What are the steps to use linkedin people search api?

Question

I am trying to access linkedin people search api via http://api.linkedin.com/v1/people-search?first-name=Clair

But it returns me

<error>
<status>401</status>
<timestamp>1422599405748</timestamp>
<request-id>3O1KI50MDV</request-id>
<error-code>0</error-code>
<message>Unknown authentication scheme</message>
</error>

What am I doing wrong?

I have never used the api.Can anyone help me on this.

Answer 1

You need to register your app with LinkedIn and get their approval (they call it vetted access) to be able to use people search.

Check https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/people-search-api

Answer 2

I work at SerpApi and we recently added LinkedIn Public Search Results Scraper API . You can check out this example in playground. Response for a profile found contains name, occupation, location, last_job, last education thumbnail and link.

Answer 3

LinkedIn's People Search API has not been available to the open developer community since May, 2015.

You can apply to be a developer partner at: https://developer.linkedin.com/partner-programs/apply