LinkedIn people search API

Price

$0.15 / call

Results per run

25 default · up to 25

Billing

Only results delivered are billed. Failed runs pay no call fee.

Hand it to your AI agent

Copy this prompt into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or any coding agent. It tells the agent where the docs are and how to use your API key.

Use the Lovely Router data tool "Search LinkedIn people" (id `linkedin-people-search`, LinkedIn) to get data for me. It returns JSON.

- Docs (read first): https://lovelyrouter.com/docs/tools/run.md and https://lovelyrouter.com/docs/api/tools.md
- Input fields and price: GET https://lovelyrouter.com/v1/tools/linkedin-people-search (public, no key needed). Price: $0.15 / call.
- Run: POST https://lovelyrouter.com/v1/tools/linkedin-people-search/run with a body like `{"input":{"searchQuery":"founder","locations":["San Francisco"]},"max_results":10}`. A 200 has the finished run with `items`; a 202 means it is still running, so poll the `poll` path until `status` is `succeeded`, `failed`, `timed_out` or `stopped`.
- Only delivered results are billed. Keep max_results small on the first run, check the output, then scale up (up to 25 per run).
- If you support MCP, you can instead connect the server https://lovelyrouter.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, same key; https://lovelyrouter.com/docs/tools/mcp.md) and use suggest_tools, get_tool and run_tool with tool "linkedin-people-search".
- Auth: read my API key from the LOVELY_API_KEY environment variable and send it as `Authorization: Bearer $LOVELY_API_KEY`. Never print or commit the key. If it is not set, ask me to create one at https://lovelyrouter.com/app/keys.
- Billing is prepaid: every call is charged to my balance, so test with a small request before running anything large.
- Every docs page is plain Markdown; the full index is https://lovelyrouter.com/llms.txt.

My task: <describe the data you need, e.g. which places, profiles, keywords or URLs, and the output format>

Input

searchQuerystring

Query to search LinkedIn profiles. (e.g., `Founder`, `Marketing Manager`, `John Doe`). [The query supports search operators](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a524335)

locationsarray

Filter Profiles by these LinkedIn locations. Example: `San Francisco`. LinkedIn does not always understand your text queries. For example for "UK" query it will apply "Ukraine" location, so you should use "United Kingdom" in this case. Try this out first in the location filter input of LinkedIn search at `https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?geoUrn=%5B%22103644278%22%5D`

currentCompaniesarray

Filter Profiles by these LinkedIn companies. Provide full LinkedIn URLs

currentJobTitlesarray

Filter Profiles by these LinkedIn current job titles. Example: `Software Engineer`.

Try it

Input (JSON)

Max results

Costs at most $0.15

Call it from code

How runs, polling and billing work →

curl https://lovelyrouter.com/v1/tools/linkedin-people-search/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOVELY_API_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"input":{"searchQuery":"founder","locations":["San Francisco"]},"max_results":25}'

# MCP (agents): suggest_tools → get_tool → run_tool
run_tool({
  "tool": "linkedin-people-search",
  "input": {"searchQuery":"founder","locations":["San Francisco"]},
  "max_results": 25
})

What it costs

Results	Runs (at 25 per run)	Cost
100	4	$0.60
1,000	40	$6.00
10,000	400	$60.00

Prepaid, no subscription. Fewer results than requested cost less. Pricing

Used for

Lead generation Build an outbound prospect list by job title and industry Build a target account list on LinkedIn by keyword, location and size Find work emails for the LinkedIn prospects you already picked Shortlist outbound prospects on LinkedIn by title, company and city Pre-screen candidates and speakers from public LinkedIn profiles

Frequently asked questions

How much does the Search LinkedIn people API cost?

$0.15 / call. 1,000 results, fetched in runs of up to 25, cost $6.00. There is no subscription: you pay from a prepaid balance.

Is this a LinkedIn people search scraper?

Yes. If you searched for a LinkedIn people search scraper or a LinkedIn lead search API, this is it: Search LinkedIn people by keyword, location, company and title. One call returns up to 25 short profiles.

How many results does one run return?

25 by default and up to 25 per run. Set max_results to cap a run: you are billed only for the results it delivers.

Do I need a LinkedIn account or API key?

No. You call the tool with your Lovely Router API key and get JSON back. There is nothing to set up on LinkedIn.

Can an AI agent use this tool?

Yes. Connect Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client to the Lovely Router MCP server: the agent finds the tool with suggest_tools and runs it with run_tool and the id linkedin-people-search.

What happens if a run fails?

A run that fails or is stopped pays only for the results it delivered, with no call fee. The most a run can cost is held when it starts and the rest is released when it settles.