Our Person Profile Endpoint retrieves public LinkedIn profiles, including profile pictures, but if a user hasn't made their picture public, a placeholder image may be displayed.

25 March 2022 / faq

Why do most LinkedIn profiles fetched via the Person Profile Endpoint return a placeholder profile picture?

Our Person Profile Endpoint scrapes public LinkedIn profiles only. And if a user does not share their profile picture publicly, then the profile picture of their public LinkedIn profile would be a placeholder image. We cannot discern if an image is a placeholder picture or not because an image is an image. So we return the profile picture as it is – be it a placeholder or an actual user's profile picture.

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