Brand Social Profile Finder - Cheap & Fast

Find public social media profiles for brands, companies, creators, websites, and local businesses using Google search results.

This Actor discovers public profiles across Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn Company Pages, YouTube, TikTok, X/Twitter, Pinterest, Threads, Medium, and GitHub. It returns profile URLs, handles, result titles, snippets, source queries, match types, confidence scores, and timestamps.

This Actor is useful for lead enrichment, CRM enrichment, agency research, brand monitoring, competitor research, and local business research when you need fast public profile discovery without logging in to social platforms.

What This Actor Does

Searches Google results for brand, company, domain, creator, or local business inputs.

Finds public profile-like URLs on supported social platforms.

Uses optional domain and location context to improve matching.

Checks URLs against platform-specific profile patterns.

Skips low-confidence, invalid, irrelevant, and duplicate results.

Saves structured profile records to the Apify dataset for export as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or through the API.

Common Use Cases

Enrich lead lists with public social profile URLs.

Add social profile fields to CRM company records.

Research brands, companies, creators, and local businesses.

Build agency prospecting and audit workflows.

Monitor competitor or market presence across social platforms.

Prepare public profile datasets for analytics, AI enrichment, and internal tools.

How To Use

Enter one or more brand or company names in brands.

Optionally add matching domains in domains to improve confidence.

Add locations when searching for local businesses or regional brands.

Choose the platforms you want to search.

Set maxProfilesPerBrand to control how many profiles are returned for each brand.

Set maxSearchesPerBrand and resultsPerSearch when you want broader or narrower discovery.

Run the Actor and download the dataset from the run results.

Example Input

{
  "brands": ["Apify", "OpenAI"],
  "domains": ["apify.com", "openai.com"],
  "locations": ["United States"],
  "platforms": ["instagram", "facebook", "linkedin", "youtube", "tiktok", "x"],
  "maxProfilesPerBrand": 5,
  "maxSearchesPerBrand": 6,
  "minConfidenceScore": 0.65,
  "deduplicateProfiles": true,
  "resultsPerSearch": 5,
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en"
}

Input Configuration

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
brands	Array of strings	No	-	Brand, company, creator, website, or local business names to search. Required when domains is empty.
domains	Array of strings	No	-	Optional company or website domains. When supplied in the same order as brands, they are paired by index.
locations	Array of strings	No	-	Optional location context, such as country, city, or region. Useful for local businesses and regional brands.
platforms	Array of strings	No	instagram, facebook, linkedin, youtube, tiktok, x	Social platforms to search.
maxProfilesPerBrand	Integer	No	5	Maximum high-confidence profiles returned per brand. Supported range: 1 to 50.
maxSearchesPerBrand	Integer	No	6	Maximum searches tried for each brand. Supported range: 1 to 50.
minConfidenceScore	Number	No	0.65	Minimum confidence score required for a profile to be saved. Supported range: 0 to 1.
deduplicateProfiles	Boolean	No	true	When enabled, duplicate profile URLs are skipped.
resultsPerSearch	Integer	No	5	Number of Google results checked for each search. Supported range: 1 to 100.
country	String	No	-	Optional Google country code or country name, such as US, TR, GB, or Germany.
language	String	No	en	Optional Google UI language code, such as en, tr, de, fr, or es.

Output Data

Each dataset item represents one discovered public social profile.

Example Output

{
  "brandInput": "Apify",
  "domainInput": "apify.com",
  "locationInput": "United States",
  "platform": "linkedin",
  "profileUrl": "https://linkedin.com/company/apify",
  "handle": "apify",
  "title": "Apify",
  "snippet": "Apify is a full-stack web scraping and automation platform...",
  "matchType": "domain_and_brand_match",
  "confidenceScore": 0.94,
  "sourceQuery": "\"apify.com\" site:linkedin.com/company",
  "source": "google_search",
  "status": "found",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-14T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Output Fields

Field	Type	Description
brandInput	String	Original brand or company name used for the search.
domainInput	String or null	Domain paired with the brand input, when provided.
locationInput	String or null	Location context used for the profile search, when provided.
platform	String	Social platform where the public profile was found.
profileUrl	String	Normalized public profile URL.
handle	String or null	Extracted profile handle, slug, channel ID, or organization name.
title	String	Google result title for the matched profile.
snippet	String	Google result snippet for the matched profile.
matchType	String	How the result matched the brand, domain, or location.
confidenceScore	Number	Confidence score between 0 and 1.
sourceQuery	String	Search query used to discover the profile.
source	String	Search source that produced the result.
status	String	Result status. Saved profile records use found.
scrapedAt	String	ISO timestamp when the profile record was saved.

Supported Platforms

Platform	Accepted Profile Examples
Instagram	instagram.com/{handle}
Facebook	facebook.com/{page}
LinkedIn Company	linkedin.com/company/{slug}
YouTube	youtube.com/@{handle}, youtube.com/channel/{id}
TikTok	tiktok.com/@{handle}
X / Twitter	x.com/{handle}, twitter.com/{handle}
Pinterest	pinterest.com/{handle}
Threads	threads.net/@{handle}
Medium	medium.com/@{handle}
GitHub	github.com/{org}

Performance Tips

Use domains when available. Domain context usually improves profile matching.

Use locations for local businesses, franchises, branches, and regional brand pages.

Select only the platforms you need for faster runs.

Increase maxSearchesPerBrand for broader discovery when a brand has many regional or platform-specific pages.

Raise minConfidenceScore when you want stricter matching, or lower it when you prefer broader discovery that you will review manually.

Limitations

This Actor searches public Google results only.

It does not log in to social platforms or access private, hidden, restricted, or account-only data.

It does not extract emails, phone numbers, messages, followers, posts, comments, or full social profile details.

LinkedIn support focuses on company pages. Personal LinkedIn profiles are not targeted.

Google result availability can vary by country, language, brand ambiguity, and platform indexing.

Some valid public profiles may not appear in Google results for every query.

FAQ

Can this Actor find private profiles?

No. It only finds public profile URLs visible in Google search results.

Does this Actor require social platform login or cookies?

No. It does not use platform login, cookies, or private account access.

Can it find LinkedIn people profiles?

No. LinkedIn support is focused on company pages. Personal profile discovery is outside the scope of this Actor.

Why are some expected profiles missing?

The profile may not be indexed by Google, the brand name may be ambiguous, or the result may have scored below the configured confidence threshold.

Why are some results skipped?

Results are skipped when the URL is not a supported public profile URL, the confidence score is too low, the page looks irrelevant, or the profile was already saved as a duplicate.

Which export formats are supported?

The Apify dataset can be exported as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS, or accessed through the Apify API.

Technical Details

Runtime: Node.js 20+

Search source: public Google search results

Dataset format: one public social profile per item

Supported profile matching: brand, domain, location, handle, title, and snippet heuristics

Support

If you find a bug, need another platform, or want an additional output field, open an issue in the Actor Issues tab.