LinkedIn Profile Pro

Deep, cookie-free LinkedIn profile scraper. Hand it profile URLs (or bare slugs), get back full profile metadata plus recent posts plus published articles — in a single call, in one dataset row per profile.

Built for Clay, n8n, and Make pipelines where you currently have to call two or three separate actors to assemble the same picture.

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What you get per profile

{
  "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates/",
  "slug": "williamhgates",
  "name": "Bill Gates",
  "headline": "Creator, Top Voice",
  "about": "Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation...",
  "photoUrl": "https://media.licdn.com/...",
  "country": "US",
  "city": "Seattle, Washington, United States",
  "followers": 40000000,
  "connections": 8,

  "workHistory": [
    { "company": "Gates Foundation", "companyLinkedInUrl": "...",
      "title": null, "description": null, "location": null,
      "startDate": "2000", "endDate": null, "isCurrent": true },
    { "company": "Breakthrough Energy", "startDate": "2015", "isCurrent": true, ... },
    { "company": "Microsoft", "startDate": "1975", "isCurrent": true, ... }
  ],
  "education": [
    { "school": "Harvard University", "startYear": 1973, "endYear": 1975 }
  ],
  "languages": [],
  "awards": [],
  "externalLinks": [],

  "recentPosts": [
    { "urn": "7464707901635395584",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/williamhgates_...",
      "text": "I felt so powerless and scared when my dad was diagnosed with Alzheimer's...",
      "postedAt": "2026-05-25T03:10:26.346Z",
      "likes": 1765, "comments": 84, "shares": null,
      "isArticle": false, "headline": null }
    // up to ~10 recent posts per profile
  ],
  "publishedArticles": [
    { "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/every-year-2-million-...",
      "title": "Every year, 2 million babies are stillborn.",
      "datePublished": "2026-05-02T00:35:55.000+00:00",
      "description": "A simple retinal scanner can change that." }
    // up to ~10 articles per profile (when published)
  ],

  "fetchedAt": "2026-05-26T15:20:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "htmlSize": 613470,
    "proxyGroup": "DATACENTER",
    "attemptsRequired": 1,
    "uaUsed": "facebookexternalhit"
  }
}

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Input

Field	Type	Default	Notes
profileUrls	string[]	required	Full LinkedIn URLs or bare slugs. Both work. https://uk.linkedin.com/in/... URLs accepted. /company/, /jobs/, non-LinkedIn URLs rejected silently.
includeRecentPosts	boolean	true	Extract up to ~10 recent posts per profile. Bundled in same charge.
includeArticles	boolean	true	Extract LinkedIn-published articles. Bundled in same charge.
enrichEngagementFromDom	boolean	true	Parse comment + share counts (post likes already come from JSON-LD). Negligible cost.
postedAfter	string	—	Drop posts/articles older than this date. Accepts YYYY-MM-DD or full ISO 8601 timestamp. Leave empty for no lower bound.
postedBefore	string	—	Drop posts/articles newer than this date. Same format as postedAfter. Pair both for a between-range filter. Undated items are dropped when any date filter is active.
maxRetriesPerProfile	integer	5	Fresh-IP attempts per profile. 1-10.
useResidentialFallback	boolean	false	After 3 datacenter failures, retry via Apify residential proxy. Boosts success ~70% → ~85%. Adds ~$5/1K cost on stubborn profiles only.
concurrency	integer	5	Parallel profile fetches. 1-20.
maxItems	integer	500	Hard cap on profiles processed.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify datacenter BUYPROXIES94952	Override only if you have a specific reason — datacenter is the validated optimum (cheaper AND higher success rate than residential for this surface).

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Pricing

$0.004 per profile resolved. That's it. Recent posts and articles bundled — no per-post charge.

• First 10 profiles per run are FREE (per-run trial — useful for testing).
• No charge for invalid slugs, soft-blocks, or empty responses.
• No charge for duplicate inputs (we dedupe upfront).
• Charge only fires when a Person JSON-LD block has been successfully parsed.

Compare with the alternative on the Store: profile scraper at $4/1K + profile-posts at $2/1K = $6/1K bundled. This one is $4/1K bundled, in one call, one dataset row, one charge.

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How it works (high-level)

LinkedIn whitelists social-link-preview bots (facebookexternalhit/1.1, Twitterbot/1.0) and serves them rich server-rendered HTML with structured JSON-LD blocks: Person, DiscussionForumPosting, Article. We fetch each profile with that UA via Apify's datacenter proxy, parse the JSON-LD, augment with DOM-extracted engagement counts (comments, shares), and emit a normalized row.

When a profile resists datacenter IPs (rotating residential block-lists land on Apify's pool), the optional residential fallback kicks in after 3 failures. Soft-block detection is byte-precise (LinkedIn's "we noticed unusual activity" template is exactly 317,547 bytes), so we never mistake it for a real 200.

No cookies, no login, no LinkedIn account, no Voyager API impersonation. Public data only.

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Common use cases

• Clay/n8n/Make enrichment pipelines — pipe a list of LinkedIn URLs in, get full profiles + recent activity out.
• B2B prospecting with context — beyond just name+title, see what they've posted recently to personalize outreach.
• Investor / hedge fund headcount tracking — re-run periodically, diff workHistory[].isCurrent to detect hires and exits.
• Competitive intel on key people — track posts + articles to monitor what competitors' execs are talking about.
• Recruiting research — surface candidates' recent activity, not just their static resume.

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What's NOT included (cookie-free limits)

• Skills, certifications, volunteer, recommendations — these sections aren't in the cookie-free JSON-LD. Add them in v0.2 if there's demand (DOM-extractable).
• Per-reaction breakdown (like vs love vs celebrate) — only total likes available.
• Comment thread bodies — only comment counts (auth-walled bodies).
• Sales Navigator, Recruiter, full activity history — separate auth-scope, out of scope.
• Per-position job titles — for some profiles LinkedIn doesn't include per-worksFor titles in the JSON-LD. You'll see title: null even when the company is present. Profile-side limitation.

Expect ~70% success rate at default settings (~85% with residential fallback enabled). Failed profiles are NOT charged.

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License

MIT — use the data within LinkedIn's Terms of Service and applicable scraping law (hiQ v. LinkedIn covers public data; this actor never touches authenticated surfaces).