# How to use ChatGPT to read a LinkedIn profile with looot

Pull the public facts of one LinkedIn profile: headline, roles, education, location and followers.

## Connect looot to ChatGPT

1. Open ChatGPT Plugins at chatgpt.com/plugins.
2. Select the plus button, then "Add custom MCP server".
3. Enter a name (looot) and a short description, for example: live data APIs, paid per call.
4. Under Connection, choose Public endpoint and paste https://api.looot.ai/mcp, including the /mcp path.
5. Configure authentication, read the risk warning and select "I understand and want to continue".
6. Select "Create as a plugin", review the tools ChatGPT found on the server, then install the plugin.
7. looot's sign-in page opens when ChatGPT first needs your account: sign in and allow access. Runs are paid from your prepaid looot balance.

OpenAI's guide does not say which ChatGPT plans can add a custom MCP server. It says account and workspace policies apply to adding and using custom MCP servers.

- Source, read 2026-11-10: [OpenAI developer docs: Connect and test your plugin](https://developers.openai.com/apps-sdk/deploy/connect-chatgpt)

## Ask ChatGPT

Start a new conversation, type @ in the prompt box and select the looot plugin. Then paste the prompt.

Use looot to read the LinkedIn profile at [LinkedIn profile URL] with the job linkedin.person.profile, fallback on. Summarise the headline, current roles with start years, education and location in five lines. Use only what the profile returns.

## Jobs it calls and what they cost

One use costs from $0.0012 at today's cheapest providers. A provider that misses can fall back to the next one, which can cost more; looot charges only the calls that ran, from your prepaid balance.

- `linkedin.person.profile`: 1 call, from $0.0012 per call (AnyAPI, the cheapest of 9 providers). Compare providers: [linkedin.person.profile benchmark](/benchmarks/linkedin-person-profile). [About the cheapest provider](/providers/anyapi)

## A real run

We ran this task through the looot MCP on 2026-11-10. Asked: linkedin.com/in/williamhgates. Total charged: $0.0008.

- linkedin.person.profile on anyapi-run-linkedin-profile-thin (AnyAPI): answered, charged $0.0008. Run id run_ce40c57d7c7f4f8f96c7827210452e44.
- Bill Gates, Seattle, Washington, United States. Headline: Chair, Gates Foundation and Founder, Breakthrough Energy.
- Current roles: Co-chair, Gates Foundation (since 2000); Founder, Breakthrough Energy (2015); Co-founder, Microsoft (1975).
- Education: Harvard University, 1973 to 1975. Followers: 40,796,898.

## More

- [The same task in Claude](/guides/claude/linkedin-profile)
- [The prompt on its own](/prompts/linkedin-profile)
- [All ChatGPT guides](/guides/chatgpt)