users.update
Update the caller's own profile.
Prerequisites
- A Curviate API key, passed as
apiKeywhen you construct the client. Authentication and accounts shows how to create one. - A connected LinkedIn account. This resource is account-scoped: the
account_idis injected automatically by the account-scoped accessor, so you pass it once tocurviate.account(...)and every call below inherits it. Authentication and accounts covers connecting one, and accounts.list returns theaccount_idof each account already connected.
Signature
update(userId: string, body: UserUpdateBody): Promise<UserUpdateResult>Example
import { Curviate } from "@curviate/sdk";
const curviate = new Curviate({
apiKey: "cvt_live_...",
baseUrl: "https://api.curviate.com",
});
const result = await curviate.account("acc_YOUR_ACCOUNT_ID").users.update("me", { first_name: "YOUR_FIRST_NAME" });
console.log(result);Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
userId | string | Yes | Use "me" for the caller's own account, this is the only supported target. |
first_name | string | No | New first name. |
last_name | string | No | New last name. |
bio | string | No | New text for your profile's About section. |
headline | string | No | Your profile headline (the short line shown under your name). |
skills | array | No | Skills to add to your profile. Add-only, this does not remove or reorder existing skills. |
picture | object | No | New profile photo (base64). |
background_picture | object | No | New cover/banner photo (base64). |
Returns
Resolves to UserUpdateResult. Top-level fields: object, safety_warning.
Error codes
| Code | What it means, and what to do |
|---|---|
UNAUTHORIZED | The API key is missing, malformed, or revoked. Check the key you passed to the client. |
INVALID_REQUEST | A parameter failed validation. The message names the offending field; fix the request rather than retrying it. |
RATE_LIMIT_ACCOUNT | This account's own quota is exhausted. Wait for the window in the Retry-After header, then retry. |
RATE_LIMIT_TENANT | The tenant-wide quota is exhausted across all accounts. Slow the whole workload, not just this call. |
PLATFORM_RATE_LIMIT | LinkedIn is throttling this account. Back off well beyond the hinted delay; sustained pressure risks the account. |
PLATFORM_ERROR | An upstream failure, usually transient: retry once with backoff before treating it as a real error. Check the response first, though. When it carries retry_likely_to_succeed: false and retry_hint: {kind: "never"}, retrying cannot help and backing off only delays the real answer. |
ACCOUNT_NOT_FOUND | No connected account with that id belongs to this tenant. List your accounts to get a current id. |
PAYLOAD_TOO_LARGE | Three limits can trigger this. The platform's own ceiling on total request size is the lowest and the one you are most likely to hit: it starts rejecting at roughly 1 MB, so a handful of photo-sized images is refused even though it clears everything below. Above that, this API caps one attachment at 5 MiB of file content and the whole request body at 9 MiB. Attachments travel base64-encoded, which inflates them by about a third, so a 5 MiB file costs roughly 6.7 MiB of the body budget. Send fewer or smaller attachments; retrying unchanged will not help. |
RESOURCE_NOT_FOUND | The id in the path does not exist, or is not visible to this account. Re-read it from the list endpoint that produced it. |
UNSUPPORTED_MEDIA_TYPE | The request was not sent as JSON. Every endpoint takes application/json, including file attachments, which travel base64-encoded. |
Every code above is a stable CurviateError.code you can branch on. The full list, the response envelope, and retry semantics are in the Error codes reference.
Next steps
users.listFollowers: List a user's followers.users.listFollowing: List who a user follows.users.listRelations: List the account's 1st-degree connections.- SDK Quick Start: installation, the client, account scoping, and pagination.