Linkedin rest api to search people with name

Linked has closed its API some time ago. See a detailed announcement here.

You have to get Vetted API access from Linkedin in order to do People Search. For more information please look into this link

You can use LinkedIn Public Search Results Scraper API to achieve this. Here is an example. Response for a profile found look like this:

{
  "id": "jimmy-neutron-b914a91a5",
  "name": "Jimmy Neutron",
  "occupation": "Chief Executive Officer at NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration",
  "location": "Houston, TX",
  "last_job": "NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration",
  "last_education": "Harvard University",
  "thumbnail": "https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C4D03AQE7YG6jwNNy2Q/profile-displayphoto-shrink_200_200/0/1584908070871?e=1620259200&v=beta&t=QJREJQLCsAIaDiQCOZJ6Nu6QoyUPWK8ytJAWU52icRU",
  "link": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmy-neutron-b914a91a5?trk=people-guest_people_search-card"
},