# LinkedIn Person Profile Lookup

> LinkedIn Person Profile Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from x402.apidirect.io, paid per call via x402, $0.007/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-30).

Retrieves a LinkedIn person's full profile including name, headline, about, location, follower/connection counts, open-to-work status, and all major sections (experience, education, skills, certifications, languages, honors, publications, volunteering, projects).

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://x402.apidirect.io/v1/linkedin/person?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.007/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-30
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/linkedin-person-profile-lookup-cd2714a0
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_eeT2eaNfu3PXItBtsLTX5

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 linkedin-person-profile-lookup-cd2714a0
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up Reid Hoffman's full LinkedIn profile — I want his headline, about section, experience, skills, and whether he's open to work? His LinkedIn is https://www.linkedin.com/in/reidhoffman.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need comprehensive, structured LinkedIn profile data for a specific person by URL, slug, or URN. It is ideal for candidate research, sales prospecting, professional due diligence, or enriching a contact record with LinkedIn-sourced data. Prefer this over general web scraping when you want cleanly parsed LinkedIn sections (experience, education, skills, etc.) rather than raw HTML.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or non-existent LinkedIn profile URL/slug/URN returns an error or empty result
- Private or restricted profiles may return partial or no data
- Rate limiting or payment failures result in 402 or 429 errors
- Malformed URL or slug exceeding 500 characters returns a validation error
- LinkedIn may block or throttle scraping, causing intermittent failures

## How this service works

Get a LinkedIn person's profile: name, headline, about, location, follower and connection counts, open-to-work status, and the experience, education, skills, certifications, languages, honors, publications, volunteering, and projects sections.

## Output

Returns a structured LinkedIn profile object containing the person's name, headline, about section, location, follower count, connection count, open-to-work flag, and detailed sections for experience, education, skills, certifications, languages, honors, publications, volunteering engagements, and projects.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "url"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "url": {
       "type": "string",
       "maxLength": 500,
       "description": "LinkedIn profile URL, public slug, or member URN (e.g., https://www.linkedin.com/in/reidhoffman, reidhoffman, or ACoAAAAABL0B3SGhqeNX998wiOuk_8hYA6ojLwg). Max 500 characters."
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/linkedin-person-profile-lookup-cd2714a0/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from x402.apidirect.io](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402.apidirect.io/llms.txt)