st.retrievePersonSkills

This action allows you to retrieve information about a person's skills.

Constraints

⏺️ Root Start: not allowed.

⬆️ Parent Actions: st.openPersonPage.

⬇️ Child Actions: st.doForSkills.

Parameters

{
  "actionType": "st.retrievePersonSkills",
  "label": "person1Skills",
  "then": { ... }
}

const workflow = await linkedapi.fetchPerson.execute({
  personUrl: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/person1",
  retrieveSkills: true,
});

const { data, errors } = await linkedapi.fetchPerson.result(workflow.workflowId);
console.log(data?.skills);
console.log(errors);

from linkedapi import FetchPersonParams

workflow = linkedapi.fetch_person.execute(
    FetchPersonParams(
        person_url="https://www.linkedin.com/in/person1",
        retrieve_skills=True,
    )
)

result = linkedapi.fetch_person.result(workflow.workflow_id)
if result.data:
    print(result.data.skills)
print(result.errors)

linkedin person fetch https://www.linkedin.com/in/person1 --skills --json

• label (optional) – custom label for tracking this action in workflow completion.
• then (optional) – st.doForSkills action to endorse all of the person's skills or only those whose names match the patterns you specify.

Result options

This action always completes successfully. Even if the person has no mentioned skills, it returns an empty array.

{
  "actionType": "st.retrievePersonSkills",
  "label": "person1Skills",
  "success": true,
  "data": [
    { "name": "Computer Science" },
    { "name": "Java" },
    { "name": "Project Management" },
    { "name": "Marketing" }
  ]
}

• label – included only if specified in the action parameters.
• data – array of person skills.
  • name – name of the skill, as the profile owner entered it, in the owner's language.
  • then – array with the results of child actions. Present only on the skills that st.doForSkills selected.