title: Linkedin official "search people" API
body: <p>My company needs to develop an app where we need to make use of the searching the profile BY EMAIL ADDRESS.</p>
  
  <p>there are several questions and/or other resources regarding the "search api" on the linkedin API. Lots of them contain broken links or outdated information.
  E.g.
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31458638/linkedin-rest-api-to-search-people-with-name">Linkedin rest api to search people with name</a>
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12191798/search-people-with-linkedin-api">Search people with Linkedin API</a>
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28230460/what-are-the-steps-to-use-linkedin-people-search-api">What are the steps to use linkedin people search api?</a>
  <a href="http://www.programmableweb.com/api/linkedin-people-search" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.programmableweb.com/api/linkedin-people-search</a></p>
  
  <p>Of course, I started here: <a href="https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/rest-api" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/rest-api</a></p>
  
  <p>To my understanding, there was a change in the API in 2015, which left basic profile for the public to use, the availabiliy of the rest went under the Partnership Programs.</p>
  
  <p>Is the search API available under all of the listed profiles? Does anyone of you use it these days? (mid-2016)?</p>