LinkedIn API

API

LinkedIn's APIs for sign-in, member posts and company page management

Price: Free
Access: OAuth 2.0 access token

About

LinkedIn's REST APIs let any developer add Sign In with LinkedIn and post on a member's behalf. Company page posts, comments and analytics need the vetted Community Management API, open only to registered legal entities. Reading members' own posts is a closed permission.

What you can do with it

Share text, link and image posts on a member's LinkedIn profile
Publish and moderate posts and comments on a company page
Pull follower, page and post statistics for an organization

Get started

Create an app and add Share on LinkedIn and Sign In with LinkedIn
Get a member token with the w_member_social scope via OAuth
Read the member's id (sub) from /v2/userinfo

Example

curl -X POST 'https://api.linkedin.com/rest/posts' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LINKEDIN_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
  -H 'X-Restli-Protocol-Version: 2.0.0' \
  -H 'Linkedin-Version: 202609' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"author": "urn:li:person:'"$LINKEDIN_PERSON_ID"'", "commentary": "Hello LinkedIn",
       "visibility": "PUBLIC", "lifecycleState": "PUBLISHED", "isReshareDisabledByAuthor": false,
       "distribution": {"feedDistribution": "MAIN_FEED", "targetEntities": [],
         "thirdPartyDistributionChannels": []}}'

Details

Hosting: Hosted service
Available in: Worldwide
Official SDKs: JavaScript/TypeScript, Python
MCP server: None
Works with: LinkedIn