Understanding LinkedIn API and Its Capabilities
The LinkedIn API enables developers to programmatically access LinkedIn’s features, including profile data, messaging, content sharing, and analytics. By integrating it with Unipile, businesses can automate workflows, manage multiple accounts, and enhance engagement. This article explores the key functionalities and advantages of using the LinkedIn API for professional networking and business growth.
What is the LinkedIn API?
The LinkedIn API allows editors to help their users to interact with LinkedIn’s platform, automating tasks that are otherwise manual and time-consuming. By utilizing the API, businesses and developers can streamline their operations and enhance their professional networking strategies.
LinkedIn Integration Guide
LinkedIn API Documentation: Unlocking Professional Automation and Insights
Sending and receiving messages: Automate communication for lead generation and maintaining professional relationships.
Managing profile details: Update and manage profile data to ensure accuracy and professionalism.
Posting content: Share articles, images, or videos to maintain visibility and a consistent presence.
Searching and connecting: Find leads, collaborators, or hires and send personalized connection requests.
Tracking analytics: Monitor post performance, engagement, and growth for better strategy refinement.
Key Features of the LinkedIn API
Sync Profile Data
curl --request GET \
--url https://api1.unipile.com:13111/api/v1/users/identifier \
--header 'accept: application/json'
Retrieve detailed information about LinkedIn profiles, including name, headline, experience, skills, and more. This data is valuable for creating personalized experiences or building advanced analytics.
Messaging Automation
curl --request POST \
--url https://api1.unipile.com:13111/api/v1/chats \
--header 'accept: application/json' \
--header 'content-type: multipart/form-data'
Enable your users to automate conversations with prospects, candidates through LinkedIn messages. This is particularly beneficial for recruiters, sales teams, and customer support functions.
Search Data Extraction
Effortlessly extract LinkedIn search results to identify leads, professionals, or opportunities tailored to your users needs.
Company Profile Data Extraction
Retrieve detailed company profile information, including industry, size, and employee insights, for strategic decision-making.
Why Integrate LinkedIn API with Unipile?
The Benefits of Using Unipile’s LinkedIn API
Unipile’s API simplifies the implementation of LinkedIn API documentation, providing developers with powerful tools to streamline LinkedIn integrations.
- Multi-account management with a single API for efficient handling of multiple LinkedIn accounts.
- Automated workflows for messaging, connection requests, and data extraction.
- Comprehensive integration to manage LinkedIn features directly through Unipile’s API.
- Development time savings: Avoid the complexity of LinkedIn’s native API and reduce development time with Unipile’s ready-to-use endpoints and detailed documentation.
How Unipile Simplifies LinkedIn API Documentation Integration
By leveraging Unipile’s API, developers can enhance their use of LinkedIn API documentation.
Scalability
Seamlessly handle large-scale LinkedIn operations across various accounts.
Efficiency
Reduce development complexity with ready-to-use endpoints for LinkedIn actions.
Flexibility
Access well-documented endpoints to customize LinkedIn functionalities for unique business needs.
How to Authenticate LinkedIn API via Unipile
Setting Up Authentication
To access LinkedIn data, you need to authenticate via Unipile Dashboard simplifies this process by allowing seamless token exchange.
import { UnipileClient } from "unipile-node-sdk";
const BASE_URL = "your_base_url";
const ACCESS_TOKEN = "your_access_token";
try {
const client = new UnipileClient(BASE_URL, ACCESS_TOKEN);
const response = await client.account.connect({
provider: "LINKEDIN",
username: "your_linkedin_username",
password: "your_linkedin_password",
});
console.log(response);
} catch (error) {
console.log(error);
}
Managing Access Tokens
Access tokens need to be refreshed periodically.
Unipile handles token expiration by automatically renewing credentials.
Using LinkedIn API with Unipile
Fetching LinkedIn Profile Information
With Unipile, retrieving a LinkedIn user’s profile data is straightforward.
Example: Fetching Profile Data
const account_id = "linkedin_account_id";
try {
const response = await client.account.getOne(account_id);
console.log(response);
} catch (error) {
console.log(error);
}
Response:
{
"id": "123456789",
"name": "John Doe",
"headline": "Software Engineer at XYZ",
"experience": [
{
"company": "XYZ Corporation",
"title": "Senior Developer",
"years": "2019-Present"
}
]
}
Automating LinkedIn Messaging
With Unipile, businesses can send and receive messages on LinkedIn, automating communication with leads and contacts.
Example: Sending a Message
const message = {
recipient_id: "linkedin_user_id",
text: "Hello! I’d love to connect with you on LinkedIn."
};
try {
const response = await client.messaging.sendMessage(message);
console.log(response);
} catch (error) {
console.log(error);
}
Advanced Use Cases
Lead Generation with Unipile & LinkedIn API
- Automatically send connection requests to relevant profiles.
- Follow up with personalized messages.
LinkedIn Recruiter Automation
- Scrape and store potential candidates’ details.
- Auto-message job seekers based on keywords.
Empowering Your Users with LinkedIn Analytics and Limits Management
Analytics & Insights for User Accounts
With Unipile’s API, software editors can offer powerful analytics to their users, providing actionable insights into their LinkedIn activities. Features you can develop for your users:
Response Rates: Track message read rates, LinkedIn invitation acceptance rates, and other key engagement metrics.
Performance Insights: Visualize new connections, campaign engagement, and time-to-hire metrics, helping users optimize their LinkedIn strategy.
By integrating this functionality, you enable your users to understand and enhance their LinkedIn performance.
Managing LinkedIn Limits with Unipile’s API
LinkedIn imposes specific activity limits to maintain platform integrity. Unipile’s API assists in managing these constraints by:
Connection Requests (Invitations): For paid and active LinkedIn accounts, it’s recommended to send between 80 and 100 invitations per day, totaling approximately 200 per week. Free accounts with some history should limit to about 15 invitations per week. New or inactive accounts should start with low quantities and gradually increase to avoid restrictions.
Profile Retrieval (Profile Visits): It’s advisable to retrieve between 80 and 100 profiles per day for free and premium accounts, and up to 150 profiles per day for Sales Navigator accounts. Exceeding these limits can lead to account disconnection.
Message Sending: Limit message sending to between 100 and 150 per account per day to stay within safe usage parameters.
By adhering to these guidelines, Unipile’s API helps prevent account restrictions and ensures sustainable LinkedIn engagement. Learn more about LinkedIn limits.
LinkedIn API Documentation: Exploring Features with Unipile Integration
| Features |
LinkedIn
|
|---|---|
| Account connection | |
| Hosted Auth: White label to connect your end users |  |
| Custom auth: connect user with credentials, cookies, your chrome extension | |
| Messages | |
| Send & Reply Messages | |
| Send an InMail | |
| List Messages, Chats & Attendees | |
| List Reactions | |
| Read Receipts | |
| Send Files attachments | |
| Receive Files attachments API | |
| Send Voice Notes | |
| Send Embed Video | |
| Users/Profiles | |
| Retrieve a Profile | |
| Retrieve & Edit own profile | |
| List all relations & Followers | |
| List all Invitations Sent & Received | |
| Handle & Cancel a received Invitation |
|
| Send an Invitation |
|
| Cancel an Invitation |
|
| List all posts, comments, reactions |
|
| Posts | |
| Retrieve & Create a post |
|
| List all comments from a post |
|
| List all posts, comments, reactions |
|
| Comment a post |
|
| List all reactions from a post |
|
| Add a reaction to a post, comment |
|
| Webhooks | |
| Account status | |
| New Message | |
| New Reaction / Read / Event | |
| Specific | |
| Retrieve Recruiter hiring projects | |
| Perform an action with a user profile | |
| Retrieve a company profile |
|
| Get raw data from any endpoint (Inbox Search, Following someone, Get own profile viewers, Social Selling Index, Retrieve posts from Feed) | |
| Get inmail credit balance | |
| Retrieve LinkedIn search parameters |
|
| Perform Linkedin search | |
| List all job postings | |
| Create a job posting |
|
| Get job posting | |
| Publish a job posting | |
| Solve a job publishing checkpoint | |
| Close a job posting | |
| List all applicants to a job posting |
|
| Get a specific applicant to a job posting |
|
| Download the resume of a job applicant |
|
| Endorse a user profile specific skill |
|
| Webhooks | |
| Account status | |
| New Message | |
| New Reaction / Read / Event | |
| Inboxes | |
| LinkedIn Classic Inbox | |
| Sales Navigator Inbox | |
| LinkedIn Recruiter Inbox | |
| LinkedIn Company Page | |
LinkedIn Features
| Features |
LinkedIn
|
|---|---|
| Account connection | |
| Hosted Auth: White label to connect your end users | |
| Custom auth: connect user with credentials, cookies, your chrome extension | |
| Messages | |
| Send & Reply Messages | |
| Send an InMail | |
| List Messages, Chats & Attendees | |
| List Reactions | |
| Read Receipts | |
| Send Files attachments | |
| Receive Files attachments API | |
| Send Voice Notes | |
| Send Embed Video | |
| Users/Profiles | |
| Retrieve a Profile | |
| Retrieve & Edit own profile | |
| List all relations & Followers | |
| List all Invitations Sent & Received | |
| Handle & Cancel a received Invitation |
|
| Send an Invitation |
|
| Cancel an Invitation |
|
| List all posts, comments, reactions |
|
| Posts | |
| Retrieve & Create a post |
|
| List all comments from a post |
|
| List all posts, comments, reactions |
|
| Comment a post |
|
| List all reactions from a post |
|
| Add a reaction to a post, comment |
|
| Webhooks | |
| Account status | |
| New Message | |
| New Reaction / Read / Event | |
| Specific | |
| Retrieve Recruiter hiring projects | |
| Perform an action with a user profile | |
| Retrieve a company profile |
|
| Get raw data from any endpoint (Inbox Search, Following someone, Get own profile viewers, Social Selling Index, Retrieve posts from Feed) | |
| Get inmail credit balance | |
| Retrieve LinkedIn search parameters |
|
| Perform Linkedin search | |
| List all job postings | |
| Create a job posting |
|
| Get job posting | |
| Publish a job posting | |
| Solve a job publishing checkpoint | |
| Close a job posting | |
| List all applicants to a job posting |
|
| Get a specific applicant to a job posting |
|
| Download the resume of a job applicant |
|
| Endorse a user profile specific skill |
|
| Webhooks | |
| Account status | |
| New Message | |
| New Reaction / Read / Event | |
| Inboxes | |
| LinkedIn Classic Inbox | |
| Sales Navigator Inbox | |
| LinkedIn Recruiter Inbox | |
| LinkedIn Company Page | |
LinkedIn API Documentation: Developer Advantages
Dedicated Assistance During Integration
Our support team is with you every step of the way—before, during, and after integration—to ensure a seamless experience. We’re here to provide real-time assistance, helping you avoid any hiccups and extra costs.
Comprehensive Developer Resources
Our API comes with detailed documentation and sample code to simplify integration. These resources are designed to enhance your application’s capabilities, making the process of sending LinkedIn invitations smoother and more efficient.
Ongoing Updates and Maintenance
With proactive updates and regular maintenance, our API remains aligned with LinkedIn’s latest standards and improvements, ensuring consistent performance and minimizing any potential downtime.
FAQs
How does Unipile simplify LinkedIn API integration?
Unipile provides a centralized API to manage LinkedIn actions like messaging, posting, and connections without handling complex authentication manually.
What are the rate limits for LinkedIn API?
LinkedIn enforces rate limits that vary based on the API tier and account type. For example, daily limits include approximately:
- Connection Requests: 80–100 invitations per day for paid accounts; fewer for free accounts.
- Profile Retrieval: Up to 150 profiles per day for Sales Navigator accounts.
- Message Sending: 100–150 messages per day per account.
Using Unipile’s API, you can monitor and manage these limits efficiently, ensuring that users stay within safe activity thresholds while maximizing LinkedIn’s capabilities.
Can I manage multiple LinkedIn accounts with Unipile?
Yes, Unipile allows businesses to handle multiple LinkedIn accounts within a single API call.
Is Unipile’s LinkedIn API integration secure?
Yes, Unipile uses end-to-end encryption and authentication for secure data exchange.
How can I use LinkedIn API for lead generation?
You can automate connection requests and follow-up messages based on industry-specific filters using Unipile.
Does Unipile provide analytics for LinkedIn posts?
Yes, Unipile offers engagement tracking and insights for LinkedIn posts and messages.
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