🌿 Linktree & Bio Lead Discovery Scraper (Categories & Subcategories)

Discover and extract large-scale leads from Linktree, Beacons and other link-in-bio directories using categories and subcategories.

This tool is designed for bulk lead discovery, allowing you to start from curated categories or subcategories and automatically expand them into a structured list of real profiles containing emails, social links, and business information.

👉 For direct profile extraction (single Linktree URL), use this companion Actor: https://apify.com/ahmed_jasarevic/linktree-beacons-bio-email-scraper-extract-leads

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🚀 What this tool does

Instead of manually searching for creators or businesses one by one, this Actor lets you:

• 📂 Explore entire categories of link-in-bio profiles
• 🔎 Expand subcategories into full profile lists
• 📈 Automatically collect hundreds of profiles per category
• 🧠 Discover hidden creators, brands, and businesses at scale

It acts as a discovery engine for link-in-bio ecosystems.

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🎯 Input options

You can control the scraping flow using:

📂 Categories

Scrape full top-level groups of profiles (e.g. “attractions”, “fashion”, “fitness”).

📁 Subcategories

Target more specific segments inside categories for refined lead discovery.

🔄 Pagination control

Define how deep the scraper should go per category.

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📊 What you get

Each discovered profile is expanded into structured lead data:

• Username
• Profile URL
• Email addresses (if publicly available)
• Social media links (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, etc.)
• External and affiliate links
• Bio / description
• Verification status
• Scraped timestamp

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💡 Use cases

• 🌐 Building large influencer databases
• 📣 Marketing outreach campaigns
• 🧲 Lead generation for agencies and freelancers
• 📊 Market research on creator niches
• 💼 Finding business contacts from public profiles
• 🚀 Scaling discovery of monetized online profiles

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⚡ Key advantages

• Built for bulk discovery at scale
• Expands categories into full lead datasets automatically
• Works across multiple link-in-bio ecosystems
• Produces clean, structured, export-ready data
• Ideal for growth, sales, and outreach workflows

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🔗 Recommended workflow

1. Use this Actor to discover profiles via categories/subcategories
2. Then pass individual profile URLs into the companion Actor for deeper extraction: https://apify.com/ahmed_jasarevic/linktree-beacons-bio-email-scraper-extract-leads

This gives you a two-step lead system: discovery → enrichment

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🧠 Output example

{
  "username": "exampleuser",
  "sourceUrl": "https://linktr.ee/exampleuser",
  "emails": ["contact@example.com"],
  "socialLinks": [
    {
      "type": "INSTAGRAM",
      "url": "https://instagram.com/exampleuser"
    }
  ],
  "regularLinks": [
    {
      "title": "My Website",
      "url": "https://example.com"
    }
  ],
  "bio": "Creator sharing lifestyle content and business links.",
  "isVerified": true,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-20T12:00:00Z"
}

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🔥 Perfect for

• Agencies building large lead databases
• Growth marketers scaling outreach lists
• Affiliate marketers discovering monetized profiles
• Researchers analyzing creator ecosystems
• Sales teams finding public contact points