LinkedIn Public Profile Scraper

Scrape public LinkedIn personal profiles without login credentials or API access. Returns name, headline, about, experience, and education from publicly visible profile pages.

This actor does not scrape company pages, does not extract a skills field, and does not return email addresses or other private contact details.

What It Does

Fetches publicly available data from LinkedIn /in/ profile pages using a headless browser. No LinkedIn login or cookies required.

Supports one profile or a batch of profile URLs in a single run.

Input Parameters

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
profileUrl	string	No*	—	Full LinkedIn profile URL (e.g. https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates)
username	string	No*	—	LinkedIn username / vanity slug (e.g. williamhgates). Built into /in/{username}.
profileUrls	array of strings	No*	—	List of LinkedIn profile URLs for batch scraping
maxItems	integer	No	all provided, max 50	Cap on how many of the provided profiles to scrape

*Provide at least one of profileUrl, username, or profileUrls. There is no action field and no company-page mode.

Username example: williamhgates (from linkedin.com/in/williamhgates)

Output Format

Public personal profiles only. Shape matches what the actor actually extracts:

{
  "name": "Bill Gates",
  "headline": "Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation",
  "location": "Seattle, Washington, United States",
  "about": "Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation...",
  "profilePhoto": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/...",
  "connectionCount": "500+",
  "experience": [
    {
      "title": "Co-chair",
      "company": "Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation",
      "duration": "2000 – Present"
    }
  ],
  "currentRole": "Co-chair",
  "currentCompany": "Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation",
  "education": [
    {
      "school": "Harvard University"
    }
  ],
  "profileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates"
}

Fields that are not returned: email, skills, company-page fields (companySize, industry, headquarters, companyUrl).

Use Cases

• Recruiting — Collect public headline, location, and experience from profiles you already have URLs for
• Research — Pull publicly visible about/experience/education text from a known profile list
• CRM enrichment — Attach public headline and current role to records you already hold (not a source of emails)

How to Run via API

import requests

run = requests.post(
    "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/cryptosignals~linkedin-profile-scraper/runs",
    params={"token": "YOUR_API_TOKEN"},
    json={
        "profileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates",
        "maxItems": 1
    }
).json()

dataset_id = run["data"]["defaultDatasetId"]
results = requests.get(
    f"https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/{dataset_id}/items"
).json()

for p in results:
    print(f"{p.get('name')} — {p.get('headline')}")

Batch example:

{
  "username": "williamhgates",
  "profileUrls": [
    "https://www.linkedin.com/in/satyanadella"
  ],
  "maxItems": 2
}

Limitations

• Public /in/ profiles only — no company-page (/company/) mode
• No skills field — skills are not extracted
• No email / phone / InMail — this is not a contact-finder
• LinkedIn guest pages can return empty or blocked responses from some networks; a failed empty run is a failed run, not a partial dataset
• Maximum 50 profiles per run

Related Actors

• cryptosignals/google-search-scraper — Find LinkedIn profile URLs via search
• cryptosignals/linkedin-company-scraper — Company pages (separate actor)

Handling empty or blocked pages

LinkedIn may restrict access from some IP ranges. If a run returns no profiles, retry later or enable Apify proxy (residential recommended if you see HTTP 999 / empty pages). This actor does not gate features by Apify plan.