# Changelog of LinkedIn Company Employees Scraper — B2B Prospect List Builder (`automation-lab/linkedin-company-employees-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/automation-lab/linkedin-company-employees-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/automation-lab/linkedin-company-employees-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 2026-09-25

#### Reliability

- Stop additional search retries, redirect lookups, and authenticated pagination before a caller's run deadline so already collected employees survive slow upstream responses.

### 2026-09-23

#### Reliability

- Stop optional searches and additional companies before the run's actual timeout, preserving employee records already found instead of losing them to a late hard timeout.
- Keep a clear failure when the time budget expires before any employee record can be produced.

### 2026-09-21

#### Reliability

- Added automatic cookie-free employee discovery when an authenticated LinkedIn session cannot resolve a company or returns no employees.
- Preserved useful authenticated results already collected if the session expires during pagination, while retaining explicit failure when every route produces zero employees.

### 2026-09-18

#### Reliability

- Reduced slow Google-route failures with bounded concurrent fresh-identity probes, plus a validated public-search fallback when Google exhausts or exposes stale redirects.
- Persisted each completed result page immediately and added a per-company search budget so useful partial results return cleanly instead of being lost while an additional page waits on an upstream timeout.

### 2026-09-16

#### Reliability

- Added bounded fresh-route retries when Google returns a successful response that silently ignores the LinkedIn profile search constraint.
- Avoided following unrelated opaque redirects while preserving explicit failure after every bounded discovery attempt is exhausted.

### 2026-09-09

#### Reliability

- Restored cookie-free employee discovery when Google wraps organic LinkedIn profile URLs in opaque redirects.
- Preserved explicit run failure and diagnostic rows when every bounded discovery route is exhausted.

### 2026-09-07

#### Features

- Added deterministic `jobTitle`, `seniority`, `department`, and `isDecisionMaker` fields inferred from each public headline, with no extra network requests.
- Added role-intelligence columns to the dataset overview and documented the finite classification vocabularies and conservative fallback behavior.

### 2026-08-27

#### Reliability

- Restored employee discovery when Google renders organic profile results in embedded page data instead of server-rendered links.
- Runs now fail explicitly, with per-company error details in the dataset, when no requested company can produce employee records.

### 2026-08-06

#### Fixes

- Fixed employee searches for hyphenated and long company slugs, and now return a clear error record when an upstream request failure would otherwise look like a successful zero-result scrape.

### 2026-06-19

- Added public Store task examples so users can start common LinkedIn employee prospecting workflows faster.

### 2026-05-25

- Updated the Store and README positioning for cold-outreach and account-based prospecting use cases.

### 2026-05-03

- Improved timeout handling for health-check runs by reducing navigation and handler timeouts.

### 2026-05-01

- Initial release of LinkedIn Company Employees Scraper for extracting employee profile data from company pages.