LinkedIn Profile Finder via Google SERP

This actor performs Google searches (with your keywords) restricted to linkedin.com/in/ and extracts the public profile URLs it finds. It now drives a stealthy Playwright browser with rotating fingerprints, adaptive throttling, and resilient proxy/session management to stay productive even when Google turns up the heat.

✨ Features

• Stealth Playwright browser with fingerprinting and optional headless mode.
• Search by multiple keywords and optional custom site: filter with randomized query variants.
• Adaptive delay management, block-aware cooldowns, and smarter session recycling.
• Configurable SERP pages, results per page, max profiles, and concurrency.
• Rich dataset records per profile (title, snippet, query, page, position, source URL).
• Automatic fallback via Apify SERP proxy fetch when Google blocks direct scraping.

🔧 Input reference

Field	Type	Description
keywords (required)	array of strings	Keywords that should appear in the profile (job title, location, etc.).
numPages	integer	How many Google result pages to visit (default 1).
resultsPerPage	integer	Results requested per page (max 10, default 10).
maxResults	integer	Hard cap on the number of unique profiles to collect (default 200).
delayBetweenRequestsMs	integer	Delay (in ms) between navigation attempts (default 2000).
blockCooldownSeconds	integer	Cooldown (in seconds) after a Google block/captcha (default 20).
maxConcurrency	integer	Concurrent Playwright pages to run (1-5, default 2).
searchLanguage	string	Google hl parameter (e.g. en, en-US).
siteFilter	string	Site restriction query (defaults to site:linkedin.com/in/).
proxyGroup	string	Preferred Apify proxy pool (SERP = Google SERP proxies, RESIDENTIAL = residential IPs).
proxyConfiguration	object	Proxy settings (defaults to Apify GOOGLESERP proxies).
stealthMode	boolean	Enable Playwright stealth evasions (default true).
headless	boolean	Run browsers headless (true) or headful (false).
randomizeQueries	boolean	Shuffle keywords and inject noise terms per Google request (true).
useGoogleSearchActorFallback	boolean	When blocked, fetch results through the Apify SERP proxy fallback (true).
fallbackProxyConfiguration	object	Optional proxy overrides dedicated to the SERP fallback.
blockToFallbackThreshold	integer	After this many block hits, switch to fallback-only mode (2).

Example input

{
  "keywords": ["Chief Product Officer", "United States"],
  "numPages": 3,
  "resultsPerPage": 10,
  "maxResults": 150,
  "delayBetweenRequestsMs": 2500,
  "blockCooldownSeconds": 25,
  "maxConcurrency": 2,
  "searchLanguage": "en",
  "siteFilter": "site:linkedin.com/in/",
  "stealthMode": true,
  "randomizeQueries": true,
  "useGoogleSearchActorFallback": true,
  "blockToFallbackThreshold": 2,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["GOOGLESERP"]
  }
}

📦 Output

Each dataset item contains:

{
  "linkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/example",
  "title": "Example Person - Chief Product Officer",
  "snippet": "Chief Product Officer at Example Corp · Location · Contact info",
  "query": "site:linkedin.com/in/ \"Chief Product Officer\" \"United States\" \"LinkedIn\"",
  "pageNumber": 1,
  "position": 3,
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.google.com/search?q=...",
  "keywords": ["Chief Product Officer", "United States"]
}

✅ Tips

• Keep resultsPerPage <= 10; Google ignores larger values.
• Tune both delayBetweenRequestsMs and blockCooldownSeconds upward if you hit frequent captcha pages.
• Lower blockToFallbackThreshold (or set to 0) to rely on the SERP fallback fetch sooner on stubborn runs.
• Keep stealthMode enabled for production; disable it only for debugging.
• Residential proxies combined with maxConcurrency = 1-2 provide the most stable output.
• The fallback uses Apify's GOOGLE_SERP proxy pool; ensure your account has access before lowering the threshold.

Happy scraping! 🚀