LinkedIn Profile Scraper & Public Email Discovery

Profile-first LinkedIn collection for exact /in/ URLs, with public no-cookie parsing, optional account-authorized Voyager enrichment, and evidence-only public email discovery.

Unofficial — not affiliated with LinkedIn. This independent Actor is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or connected with LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a trademark of LinkedIn Corporation.

Capabilities

• Deduplicates and limits submitted profile URLs with maxProfiles.
• Public mode extracts Open Graph/title signals, profile-card highlights only, and flattened JSON-LD Article / DiscussionForumPosting activity.
• When public LinkedIn is blocked, records only an exact-URL public-index fallback. Thin snippets never qualify as paid results.
• Authenticated mode uses the caller's secret liAt and jsessionId session values, tries both Voyager endpoint variants, keeps one proxy session per profile, selects a Profile entity from included, and normalizes experience, education, skills, certifications, languages, websites, authorized contact emails and phones.
• Email discovery searches public result snippets only. It reports directly visible, conservatively validated evidence with a source and confidence. It never generates an address.
• Includes polite delay/jitter, 429/5xx/999 retries, stable proxy sessions, completeness scoring, per-profile error records, dry runs, and output views.

Inputs

profileUrls is required. Defaults use the real public profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/satyanadella/ and a Residential Apify proxy for daily-test reliability.

Field	Purpose
maxProfiles	1-1000 URLs, default 100.
mode	public, authenticated, or safe auto fallback.
liAt, jsessionId	Optional secret values for the caller's own authorized session. Never emitted.
includeRecentActivity, maxActivityItems	Public structured activity switch and 0-25 item limit, default 5.
discoverPublicEmails, maxEmailSources	Evidence-only snippet scan and 1-5 source limit.
requestDelaySecs, maxRetries, proxyConfiguration	Pacing, resilient retries, and proxy behavior.
maxTotalCharge	Optional USD cap. No paid event is emitted after the local cap would be exceeded. Apify run charging limits remain authoritative.
dryRun	Emits planned records with no network calls and no paid result events.

Output and charge events

A successful profile is written atomically with exactly one result event using Actor.pushData(record, eventName). Before charging, the profile must pass a hard quality gate: valid name and headline, at least 45% completeness, and at least two rich sections such as about, experience, education, skills, certifications, or languages. Thin public-index fallbacks are emitted as insufficient_data without a paid event. Error, limit-reached, and dry-run records are also uncharged.

Event	Planned price	Result
basic-profile	$1 / 1,000	Quality-gated public profile.
full-profile	$2 / 1,000	Quality-gated authorized profile.
basic-profile-with-email	$4 / 1,000	Quality-gated public profile plus requested email scan.
full-profile-with-email	$5 / 1,000	Quality-gated authorized profile plus email scan.

Email prices are total per profile, not additive to another profile event. Configure these event prices in Apify Console after build/publication. The repository only emits event keys.

Views: Successful profiles, Structured public activity, Email and contact evidence, and Errors and limits.

Limitations and responsible use

Public pages, search snippets, and Voyager response shapes may change or be unavailable by region. The Actor does not bypass CAPTCHA, login walls, or access controls. Use only data you are permitted to collect and process, follow applicable law and platform terms, and do not use results for unsolicited or harmful outreach.

Local checks

npm install
npm run check