LinkedIn Profile Search Scraper

LinkedIn people search scraper for lead generation, recruiting, and sales prospecting — no LinkedIn cookies or login required. Discover public /in/ profiles and /company/ pages and export structured JSON or CSV.

What does this Actor do?

This Actor finds public LinkedIn /in/ profile pages and /company/ pages from your search criteria and saves structured discovery rows to the Apify Dataset.

The Actor is useful when you need profile URLs, company URLs, names, headlines, locations, company and title hints, education and experience summaries from search snippets, and export-ready LinkedIn search data.

Features

• Search public LinkedIn profiles and companies without LinkedIn cookies or account login
• Find profiles and companies by keyword, job title, location, company, school, or industry ID
• Supports direct LinkedIn profile URLs, pasted URL lists, and CSV/TXT uploads
• Multiple searchQueries in one run for batch lead list building
• Automatic fallback to a free built-in search when the paid search service is unavailable
• Deduplicates normalized LinkedIn profile and company URLs
• Returns result rank, page number, search query, and confidence score
• Structured Apify Dataset output for JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS, HTML, or API usage

Use cases

• Build LinkedIn lead lists from job titles, companies, schools, or locations
• Source candidates and recruiter longlists
• Find founders, executives, engineers, salespeople, agencies, or creators
• Map employees, alumni, or professional segments
• Enrich CRM and prospecting workflows with public profile URLs
• Run market research on professional audiences
• Export public LinkedIn search results for manual review

Input

Give the Actor something to search for: a search query, a filter such as job title or location, or a list of profile URLs. Filters work on their own, so currentJobTitles: ["CEO"] with locations: ["Netherlands"] is a complete search and needs no searchQuery.

Field	Type	Required	Description
searchQuery	string	Yes*	Main search query, for example Founder, Marketing Manager, or John Doe.
searchQueries	array	No	Additional keyword searches in the same run (each uses the same filters).
keywords	string	No	Legacy alias for one extra search query.
currentJobTitles	array	No	Current job titles to include in the profile search.
pastJobTitles	array	No	Past job titles to include in the profile search.
locations	array	No	Cities, regions, or countries to include in the profile search.
currentCompanyUrls	array	No	LinkedIn company URLs, company slugs, or company names to include in the profile search.
pastCompanyUrls	array	No	Past company URLs, company slugs, or company names to include in the profile search.
schoolUrls	array	No	LinkedIn school URLs, school slugs, or school names to include in the profile search.
industryIds	array	No	LinkedIn industry IDs accepted for compatibility.
profileUrls	array	No	Direct LinkedIn /in/ profile URLs.
profileUrlsText	string	No	Paste URLs (one per line, CSV, or comma-separated).
profileUrlsFile	file	No	Upload TXT/CSV with LinkedIn /in/ URLs.
maxItems	integer	No	How many unique profile or company results to return, from 1 to 100. Default: 25.

maxItems is the only volume setting. The Actor works out how many search pages that needs and pages through the results on its own.

One run returns at most 100 results, which is the depth a single search reliably reaches before it starts repeating people. To build a larger list, run the Actor again with a different search query or a different filter — several focused searches return more unique people than one broad search taken deeper.

Legacy inputs such as profileScraperMode: "Full", startPage, takePages, useApifyProxy, or includeLinkedInPageParse are ignored. The Actor always exports Short discovery rows.

Example input

{
  "searchQuery": "machine learning engineer",
  "currentJobTitles": ["Founder", "Chief Executive Officer"],
  "locations": ["Istanbul", "London"],
  "currentCompanyUrls": ["https://www.linkedin.com/company/example-company/"],
  "schoolUrls": ["https://www.linkedin.com/school/example-university/"],
  "maxItems": 50
}

Filters alone are enough:

{
  "currentJobTitles": ["CEO", "Chief Executive Officer", "Founder"],
  "locations": ["Netherlands"],
  "maxItems": 50
}

Output

The Actor stores results in the default Apify Dataset. Each dataset item is one LinkedIn profile row or one LinkedIn company row. Empty searches are logged in the run log only and are not saved as billable dataset rows.

Field	Type	Description
id	string/null	LinkedIn internal profile ID when available.
resultType	string/null	profile, company, or null for diagnostic rows.
publicIdentifier	string/null	LinkedIn public profile slug.
linkedinUrl	string/null	Normalized LinkedIn profile or company URL.
profileUrl	string/null	Profile URL for profile rows, otherwise null.
url	string/null	Normalized LinkedIn profile or company URL.
status	string	Row status: search_result, discovered, no_results, or failed.
firstName	string/null	Parsed first name.
lastName	string/null	Parsed last name.
fullName	string/null	Full name from public search results.
headline	string/null	LinkedIn headline or title-derived headline.
jobTitle	string/null	Best-effort current title.
company	string/null	Best-effort current company.
currentCompany	string/null	Alias-style current company field.
currentTitle	string/null	Alias-style current title field.
locationText	string/null	Human-readable location text.
location	object/null	Location object with linkedinText and parsed placeholders.
about	string/null	Public summary text when available from search snippets.
profileSummary	string/null	Best available profile summary.
experienceSummary	string/null	Best available experience summary.
educationSummary	string/null	Best available education summary.
profilePicture	object/null	Profile image object when available.
photo	string/null	Profile photo URL when available.
currentPosition	array	Current position array.
profileTopEducation	array	Top education array.
experience	array	Experience rows parsed from search snippets when available.
education	array	Education rows parsed from search snippets when available.
skills	array	Skills array when available.
searchQuery	string/null	User-facing query used to discover the profile.
resultRank	integer/null	Result rank within the search page.
sourceProvider	string/null	Source label for this row.
dataSource	string/null	Main row source, for example search_result or direct_url.
confidence	integer/null	0-100 quality score based on populated useful fields.
matchedFields	array	Fields used to calculate confidence.
searchTitle	string/null	Original public result title.
searchSnippet	string/null	Original public result snippet.
_meta	object	Search query, result rank, source, and pagination details.
checkedAt	string/null	ISO timestamp when the row was generated.
error	string/null	Error message for failed or no-result rows.

How to use

1. Enter a searchQuery, filters such as currentJobTitles and locations, direct profileUrls, or any combination. Any one of them is enough.
2. Set maxItems to control result volume.
3. Run the Actor.
4. Export the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS, HTML, or consume it via API.

Pricing and total run cost

This Actor uses Apify pay-per-event pricing based on Actor start and saved dataset rows.

What you pay on this Actor

• Actor start event (if enabled in your pricing model).
• One event per profile or company row saved to the dataset.
• No charge for empty searches — when nothing is found, no dataset row is written.

Extra costs to plan for

Cost	When	How to control it
Google SERP Actor	Every search run, to reach results reliably	Lower maxItems so fewer search pages are needed.
Compute time	Large maxItems	Lower maxItems.

On run start, the log shows which search backend is used (serp:<actorId> or builtin).

Example pricing behavior:

• Each profile or company result is one dataset row.
• Higher maxItems values may create more dataset rows and increase runtime.

Limitations

• This Actor is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by LinkedIn.
• Search filtering is text based and cannot perfectly reproduce LinkedIn internal filters.
• Results come from public search snippets and direct URLs, not private LinkedIn profile pages.
• Some fields may be missing depending on profile visibility, language, region, and source availability.
• Email search and hidden contact enrichment are not included.
• Very large runs may take longer depending on result count and platform usage.

FAQ

Why are some fields empty?

Some fields are not available in public search snippets. This Actor does not log into LinkedIn or open private profile pages.

Does this Actor require LinkedIn cookies?

No. It does not use LinkedIn cookies, LinkedIn login sessions, or private LinkedIn APIs.

Can I provide direct profile URLs?

Yes. Use profileUrls, paste a list into profileUrlsText, or upload profileUrlsFile (TXT/CSV). You can combine direct URLs with search queries.

Why was I charged by another Actor?

To find profiles, this Actor calls a Google SERP Actor. That is a separate Apify run with its own pricing.

Are empty searches billed?

No. If no profiles or companies are found, the run logs a warning and does not write a paid dataset row for that empty query.

How do I get more results?

Raise maxItems up to its maximum of 100. The Actor pages through as many search pages as that number needs, so there is no page setting to manage. For more than 100 people, run the Actor again with a different search query or filter — for example one run per job title, or one per city. If a single run returns fewer results than you asked for, the query itself has run out of public matches, so broaden it or drop a filter.

Can I export results to Excel?

Yes. Apify datasets can be exported as Excel, CSV, JSON, XML, RSS, HTML, or accessed via API.

Does this Actor support API usage?

Yes. You can run the Actor via Apify API and consume the default dataset programmatically.

Does this Actor find emails?

No. Email search is not included in this version.

Support

If you have questions, feature requests, or find a bug, open an issue on the Actor page.