InsightSocial APILinkedIn Profile Skills API reference
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Get a free API keycurl "https://api.insightsocial.app/v1/linkedin/profile/skills?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fwilliamhgates%2F" \ -H "x-api-key: $INSIGHTSOCIAL_API_KEY"
Returns the skills listed on a LinkedIn member's profile, with each skill's name and the endorsements shown against it.
Beta. The source's own structure under our naming rules (snake_case keys, string ids, ISO times where the source gives a timestamp), not one of the schema-2 entities. Fields may change. See Schema 2.
Use it to score a person against a skill requirement, separately from the roles returned by profile/experiences.
50 credits per call.
Paginates by cursor: see Pagination.
Authorization
apiKey Your key from the dashboard. It starts with isk_.
In: header
Query Parameters
Full URL of the LinkedIn profile, company, or post.
1-based page number. Defaults to 1.
1 <= valueThe member's opaque LinkedIn URN, as returned in author.ext.urn by /v1/linkedin/profile. Optional, and a pure optimisation: pass it ALONGSIDE url (which stays required) and this call skips the internal handle lookup, so it answers faster. Verified on the deployed API 05/09/2026.
The pagination.next_cursor from the previous page, sent back unchanged. Omit it for the first page.
Set to 1 to get the price of this call without making it: data.dry_run carries credits_min and credits_max. Nothing is charged.
Value in
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Response Body
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curl -X GET "https://api.insightsocial.app/v1/linkedin/profile/skills?url=string"{ "success": true, "platform": "string", "endpoint": "string", "schema_version": "2", "pagination": { "next_cursor": "string", "has_more": true, "page_size": 0, "stopped_at": "since" }, "unavailable": [ "string" ], "credits_used": 0, "credits_remaining": 0, "request_id": "string", "cached": true, "idempotent_replay": true, "charge_reason": "string", "free_call": true, "data": { "property1": null, "property2": null }}