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The API only returns what the account shows publicly. Private accounts return their profile but no posts.

What the API won’t do

  • No face matching. Accounts are matched on text: names, bios, links and work history. Profile photos are never compared.
  • No sensitive traits. Scores and summaries never infer or mention ethnicity, religion, health, sexual orientation or political views, even when posts hint at them.
  • Contact lookup is off by default. Set contact: true to include emails and phone numbers from a separate, paid lookup.

Acceptable use

Use the API to research public professional and social presence, for example to understand a prospect, a candidate or a partner. Don’t use it to:
  • track, harass, intimidate or surveil anyone;
  • make decisions about employment, credit, housing or insurance;
  • build profiles of children;
  • get around a platform’s own privacy controls.
You’re responsible for having a lawful basis to process the data you request, and for following the laws that apply to you and the people you look up.