🔎 Profile Details Scraper for LinkedIn + EMAIL

Extract rich, structured data from any LinkedIn profile — work experience, education history, certifications, skills, languages, projects, follower/connection counts, location, and (optionally) a professional email. Feed it one profile or thousands; results stream into your dataset in real time.

⚠️ This actor needs your own li_at LinkedIn session cookie. Modern LinkedIn fully auth-walls profile pages, so a logged-in session is required to read public profile data.

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✨ Why Choose Us?

• 🧩 Complete profile schema — not just the headline. Experience, education, certs, skills, languages, projects, and counts in one clean JSON object.
• 🛡️ Smart proxy ladder — starts direct (cheapest), then automatically falls back to datacenter and residential proxies only when LinkedIn pushes back. Once it falls back, it sticks with residential for the rest of the run.
• 📦 Bulk input — paste a list of URLs or usernames and let it run.
• 📊 Per-section Output tables — Overview, Experience, Education, Certifications, and Skills/Languages/Projects each get their own view.
• 💾 Live saving — every profile is written the moment it's scraped, so a long run never loses progress.
• 📧 Optional email enrichment via Hunter.io.

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🔑 Key Features

Feature	Description
Bulk profiles	Mix full URLs and bare usernames freely.
Full sections	basic_info, experience, education, projects, certifications, languages, skills.
Proxy fallback	Direct → Datacenter → Residential (sticky, 3× residential retries).
Email finder	Optional Hunter.io lookup when first/last name + company are known.
Real-time logs	Watch each profile's data land as it's collected.

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📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
urls	array	✅	LinkedIn profile URLs or usernames (bulk supported).
li_at	string (secret)	✅	Your LinkedIn li_at session cookie.
includeEmail	boolean	—	Enrich with a professional email via Hunter.io.
hunterApiKey	string (secret)	—	Hunter.io API key (only if includeEmail is on).
requestDelay	number	—	Seconds between profiles (jitter added). Default 1.0.
maxRetries	integer	—	Retries per request before escalating proxy. Default 3.
proxyConfiguration	object	—	Proxy / country settings for the fallback tiers.

Example input

{
  "urls": [
    { "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarptecimer/" },
    { "url": "neal-mohan" }
  ],
  "li_at": "AQEDA...your-cookie...",
  "includeEmail": false,
  "requestDelay": 1.0,
  "maxRetries": 3,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

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📤 Output

Each profile is one dataset item. It carries flat summary columns (for the table) plus the full nested sections:

{
  "fullname": "Sarp Tecimer",
  "headline": "Cybersecurity Consultant, Advisor, ...",
  "current_company": "Kafein Technology Solutions",
  "location": "Istanbul, Türkiye",
  "follower_count": 2061,
  "connection_count": 500,
  "basic_info": { "...": "..." },
  "experience": [ { "title": "Senior Product Owner", "company": "...", "duration": "Jun 2024 - Oct 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos" } ],
  "education": [ { "school": "Bahcesehir University", "degree": "MBA., ..." } ],
  "certifications": [ { "name": "BCNE", "issuer": "Brocade" } ],
  "languages": [ { "language": "English", "proficiency": "Full professional proficiency" } ],
  "skills": ["Reporting", "Documentation", "..."],
  "projects": [ { "name": "...", "description": "..." } ],
  "success": true
}

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🚀 How to Use (Apify Console)

1. Log in at https://console.apify.com → Actors.
2. Open Profile Details Scraper for LinkedIn + EMAIL.
3. Paste your profile URLs/usernames and your li_at cookie.
4. (Optional) Enable email + add a Hunter.io key.
5. Click Start and watch the logs in real time.
6. Open the Output tab — switch between the Overview / Experience / Education / Certifications / Skills views.
7. Export to JSON / CSV / XLSX.

🤖 Use via API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/<ACTOR_ID>/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"urls":[{"url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarptecimer/"}],"li_at":"AQEDA..."}'

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💡 Best Use Cases

• Recruiting & talent sourcing
• Lead generation and B2B prospecting
• Competitive / market research
• Building enriched CRM records

💲 Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event: you are charged once per successfully scraped profile (profile-scraped). Failed/blocked profiles are not charged for the result event.

❓ FAQ

Why do I need a cookie? LinkedIn removed all unauthenticated profile access in 2025. A logged-in session (li_at) is the only way to read profile data.

Will it get my account blocked? Scraping always carries risk. The actor uses browser-grade TLS impersonation, polite delays, and proxy fallback to minimize it, but use a non-critical account and reasonable volumes.

Where does the email come from? LinkedIn never exposes emails. When enabled, the email is looked up via Hunter.io from name + company.

🛟 Support & Feedback

Open an issue on the actor's Issues tab in the Apify Console.

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⚖️ Legal

Collect only publicly available data and comply with LinkedIn's Terms, GDPR/CCPA, and anti-spam laws. You are responsible for how you use the data.