Extract LinkedIn Licenses Certifications

Analyze professional qualifications, track credentials, and enrich candidate data for recruiting.

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

API Endpoint

POST/v1/actions/linkedin-extract-licenses-certifications/run/live

Parameters

Request parameters

Input Parameters

Integration Parameters

Guide

What Extract LinkedIn Licenses Certifications does

Extract LinkedIn Licenses Certifications pulls the full licenses and certifications section from a LinkedIn profile into structured rows, so you can analyse professional qualifications at scale. You get the credential name, issuing authority, issue date, and credential ID when present.

The action runs on the LinkedIn level and is built for recruiting, compliance, and talent intelligence workflows that hinge on verifiable qualifications.

How it works

You provide a LinkedIn profile URL, Edges authenticates with your connected LinkedIn session, and it reads the Licenses & Certifications block on the profile. The operation is synchronous for single profiles and returns a normalised array of credential objects.

Runs happen on Edges infrastructure with safe rate pacing. You do not manage browsers, cookies, or retries — the action handles the profile fetch and parsing end-to-end.

When to use Extract LinkedIn Licenses Certifications

Reach for this action whenever qualifications drive the workflow — sourcing AWS-certified engineers, validating CPA credentials, tracking PMP renewals, or filtering a talent pool on ISO auditor status. It maps to the LinkedIn profile & company data API use case.

It is also the cleanest primitive for building credential-based scoring signals when neither title nor company alone answers the question.

Use cases

  • Recruiting for regulated roles. Filter a candidate list down to those with an active credential (PMP, CFA, CPA, CISSP) before reaching out.
  • Technical sourcing. Find engineers with specific cloud or database certifications your resumé screen would miss.
  • Compliance snapshots. For internal talent data, capture which employees hold required credentials and which are expiring.
  • Enrichment for ATS. Push certification data into your ATS so recruiters can filter without leaving their tool.
  • Market research. Sample a vertical to understand credential prevalence — useful for training content positioning.

Best practices

  • Batch via a search. Feed profile URLs from Search LinkedIn People or Extract LinkedIn Company Employees Insights into Extract LinkedIn Licenses Certifications.
  • Normalise issuer names. The same credential can appear under multiple issuer variants (e.g., "AWS" vs "Amazon Web Services"). Normalise before you pivot.
  • Mind expiration dates. Not every profile lists renewals. Treat missing expirationDate as unknown, not current.
  • Respect rate pacing. Enriching thousands of profiles should run async; Edges paces requests safely but total runtime scales with volume.

Common questions

How many profiles can I enrich per run?

One profile per call, but you can fan out in parallel from a list source. For large batches, use Edges async execution and collect results as the jobs complete.

Does Extract LinkedIn Licenses Certifications use my LinkedIn account or a shared pool?

Your LinkedIn account. The credential section is read through your authenticated LinkedIn session on Edges, so visibility matches your manual browsing.

Can I chain Extract LinkedIn Licenses Certifications with other Edges actions?

Yes. Common chains are into Extract People Skills and Extract People Experiences for a full credentials-plus-career view.

Get started

Run Extract LinkedIn Licenses Certifications from the Edges library, call it from the Edges API, or wire it into your ATS sync. Browse the full Actions library for enrichment actions you can chain together.

Code Examples

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

Output Example

[
  {
    "credential_id": "example-123",
    "linkedin_profile_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/example-profile",
    "linkedin_profile_id": 42,
    "company_name": "Example Name",
    "original_linkedin_company_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/example-profile",
    "external_certificate_link": "example_value",
    "issued_date": "1990-01-01",
    "expiration_date": "1990-01-01",
    "title": "Software Engineer at Example Corp"
  }
]

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