Retrieve Exported Candidates Overview

LinkedIn allows the ability for customers to export limited LinkedIn profile information from LinkedIn Recruiter into their ATS with a single click. This integration between LinkedIn Recruiter and the partner ATS will improve workflow improvements for our customers. This integration offers an additional feature called InMail Stub Profile sync, which will allow LinkedIn member contact information to be synced to the ATS when shared by the member. With this feature enabled, LinkedIn Members will be prompted to share their contact information when they are InMailed by a recruiter. If the member consents to share, their contact information will be synced to their ATS via an InMail Stub Profile. Learn more here.

Note

The call volume limit for the Recruiter One-Click Export API is 300 per Recruiter seat per month

Before you get started...

Authentication

All API requests should be authorized with a OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials token.

Syncing all jobs

For the Recruiter to associate a candidate with an appropriate job, you must sync all of your customer's jobs with LinkedIn. Learn more about syncing jobs here .

Push Notification Platform

For customer export requests to be in real-time from LinkedIn, LinkedIn will be pushing notifications of export events to our partners. Read more about LinkedIn’s push notification platform.

Retrieving Exported Candidates

Receiving Push Notifications

When an export event occurs within LinkedIn, a push notification will be sent to the registered callback URL for your customer. Each event will have an event-type of “EXPORT_CANDIDATE_PROFILE”.

Retrieving Exported Candidate Information

When the callback URL has received a notification event of “EXPORT_CANDIDATE_PROFILE” type, you should then make an API call to retrieve the limited profile information of the exported candidate.

Included in the response will be the integrationContext field. This field will contain an identifier unique to the customer for which this candidate was exported on behalf of. Since all callback URLs are unique per customer, you should verify that this identifier correlates to the callback URL the request was sent to.

GET https://api.linkedin.com/v2/exportedCandidates?q=request&requestId=123456789

Note

The requestId sent by push notification will expire in 24 hours.

Response Body Fields

Field	Description	Type	Required
candidate	LinkedIn stub profile of the candidate being exported.	StubProfile	Yes
notes	Notes entered by the user during one click export.	String	Yes
externalJobPostingId	Unique id for the job within the applicant tracking system	String	Yes
integrationContext	The identifier of the customer who the candidate was exported on behalf of.	urn:li:organization:{ID}	Yes
requestedAt	Time when the candidate was exported	Long (Number of milliseconds since midnight, January 1, 1970 UTC. It must be a positive number)	Yes
requester	Requester who initiated the request to export the candidate.	Requester	Yes

Retrieving Closed Candidate Profiles

After an export event occurs on behalf of a particular candidate, that candidate may choose to close their LinkedIn member account. To enable customers to be notified of such action, you should make an API call to retrieve those candidates that have recently closed their LinkedIn member accounts and update your ATS records as necessary.

If a candidate deletes their LinkedIn account, they can reactivate it within 21 days. After 21 days, we purge the deleted accounts and populate that information within the Closed Candidates Endpoint. Our ATS partners must query this endpoint periodically (at least once in 30 days) and notify end customers that they may need to delete the data that appear within this endpoint from their records if they do not have a legal basis to continue processing it.

GET https://api.linkedin.com/v2/atsPurgedExportedCandidates?q=criteria

Query Parameters

Field	Description	Type	Required	Notes
exportType	Represents the feature that exports the candidate to an external Applicant Tracking System (ATS). You should always provide ONE_CLICK_EXPORT.	Enum	No
timeRange.start	Inclusive lower date boundary	Epoch in milliseconds (UTC)	Yes	Find candidates who have closed their profiles on or after a specific date.
timeRange.end	Inclusive upper date boundary	Epoch in milliseconds (UTC)	Yes	Find candidates who have closed their profiles before a specific date.

Response Body Fields

Field	Description	Type	Required
candidate	Candidate that was exported and profile is now closed.	PersonUrn in format urn:li:person:{id}	Yes

Sample Request

GET https://api.linkedin.com/v2/atsPurgedExportedCandidates?timeRange.start=1589747047000&timeRange.end=1592425447000&q=criteria

Sample Response

{
    "elements": [
        {
            "candidate": "urn:li:person:a1b2c3d4e5"
        },
        {
            "candidate": "urn:li:person:f6g7h8i9j0"
        }
    ],
    "paging": {
        "count": 2,
        "start": 0,
        "links": []
    }
}