LinkedIn Profile Finder via Google SERP

This actor finds public LinkedIn profile URLs by running a Google search restricted to linkedin.com/in/ with your keywords, then extracting the profile URLs from the results.

Instead of fetching Google directly (which gets blocked by captchas, consent pages, and JavaScript challenges), it sends the query to SerpApi, a Google Search API that returns clean structured JSON. This actor only filters those results for profile URLs. Because it's a plain outbound HTTPS request, it works on any Apify plan (including the free tier).

🔑 Setup: SerpApi API key

1. Sign up at serpapi.com (100 free searches/month).
2. Copy your API key.
3. Provide it to the actor either as the serpApiKey input field or as a SERPAPI_KEY environment variable.

Note: Each Google page fetched consumes one SerpApi search credit, billed to your SerpApi account (not Apify).

✨ Features

• Search by multiple keywords and an optional custom site: filter.
• Control SERP pages, results per page (up to 100), and max profiles collected.
• Reliable results without managing proxies or block handling yourself.
• Pushes every unique profile URL (with its Google title and snippet).

🔧 Input reference

Field	Type	Description
keywords (required)	array of strings	Keywords that should appear in the profile (job title, location, etc.). Each is quoted in the query.
serpApiKey	string (secret)	Your SerpApi API key. Optional if SERPAPI_KEY is set as an environment variable.
siteFilter	string	Site restriction query (defaults to site:linkedin.com/in/).
maxPagesPerQuery	integer	How many Google result pages to fetch (default 1).
resultsPerPage	integer	Results requested per page (max 100, default 100).
maxResults	integer	Hard cap on the number of unique profiles to collect (default 200).
countryCode	string	Two-letter country code Google searches from (default us).
languageCode	string	Two-letter Google language code (default en).

Example input

{
  "keywords": ["Chief Product Officer", "United States"],
  "serpApiKey": "<your-serpapi-api-key>",
  "maxPagesPerQuery": 3,
  "resultsPerPage": 100,
  "maxResults": 150,
  "countryCode": "us",
  "languageCode": "en",
  "siteFilter": "site:linkedin.com/in/"
}

📦 Output

Each dataset item contains:

{
  "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/example",
  "title": "Jane Doe - Chief Product Officer",
  "description": "United States · Chief Product Officer at ...",
  "sourceQuery": "site:linkedin.com/in/ \"Chief Product Officer\" \"United States\"",
  "keywords": ["Chief Product Officer", "United States"]
}

✅ Tips

• More specific keywords (exact job titles, company names, locations) yield more relevant profiles.
• Increase maxPagesPerQuery to collect more results; raise maxResults accordingly.
• Google itself caps how deep site: dorking goes, so very large result counts for a single query are not always available.

Happy scraping! 🚀