Interest

One thing a member follows. All five categories render as the same row on LinkedIn, which is why category is the field that tells them apart.

Returned byProfile.interests

Fields #

Field	Type	Notes
`category`	string	influencers, companies, groups, newsletters or schools. LinkedIn's own token rather than the tab's label, so it does not change with the language the page was rendered in - influencers is what their UI calls Top Voices.
`name`	string
`subtitle`	string	The headline under the name: a person's own headline, a page's tagline. Absent where the entity has none, which is usual for companies and schools.
`caption`	string	The line beneath that, as rendered - and it is not always a count: followers for a person, a page or a school, members for a group, a publishing cadence for a newsletter. Passed through rather than parsed, because a number pulled out of it would be right for four categories and absent for the fifth.
`url`	string
`urn`	string	The stable identifier of the thing followed, which is what makes an interest something to look up rather than a name to search for. Absent for newsletters, whose id is in the url instead.
`logo_url`	string

Absent is not null: a field we did not get is omitted rather than sent as an empty string, so you can tell "LinkedIn does not have this" from "this person left it blank".

Sample #

JSON

{
  "category": "companies",
  "name": "Microsoft",
  "caption": "23,000,000 followers",
  "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/1035/",
  "urn": "urn:li:fsd_company:1035"
}