I have come across a data collection problem, that is I want to download data from linkedin. For example, “My Company” is an organization, many people currently working there and may people who worked and let their jobs from “My Company”. I want to get the list of all people with their details who’s Experience section has Company name as “My Company” either present or previous experience. Is there any api available in linkedin for this purpose?
I think there was some APIs available like http://api.linkedin.com/v1/people-search, but is seems now those are not available. Anyone can suggest a method?
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I want to create a webpage where users can access their education records from LinkedIn (which are then plotted on a timeline).
Using OAuth, I was only able to access my Name and Profile picture. It seems like LinkedIn heavily restricts access, even if users give their explicit consent. I don't see any way to request the scopes needed to request the education section of my profile. A similar experience is also outlined in this medium article:
The frustrations of dealing with the LinkedIn API
Alternatively, people have suggested using Selenium to scrape the public profiles of users. However, LinkedIn has taken up multiple legal fights against scrapers, so obviously they are not ok with it.
Considering that I want to build a service that benefits LinkedIn users and that I only want to access information of users that give their explicit consent to do so, it seems odd to me that this should not be possible on LinkedIn. Is there any way of doing this in 2023? I know similar questions have been asked before, but LinkedIn changed their policy quite a few times as far as I'm aware and previous questions date back many years.
a couple of months ago I made this https://github.com/Kaustubh-Natuskar/companies-to-apply repository which contains the list of 300 PBC's and startups I got a good response for that. But I have decided to take this further I want to make a website from this idea.
there will be a list of companies if there is an opening a red circle will denote it.
Now the problem is how can I know that there are openings?
API is a great option where I can cache the results and then display them like above.
is there any API on LinkedIn where if I post a request with the company's id or name I'll get current openings?
It doesn't look like it.
There is the Job Posts XML feed, but the documentation implies that it's not free (and difficult to get access to):
The integration of the XML feed is limited to those developers approved by LinkedIn. Reach out to your Business Development contact to meet certain criteria and sign an agreement in order to use this integration.
Compliance with our contract and guidelines is integral. Refer to Job Posting Guidelines for details.
If you are not yet a LinkedIn Talent Solutions Partner, please contact the team at ll-bd#linkedin.com to request for evaluation.
Here is Microsoft's full documentation on the LinkedIn APIs.
I work for a digital marketing company (lets call it COMPANY_A). I log in as that company. Once inside the LinkedIn envelope I want to grab the most recent posts from a client company (COMPANY_B) and make them available to COMPANY_B's website via WordPress. This might happen through COMPANY_A's Azure machine and some ASP.NET code.
I'm confused about what kind of privilege I need. The impression I get is that r_organization_social gives me access to COMPANY_A's social data, not COMPANY_B's. Or is it as simple as authorising COMPANY_A into LinkedIn and then, with all the relevant cookies in place, scraping the required data off COMPANY_B's site?
A question like this has been asked before but no solution has been offered there.
Really sorry for posting this question here (since due to some reason I am unable to post this on LinkedIn forums). I need to work on a project wherein I can increase the number of prospective customers for a company. We want to leverage LinkedIn's database for the same. I went through articles and the program that I got interested in was "LinkedIn Marketing Developer Program" and we will be looking forward to using it to create ads for specific audiences. But I am not able to see if I will have access to people search since this post says that I will have access to it but I cannot find confirmation on LinkedIn access documentation here. I have two queries: Is it possible to access people search API wherein we can get individuals in a particular demographic region under the "LinkedIn Marketing Developer Program"? If not this program, in general, can we get paid access to the people search API?
PS: Please do not mark this question as irrelevant as asking question on LinkedIn forum is disabled (cannot click submit button on the given link even after adding all the details to the form).
People Search is not offered by any of LinkedIn's Partner Programs.
Years ago, someone asked on Stack Overflow if it were possible to retrieve a list of all employees who work at a company. I can do this through the LinkedIn UI, but I cannot seem to find any mechanism for this using the v2 API. The SO response mentions this used to be possible on the v1 API, but you had to request access through LinkedIn's "Vetted API Access Program." Unfortunately, the link on this response is now obsolete and does not send users to any such program.
How could I apply for this program nowadays? This is a specific situation to me and my company, so I would very much like to discuss this with someone at LinkedIn if some form of this Vetted API Access Program still exists. I do not wish to disclose the details of this request to the open internet.
I have confirmed through contacts inside LinkedIn that this API functionality has been removed. No further information has been provided, and LinkedIn tech support refuses to comment any more on this issue. Furthermore, no LinkedIn engineers will comment on this thread here.
This is bizarre since any regular user can do this functionality through the web front-end, but for some reason LinkedIn believes this would be a violation of privacy/security if we could do this programmatically.
Therefore, the only way to obtain this data would be through screen scraping. I wish I had better news, and I wish that LinkedIn would provide some reasoning for their changes, but alas this is where we are.
I just posted a very similar question because I ran into the same problem as you.
The application forms for Linkedin's current partner programs seem to be located here, however I can't tell you which one of those programs comes with the necessary API access rights and I am in general not sure if this API request is still allowed.
Edit: The Linkedin Help page states that applications for partner programs are currently unavailable?
In general, you can get a list of employees of a company if you scrape Linkedin profiles exhaustively, or if you have an exhaustive dataset of Linkedin profiles.
Each Linkedin profile contains a list of experiences that links to the company profile URL.
Thereafter, you will filter the dataset into profiles currently working at X company to get a list of employees currently working in a company. The same technique can also be used to retrieve a list of past employees.
And that is what we did. We scraped all public Linkedin profiles based in the US and made an alternative API known as Proxycurl Employee Listing API to Linkedin API to provide employee listing functionality.
Proxycurl's Employee Listing API will never be as exhaustive as Linkedin's dataset because not all profiles are made public, but most are. But will suffice to meet your needs.