Linkedin Company Audience Builder

This Actor turns a list of website domains into a company list ready to upload in LinkedIn Campaign Manager audience manager.

What does LinkedIn Audience Builder do?

Give it a list of company domains (apify.com, linkedin.com, netflix.com, …) — either pasted directly or read from a public Google Sheet column. It resolves each domain to the company's LinkedIn page, pulls the company's industries and locations from LinkedIn, and emits one row per (company × industry × location) combination. The dataset uses the exact field names that LinkedIn Campaign Manager expects, so the CSV export from the Apify Console can be uploaded as a Company List audience with no post-processing.

Under the hood, the Actor chains up to three Apify Store scrapers:

1. (optional) advantageous_subcontra/public-google-sheet-scraper — reads domains from a Google Sheet column.
2. vdrmota/contact-info-scraper — crawls each domain and extracts the LinkedIn company URL from the site.
3. harvestapi/linkedin-company — enriches each LinkedIn page with company name, website, industries, and locations.

Why use LinkedIn Audience Builder?

• Skip manual CSV construction. LinkedIn's audience template demands very specific column names — this Actor produces them for you.
• Cover every industry × location. LinkedIn's ad targeting matches against the audience row-by-row, so expanding one company into multiple rows widens the match surface.
• Enrich data at scale. This Actor does the heavy lifting for you. So you can quickly build audience lists for your ABM campaign.

How to build a LinkedIn Company List audience

1. Open the Actor's Input tab.
2. Provide domains in either of these ways (or both — they get merged and deduplicated):
   • Paste them into Website domains (bare apify.com and full URLs both work).
   • Set Google Sheet URL to a public sheet and Google Sheet column name to the header of the column that holds the domains.
3. (Optional) In Advanced, set Max total charge in USD to cap spend.
4. Click Start. The sub-Actor Runs appear in your Apify Console as the pipeline advances.
5. When the Run finishes, open the Storage → Dataset tab and click Download → CSV.
6. Upload the CSV into LinkedIn Campaign Manager → Plan → Audiences → Create → Upload a list → Company list.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
domains	array<string>	empty	Website domains to enrich. ["apify.com", "linkedin.com"]. Required if no Google Sheet URL is provided.
googleSheetUrl	string	empty	URL of a public Google Sheet. Rows are read via advantageous_subcontra/public-google-sheet-scraper.
googleSheetColumnName	string	domain	Header of the column in the sheet that holds the domains. Required when a sheet URL is given.
maxDepth	integer	1	How deep the contact-info scraper crawls on each domain hunting for the LinkedIn footer link.
maxRequestsPerStartUrl	integer	5	Cap on pages the contact-info scraper visits per input domain.

You must provide at least one of domains or googleSheetUrl. When both are set, the two lists are merged and deduplicated before enrichment.

The cost cap is not an input field — set it when triggering the Run (Apify Console → Advanced → Max total charge, or maxTotalChargeUsd via the API/SDK).

Output

The default dataset holds rows whose field names match LinkedIn's audience template exactly:

{
    "companyname": "Netflix",
    "companywebsite": "https://www.netflix.com",
    "companyemaildomain": "netflix.com",
    "linkedincompanypageurl": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/netflix",
    "stocksymbol": "",
    "industry": "Entertainment Providers",
    "city": "Los Gatos",
    "state": "California",
    "companycountry": "US",
    "zipcode": "95032"
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel — CSV is what LinkedIn Campaign Manager wants.

Data table

Field	Source
companyname	LinkedIn company page — name
companywebsite	LinkedIn company page — website
companyemaildomain	derived from companywebsite (host without www.)
linkedincompanypageurl	LinkedIn company page — canonical URL
stocksymbol	left blank (LinkedIn's audience match ignores it in most cases)
industry	one entry from LinkedIn's industries array — one row per industry
city / state / companycountry / zipcode	one entry from LinkedIn's locations array — one row per location

Pricing / Cost estimation

The Actor bills you for the two paid sub-Actors it calls; the orchestrator itself is compute-only.

• vdrmota/contact-info-scraper — from $1.05 / 1,000 pages.
• harvestapi/linkedin-company — from $3.00 / 1,000 companies.

For 500 domains with a homepage-only crawl (maxDepth: 0, maxRequestsPerStartUrl: 1), a rough estimate is 500 * $0.00105 + 500 * $0.003 ≈ $2.03. Set Max total charge slightly above your worst-case estimate to bind spend.

Tips / Advanced options

• Lower maxDepth and maxRequestsPerStartUrl when your domains reliably surface the LinkedIn URL in the footer — this typically halves cost.
• The output row count is Σ (industries_i × locations_i) across enriched companies. Expect 3–15 rows per US company; LinkedIn's smaller international pages often produce a single row.
• To resume a failed Run, click Resurrect in the Apify Console — the orchestrator persists progress in the key-value store and reattaches to already-completed sub-Actor runs.

FAQ, disclaimers, and support

• A domain didn't produce any row. The contact-info scraper found no LinkedIn URL on that site. Look in the Run log for a No LinkedIn company URL found for domain: … warning. Add the LinkedIn URL manually to LinkedIn's audience upload, or raise maxDepth.
• My CSV has empty state / zipcode cells. LinkedIn doesn't always return complete location details. Empty cells are safe — LinkedIn Audience Manager treats them as "any".
• Is scraping LinkedIn allowed? This Actor uses harvestapi/linkedin-company, whose author is responsible for scrape compliance. Review LinkedIn's Terms of Service and your local law before large-scale use.

Found a bug or want a feature? Open an issue on this Actor's Issues tab.