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# Individual Lookup

Pull one person's work history and education from their LinkedIn profile. Synchronous, returns the data directly.

<mark style="color:green;">`POST`</mark> `/work_education`

{% hint style="info" %}
Costs **0.3 credit per row**. Returns the data directly in the response, no list and no polling.
{% endhint %}

Pass a LinkedIn profile URL. The response contains an array of past and current roles in `data.work_experience`, and an array of schools in `data.education_history`.

**Headers**

| Name         | Value              |
| ------------ | ------------------ |
| Content-Type | `application/json` |

**Body**

| Name                  | Type   | Description                                    |
| --------------------- | ------ | ---------------------------------------------- |
| `api_key`             | string | Your API Key.                                  |
| `person_linkedin_url` | string | LinkedIn profile URL of the person to look up. |

**Example**

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Input" %}

```json
{
  "api_key": "your_api_key",
  "person_linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jane-doe-example/"
}
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Output" %}

```json
{
  "status": "success",
  "data": {
    "person_linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jane-doe-example/",
    "work_experience": [
      {
        "company_name": "Acme Corp",
        "current_title": "VP of Sales",
        "location": "Austin, Texas",
        "start_date": "2022-03",
        "end_date": null,
        "is_current": true,
        "company_linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/acme-corp/",
        "description": null,
        "employment_type": "Full-time"
      },
      {
        "company_name": "Prior Co",
        "current_title": "Director of Sales",
        "location": "Austin, Texas",
        "start_date": "2018",
        "end_date": "2022",
        "is_current": false,
        "company_linkedin_url": null,
        "description": null,
        "employment_type": null
      }
    ],
    "education_history": [
      {
        "school_name": "University of Texas at Austin",
        "degree": "Bachelor's Degree, Business",
        "field_of_study": null,
        "start_date": "2010",
        "end_date": "2014",
        "school_linkedin_url": null
      }
    ]
  },
  "credits_used": 0.3,
  "credits_remaining": 4823,
  "success": true
}
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Not found" %}

```json
{
  "status": "not_found",
  "data": {
    "person_linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jane-doe-example/",
    "work_experience": [],
    "education_history": []
  },
  "credits_used": 0,
  "credits_remaining": 4823,
  "success": true
}
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Error" %}

```json
{
  "status": "error",
  "error": {
    "code": "validation_error",
    "message": "person_linkedin_url: Field required"
  },
  "success": false
}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

**Response**

| Field                 | Type   | Description                                                                                                                                                        |
| --------------------- | ------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `person_linkedin_url` | string | The profile that was looked up.                                                                                                                                    |
| `work_experience`     | array  | One entry per role: `company_name`, `current_title`, `location`, `start_date`, `end_date`, `is_current`, `company_linkedin_url`, `description`, `employment_type`. |
| `education_history`   | array  | One entry per school: `school_name`, `degree`, `field_of_study`, `start_date`, `end_date`, `school_linkedin_url`.                                                  |

Dates come back as `YYYY-MM`, or `YYYY` when only the year is known. Anything the provider sent that has no field of its own is kept under `extra` on that entry.

The record is under `data`. See [Response Format](/getting-started/response-format.md) for the fields every endpoint returns.

To pull history for every contact in a list in one call instead, use [List Lookup](/enrichments/work-history-and-education/list-lookup.md).