users.update

Update the caller's own profile.

Prerequisites

A Curviate API key, passed as apiKey when you construct the client. Quickstart shows how to create one.
A connected LinkedIn account. This resource is account-scoped: the account_id is injected automatically by the account-scoped accessor, so you pass it once to curviate.account(...) and every call below inherits it. Quickstart covers connecting one, and accounts.list returns the account_id of 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.
`INTERNAL`	An unexpected server error. Retry once; if it persists, it is ours, not yours.
`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.