about.me Profile Scraper

What does about.me Profile Scraper do?

about.me Profile Scraper extracts professional profile data from about.me — the personal bio/profile directory where millions of professionals, freelancers, entrepreneurs and creators present themselves. Give it a list of handles or profile URLs (e.g. alexandriadolan or https://about.me/alexandriadolan) and it returns structured data for each profile: name, headline, bio, avatar, location, public emails & phone numbers, social and custom links, cover image, tags, interests, schools and jobs.

The actor runs on the Apify platform, so you get API access, scheduling, monitoring, proxy rotation and easy integration with your existing workflows out of the box.

Why use about.me Profile Scraper?

• B2B sales prospecting — enrich your lead lists with bios, locations and contact details.
• Recruiting & talent sourcing — find candidates' professional summaries, interests and social profiles.
• Networking & outreach teams — collect public emails, phones and social links for personalized outreach.
• Lead list building — optionally discover thousands of profiles straight from about.me's public sitemap.

How to use about.me Profile Scraper

1. Open the actor in Apify Console and click Start.
2. In the Input tab, paste a list of about.me handles or full profile URLs (one per line).
3. Optionally enable Discover profiles from sitemap to auto-find profiles.
4. Click Start and wait for the run to finish.
5. Download the results from the Dataset tab as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
profileUrls	array of strings	[]	about.me handles or full profile URLs
discoverFromSitemap	boolean	false	Auto-discover profiles from about.me's public sitemap
maxSitemaps	integer	20	How many per-user sitemap files to scan when discovery is on
maxSitemapProfiles	integer	200	Max profile URLs collected from sitemaps
maxItems	integer	100	Max profiles to scrape per run
maxConcurrency	integer	5	Concurrent requests
useApifyProxy	boolean	true	Route requests through the Apify proxy
proxyGroup	string	AUTO	Proxy group (AUTO, BUYPROXIES94952, StaticUS3)

Output

Each dataset item is one profile:

{
  "url": "https://about.me/shawnmichaelburns",
  "handle": "shawnmichaelburns",
  "name": "Shawn Burns",
  "headline": "Volunteer, Musician",
  "bio": "I am a graduate of the University of Central Florida currently living in Hollywood, Florida...",
  "avatar": "https://assets.about.me/background/users/s/h/a/shawnmichaelburns_1503074044_26.jpg",
  "coverImage": "https://aboutme.b-cdn.net/background/users/s/h/a/shawnmichaelburns_1503074044_26.jpg",
  "location": "Hollywood, FL, United States",
  "emails": [],
  "phones": [],
  "links": [{ "platform": "linkedin", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnmichaelburns/" }],
  "tags": [],
  "interests": ["Sports", "Innovation", "Politics", "Volunteering", "Entrepreneurship"],
  "schools": ["University of Central Florida"],
  "jobs": [],
  "contactMeEnabled": true,
  "customDomains": [],
  "themeColor": "D93B26",
  "premium": false,
  "userId": 2248623,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-18T12:00:00.000Z"
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

Data table

Field	Description
url	Canonical profile URL
handle	about.me username
name	Full name
headline	Roles/headline shown on the profile
bio	Plain-text bio
bioHtml	Raw bio HTML
avatar	Profile image URL
coverImage	Cover/OG image URL
location	Location string
emails	Public email addresses found in the bio
phones	Public phone numbers found in the bio
links	Social platform links + custom links ({platform, url})
tags	Profile tags/keywords
interests	Interest list
schools	Education entries
jobs	Work entries
contactMeEnabled	Whether the profile exposes a contact button
customDomains	Custom domains mapped to the profile
themeColor	Profile theme color
premium	Premium account flag
userId	Internal about.me user ID
scrapedAt	Timestamp of the scrape

Pricing / Cost estimation

How much does it cost to scrape about.me? The actor uses CheerioCrawler (plain HTTP, no browser), so it is very cheap to run — roughly 1 compute unit per ~1,000 profiles. A run of 100 profiles typically costs a fraction of a compute unit. Free Apify accounts get a capped preview of 10 profiles per run.

Tips or Advanced options

• Discovery mode: enable discoverFromSitemap to pull profiles from about.me's public sitemap index — great for building fresh lead lists. Keep maxSitemaps/maxSitemapProfiles modest to control run cost.
• Emails & phones: these are extracted from the public bio text via regex. Profiles that don't publish contact details in their bio will return empty arrays — that's expected, not an error.
• Proxy: the default AUTO proxy group works fine for about.me. If you ever see blocks at scale, switch to BUYPROXIES94952 or StaticUS3.

FAQ, disclaimers, and support

• Is scraping about.me legal? This actor only extracts publicly visible profile data. Always respect about.me's Terms of Service, applicable laws (e.g. GDPR), and use the data responsibly.
• Limitations: about.me does not expose raw emails/phones for most profiles — contact is usually via a form. The actor extracts whatever contact details are publicly posted in the bio.
• Support: found a bug or want a custom feature? Open an issue on the actor's Issues tab, or contact us for a custom solution.