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# Get Candidate CV

> Retrieve a candidate's CV document from a LinkedIn job application

This endpoint retrieves the CV/resume document for a specific candidate who has applied to your LinkedIn job posting.

<Note>
  This endpoint costs **1 credit** per request. Ignore this if you're on per-seat pricing: usage is unlimited.
</Note>

### Header Parameters

<ParamField header="x-api-key" type="string" required>
  Your API key
</ParamField>

### Body Parameters

<ParamField body="application_id" type="string" required>
  LinkedIn application ID of the candidate (you can get it with the /recruiter/candidates endpoint)
</ParamField>

<ParamField body="login_token" type="string" required>
  LinkedIn authentication cookie obtained from the login/verify process
</ParamField>

<ParamField body="country" type="string" default="FR">
  Country code for proxy selection. Available: (US, UK, FR, DE, NL, IT, IL, CA, BR, ES, IN)
</ParamField>

### Response

The response is the raw PDF or document file of the candidate's CV, returned with appropriate headers for download.

* Content-Type: Usually "application/pdf" (or the detected content type of the document)
* Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="cv\_{application_id}\_{candidate_name}.pdf"

### Example Request

```bash theme={null}
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.linkupapi.com/v1/recruiter/cv \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  --output downloaded_cv.pdf \
  --data '{
  "login_token": "YOUR_LINKEDIN_LOGIN_TOKEN",
  "country": "FR",
  "application_id": "31461710693"
}'
```