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Week of April 29
Here’s everything that shipped this week.Improvement: Post Search refinements
The Post Search endpoint has been tuned for more reliable results. Search handling and response formatting have been refined to improve consistency across keyword, content type, and author filters.Improvement: People endpoint reliability
Continued reliability work on the People endpoint. Profile parsing has been further tuned to reduce inconsistencies on edge-case profiles.Improvement
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Week of April 26
Here’s everything that shipped this week.Improvement: People profile reliability
Continued refinements to the People endpoint to produce more consistent results across edge-case profiles. Field normalization and parsing have been hardened further on top of last week’s accuracy improvements.Bug fixes
- Resolved several edge cases that could affect response consistency on the People endpoint.
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Week of April 24
Here’s everything that shipped this week.New: AI agent discovery and webMCP
Datamagnet is now discoverable by AI agents and model-context clients. A set of standards-based discovery endpoints lets agents find the API, its OAuth metadata, and ready-to-use tools without custom wiring.- Agents can load
lookup_person,lookup_company,get_pricing, andget_api_docsdirectly from the Datamagnet website. - Use the API reference and authentication guide to get started.
New: Public OpenAPI 3.0 specification
A full OpenAPI 3.0 spec for the Datamagnet API is now published, covering People, Company, Posts, Signals, ICP Search, and account utilities. Import it into Postman, generate client SDKs, or use it with any OpenAPI-compatible tool.See the API reference for the complete endpoint list.Improvement: LinkedIn person data accuracy
The People endpoint has been updated with more reliable profile parsing and cleaner field normalization across multiple data sources. Expect more consistent results for edge-case profiles.Bug fixes
- Hardened LinkedIn profile URL extraction to handle additional URL variants without erroring.
- Fixed response formatting issues that could surface inconsistent fields on a small number of People responses.
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Week of April 22
Here’s everything that shipped this week.New: ICP search
Search for people and companies using powerful ICP filters — job title, seniority, industry, location, company size, revenue, technology stack, and more. All values are human-readable strings, no IDs required.- ICP People Search — find people matching your ideal customer profile
- ICP Company Search — find companies by industry, headcount, revenue, and more
- ICP Suggest — typeahead suggestions for filter fields like company name, job title, and location
New: People Search endpoint
A new People Search endpoint lets you search for LinkedIn people by keyword, job title, company name, and more. Returns profile details including headline, location, and LinkedIn URL.New: industry, company, and person engagement signals
Three new signal types let you monitor LinkedIn engagement from different angles and surface qualified leads automatically:- Industry Engagement — track posts from companies in your target industries and capture the people who engage with them
- Company Engagement — monitor posts from specific companies and surface leads from their audience
- Person Engagement — follow posts and mentions from specific people (competitors, champions, influencers) and score the leads who interact
Update: ICP search filter changes
Thepostal_code filter has been removed from ICP People Search and ICP Company Search. Use the location filter with city, region, or country values instead.Improvement: LinkedIn profile URL handling
The People and People Activity endpoints now return clearer error messages when an invalid LinkedIn profile URL is provided. Profile URL extraction is also more robust, reducing failures on edge-case URL formats.New
Signals API
You can now monitor LinkedIn activity in real time with the new Signals API. Create signals to track:- Job changes — get notified when target profiles change roles or companies
- New posts — know the moment a prospect publishes on LinkedIn
- Keyword engagement — surface qualified leads who engage with posts matching your keywords, automatically scored against your ICP
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Keyword engagement signals
The new Keyword Engagement signal type monitors LinkedIn for posts matching your keywords, extracts people who liked or commented, filters them against your ICP, and scores each lead from 1 to 3 based on seniority and engagement type.New
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Cookbooks
New ready-to-use guides showing how to combine Datamagnet APIs for common sales workflows:- Champion Tracking — track when past customers move to new companies
- Competitor Hijack — surface leads engaging with competitor content
- VIP Engagement Radar — get notified when target executives post on LinkedIn
- Signal Workflows — 9 ready-to-run workflows across all signal types
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Post Search and Company Search
Two new search endpoints are now available:- Post Search — search LinkedIn posts by keyword, content type, date range, and author title
- Company Search — search LinkedIn companies by keyword, size, industry, and hiring status