searchPeople function

Search for People on LinkedIn

searchPeople allows you to search for connections on LinkedIn. It returns most of what shows up when you do a search for people in the box at the top of the page on linkedin.com.

There are a number of parameters that allow you to conduct either a broad or focused search.

In order to use this function, you must create your own appliction and apply for the Vetted API Access here: https://help.linkedin.com/app/ask/path/api-dvr.

searchPeople(token, keywords = NULL, first_name = NULL, last_name = NULL,
  company_name = NULL, current_company = NULL, title = NULL,
  current_title = NULL, school_name = NULL, current_school = NULL,
  country_code = NULL, postal_code = NULL, distance = NULL, partner = 0)

Arguments

• token: Authorization token.
• keywords: A keyword used in a person's profile. Multiple words should be separated by a space.
• first_name: Search by a user's first name.
• last_name: Search by a user's last name.
• company_name: The name of a company where someone has as worked.
• current_company: TRUE or FALSE, can only be used in conjunction with company_name.
• title: A job title someone has held
• current_title: TRUE or FALSE, can only be used in conjunction with title.
• school_name: The name of a school someone has attended.
• current_school: TRUE or FALSE, can only be used in conjuntion with current_school.
• country_code: Specify the country in which to search. This is the ISO3166 country code, and must be in lower case.
• postal_code: Must be combined with the country_code parameter.
• distance: Distance matches members within a distance from a central point. This is measured in miles and and is best used in conjunction with both country_code and postal-code.
• partner: Indicate whether you belong to the Partnership Program. Values: 0 or 1

Returns

Returns a dataframe of people based input parameters

Examples

## Not run:

search.results <- searchPeople(token=in.auth, first_name="Michael", last_name="Piccirilli")
## End(Not run)

Author(s)

Michael Piccirilli michael.r.piccirilli@gmail.com

See Also

getProfile