Linkedin rest api to search people with name

// Set the search term
$search_term = 'John Smith';

// Set the LinkedIn API endpoint and parameters
$url = "https://api.linkedin.com/v2/people?q=".urlencode($search_term)."&projection=(id,firstName,lastName,profilePicture(displayImage~:playableStreams))";
$headers = [
    "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN",
    "Connection: Keep-Alive"
];

// Initialize cURL
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

// Execute the request and get the response
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

// Decode the JSON response
$data = json_decode($response, true);

// Print the results
foreach ($data['elements'] as $person) {
    echo $person['firstName'].' '.$person['lastName'].'<br>';
}

GET https://api.linkedin.com/v2/people?q=<SEARCH_TERM>&projection=(id,firstName,lastName,profilePicture(displayImage~:playableStreams))

import requests

search_term = 'John Smith'
access_token = 'YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN'

url = f'https://api.linkedin.com/v2/people?q={search_term}&projection=(id,firstName,lastName,profilePicture(displayImage~:playableStreams))'
headers = {'Authorization': f'Bearer {access_token}'}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
data = response.json()

# Print the results
for person in data['elements']:
    print(f"{person['firstName']} {person['lastName']}")

 
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.URLEncoder;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpHeaders;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;

public class LinkedInSearch {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        // Set the search term
        String searchTerm = "John Smith";
        String encodedSearchTerm = URLEncoder.encode(searchTerm, "UTF-8");

        // Set the LinkedIn API endpoint and parameters
        String url = "https://api.linkedin.com/v2/people?q=" + encodedSearchTerm + "&projection=(id,firstName,lastName,profilePicture(displayImage~:playableStreams))";

        // Set the LinkedIn API access token
        String accessToken = "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN";

        // Set the HTTP headers
        String authorizationHeader = "Bearer " + accessToken;
        String connectionHeader = "Keep-Alive";

        // Create the HTTP client and request
        CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.createDefault();
        HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(url);
        httpGet.addHeader(HttpHeaders.AUTHORIZATION, authorizationHeader);
        httpGet.addHeader(HttpHeaders.CONNECTION, connectionHeader);

        // Execute the request and get the response
        HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(httpGet);
        HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

        // Parse the JSON response
        ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
        InputStream inputStream = entity.getContent();
        LinkedInSearchResult result = objectMapper.readValue(inputStream, LinkedInSearchResult.class);

        // Print the results
        for (LinkedInPerson person : result.getElements()) {
            System.out.println(person.getFirstName() + " " + person.getLastName());
        }

        // Close the HTTP client and release the connection
        EntityUtils.consume(entity);
        httpClient.close();
    }
}

class LinkedInSearchResult {
    private LinkedInPerson[] elements;
    public LinkedInPerson[] getElements() { return elements; }
    public void setElements(LinkedInPerson[] elements) { this.elements = elements; }
}

class LinkedInPerson {
    private String firstName;
    private String lastName;
    public String getFirstName() { return firstName; }
    public void setFirstName(String firstName) { this.firstName = firstName; }
    public String getLastName() { return lastName; }
    public void setLastName(String lastName) { this.lastName = lastName; }
}