Steven, the professional networks API you guys offer is excellent. But how do I begin to use the API if I do not even have the profiles?
I get this question so often, so we decided to crawl every profile and put it into a Postgresql database. We call this product LinkDB, and this is what you can do with it.
What is LinkDB
LinkDB is a Postgresql database preloaded with user profiles segregated by region. For example, LinkDB for the US is a PostgreSQL database populated with has 165M user profiles of Americans.
We store each profile as a row under a JSONB column, and this is the shape of the profile's structured data.
Integrating LinkDB into your product
Suppose you run a recruitment platform that pairs software engineers with big tech firms in Singapore. And your growth team is seeking more users on your platform pecifically, software engineers. LinkDB is a PostgreSQL database. So we will send this SQL query to LinkDB for Singapore that says:
Find all software engineers in Singapore
To fetch the list of professionals who are currently employed as software engineers
SELECT id FROM PROFILE WHERE EXISTS (SELECT FROM jsonb_array_elements(parsed_data->'experiences') exp WHERE (exp->>'title' ilike '%Software Engineer%' OR exp->>'title' ilike '%Software Developer%') AND exp->>'ends_at' is null )
And 10055 software engineers were found along with their professional networks profile ID.
