LinkedIn Lead Generation | Apollo & ZoomInfo Alternative

Describe your ideal customer — job title, seniority, location, company size — and get back a ready-to-send lead list: person, current company, and a work email. No LinkedIn login, no cookies.

B2B lead generation, built on a real profile database

Most "LinkedIn lead generation" actors scrape live pages behind Sales Navigator cookies, which breaks the moment LinkedIn changes its markup. This actor answers from a licensed profile and company database instead — no login, no scraping, no session to babysit.

LinkedIn people search by title, seniority, location

Filter by job title (VP Sales, Head of Growth, …), seniority (C-level / VP / Director / Manager / Founder), country or city, and company size. Combine filters — country + title is enough to start; add company size and industry to narrow further.

A work email for every lead we can find one for

Every candidate email is first matched to the target company's own domain (rejects stale prior-employer or personal addresses), then checked at the SMTP level. Every matching lead is delivered — we don't hold results back on a quality gate. The row's emailStatus column tells you honestly whether that specific email passed the SMTP check or not, and pricing follows: confirmed-valid emails are billed at the standard rate, anything else at a lower rate.

Only leads with a phone number

Set requirePhone: true to deliver only leads that also have a phone number on file — they come back in the phoneNumbers column. About 1 in 6 people in the database has one, so the actor scans many more candidates (up to 50× maxLeads) and may deliver fewer than maxLeads; people without a phone are skipped before any paid email step. Pricing per lead is unchanged. Numbers are as listed in the database — not verified, and some can be company switchboard lines. phoneNumbers is null when requirePhone is off.

Do I need a LinkedIn account? No.

This actor never touches linkedin.com. All data comes from a database API — no login, no cookies, no CAPTCHA risk to your account.

Export a ready-to-send lead list

Every run's dataset is a flat table: name, title, company, domain, work email, city, country, LinkedIn URL. Download as CSV/JSON/Excel directly from the run, or pull it via the API.

Sample input

{
    "jobTitles": ["VP Sales"],
    "countries": ["us"],
    "companySizeMin": 51,
    "companySizeMax": 200,
    "maxLeads": 100
}

Sample output row

fullName	jobTitle	companyName	companyDomain	email	emailStatus	city	country
Bill McLoone	VP Sales	Amerex Group LLC	amerexgroup.com	bmcloone@amerexgroup.com	valid	Princeton Junction	us

Full column list: fullName, firstName, lastName, jobTitle, seniority, headline, linkedinUrl, city, country, companyName, companyDomain, companyLinkedinUrl, companySize, industry, email, emailStatus, phoneNumbers, personalEmailAvailable, tenureStartYear, profileId, sourceQuery, scrapedAt.

companyLinkedinUrl is populated via an extra per-company lookup (cached across leads at the same company) when includeCompanyDetails is on. It's null when that lookup can't confidently match the company — domains are sometimes shared by unrelated companies, and this actor only fills the field when there's exactly one unambiguous name match, never a best guess. emailStatus reflects the real SMTP check result for that email (valid when confirmed deliverable; another value when it isn't) — every row has an email either way.

Use cases

• SDR outbound — build a targeted call/email list by ICP in minutes, no manual LinkedIn scrolling.
• Agency lead lists — deliver client-ready lead lists without a per-client Sales Navigator seat.
• Recruiting — find people by title and seniority at target companies for outreach.

Free preview before you spend anything

Set previewOnly: true to see the estimated audience size for your filters — this charges nothing. Confirm your ICP is big enough before running for real.

An Apollo / ZoomInfo alternative

Like Apollo, ZoomInfo, Lusha and RocketReach, this actor turns an ICP into a contact list with emails. Unlike a Sales Navigator scraper (Apollo's and most competitors' underlying data source for LinkedIn), it needs no login and can't get your LinkedIn account flagged. Unlike a per-seat SaaS subscription, you pay only for delivered leads.

Avoid paying twice for the same lead

Pass excludeProfileIds (the profileId column from a previous run) on your next pull to skip leads you already have.

FAQ

Do I need a LinkedIn account or Sales Navigator? No — this actor never logs into LinkedIn.

Is this GDPR / CAN-SPAM compliant? The actor returns B2B professional contact data. You are responsible for using it in a lawful, compliant manner for your jurisdiction and use case (opt-out handling, consent basis, etc.) — this actor does not provide legal advice.

How fresh is the data? Profile records refresh on the upstream provider's own cadence (typically weeks, not real-time). scrapedAt records when your run pulled the row, not when the underlying profile last changed.

Do you verify emails? Every candidate is domain-matched against the target company first (rejects stale prior-employer or personal addresses), then SMTP-checked. We deliver every domain-matched email we find — the emailStatus column tells you honestly whether that specific one came back confirmed-deliverable or not, and it's priced accordingly.

Why did I get fewer leads than maxLeads? Only candidates with a real, domain-matched email count as a lead — not every profile in your ICP has a discoverable email. The scan budget isn't unlimited either: the actor scans up to 15× maxLeads candidates (50× with requirePhone) before stopping, to keep runs bounded. Widen your filters if you're hitting that ceiling often.

Related actors on this account

• LinkedIn People Search — point lookups by name/company
• LinkedIn Person Search
• LinkedIn Employee Search — full roster of a specific company
• LinkedIn Company Search — find company pages

This actor is for discovering new leads from an ICP description, not looking up a specific person or company you already know — use the actors above for that.

Compliance

This actor returns B2B professional contact data intended for lawful business outreach. You are responsible for complying with applicable law (GDPR, CAN-SPAM, and similar) in how you use the data.