LinkedIn profile search by name

from $0.0120 per profilelinkedin.search_name

Find LinkedIn profiles by a person's first and last name, with optional filters for location, current or past company, school, job title and industry.

What a call costs

Billed on actual usage, minimum $0.0020 per call, capped at $12.00 per call.

a price before every call. failed calls are never charged.

When to use it

Use when you know who you are looking for by name and want their LinkedIn profile. To search by role or skill rather than by name, use linkedin.search_services instead.

Inputs

LinkedIn profile search by name takes 12 fields, 2 of them required. Anything you leave out falls back to the tool's own default.

Field	Type	Required	What it does
lastName	string	yes	Last name of the person to find
firstName	string	yes	First name of the person to find
schools	array of string	optional	School names to filter by, e.g. "Stanford University"
maxItems	integer	optional	Maximum profiles to return. This is the field the price is sized on.
maxPages	integer	optional	Search pages to scrape per query. Each page holds 25 profiles, so raising this raises the bill.
locations	array of string	optional	LinkedIn location filters, e.g. "United Kingdom". LinkedIn misreads abbreviations, so spell the country out.
industryIds	array of string	optional	LinkedIn industry ids to filter by
strictSearch	boolean	optional	Return only profiles matching both first and last name exactly. Turning this off widens the search and can bill many more profiles.
pastCompanies	array of string	optional	Full LinkedIn company URLs to filter by past employer
currentCompanies	array of string	optional	Full LinkedIn company URLs to filter by current employer
currentJobTitles	array of string	optional	Exact current job titles to filter by
profileScraperMode	string	optional	Detail level per profile, and what each profile costs. Short bills $0.002, Full bills $0.004, and Full + email search bills $0.010, so the email mode is 5x the price of Short. Defaults to the cheapest; ask for more only if you need it.

How to call it

Connect once and your agent can reach LinkedIn profile search by name the same way it reaches everything else in the catalog. Add Goro as an MCP connector, or paste the setup line into an agent that reads skills.

MCP

Add this server in Claude, Claude Code, or any MCP client.

https://mcp.usegoro.ai/mcp

Skill

One line in your agent's chat. It sets itself up.

set up https://usegoro.ai/SKILL.md

Or plain HTTP

POST /v1/run

{
  "endpoint": "linkedin.search_name",
  "input": {
    "lastName": "<lastName>",
    "maxItems": 10,
    "maxPages": 1,
    "firstName": "<firstName>",
    "strictSearch": true,
    "profileScraperMode": "Short"
  }
}

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