LinkedIn Profiles Scraper

Extract only the data LinkedIn exposes publicly on supplied profile URLs. This actor does not request a login, cookies, hidden or private endpoints, employee/contact inference, profile search, or data behind a sign-in wall.

Input

{
  "profileUrls": [
    "https://www.linkedin.com/in/example-public-profile/"
  ],
  "maxProfiles": 10,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 20
}

Field	Type	Default	Notes
profileUrls	array	[]	Public URLs in the form https://www.linkedin.com/in/<public-identifier>/. Empty input returns one labelled, uncharged sample row.
maxProfiles	integer	10	Cap on how many valid URLs are requested in a run. Maximum 100.
requestTimeoutSecs	integer	20	Per-page request timeout, 1–60 seconds.

Supply public URLs matching https://www.linkedin.com/in/<public-identifier>/. The actor does not resolve names, emails, or company domains into LinkedIn URLs. URLs are canonicalised before the request, so tracking parameters and trailing slashes are harmless and the same profile submitted twice is only fetched once.

Output

Every genuine row is parsed from a matching public Person JSON-LD record present on the requested page:

Field	What it is
ok	true on a real parsed profile, false on a diagnostic row.
sourceType	public_linkedin_profile on real rows, sample on the free sample row.
profileUrl	The canonicalised /in/ URL that was requested.
publicIdentifier	The vanity slug from that URL, e.g. example-public-profile.
fullName	Person.name as LinkedIn publishes it.
headline	Person.jobTitle when present, otherwise the public description.
description	The public "about" text, when LinkedIn exposes it.
profileImageUrl	Public avatar URL, or null.
sameAs	The outbound links the profile itself lists (personal site, other socials). Empty array when there are none.
transport	direct_http — the actor never runs a browser.
retrievedAt	ISO timestamp of the fetch.

Missing fields are null or empty. It does not infer contact details, work history, employers, location, email addresses, or private profile attributes.

Diagnostic rows

Anything that is not a parsed profile comes back as an uncharged row with ok: false, _diagnostic: true and an errorCode:

• BAD_INPUT — the URL is not a linkedin.com/in/ profile URL.
• NO_RESULTS — the page loaded but carried no matching public Person record (private profile, or LinkedIn served an interstitial).
• Transport codes — timeout, block or network failure, with the underlying message in details.

You get a row explaining what happened for every URL you submitted, so a partial run is auditable rather than silently short.

Cost and proxy policy

The actor uses direct HTTP only. It never starts residential or SERP proxy traffic. Blocks, rate limits, invalid URLs, and public pages without a matching profile record return an uncharged diagnostic row.

Only a genuine matching public profile triggers the profile event. The row is written to the dataset before the charge call.

Empty input

Empty input returns exactly one clearly labeled _sample: true row without making a LinkedIn request. It is always uncharged.

Pricing

$0.90 per 1,000 profiles ($0.0009 each), plus $0.001 each time a run starts — against the $1.00 to $1.99 per 1,000 charged by comparable URL-driven LinkedIn profile actors on the Apify Store. Flat rate: no volume tiers, no plan gates, and you are charged only for profiles actually returned.

Billing

Two charges apply: a $0.001 run-start fee each time a run begins, and $0.0009 per successfully parsed public profile. Samples, diagnostics, duplicates, blocked look-ups and no-result runs never incur the per-result fee — a run that returns nothing costs only the $0.001 start fee. Because it is direct HTTP with no proxy, there is no proxy line on your bill either.