# LinkedIn data APIs and people data vendors compared URL: https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/linkedin-data/ Updated: 2026-10-26 Category: LinkedIn and people data Map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/ 10 companies on the social monitoring map. People data vendors return LinkedIn profiles, company pages and posts in a structured form. A team can use them to track what executives, competitors and prospects post. Coresignal sells bulk datasets that include employee and company posts, and Crustdata has a Social Post API. Linked API and Unipile work through the customer's own LinkedIn account. ## LinkedIn and people data - [Clay](https://www.clay.com/): GTM data and workflow platform whose Signals product monitors LinkedIn, Reddit, and YouTube content for brand, competitor, and lead activity. Clay documents official LinkedIn Community Management API access for brand mentions. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-clay - [Coresignal](https://coresignal.com/): Bulk datasets and APIs of professional profiles, companies, jobs, plus Employee Posts and Company Posts datasets; credit-priced. An agent pulls posts by API or JSONL/Parquet export. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-coresignal - [Crustdata](https://crustdata.com/): Real-time B2B data API on people and companies with a Social Post API (indexed search by text/hashtag/author, enrich a person or company's recent posts, live keyword search on request) and a Watcher API. Marketed with an MCP. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-crustdata - [Datamagnet](https://www.datamagnet.co/): Real-time B2B data API that accepts public profile, company, and post URLs and returns structured people, company, activity, post, comment, reaction, repost, and signal data. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-datamagnet - [Linked API](https://linkedapi.io/): LinkedIn automation API, SDK, CLI and MCP that run through a dedicated cloud browser on the customer's account. It can search posts by keyword and filter by author, company, mention, date and content type. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-linked-api - [Lix](https://lix-it.com/): Professional-network data vendor offering browser and real-time APIs for profiles, companies and leads, plus post search, activity histories, comments and reactions. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-lix - [Netrows](https://www.netrows.com/): B2B data API (LinkedIn, X, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, GitHub and more) returning structured JSON; 280+ endpoints claimed; MCP package @netrows/mcp-server. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-netrows - [NinjaPear](https://nubela.co/): Real-time B2B data API for AI agents from Proxycurl's founders: company and person data, customers, competitors, employee search, work email, and a Monitor feed that tracks company blog, X and YouTube updates. Does not scrape LinkedIn. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-ninjapear - [ScrapIn](https://www.scrapin.io/): Real-time LinkedIn data API (profile, company, and twelve social-activity endpoints incl. people and company posts). Reported to have merged into Reverse Contact in March 2026. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-scrapin - [Unipile](https://www.unipile.com/): One REST API over the end user's own connected LinkedIn (Classic, Sales Navigator, Recruiter), WhatsApp, email accounts. LinkedIn search covers People, Companies, Jobs and Posts. An agent acts as a member, not as a public scraper. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-unipile ## Other categories - [Social listening suites](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/social-listening.md): 67 companies. - [Mention alerts](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/mention-alerts.md): 31 companies. - [Social analytics](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/social-analytics.md): 28 companies. - [Listening agents](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/listening-agents.md): 25 companies. - [Trend signals](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/trend-signals.md): 18 companies. - [Creator analytics](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/creator-analytics.md): 44 companies. - [Social data APIs and scrapers](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/social-data-apis.md): 42 companies. - [Video and transcripts](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/video-monitoring.md): 35 companies. - [Agent-first data and MCP servers](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/mcp-servers.md): 17 companies. - [LinkedIn and people data](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/linkedin-data.md): 10 companies. (this page) - [Podcast data](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/podcast-data.md): 8 companies. - [Search APIs](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/search-apis.md): 9 companies. ## The full map [The social monitoring map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#cat-people-data): all 334 companies in 12 categories, open at this one.