Leads

Sensitive

Named people and decision makers

GET/data-api/v2/leads/linkedin/people
Scope
leads:read
Freshness
catalog read
Group
Leads
Platforms
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What this endpoint answers

The people layer on its own, filterable by company, seniority, job title and the company's country or industry. Each row carries the company it belongs to, so a decision-maker search returns a usable lead rather than a name that needs a second lookup.

This is a catalog read: it is served from the CRM Solid database in milliseconds, costs one budget unit, and reports how old the reading is in meta.cache_age_s. It needs the leads:read scope (Leads): LinkedIn company and contact data, and X follower-graph exports.

Good to know

  • Bulk lead data carries compliance obligations for the caller. These rows are personal data about identifiable people, collected from public sources and held by us under a legitimate-interest basis for our own outreach. Receiving them through this API does not transfer that basis: you need your own lawful ground, you must be able to identify the source and date for anything you store, and you must be able to honour an erasure or objection request against your copy. Suppression on our side does not delete yours.
  • People whose only link to a company is being named inside a post are excluded everywhere. That relation is not evidence of employment, and a lead list that includes it will eventually mail a rival executive about their competitor's product.
  • No email is attached to a person row. Contact addresses are held per company and served on the company endpoints, which keeps a title lookup from doubling as a contact export.
  • Read the size of this dataset before you build on it. 812,939 person rows exist; 453,005 of them are people merely NAMED inside a post and never leave this API, 358,797 survive as a named employee or feed author, 118,852 carry a job title or a seniority, and 46,637 are named decision makers. That last number, 5.7 percent of the table, is the real dataset.
  • title is populated on 9.32 percent of rows and seniority on 15.73 percent. Titles come almost entirely from company team pages rather than from LinkedIn, because a logged-out profile renders the experience block masked.
  • The title filter matches title only. It used to also match headline, which could never hit: headline is NULL on all 812,939 rows for the same masking reason, so that half of the predicate only widened the scan.
  • Rows are returned in stable discovery order (internal id ascending), not by seniority. Use seniority or decision_makers to isolate the rows you want rather than relying on ordering.
  • location, education, photo_url, headline, last_fetched and fetch_status exist as columns and are NULL on all 812,939 rows. This note previously said they were stored and withheld by choice; they are not stored at all. LinkedIn does not render them to a logged-out visitor, and the profile fetch that would is throttled hard enough to return HTTP 999 on two of every three attempts.

Parameters

Every value the call accepts, with the example the spec ships so the request runs as written.

NameInRequiredExampleWhat it does
companyqueryoptionalmodashCompany slug.
seniorityqueryoptionalfounderExact seniority band.
decision_makersqueryoptional-Shortcut for founder, c_level, vp and director together. Overrides seniority when both are given.
titlequeryoptionalhead of growthCase-insensitive substring match against job title and LinkedIn headline.
countryqueryoptionalUSISO 3166-1 alpha-2 of the person's company.
industryqueryoptionalMarketing ServicesIndustry of the person's company.
limitqueryoptional50Rows per page, 1-200.
cursorqueryoptional-Opaque cursor from meta.page.next_cursor.

Call it

Authenticate with a bearer token or the x-api-key header. Keys are server-to-server credentials. Never embed one in front-end code - call the API from your own backend and forward the result.

curl
curl "https://crmsolid.com/data-api/v2/leads/linkedin/people" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer psk_live_..."
JavaScript
const res = await fetch("https://crmsolid.com/data-api/v2/leads/linkedin/people", {
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.CRM_SOLID_DATA_API_KEY}`,
  },
});

if (!res.ok) {
  const { error } = await res.json();
  throw new Error(`${error.code}: ${error.message} (${error.request_id})`);
}

const { data, meta } = await res.json();
Python
import os

import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://crmsolid.com/data-api/v2/leads/linkedin/people",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['CRM_SOLID_DATA_API_KEY']}"},
    timeout=30,
)
res.raise_for_status()

payload = res.json()
data, meta = payload["data"], payload["meta"]

Keys look like psk_live_... for production keys, psk_test_... for test keys and are minted in the panel.

What comes back

Success is { data, meta }. Failure is { error: { code, message, request_id } }. The body below is the spec's own example: the values in it are illustrative readings, not live numbers.

People
1 items
200 GET /leads/linkedin/people
{
  "data": {
    "people": [
      {
        "id": "48211",
        "name": "Avery Lindqvist",
        "title": "Co-Founder & CEO",
        "headline": null,
        "seniority": "founder",
        "seniority_label": "Founder",
        "decision_maker": true,
        "relation": "employee",
        "source": "website",
        "li_slug": "averylindqvist",
        "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/averylindqvist",
        "company": {
          "id": "modash",
          "name": "Modash",
          "industry": "Software Development",
          "country_code": "EE",
          "website_domain": "modash.io"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "req_9f2c41a8b3d5",
    "generated_at": "2026-08-23T09:14:02.317Z",
    "took_ms": 42,
    "page": {
      "limit": 50,
      "next_cursor": "eyJrIjoiMTczNDU2IiwiZCI6ImEifQ",
      "count": 50
    }
  }
}

The meta block

  • request_idstringrequired

    Unique id for this request. Quote it in a support ticket.

  • generated_atstringrequired

    Server time the response was produced.

  • took_msintegerrequired

    Milliseconds spent server-side.

  • pagePageoptional
  • sourcestringoptional

    Which backend served the payload, for endpoints with more than one.

  • cache_age_sintegeroptional

    Age of the underlying data in seconds. 0 for live reads.

meta.page

  • limitintegerrequired

    Rows requested. Default 50, maximum 500.

  • next_cursorstringrequired

    Pass as ?cursor= to fetch the next page. null means the result set is exhausted, and it is the only reliable stop condition.

  • countintegerrequired

    Rows in this page.

  • totalintegeroptional

    Total matching rows. Present only when counting is cheap; never assume it is there.

List endpoints take ?limit= (max 500) and ?cursor=. Follow meta.page.next_cursor until it is null; cursors are opaque and signed.

When it fails

GET /leads/linkedin/people documents 7 failure statuses. Branch on error.code, which is stable and enumerated; message is prose and may change.

  • 401Unauthorizedunauthorized | invalid_key

    No key was presented, or the key is unknown, revoked or expired.

  • 402PaymentRequiredpayment_required | subscription_inactive

    The key is valid but the plan behind it cannot serve the call: the included requests are spent and overage is switched off, capped or unfunded (payment_required), or the billing period lapsed and was not renewed (subscription_inactive). Retrying does not help; paying does. The X-Plan-* headers on this response say how far past the line you are.

    Carries X-Plan, X-Plan-Limit, X-Plan-Overage, X-Plan-Period-End, X-Plan-Remaining.

  • 403Forbiddenforbidden_scope | forbidden_ip

    The key is valid but not allowed to make this call: it lacks the scope, or the request came from an address outside the key's allowlist.

  • 422InvalidRequestinvalid_request

    A parameter is malformed, out of range or mutually exclusive with another. `details` names the offending fields.

  • 429RateLimitedrate_limited | quota_exceeded

    Either the burst ceiling for the current minute or the daily quota is spent. Distinguish with the code: rate_limited clears within the minute, quota_exceeded does not clear until 00:00 UTC.

    Carries Retry-After, X-Quota-Limit, X-Quota-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-Request-Id.

  • 500InternalErrorinternal_error

    Something failed on our side. Internals are never leaked; quote the request id.

  • 503Unavailableupstream_timeout | upstream_error | not_configured

    The request could not be served right now. BRANCH ON error.code, not on the status: 'upstream_timeout' means a source was too slow (this is what a catalog query hitting its 15-second statement timeout returns, so it is reachable from any endpoint that reads the corpus, not only the live-scrape ones) and the same call is worth retrying with backoff - narrowing it with a smaller limit, a filtered scope or a less popular account makes it far less likely; 'upstream_error' means a source was unreachable, so back off further; 'not_configured' means the capability has no backing service in this deployment, and retrying will never help.

Every response carries X-Request-Id and meta.request_id. Quote it in support requests.

Coverage and limits

This endpoint covers LinkedIn. Rate limits come from the tier on your key.

LinkedIn
TierRequests a minuteRequests a dayLive reads a minute
free301,0005
standard12025,00020
pro600250,00060
unlimited6,00010,000,000600

This call only draws on the ordinary per-minute and per-day columns. Every response reports where you stand in X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset and the X-Plan headers.

Start calling it

A key takes a minute to mint in the panel, no card. The reference covers authentication, the envelope, scopes, rate limits and every error code in one page.

Reference path: /data-api/reference/leads-linkedin-people-list

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