Xing is the professional network people use across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. If you already have a list of Xing profile URLs, the Xing Profile API turns each one into a clean, structured JSON record you can drop into a spreadsheet, a database, or an AI workflow.

You send profile URLs (or bare handles like Jane_Doe) and get back one record per person: full name and title, current role and city, complete employment history with company, job title and dates, education, listed skills in German and English, spoken languages, professional groups and interests, and a set of comparable profiles. Every record also carries a one-line plain-language summary and a fetch timestamp. Inputs that cannot be collected come back as clear error records instead of failing the whole run.

It handles up to 1000 profiles per run and bills per profile returned, so a URL that returns nothing costs nothing. There is no discovery mode: the tool reads profiles you already hold URLs for, it does not search for people.

What it returns

• Identity: name, given and family name, honorifics, profile photo

• Role: current job title and location

• Experience: full employment history with company, title, and dates

• Education, skills (verbatim, in the language you enter), and languages

• Groups, interests, and similar profiles

• A one-line summary and a fetch timestamp on every record

Example tasks and use cases

• Kandidatenprofile von Xing per Profil-URL abrufen - turn a list of candidate profile URLs into structured records for sourcing.

• Xing Profildaten als CSV oder Excel exportieren - export profile data as CSV or Excel for your recruiting sheet.

• Bewerberangaben mit dem Xing Profil abgleichen - check application details against a public Xing profile.

• Monitor Xing Profiles for Job Changes - watch a list of profiles and catch role, title, or location changes.

• Get Xing Profile Data in Claude via MCP - pull profile fields straight into Claude with no code.

• Xing Profile Data API: Profile URLs to JSON - the plain REST recipe from profile URL to JSON.

See every runnable example on the Xing Profile API examples page.

Works with MCP

The Xing Profile API runs over MCP, so AI clients like Claude can call it directly as a tool. Ask something like "pull the current role, city, and skills for these five Xing profiles and give me a table," and it returns structured rows with no scraping code on your side. That makes it a fit for candidate-sourcing agents and research assistants working the DACH market.

Keywords and topics

xing api, xing profiles, kandidatensuche, DACH candidate sourcing, talent mapping in Germany, Xing profile data export, recruiting data as JSON, MCP tools for recruiters.