Similar Entities - Standardized Data API

The similarEntities API is used to retrieve similar standardized entities, given a source entity.

Supported Methods

FINDER sourceEntity

Schema

Field Name	Sub-Field Name	Description
createdAt		Creation timestamp of the similar entities data.
similarEntities		Array of scored entities corresponding to key. Sorted in decreasing order of score.
	score	Similarity score assigned to entity in the range of 0 to 1. Higher score represents a better similarity and match.
	entity	General entity URN in the same URN type as the source entity.

FINDER sourceEntity

GET https://api.linkedin.com/v2/similarEntities?q=sourceEntity&sourceEntity={sourceEntityURN}

Parameters

Field Name	Description
sourceEntity	The source entity used to fetch similar entities.

Sample Response

{
    "elements": [
        {
            "createdAt": 1460395796,
            "similarEntities": [
                {
                    "entity": "urn:li:industry:4",
                    "score": 1.0
                },
                {
                    "entity": "urn:li:industry:5",
                    "score": 0.9683
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "paging": {
        "count": 10,
        "links": [],
        "start": 0,
        "total": 1
    }
}