LinkedIn people search API 10 credits

Search people on LinkedIn by free-text keywords plus structured filters: first and last name, title, school, current or past company. Results come back structured, name, position, location, with the identifier that linkedin_get_profile needs for a full fetch.

One search costs 10 credits and returns up to 30 results on a paid key (10 on the free tier); one larger limit is cheaper than several cursor pages, since every page is a separately priced call.

Try it now#

No account, no card: mint a free key in one call, then call the endpoint.

Terminal

curl -s -X POST https://api.veezee.io/v1/keys/mint

Request

curl "https://api.veezee.io/v1/linkedin/search?keywords=CTO&current_company=anthropic" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEEZEE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)"

Over MCP#

Point an MCP client at https://mcp.veezee.io/linkedin (streamable-http; https://mcp.veezee.io/all serves every platform over one connection) and call linkedin_search_people:

tools/call

{
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "linkedin_search_people",
    "arguments": {
      "keywords": "CTO",
      "current_company": "anthropic"
    }
  }
}

Parameters#

Param	Required	Type	Description
`keywords`	no	`string`	Free-text query: a name, a title, or both.
`first_name`	no	`string`	First-name filter, exact match.
`last_name`	no	`string`	Last-name filter, exact match.
`title`	no	`string`	Current job title filter.
`school`	no	`string`	School or university name filter.
`current_company`	no	`string`	Company name, slug, numeric id, or urn:li:fsd_company URN. Names are fuzzy-matched by LinkedIn; ids and URNs filter exactly.
`past_company`	no	`string`	Same accepted forms as current_company; names are resolved to an id server-side.
`limit`	no	`integer`	How many results to return.
`cursor`	no	`string`	Cursor from a previous page.
`freshness`	no	`string`	recent (default) serves cached data from the last few hours when available; realtime forces a live fetch for +2 credits (refunded if we fall back to cached data). Trial keys are cached-only and reject realtime with TRIAL_CAP_EXCEEDED; paying upgrades this same key to unlock it.
`max_credits`	no	`integer`	Spend ceiling for this one call. The call is rejected (nothing charged) if its quote exceeds this. Only the quote is ever reserved, never this ceiling.

Returns a people_search envelope. Full field list: /docs/fields#people_search.

Pricing#

linkedin_search_people costs 10 credits base per call (surcharges for optional sections, cursor pages, and batches are in the full reference). Every key starts with a free budget of 200 credits per IP per day, no account, no card; past that, credits are $2.00 per 1,000 with no subscription required.

FAQ#

Can I filter by company?

Yes: current_company and past_company accept a company name (fuzzy-matched by LinkedIn's own company search), a slug, a numeric id, or a URN.

Why was my school-only search rejected?

School and company filters alone return INVALID_INPUT: include keywords, or a name or title filter that keywords can derive from.

Can every result be fetched as a full profile?

Results marked is_anonymous=true can't be fetched with linkedin_get_profile; everything else can.