/v1/actions/linkedin-search-people/run/liveSearch LinkedIn People extracts a list of people from a LinkedIn people search so you can build lead lists, sourcing pipelines, and network maps based on LinkedIn's filter logic. You get each match as a structured row — name, headline, profile URL, current role — ready to enrich, dedupe, and load into your CRM or candidate pipeline. It targets sales, recruiting, and growth teams that prospect directly off the public LinkedIn search surface.
The action runs on the LinkedIn level and uses your authenticated LinkedIn session on Edges.
You pass a LinkedIn people search URL (any combination of keyword, location, company, industry, connection-degree filters) and Search LinkedIn People iterates the pages for you. Edges walks pagination, normalizes each row, and returns a clean array of people records with stable fields.
Every request runs through your authenticated LinkedIn session and is paced within LinkedIn's activity guidance. The action supports async execution — the right mode for any multi-page search or scheduled pull.
Reach for Search LinkedIn People when the audience is defined by LinkedIn filters — keyword, location, current title, past company — rather than by an external account list. It is the most direct way to turn an ICP hypothesis into a working people list.
It plugs into the LinkedIn profile and company data API use case. Most teams use it as step one of a sales or sourcing pipeline, then chain profile enrichment and outreach.
It depends on how deep LinkedIn paginates your search. Tightly scoped queries typically return hundreds to low thousands; very broad searches will hit LinkedIn's pagination ceiling, so narrow the filter set to capture more of the population.
Your LinkedIn account. Every search runs through the session you connect to Edges, and the results reflect what your account can see — including connection-degree visibility.
Yes. Feed each profileId into Extract LinkedIn Profile, Extract Linkedin User Contact Info, or Connect LinkedIn Profile to run the full outreach sequence.
Run Search LinkedIn People from the Edges library, schedule it against your ICP filter set, or call it from the Edges API directly. Browse the full Actions library to see the enrichment and outreach actions that follow.
curl -X POST "https://api.edges.run/v1/actions/linkedin-search-people/run/live" \
-H "X-API-KEY: <YOUR_API_KEY>" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"identity_ids": [
"your-identity-uuid"
],
"identity_mode": "direct",
"input": {
"linkedin_people_search_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/example-profile",
"custom_data": "example_value"
},
"parameters": {
"only_extract_unique_profile": true
}
}'[
{
"full_name": "John Doe",
"first_name": "John",
"last_name": "Doe",
"job_title": "Software Engineer at Example Corp",
"company_name": "Example Name",
"headline": "Software Engineer at Example Corp",
"location": "example_value",
"linkedin_profile_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/example-profile",
"profile_image_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/example-profile",
"linkedin_profile_id": 42,
"sales_navigator_profile_id": "example-123",
"connection_degree": "example_value",
"current_title": "Software Engineer at Example Corp",
"linkedin_profile_handle": "example-123",
"shared_connection_search_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/example-profile",
"number_shared_connections": 42,
"shared_connection_profile_urls": [
"item1",
"item2",
"item3"
],
"linkedin_people_post_search_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/example-profile"
}
]