Does LinkedIn have an API?
Not for reading other members' posts: LinkedIn's self-serve API permissions cover only signing in and posting on a member's behalf. SocialToAI reads its publicly visible posts and accounts without a LinkedIn developer account: 7 interfaces from 2 credits a call (≈ $0.004–$0.0067), and failed calls are free. Official facts checked 2026-10-17.
The short answer
Not for reading other members' posts: LinkedIn's self-serve API permissions cover only signing in and posting on a member's behalf.
What the official API allows
LinkedIn's self-serve API permissions only cover signing in (the member's own name, headline, photo and email) and posting on a member's behalf. Other APIs require approval through LinkedIn's partner programs; none of the open permissions reads other members' posts.
Source: LinkedIn's own developer documentation, checked 2026-10-17. What a platform allows changes; its own pages are the authority.
Reading LinkedIn's public data with SocialToAI
SocialToAI is an API and MCP server for publicly visible content and account information. You need no LinkedIn account and no app review: one SocialToAI key, or signing in from Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor and Codex. Each call costs a fixed number of credits, and a failed call costs nothing.
| Interface | What it returns | Price key | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Search | Find posts by keyword: text, author, likes, comment count and publish time. | linkedin.search | 2 |
| Detail | One post by ID or link: text, author, likes, comment count and publish time. | linkedin.detail | 2 |
| Detail · include=transcript | One post by ID or link: full text and timed segments. | linkedin.detail:transcript | 2 |
| User Profile | One account: name and bio. | linkedin.user_profile | 2 |
| User Posts | The recent posts of one account. | linkedin.user_posts | 2 |
| Ad detail | Get one ad of the LinkedIn Ad Library by its ID or link. | linkedin.ad_detail | 2 |
| Ad Library search | Search the ads of the LinkedIn Ad Library by keyword. | linkedin.ad_search | 2 |
curl https://api.socialtoai.com/v1/search \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOCIALTOAI_KEY" \ -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "platform": "linkedin", "query": "ai agents" }'- No LinkedIn account, cookie or developer approval on your side.
- What comes back is what the platform shows publicly; commenters are anonymised.
- Every platform answers in the same response format, so the same code reads LinkedIn and the others.
- Prepaid credits from 2 credits a call; 100 free credits on sign-up, no card.
Sources
- LinkedIn: learn.microsoft.com, checked 2026-10-17
- LinkedIn API on SocialToAI: every call and its credits, last tested 2026-10-17
- The live catalog: what is offered now and its credits, readable without a key
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