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Microsoft LinkedIn

LinkedIn, owned by Microsoft, operates a versioned Rest.li API platform covering advertising and marketing, company page and community management, talent and recruiting, sales navigation, learning, and consumer sign-in. The versioned Marketing surface lives under https://api.linkedin.com/rest/ and requires a Linkedin-Version YYYYMM header on every call, with each monthly version supported for a minimum of twelve months before it is sunset. Authentication is OAuth 2.0, and Sign In with LinkedIn is a conformant OpenID Connect provider with a live discovery document. Access to the Marketing, Talent, Sales and Learning APIs is gated behind product approval and, in most cases, a commercial partner relationship; LinkedIn publishes no API pricing and no OpenAPI definitions of its own.

Microsoft LinkedIn publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including AdAccounts API, AdAccountUsers API, AdCampaignGroups API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Marketing, Microsoft, Professional Networking, Recruiting, and Social Network.

The Microsoft LinkedIn catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Microsoft LinkedIn’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, documentation, support, API reference, getting-started guide, signup flow, and 37 more developer resources.

64.5/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 41/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try
8 APIs 1 MCP Servers
MarketingMicrosoftProfessional NetworkingRecruitingSocial Network

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
Composite quality — 64.5/100 · strong
Contract Quality 15.9 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 14.6 / 20
Access Clarity 11.6 / 20
Operational Transparency 10.6 / 13
Contract Governance 3.6 / 12
Discoverability 8.2 / 10
Agent readiness — 41/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 8

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

LinkedIn Marketing API

The LinkedIn Marketing API enables programmatic management of LinkedIn advertising campaigns, audience targeting, creative assets, and performance reporting. Developers can crea...

LinkedIn Consumer API

The LinkedIn Consumer API provides access to member profiles, sign-in with LinkedIn, and content sharing capabilities. Developers can implement social sign-on, retrieve basic pr...

LinkedIn Talent Solutions API

The LinkedIn Talent Solutions API provides access to recruiting and talent management capabilities. It enables integration with applicant tracking systems, job posting managemen...

Microsoft LinkedIn AdAccountUsers API

Manage ad account user permissions

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Open Collections 7

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

LinkedIn Marketing API

OPEN COLLECTION

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Microsoft LinkedIn MCP Server

LinkedIn publishes no MCP server. Every LinkedIn MCP server in circulation is community-built on top of either the public API or the unofficial Voyager endpoints. The tool list ...

MCP SERVER

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Microsoft Linkedin Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Microsoft Linkedin Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Microsoft Linkedin Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Microsoft Linkedin Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Microsoft Linkedin Trust Center

ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27018, ISO 22301, SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Microsoft Linkedin Scopes

5 scopes · authorizationCode

5 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Microsoft Linkedin Agentic Access

17 operations · 8 acting

17 operations · 8 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 5

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

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Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 9

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

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Operate 6

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: microsoft-linkedin
name: Microsoft LinkedIn
description: LinkedIn, owned by Microsoft, operates a versioned Rest.li API platform covering advertising and marketing, company
  page and community management, talent and recruiting, sales navigation, learning, and consumer sign-in. The versioned Marketing
  surface lives under https://api.linkedin.com/rest/ and requires a Linkedin-Version YYYYMM header on every call, with each
  monthly version supported for a minimum of twelve months before it is sunset. Authentication is OAuth 2.0, and Sign In with
  LinkedIn is a conformant OpenID Connect provider with a live discovery document. Access to the Marketing, Talent, Sales
  and Learning APIs is gated behind product approval and, in most cases, a commercial partner relationship; LinkedIn publishes
  no API pricing and no OpenAPI definitions of its own.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/microsoft-linkedin.png
tags:
- Marketing
- Microsoft
- Professional Networking
- Recruiting
- Social Network
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/microsoft-linkedin/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2024-01-01'
modified: '2026-08-13'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: microsoft-linkedin:marketing-api
  name: LinkedIn Marketing API
  tags:
  - Advertising
  - Marketing
  - Social-Media
  tags_raw:
  - Advertising
  - Marketing
  - Social Media
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  baseURL: https://api.linkedin.com/v2/
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/
  properties:
  - url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/
    type: Documentation
  description: The LinkedIn Marketing API enables programmatic management of LinkedIn advertising campaigns, audience targeting,
    creative assets, and performance reporting. Developers can create sponsored content, manage campaign groups, configure
    conversion tracking, and retrieve analytics data for marketing optimization.
- aid: microsoft-linkedin:consumer-api
  name: LinkedIn Consumer API
  tags:
  - Profiles
  - Sharing
  - Social Network
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  baseURL: https://api.linkedin.com/v2/
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/consumer/
  properties:
  - url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/consumer/
    type: Documentation
  description: The LinkedIn Consumer API provides access to member profiles, sign-in with LinkedIn, and content sharing capabilities.
    Developers can implement social sign-on, retrieve basic profile information, and enable users to share content to their
    LinkedIn feeds from external applications.
- aid: microsoft-linkedin:talent-solutions-api
  name: LinkedIn Talent Solutions API
  tags:
  - HR
  - Recruiting
  - Talent
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  baseURL: https://api.linkedin.com/v2/
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/talent/
  properties:
  - url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/talent/
    type: Documentation
  description: The LinkedIn Talent Solutions API provides access to recruiting and talent management capabilities. It enables
    integration with applicant tracking systems, job posting management, candidate search, and recruiter workflow automation
    for enterprise hiring processes.
- aid: microsoft-linkedin:microsoft-linkedin-adaccounts-api
  name: Microsoft LinkedIn AdAccounts API
  description: Manage ad accounts
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/
  baseURL: https://api.linkedin.com/v2/
  tags:
  - Ad Accounts
  tags_raw:
  - AdAccounts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/microsoft-linkedin-adaccounts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/microsoft-linkedin-adaccounts-overlay.yaml
- aid: microsoft-linkedin:microsoft-linkedin-adaccountusers-api
  name: Microsoft LinkedIn AdAccountUsers API
  description: Manage ad account user permissions
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/
  baseURL: https://api.linkedin.com/v2/
  tags:
  - AdAccountUsers
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/microsoft-linkedin-adaccountusers-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/microsoft-linkedin-adaccountusers-overlay.yaml
- aid: microsoft-linkedin:microsoft-linkedin-adcampaigngroups-api
  name: Microsoft LinkedIn AdCampaignGroups API
  description: Manage campaign groups
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/
  baseURL: https://api.linkedin.com/v2/
  tags:
  - AdCampaignGroups
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/microsoft-linkedin-adcampaigngroups-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/microsoft-linkedin-adcampaigngroups-overlay.yaml
- aid: microsoft-linkedin:microsoft-linkedin-adcampaigns-api
  name: Microsoft LinkedIn AdCampaigns API
  description: Manage campaigns
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/
  baseURL: https://api.linkedin.com/v2/
  tags:
  - Ad Campaigns
  tags_raw:
  - AdCampaigns
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/microsoft-linkedin-adcampaigns-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/microsoft-linkedin-adcampaigns-overlay.yaml
- aid: microsoft-linkedin:microsoft-linkedin-adcreatives-api
  name: Microsoft LinkedIn AdCreatives API
  description: Manage creatives
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/
  baseURL: https://api.linkedin.com/v2/
  tags:
  - Ad Creatives
  tags_raw:
  - AdCreatives
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/microsoft-linkedin-adcreatives-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/microsoft-linkedin-adcreatives-overlay.yaml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/microsoft-linkedin-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/microsoft-linkedin-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/microsoft-linkedin-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/microsoft-linkedin-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/microsoft-linkedin-scopes.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/linkedin
- type: Portal
  url: https://developer.linkedin.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/shared/authentication/authentication
- type: RateLimits
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/shared/api-guide/concepts/rate-limits
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/api-terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
- type: Support
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.linkedin.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/shared/references/v2/object-types
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/quick-start
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/developers/apps/new
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/developers/news
- type: Postman
  url: https://www.postman.com/linkedin-developer-apis/workspace/linkedin-marketing-solutions-versioned-apis/overview
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://www.linkedin-apistatus.com/
- type: Packages
  url: packages/microsoft-linkedin-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/microsoft-linkedin-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/microsoft-linkedin-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/microsoft-linkedin-security.txt
- type: Security
  url: security/microsoft-linkedin-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/microsoft-linkedin-trust-center.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: security/microsoft-linkedin-trust-center.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/microsoft-linkedin-conformance.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/microsoft-linkedin-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/microsoft-linkedin-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/microsoft-linkedin-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/microsoft-linkedin-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/microsoft-linkedin-changelog.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/microsoft-linkedin-sandbox.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/microsoft-linkedin-components.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/microsoft-linkedin-data-model.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/microsoft-linkedin-webhooks.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/microsoft-linkedin-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/microsoft-linkedin-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/microsoft-linkedin-llms.txt
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/microsoft-linkedin-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/microsoft-linkedin-plans-pricing.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/microsoft-linkedin-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-13'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 26
  pass: local-v1