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LinkedIn jobs API

A LinkedIn jobs API that returns public listings for a role and a location: title, company, location, posting date, salary chip, benefits and the listing URL — with remote-only and posted-within filters, and no login.

$0.001 per delivered job · $2 free every month · Failed runs never billed

POST /v1/scraper/collectors/linkedin_jobs/run
$ curl $QD/linkedin_jobs/run \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $QD_API_KEY" \
    -d '{"query": "data engineer", "location": "United States", "max_results": 50}'
{ "status": "done", "count": 50,
  "results": [
    {
      "title": "…",
      "company": "…",
      "company_url": "…",
      "location": "…" } ],
  "cost": 0.05 }
# 50 jobs × $0.001 · nothing delivered, nothing charged
$0.001 / job2,000 jobs on the free $2 every month
Semantic inputquery, location, remote_only — no URL lists
Up to 300jobs per run, pagination handled for you
No browserread over HTTP/TLS — cheaper and faster than rendering

What a LinkedIn jobs API does

LinkedIn's logged-out job search calls a guest endpoint for its infinite scroll, and that endpoint serves plain listing cards to anyone. This collector reads it directly: ten cards a request, paginated to the volume you ask for, deduplicated by LinkedIn's own job id.

Everything here is public data. No cookie, no account, no session replay — which also means the run does not depend on a login that expires halfway through your backfill.

What one job looks like

Every delivered job carries these fields. Nullable means the source did not publish it — the field stays empty instead of being guessed.

FieldTypeWhat it holds
rankinteger1-based position across pages.
titlestringJob title.
companystring · nullableEmployer.
company_urlstring · nullableEmployer's LinkedIn page.
locationstring · nullableLocation as shown.
posted_atstring · nullablePosting date (ISO, from the card's <time>).
posted_labelstring · nullablePosting age as shown ("2 weeks ago").
salarystring · nullableSalary chip when LinkedIn shows one.
benefitsstring · nullableBenefits chip when shown.
job_idstring · nullableLinkedIn job id (dedupe key).
linkstring · nullableListing URL.
logostring · nullableCompany logo URL.

Inputs

The whole request. Anything you leave out falls back to the default shown in the catalog.

InputTypeRequiredWhat it does
querystringyesJob title or keywords, e.g. "data engineer".
locationstringnoCity, region or country, e.g. "New York" or "Italy".
remote_onlybooleannoOnly listings LinkedIn marks as remote.
posted_within_daysintegernoOnly listings posted in the last N days (1–30).
countrystringnoISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code — proxy exit geo and Google locale (gl). Omit for the default pool.
max_resultsintegernoHow many jobs to deliver at most (1–300). You pay only for delivered jobs.

Pricing

LinkedIn jobs API pricing

$0.001 per delivered job. A run that delivers nothing costs nothing: blocked pages, challenges and retries are on us, and the $2 monthly allowance covers about 2,000 jobs before you spend anything.

$0.001per delivered job$1 per 1,000 delivered jobs
2,000 jobson the free allowance$2 every month, no card
Zero rowszero chargeblocks, captchas and retries are on us
−30%on volume tiersthe catalog returns your key's price

Pay as you go

$0/mo
  • $2 free credit / month
  • 60 requests / min
  • List unit prices

Starter

$19/mo
  • $15 free credit / month
  • 300 requests / min
  • 10% off unit prices

Scale

$299/mo
  • $250 free credit / month
  • 1,200 requests / min
  • 30% off unit prices

Same wallet, same key and same $2 monthly allowance as every other Data API. Prices are launch pricing read live from the billing config — GET /v1/scraper/collectors returns the price your key actually pays.

Integration

One POST, typed rows

Base URL https://api.quanticdata.io/v1, Bearer auth, the same key as every other Data API. Endpoint: POST /v1/scraper/collectors/linkedin_jobs/run.

curl -X POST https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/linkedin_jobs/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $QD_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query":"data engineer","location":"United States","max_results":50}'

What people build with the LinkedIn jobs API

Three shapes of work this endpoint was designed around.

Hiring signals

Watch which competitors are staffing which functions, and how fast.

Job boards and aggregators

Fill a vertical board with fresh listings, filtered by role and geography.

Salary benchmarking

Collect the salary chips LinkedIn publishes for a role across markets.

LinkedIn jobs API versus rolling your own

The differences that actually cost time when you build this in-house.

DIY scraperThis collector
AuthAccount cookie, ban riskPublic guest endpoint
Freshness filterPost-filter after downloadposted_within_days sent to LinkedIn

Partner programmes, or the public listings

LinkedIn's job APIs live inside Talent Solutions and Job Posting partner programmes: an approved partnership, a signed agreement and a business case LinkedIn agrees with. They exist so applicant tracking systems can post jobs into LinkedIn, not so anyone can read the job market. There is no self-serve tier.

This reads the logged-out guest endpoint — the same paginated surface LinkedIn's own signed-out infinite scroll calls. It is a narrower dataset than a session-based scraper claims and it is one that can run on a schedule without an account behind it that can be restricted.

Limits, freshness and the legal bit

Up to 300 jobs per run, paginated internally ten cards at a time. remote_only and posted_within_days filter at the source, so a freshness-constrained sweep costs less rather than the same. Throughput is your plan's rate limit rather than anything about the collector: 60 requests/minute on pay-as-you-go, up to 1,200 on the top tier.

salary is frequently null because most LinkedIn listings do not publish pay. Record the null rate as a statistic about the market rather than treating it as missing data — it is one of the more interesting things the dataset says.

US courts have repeatedly declined to treat scraping publicly accessible pages as unauthorised access under the CFAA. LinkedIn's terms still prohibit automated collection, the analysis differs outside the US, and listings can name individual recruiters, which is personal data. None of this is legal advice — get some for your actual use case.

FAQ

Questions we get about the LinkedIn jobs API.

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Can I restrict to remote roles?

Yes — remote_only maps to LinkedIn's own remote filter, and posted_within_days to its freshness filter.

Do all listings have a salary?

No. LinkedIn shows a salary chip only when the employer provides one; the field is null otherwise. For structured ranges, Indeed publishes min, max and period.

How many listings per run?

Up to 300, ten per request, deduplicated by job id.

Is there a free LinkedIn jobs API?

Every account gets $2 of credit every month with no card, which is about 2,000 delivered jobs on this endpoint at $0.001 each. It renews monthly, and a run that delivers nothing is never billed — so a failed or blocked attempt does not eat the allowance.

How much does one run cost?

Multiply the rows you actually receive by $0.001. A run capped at 300 jobs — the maximum for this collector — costs $0.3 if every row comes back, and less when the source has fewer. Volume tiers take up to 30% off, and GET /v1/scraper/collectors returns the price your key actually pays.

How do I deduplicate across daily runs?

On job_id, which is stable. Employers repost and the same role surfaces across sweeps, so counting titles overstates demand — a set operation on ids does not.

Why does it avoid logging in?

Because session-based LinkedIn scrapers get accounts restricted, and on LinkedIn that can mean losing a real person's professional identity. Reading only the guest surface keeps the pipeline schedulable.

Run the LinkedIn jobs API now

$2 of free credit every month, no card. Your key returns its own prices from GET /v1/scraper/collectors.

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