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-Key header — 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.

Related MCP server: LinkedIn Buddy

What your agent can do with it

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_changes on 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?

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.