LinkedIn Scraper: Profiles, Companies & Posts

This LinkedIn scraper gets public data from LinkedIn profiles, company pages and posts by URL. Profiles come with name, location, followers, about, experience, education, articles and recommendations. Company pages come with industry, size, employee count, headquarters, website, specialties and funding. Posts come with full text, date, likes, comment count, author and the public comment preview. No LinkedIn account, login or cookies are needed, and you pay only for real, unique rows.

What you can use it for

• Enrich leads and CRM records with a person's location, followers, current companies and education.
• Research companies for sales prospecting: industry, size, employee count, headquarters, website and funding.
• Track posts from founders, competitors and brands, with likes and comment counts over time.
• Monitor a company page and its recent posts on a schedule.
• Collect post text for content research, AI and NLP datasets.

How to use

1. Open the LinkedIn Scraper page and click Try for free.
2. Paste profile links, company page links or post links, one per line.
3. Optionally turn on Add recent posts of each profile and company and set Max posts per profile or company.
4. Click Start. Rows appear in the Output tab while the run works.
5. Export the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or check the SUMMARY record in the key-value store.

API: start a run and get the rows in one call with POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/apisamurai~linkedin-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN> and the input as JSON in the body.

Input

Field	What it does
Profile links	https://www.linkedin.com/in/parrsam/ or just parrsam. One row per profile.
Company page links	https://www.linkedin.com/company/shopify/ or just shopify. One row per company.
Post or article links	/posts/..., /feed/update/urn:li:activity:... or /pulse/... links. One row per post.
Add recent posts of each profile and company	Off by default. Adds the recent posts shown on each profile and company page, with full details. For people, only posts they wrote or shared.
Max posts per profile or company	Default 5. Enforced exactly.

{
  "profileUrls": ["https://www.linkedin.com/in/parrsam/"],
  "companyUrls": ["https://www.linkedin.com/company/shopify/"],
  "postUrls": ["https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/being-father-has-made-me-better-leader-vice-versa-austen-allred/"],
  "includePosts": true,
  "maxPostsPerProfile": 3
}

Output

One row per profile, company or post; type tells them apart. Field names never change between runs, and missing values are null, never a fake 0. Example profile row from a live run (shortened):

{
  "type": "profile",
  "id": "satyanadella",
  "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/satyanadella/",
  "name": "Satya Nadella",
  "location": "Redmond, Washington, United States",
  "followers": 12266288,
  "connections": null,
  "about": "As chairman and CEO of Microsoft, I define my mission and that of my company as empowering ...",
  "experience": [
    { "company": "Microsoft", "companyUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft", "location": "Greater Seattle Area", "description": null, "startDate": "2014-02", "endDate": null },
    { "company": "Starbucks", "companyUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/starbucks", "location": null, "description": null, "startDate": "2017", "endDate": "2024" }
  ],
  "education": [
    { "school": "The University of Chicago Booth School of Business", "schoolUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/school/universityofchicagoboothschoolofbusiness/", "location": null, "description": null, "startDate": "1994", "endDate": "1996" }
  ],
  "articles": [{ "title": "My annual letter: Building the frontier ecosystem", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-annual-letter-building-frontier-ecosystem-satya-nadella-iujec", "publishedAt": "2026-10-21T20:41:14.000Z" }],
  "recentActivity": [{ "id": "7521344259774660609", "text": "Just wrapped our earnings call. It was a fast start to our fiscal year. ...", "activityType": "Post", "postedAt": "2026-10-28T22:56:51.348Z", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/satyanadella_just-wrapped-our-earnings-call-it-was-a-activity-7521344259774660609-7i67" }],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-29T18:50:25.239Z"
}

Profile rows have type: "profile", id, publicIdentifier, url, name, location, followers, connections, about, photoUrl, experience (company, companyUrl, location, description, startDate, endDate; current roles first), education (school, schoolUrl, location, description, startDate, endDate), articles, publications, projects, recommendations, similarProfiles, recentActivity, scrapedAt.

Company rows have type: "company", id, slug, url, name, description, slogan, industry, companyType, size, employeeCount, followers, founded, headquarters, location (city, state, country), website, logoUrl, coverImageUrl, specialties, funding, featuredEmployees, similarPages, recentPosts, scrapedAt.

Post rows have type: "post", id, activityUrn, contentUrn, url, title, headline, text, postedAt, likes, commentsCount, imageUrls, videoUrl, thumbnailUrl, author, comments, moreArticles (articles only), source, input, scrapedAt.

Post rows found through a profile or company have source: "profile" or "company" and the profile or company link in input.

Each run also writes a SUMMARY record. For every input link it lists rows requested and delivered, posts found and delivered, duplicates, links not found, failed lookups, and why it stopped (limit reached, no more results, private or not found, duplicate, temporary error, spending limit, free plan limit or data source unavailable).

Pricing

$6.50 per 1,000 profiles; $6.50 per 1,000 companies; $6.50 per 1,000 posts

Fair billing

• No start fee, no per-run fee, no minimum charge. You pay per row saved.
• Only real rows are charged. Empty answers, private or missing profiles, companies and posts cost nothing.
• Duplicates are never charged. A post found on a company page and also pasted as a link is saved once.
• Failed lookups are not charged. They are counted in the SUMMARY record and listed in the log.
• Max posts per profile or company is exact: you never get, or pay for, more than you asked.
• For people, posts they only reacted to are skipped before any lookup, so you never pay for them.
• When you hit your spending limit, the run stops cleanly.
• Free Apify plan: up to 100 rows per run, so you can try it. Any paid plan removes the limit.

Integrations

• Apify API to start runs and read datasets from any language, plus the Python and JavaScript clients (apify-client).
• Zapier, Make and n8n to send new rows to Google Sheets, HubSpot, Slack or a database.
• MCP for AI agents: connect the Apify MCP server to Claude, ChatGPT or another MCP client and the agent can run this Actor as a tool.
• Schedules and webhooks in Apify Console for daily or weekly runs.

FAQ

Do I need a LinkedIn account, login or cookies? No. You only need an Apify account. The Actor reads public data, the same as a logged-out visitor sees.

Can it search LinkedIn for people or companies? No. It works from links you already have: profile, company page and post links.

How many recent posts can I get per profile or company? Only the posts LinkedIn shows to logged-out visitors, usually a handful per page. For people, only posts they wrote or shared are included. For a complete post history, paste the post links you need.

Why did I get fewer rows than I asked for? Open the SUMMARY record. It says for each link why it stopped: no more posts on the page, a duplicate, a private or missing page, a temporary error, the spending limit or the free plan limit.

Why are some fields null? LinkedIn hides some details from logged-out visitors: headlines, job titles and degrees are never shown, and some profiles mask company names and descriptions. Masked text is returned as null, not as asterisks, and experience or education entries whose name is masked are left out.

Does it get all comments of a post? No. Post rows include the public comment preview that LinkedIn shows, not the full comment list.

Can I schedule it? Yes. Create a schedule in Apify Console, for example a weekly run over your company list, and connect an integration to get the new rows.

Is it legal to scrape LinkedIn? The Actor collects only public data. You are responsible for how you use it: follow LinkedIn's terms and the laws where you live, and take care with personal data (for example under GDPR). This is not legal advice.