Extract LinkedIn Event

Extract comprehensive LinkedIn event details including description, attendees, date, and speakers for analysis or outreach.

Edges is not related to LinkedIn and is not an official LinkedIn product.

API Endpoint

POST/v1/actions/linkedin-extract-event/run/live

Parameters

Input Parameters

Integration Parameters

Guide

What Extract LinkedIn Event does

Extract LinkedIn Event pulls the full metadata of a LinkedIn event — title, description, date, location, speakers, organizer, attendee count — and returns it as structured JSON. It runs on the LinkedIn level through your connected session and covers both virtual and in-person events posted on LinkedIn.

Use it to turn LinkedIn events into first-class records in your marketing or sales stack, whether you are tracking your own events or researching competitor and industry ones.

How it works

You supply the event URL (or event ID) and Edges reads the event page through your authenticated LinkedIn session. The response includes everything on the public event page plus structured speaker and organizer records. Extract LinkedIn Event does not enumerate attendees — for that, chain Extract LinkedIn Event Attendees.

Re-run the action over time to capture changes to the event (rescheduled date, new speakers, updated description) without monitoring the page manually.

When to use Extract LinkedIn Event

Reach for Extract LinkedIn Event when events are part of your demand engine, your competitive monitoring, or your sales plays. Events gather high-intent audiences around a topic — who speaks, who attends, what it is about — and that metadata is most valuable when captured as data rather than skimmed in a browser.

It sits inside the LinkedIn profile & company data API use case when you treat events as intent signals.

Use cases

  • Competitive monitoring. Track events hosted by competitors — speakers, cadence, themes — to anticipate their GTM direction.
  • Event-adjacent outbound. Extract LinkedIn Event details and plan outreach around topics and speakers that matter to your ICP.
  • Field marketing triage. When your team sponsors or attends an event, pull the event record to align field reporting.
  • Partnership mapping. Spot shared speakers and co-hosts to map the partnership graph.
  • Content planning. Feed event themes and descriptions into a content calendar to stay relevant to the topics your audience follows.

Best practices

  • Pair with attendees for the signal. The event is the context; the attendees are the audience. Chain Extract LinkedIn Event Attendees when you need the people list.
  • Snapshot over time. Events mutate (dates, speakers, descriptions). Re-run Extract LinkedIn Event on a cadence to keep a versioned record.
  • Cache by `eventId`. It is the stable LinkedIn identifier; URLs can change if the slug is edited.
  • Normalize timezones. timezone is exposed explicitly — always store UTC in your warehouse and render per user.

Common questions

How many events can I extract per run?

One per call. For event lists, chain from Search LinkedIn Events and fan out Extract LinkedIn Event across the result set.

Does this use my LinkedIn account or a shared pool?

Your LinkedIn account. Event pages are visible to any logged-in LinkedIn user, and Edges reads the event through your connected session — no shared pool, no admin requirements.

Can I chain Extract LinkedIn Event with other Edges actions?

Yes. Common chains combine Search LinkedIn Events to find events, Extract LinkedIn Event for metadata, and Extract LinkedIn Event Attendees for the attendee list.

Get started

Run Extract LinkedIn Event from the Edges library, feed the results into your marketing or competitive-intel workspace, or call it directly from the Edges API. Browse the full Actions library to compose it into a complete event-intelligence workflow.

Code Examples

bash
curl -X POST "https://api.edges.run/v1/actions/linkedin-extract-event/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_event_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/example-profile",
    "custom_data": "example_value"
  }
}'

Output Example

{
  "event_name": "Example Name",
  "event_information": "example_value",
  "linkedin_event_id": "example-123",
  "linkedin_event_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/example-profile",
  "event_external_link": "example_value",
  "created_at": "example_value",
  "number_attendees": "example_value",
  "event_start_datetime": "1990-01-01",
  "event_end_datetime": "1990-01-01",
  "company_name": "Example Name",
  "linkedin_company_id": "example-123",
  "linkedin_company_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/example-profile",
  "first_name": "John",
  "last_name": "Doe",
  "full_name": "John Doe",
  "speakers": [
    1,
    2,
    3
  ]
}

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