LinkedIn

LinkedIn is the platform where developers most often find there is simply no route to the number they want. If you have gone looking for a public profile statistic and come away empty-handed, you have not missed anything obvious.

The access model is the obstacle

LinkedIn's APIs sit behind partner programmes. You apply, you explain your use case, and access is granted for specific products, largely oriented around marketing, hiring, and authenticated members acting on their own data. There is no general-purpose public endpoint where you pass a profile and receive its audience size, and for many legitimate use cases there is no programme to apply to in the first place.

That leaves most teams either doing it by hand or building something fragile themselves.

What Metrika gives you for LinkedIn

Metrika returns the audience size shown on a public LinkedIn profile, under the same followers field used across every other platform.

{
  "data": [
    {
      "platform": "linkedin",
      "identifier": "nasa",
      "status": "available",
      "metrics": {
        "followers": { "value": 3100000, "status": "available" }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Datapoint coverage varies by platform and grows over time. The docs always list what is currently available for each one.

The same call as every other network

LinkedIn joins Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, and Threads behind one endpoint. Swap the platform value and everything else about the request stays the same, so adding LinkedIn to an existing Metrika integration is a one-line change rather than a new partner application.

What Metrika is not

Metrika reads public profile datapoints. It does not post, message, access private or member-authenticated data, or provide anything from an account you administer.

Getting started

Create an account, generate an API key, and make up to 500 requests per month at no cost, no credit card required. The docs cover authentication and response formats.

Get started with Metrika

Create a free account and start pulling social media datapoints in minutes. The free tier includes 500 requests per month, no credit card required.