No. Proxycurl's LinkedIn API did not pull contact information from LinkedIn profiles, for a very simple reason: public LinkedIn profiles do not expose that contact information in the first place.
No, you can’t legitimately get the email they used to sign up for LinkedIn from a profile URL. LinkedIn doesn’t expose it, and anything claiming to pull signup emails is either guessing, using leaked data, or violating policies.
Important update: Proxycurl is sunset. This post stays up because people still search for old Proxycurl FAQs, but Proxycurl itself is no longer the relevant product. If what you actually want is a verified work email, use NinjaPear's Work Email Endpoint instead. Old Proxycurl demos, code samples, and product links are no longer the right place to start.
That was true when Proxycurl was around, and it is still true now.
If your question is literal, "does Proxycurl pull contact information from LinkedIn profiles?", the answer is no.
Proxycurl only worked with public LinkedIn profile data. Public profiles generally give you things like:
- Name
- Headline
- Work history
- Education
- Public profile URL
They do not give you the person's private contact details.
So if the data is not present on the public profile page, no API built around that page can honestly claim to return it from LinkedIn.
If what you actually want is a work email, the modern answer is NinjaPear's Work Email Endpoint.
This is an important distinction.
It does not mean, "take a LinkedIn URL and reveal hidden contact info from LinkedIn."
It means: use NinjaPear's data pipeline to find a person's work email from public web signals and company context.
That is a very different thing.
And frankly, it is the only sane way to talk about this without blurring the line between enrichment and fantasy.
