programmatically extract the skills section of a LinkedIn profile, including endorsement counts, without manual browsing. Ideal for talent sourcing, candidate assessment, CRM enrichment, or building skill graphs from LinkedIn data. Prefer this over generic scraping tools because it is purpose-built for LinkedIn's skills schema and returns structured, normalized output.

## Known failure modes

- LinkedIn profile is private or inaccessible — returns empty or error response
- Invalid or malformed LinkedIn profile URL — returns validation error
- Profile has no skills section — returns empty skills list
- LinkedIn rate limiting or anti-bot detection — returns scraping failure error
- Network timeout reaching LinkedIn — returns timeout error

## How this service works

Extract the skills listed on a LinkedIn profile including skill names and endorsement counts.

## Output

A structured list of skills found on the LinkedIn profile, each with the skill name and its corresponding endorsement count from the profile page.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/edges-linkedin-profile-skills-extractor-49032d79/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from mpp.orthogonal.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/mpp.orthogonal.com/llms.txt)