🔍 LinkedIn Profiles Discover

Find thousands of LinkedIn profiles in any niche, any country — in minutes.

---

🚀 What is this?

LinkedIn Profiles Discover automatically finds real LinkedIn personal profiles matching any keyword — software engineers, marketing managers, recruiters, founders, and more — across 30 countries in their local language.

Whether you're building lead generation lists, doing market research, or building your sales pipeline, this tool does in minutes what would take your team days.

---

✨ What to Expect

• 🌍 Multi-country discovery — target one or many countries simultaneously
• 🗣️ Native language search — finds profiles that only appear in Arabic, Japanese, Russian, Hindi, and more
• 📦 Clean dataset output — profile URL, name slug, Google snippet, and keyword for every profile
• ⚡ Smart stopping — automatically skips exhausted queries and stops the moment your target count is reached
• 💰 Pay only for results — you're charged per discovered profile, not per run

💡 Pro tip: For non-English countries, enter your keywords in the local language for dramatically better results.

❌ Less effective	✅ Much better
software engineer → Egypt	مهندس برمجيات → Egypt
marketing manager → Japan	ソフトウェアエンジニア → Japan
photographer → Russia	инженер-программист → Russia

---

📥 Input

Configure the actor from the Apify Console UI or pass a JSON input when using the API.

Input fields

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
keywords	string[]	✅ Yes	—	Keywords to search for. Use the target country's language for best results.
maxProfilesPerKeyword	number	No	100	Max unique profiles to collect per keyword per country.
countries	string[]	No	["US"]	ISO country codes to target. See supported countries below.

Input JSON example

{
  "keywords": ["marketing manager", "software engineer"],
  "maxProfilesPerKeyword": 500,
  "countries": ["US", "GB", "AE"]
}

Arabic-market example (Middle East/North Africa)

{
  "keywords": ["مهندس برمجيات", "مدير تسويق"],
  "maxProfilesPerKeyword": 1000,
  "countries": ["EG", "SA", "AE"]
}

Supported countries

Code	Country	Search Language
US	🇺🇸 United States	English
GB	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	English
CA	🇨🇦 Canada	English
AU	🇦🇺 Australia	English
IN	🇮🇳 India	Hindi
CN	🇨🇳 China	Chinese
JP	🇯🇵 Japan	Japanese
KR	🇰🇷 South Korea	Korean
RU	🇷🇺 Russia	Russian
DE	🇩🇪 Germany	German
FR	🇫🇷 France	French
IT	🇮🇹 Italy	Italian
ES	🇪🇸 Spain	Spanish
BR	🇧🇷 Brazil	Portuguese
MX	🇲🇽 Mexico	Spanish
TR	🇹🇷 Turkey	Turkish
SA	🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia	Arabic
AE	🇦🇪 UAE	Arabic
EG	🇪🇬 Egypt	Arabic
IR	🇮🇷 Iran	Persian
PK	🇵🇰 Pakistan	Urdu
BD	🇧🇩 Bangladesh	Bengali
NG	🇳🇬 Nigeria	English
PH	🇵🇭 Philippines	English
ID	🇮🇩 Indonesia	Indonesian
VN	🇻🇳 Vietnam	Vietnamese
TH	🇹🇭 Thailand	Thai
NL	🇳🇱 Netherlands	Dutch
ET	🇪🇹 Ethiopia	English

---

📤 Output

Each discovered profile is saved as one row in the dataset.

Output JSON example

{
  "profileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in//john-doe-123/",
  "username": "john-doe-123",
  "snippet": "Senior Software Engineer at Google · San Francisco, CA",
  "keyword": "software engineer",
  "discoveredAt": "2025-05-09T14:32:01.000Z"
}

Output field reference

Field	Type	Description
profileUrl	string	Full Instagram profile URL
username	string	Instagram LinkedIn profile slug
snippet	string	Google snippet — usually contains job title, company, and location
keyword	string	The keyword that led to this profile's discovery
discoveredAt	string	ISO timestamp of when the profile was found

Export formats

Download your results from the Apify Console dataset tab in JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML — one click, no extra steps.

---

💳 Pricing

Plan	Profiles per run	Cost
🆓 Free	Up to 50	$0
💎 Pay per result	Unlimited	$1.50 per 1,000 profiles

You are charged only for profiles successfully delivered to your dataset. There are no charges for failed searches, empty pages, or duplicate profiles that were filtered out.

Example: Discovering 5,000 profiles costs $7.50. Set your maximum charge per run in the Apify Console to stay within budget — the actor stops automatically when your limit is reached.

---

▶️ How to Run

Option 1 — Apify Console (no code)

1. Open the actor page on Apify Store
2. Click Try for free
3. Fill in your keywords, select countries, and set your profile target
4. Click Start — results appear live in the Output tab
5. Download your dataset as CSV or JSON when complete

Option 2 — API

Run the actor programmatically from any language. Get your API token from Apify Console → Settings → Integrations.

Start a run:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/YOUR_USERNAME~linkedin-profiles-discover/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "keywords": ["software engineer"],
    "maxProfilesPerKeyword": 500,
    "countries": ["US", "GB"]
  }'

Fetch results (replace DATASET_ID from the run response):

curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/DATASET_ID/items?format=csv" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN"

Option 3 — JavaScript / Node.js

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_API_TOKEN' });

const run = await client
  .actor('YOUR_USERNAME~linkedin-profiles-discover')
  .call({
    keywords: ['marketing manager'],
    maxProfilesPerKeyword: 1000,
    countries: ['US', 'CA'],
  });

const { items } = await client
  .dataset(run.defaultDatasetId)
  .listItems();

console.log(items);

Option 4 — Scheduled runs

Automate recurring discovery (e.g. weekly influencer list refresh):

1. Go to Apify Console → Schedules → Create new
2. Select this actor and paste your input JSON
3. Set your cron schedule (e.g. 0 9 * * 1 for every Monday at 9am)
4. Results are saved automatically to a new dataset each run

---

❓ FAQ

How many profiles can I get per keyword? Hundreds to thousands depending on how broad the keyword is and how many countries you target. Common niches like "marketing manager" targeting the US can yield 500+ unique profiles.

Will I get duplicate profiles? No. Deduplication is applied across all queries and countries — each profile URL appears only once in your dataset.

Why do Arabic / Japanese / Chinese searches return better results with native keywords? Search engines index Instagram pages in the language the profile is written in. A search for software engineer in Arabic-speaking markets finds mostly English-bio profiles. Searching for مهندس برمجيات finds the locally popular creators your competitors aren't finding.

What does the snippet field contain? It's the short description Google shows under each search result — usually the profile bio, follower count, or a recent caption. Useful for quick qualification without visiting each profile.

Can I filter by follower count? Not directly in input — but the snippet field often contains follower counts (e.g. 511K followers), which you can filter in your spreadsheet or downstream tool after export.

---

🤝 Support

Found an issue or have a feature request? Use the Issues tab on the actor page in Apify Console, or reach out via Apify support.