LinkedInget/get-received-recommendations

Get Received Recommendations

Profile APIs
Cost / request

$0.01

Response format

JSON

Protocol

REST

About this endpoint

Fetch recommendations a user has received from colleagues, managers, and clients. This is direct professional social proof — each recommendation validates specific skills, achievements, and working relationships.

Use cases

Validate candidate skills through third-party endorsements
Build professional reputation scores from recommendation data
Identify top performers through recommendation volume and quality

Parameters

NameInTypeRequiredDescription
startquerystringoptionalDefault: 0
usernamequerystringrequiredDefault: ryanroslansky

Responses

OK

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "success": {
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "message": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "data": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "text": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "created": {
            "type": "integer"
          },
          "lastModified": {
            "type": "integer"
          },
          "relationship": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "recommender": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "firstName": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "lastName": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "occupation": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "username": {
                "type": "string"
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "total": {
      "type": "integer"
    }
  }
}

Agent / Developer Schema

Machine-readable formats for integrating this endpoint into AI agents and toolchains.

{
  "operationId": "Get_Received_Recommendations",
  "method": "get",
  "path": "/get-received-recommendations",
  "summary": "Get Received Recommendations",
  "description": "To scrape all recommendations from a profile, increase the start value to +100 for each request until you reach the total recommendations count. You can find the total recommendations count in the response",
  "parameters": [
    {
      "name": "start",
      "in": "query",
      "required": false,
      "schema": {
        "type": "string",
        "default": "0"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "username",
      "in": "query",
      "required": true,
      "schema": {
        "type": "string",
        "default": "ryanroslansky"
      }
    }
  ],
  "responses": [
    {
      "statusCode": "200",
      "description": "OK",
      "content": {
        "application/json": {
          "schema": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "success": {
                "type": "boolean"
              },
              "message": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "data": {
                "type": "array",
                "items": {
                  "type": "object",
                  "properties": {
                    "text": {
                      "type": "string"
                    },
                    "created": {
                      "type": "integer"
                    },
                    "lastModified": {
                      "type": "integer"
                    },
                    "relationship": {
                      "type": "string"
                    },
                    "recommender": {
                      "type": "object",
                      "properties": {
                        "firstName": {
                          "type": "string"
                        },
                        "lastName": {
                          "type": "string"
                        },
                        "occupation": {
                          "type": "string"
                        },
                        "username": {
                          "type": "string"
                        }
                      }
                    }
                  }
                }
              },
              "total": {
                "type": "integer"
              }
            }
          },
          "example": {
            "success": true,
            "message": "",
            "data": [
              {
                "text": "Ryan is a true leader.  He inspires those who work with him and is astute, charismatic, and focused; for these reasons he is extremely effective at rallying colleagues around common goals and getting things done.  He possesses the rare capacity to integrate people skills and sense of humor with strategy and execution.  Ryan is brilliantly creative is responsible for initiating and executing the most successful, groundbreaking initiatives at Glam.  I consider it a privilege to work for Ryan.",
                "created": 1237372587484,
                "lastModified": 1237386379298,
                "relationship": "RECOMMENDER_REPORTED_TO_RECOMMENDEE",
                "recommender": {
                  "firstName": "Christina",
                  "lastName": "Cece",
                  "occupation": "Software Engineer",
                  "username": "christinacece"
                }
              },
              {
                "text": "Ryan is a superb manager. Empowering, focused, detail-oriented, and most of all, encouraging. Ryan is also one of the most innovative thinkers I've met--which creates an exciting and inventive atmosphere in which to work. Furthermore, he is eager to hear from others--and always appreciates and promotes solid ideas.",
                "created": 1237371051897,
                "lastModified": 1237386364178,
                "relationship": "RECOMMENDER_REPORTED_TO_RECOMMENDEE",
                "recommender": {
                  "firstName": "Tracey",
                  "lastName": "Harrington McCoy",
                  "occupation": "Entertainment Writer/Editor: People Mag, Newsweek, Parents Mag, Forbes, AARP, HelloGiggles, Aol/HuffPo | Founder & CEO, Written By Media",
                  "username": "traceyharringtonmccoy"
                }
              }
            ],
            "total": 2
          }
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Pricing

$0.01per successful request

Credits are deducted from your agntdata balance on each successful API call. Failed requests (4xx/5xx) are not charged.

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