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The people scope includes data from over 800 million public professional profiles aggregated from LinkedIn, public company pages, and other social media sources. This scope is useful for questions about people, such as their professional background, current role, and career history.

Includes

This scope includes information contained in the public profiles of individuals, including their name, current role, company, location, and career history.

Excludes

This scope excludes private information, such as personal contact information, private social media profiles, and any information not publicly available.

Structure

Search results from the people scope are structured as a list of profiles, with each profile containing the following fields:
  • Profile URL — canonical LinkedIn profile URL
  • Name
  • Headline (bold line under name)
  • Location — city, state/region, country
  • Connections count
  • Followers count
  • Recommendations count
  • About — free text, as authored
  • Experience — company, title, date range, duration, location, description.
  • Education — school, degree, field, GPA, date range, activities/societies, description
  • Skills — flat delimited list of normalized tags
  • Languages — language plus proficiency level
  • Certifications — name, link, issuer, issue date, expiry when set
  • Awards & Honors — title, issuer, date, description
  • Organizations — name, role, date range
  • Projects — name, date range, description
  • Volunteer Experience
  • Recommendations
  • Websites

Sample response

Search results with the people scope in JSON format have the following structure: