ZOOQ MCP — live LinkedIn data for AI agents
ZOOQ gives your AI agent real-time LinkedIn data — profiles, companies, jobs, posts, people search, job-change signals and email finding — as 44 clean MCP tools served from a hosted endpoint.
The important part: your agent never touches your LinkedIn account. Most LinkedIn MCP servers work by borrowing your logged-in session cookie, which puts your own account at ban risk and breaks every few weeks. ZOOQ runs on its own infrastructure. You paste one API key; your account stays out of it entirely.
- Endpoint:
https://zooq.dev/api/mcp(streamable HTTP) - Auth:
X-API-Keyheader — get a free key (300 credits, no card) - Pricing: credit-based, pay for what you call. Failed upstream calls are auto-refunded.
Install
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http zooq https://zooq.dev/api/mcp --header "X-API-Key: YOUR_ZOOQ_KEY"
Cursor / Cline / any MCP client (config JSON)
{
"mcpServers": {
"zooq": {
"url": "https://zooq.dev/api/mcp",
"headers": { "X-API-Key": "YOUR_ZOOQ_KEY" }
}
}
}
Claude Desktop
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → URL https://zooq.dev/api/mcp, header X-API-Key: YOUR_ZOOQ_KEY.
Replace YOUR_ZOOQ_KEY with the key from zooq.dev/signup. That's the whole setup.
What your agent can do with it
| Category | Tools | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Profiles (7) | full profile, enrich, employment history, similar people | profile_full, profile_enrich |
| Companies (11) | company info, employees data, insights, similar companies | companies_enrich, companies_employees_data |
| Search & signals (7) | people/company search, live search, job-change signals | search_people, search_job_changes |
| Jobs (6) | job search, details, hiring team | search_jobs, jobs_hiring_team |
| Posts & activity (5) | a person's posts, comments, likes | posts_all, posts_comments |
| Email finding (5) | find, verify, reverse lookup, domain prospects | email_find_by_profile, email_verify |
| Lookups (3) | skills, institutions taxonomy | g_title_skills_lookup |
Typical agent recipes:
- AI SDR —
search_people→profile_enrich→posts_all→ write a genuinely personalized opener →email_find_by_profile - Job-change trigger —
search_job_changeson your target accounts → congratulate/pitch the week they land - Account research —
companies_enrich+companies_employees_data+companies_jobs→ a briefing your agent writes itself
Why not a scraper or a cookie-based server?
| Cookie/scraper servers | ZOOQ | |
|---|---|---|
| Uses YOUR LinkedIn account | Yes — ban risk is yours | Never |
| Breaks when LinkedIn changes | Constantly | Our problem, not yours |
| Setup | Browser profiles, cookies, captchas | One API key |
| Cost | "Free" until your account isn't | 300 free credits, then pay-per-call |
Rate limits & good citizenship
Responses carry _meta.credits_remaining and _meta.hourly_cap_remaining — agents should pace themselves.
Default cap: 10,000 credits/hour. Errors are structured (-32005 = hourly cap, back off).
Links
- Site & docs: zooq.dev
- Free key: zooq.dev/signup
- Pricing: zooq.dev/pricing
- Built by Amir Baldiga — GTM engineer; ZOOQ powers his own outbound agents.
License
MIT (this repository — the metadata and docs). The ZOOQ API itself is a commercial service.