Hi, thanks for reaching out! We're currently working on adding a feature that will allow scraping of alumni profiles from specific colleges. It should be available soon, and we'll update you once it's ready for use. In the meantime, feel free to let us know if you have any more questions or suggestions!

Best Regards, Team Caprolok

Hi thanks and look forward to when it will be available. I assume it will be like some of the other scrapers where I don't have to use personal accounts. Further my request (and feedback) for other scrapers as well, give more control on the output.

• For example what fields to capture, so fields in JSON are not very useful especially if building a RAG. So we have to unnecessarily create another parser to extract only the fields we need from the JSON we get, this is not efficient., We should have control of what to capture.

• Also have better filtering (eg. Alumni in certain years of graduation, companies they worked for, current role etc)

• Similar have a recency, for example get only recent posts (if we have already scraped and we need to update the delta).

If you like I am happy to try out as beta and give you some feedback.

Hello @pwarrier,

Thank you for your feedback, we will add them soon. We released a new update few minutes back, please give a try.

Regards, Team Caprolok.

Hi I have to rent the actor again and pay for it just to try it out. I don't want to do that.

You can show me a sample of it working that would be great (say 5 alumni). Here is URL for https://www.linkedin.com/school/nitk-surathkal/

Sure, here is a run for ~100 alumni: https://console.apify.com/view/runs/XCE5w034rziY3rMIa Ignore the verified column, as we have to improve it for alumni cases. You can open their profiles and check.

Hi thanks for quick reply. Its a good start but to be useful here are some points Field Requirements

(Must Have)

"About" Description: Example: “A Data & AI consultant with a background across FMCG, pharmaceutical, and hospitality sectors.” Purpose: To determine whether the profile is relevant.

Year of Graduation (if available): Purpose: For filtering purposes (see below).

Email Contact (if available): While theoretically retrievable from the profile, we often have to make separate calls. Ideal Outcome: Include this in the initial data set.

(Nice to Have)

• JSON Array of Companies and Titles: Should include the full history, not just the most recent job.

Large Batch Requirements

These requirements are motivated by the large size of the underlying dataset:

Advanced Filtering:

• By company, job title, year of graduation, etc., to restrict the dataset efficiently.

Job Segmentation:

• Ability to break the task into multiple smaller jobs (e.g., fetch the first 100 profiles, then the next 100).
  • Include the option to specify a starting point, preventing restarts in case a large job is terminated (e.g., due to insufficient funds on the platform).

Hi @pwarrier,

Thank you for your feedback and suggestions! While we appreciate your ideas, some requested features—like batch segmentation and email extraction—are beyond the current scope of our actor. For advanced needs, we recommend post-processing the data using external tools.

As for advanced filtering, you can try using the "Job Title" input field. I tested it with "AI" as the job title, and here are the results: https://console.apify.com/view/runs/RRvQDFtmne8txFfqS

We value your input and will keep it in mind for future updates. Thank you for your understanding!

Best regards, Team Caprolok

Hi thanks for the update.. unfortunately without some of those capabilities it won't work..if something changes I will let you know. Thanks again