Linkedin Open Profile Status

LinkedIn Open Profile Status

This Actor checks whether a LinkedIn profile shows Open to work.

It uses two strategies (based on your original scripts):

• HTTP + HTML signal extraction (fast)
• Playwright badge detection (more robust)

It starts with no proxy and only falls back to proxies if LinkedIn blocks the request.

Key Features

• Bulk input (URLs and/or keywords)
• Detailed Apify logs (proxy events, blocks, retries)
• Proxy fallback ladder:
  • Direct → Datacenter proxy → Residential proxy (retry residential 3x)
  • Once residential is used, the Actor sticks to residential for the remaining requests
• Live saving to dataset

Input

Example input:

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajjames" }],
  "keywords": [],
  "liAtCookie": "YOUR_LI_AT_COOKIE",
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false },
  "maxConcurrency": 1,
  "pageTimeoutSeconds": 60
}

Input fields

• startUrls: bulk URL input (recommended)
• urls: optional array of URLs
• keywords: optional array of public identifiers (e.g., "ajjames")
• liAtCookie: optional li_at cookie value. Not required - LinkedIn's public profile pages do return real content to unauthenticated requests. The main real-world cause of blocked/inconclusive results is LinkedIn's per-IP reputation and rate-limiting (shared datacenter/proxy IP ranges get blocked almost immediately; a clean, low-volume IP works for a while before also getting rate-limited). A valid li_at session can help by using an authenticated view instead of the anonymous one, but leaving it empty is not itself the cause of a failed run.
• proxyConfiguration: Apify proxy UI field (default: no proxy)
• maxConcurrency: concurrency (keep low to avoid blocks)
• pageTimeoutSeconds: Playwright page timeout

Output

Single profile

The Actor writes OUTPUT in the key-value store using this shape:

{
  "data": { "open_to_work": false },
  "message": "ok"
}

Bulk

For multiple profiles, OUTPUT is an array of:

{ "url": "...", "data": { "open_to_work": false }, "message": "ok" }

All results are also saved to the default dataset.

How to run locally

Install dependencies and run:

cd Linkedin-Open-Profile-Status
pip install -r requirements.txt
python -m src

Cautions

• This Actor should be used in compliance with LinkedIn’s Terms of Service and applicable laws.
• Never share your li_at cookie publicly.

What are other Linkedin scraping tools?

If you want to scrape specific Linkedin data, you can use any of the dedicated scrapers below for faster and more targeted results.

Scraper Name	Scraper Name
LinkedIn Ads Scraper	Linkedin Phone Number Scraper
Linkedin B2b Email Scraper	LinkedIn Post Comments Scraper
Linkedin B2b Lead Scraper	Linkedin Post Reactions Scraper
Linkedin B2b Phone Number Scraper	LinkedIn Post Scraper
Linkedin Company About Scraper	LinkedIn Post, Comments and Engagements Scraper
Linkedin Company Employees	LinkedIn Posts URL (Profile)
Linkedin Company Employees Scraper	Linkedin Profile And Company Posts Scraper
Linkedin Company Post Scraper	Linkedin Profile Email Scraper
Linkedin Company Profile Scraper	Linkedin Profile Lead Scraper
LinkedIn Company Scraper	Linkedin Profile Phone Number Scraper
Linkedin Email Scraper	Linkedin Profile Post Scraper
Linkedin Jobs Scraper	LinkedIn Profile Scraper
Linkedin Lead Scraper	LinkedIn Search Jobs Scraper