Reliable LinkedIn Profiles

Scrape a batch of LinkedIn profiles, and a chunk of the results come back as private or blank. That's normal at scale — accounts get deleted, restricted, or your request gets blocked mid-batch. What's not normal is paying for every one of those empty rows anyway, buried in a CSV of a few thousand.

This one is built around a single rule: a profile is only billed if it actually returned real data.

No cookies, no login — how

LinkedIn serves a genuinely public, server-rendered version of a profile (and separate /details/experience/ and /details/education/ pages) to logged-out visitors, for anyone who hasn't restricted their public visibility. That's the actual mechanism behind every "no cookies required" LinkedIn scraper — this one included. No account, no session token, nothing that risks a ban on your own LinkedIn login.

What "reliable" means here, concretely

Confirmed live while building this: a plain request with no proxy gets blocked by LinkedIn within a handful of calls — not a 403, a non-standard 999 status specific to their bot defense. Sometimes the block even comes back as an HTTP 200 with a fake-looking page instead of a clean error, which is exactly the kind of thing that turns into a silently empty "successful" result on a less careful scraper.

• Residential proxy by default — the single biggest lever against getting blocked.
• Session rotation, not blind retries — if one identity gets blocked, a fresh proxy session (new IP, new cookies) is used instead of hammering the same one.
• A confirmed private/deleted profile is not retried — no proxy session will make a real profile out of one that isn't public, so it's skipped immediately instead of burning sessions.
• No charge on failure — a profile that fails every session, or turns out private/nonexistent, is logged clearly in the run and simply never pushed to the dataset.

Input

• profiles (required): LinkedIn profile URLs or bare public identifiers (williamhgates or the full https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates both work)
• include_experience (optional, default true): fetch full work history
• include_education (optional, default true): fetch full education history
• max_proxy_sessions (optional, default 3, max 6): how many fresh proxy identities to try per profile before giving up
• proxyConfiguration (optional, default: Apify residential proxy)

Output (one row per profile that returned real data)

{
  "public_identifier": "williamhgates",
  "name": "Bill Gates",
  "headline": "Chair, Gates Foundation and Founder, Breakthrough Energy",
  "location": "Seattle, Washington, United States",
  "about": "...",
  "experience_count": 2,
  "education_count": 2,
  "experience": [{"title": "Co-chair", "company": "Gates Foundation", "dates": "2000 - Present"}],
  "education": [{"school": "Harvard University", "degree": null, "dates": "1973 - 1975"}]
}

Known limitation — read before you buy

Only what's on the public (logged-out) version of a profile is available — that's less than what a logged-in connection sees, but it's also exactly what every "no cookies" scraper in this category is actually built on, regardless of what the marketing copy implies. Profiles with restricted public visibility will come back private/skipped, not billed.

Pricing

Pay per result — no charge for profiles that come back private, deleted, or blocked.