LinkedIn Profile Scraper

Scrape public LinkedIn profile pages for name, headline, location, and about text — no login, no cookies. Extraction relies primarily on the page's meta tags (the most reliable signal that survives LinkedIn's login walls), with best-effort fallback parsing of any embedded structured data for richer results.

Input

Field	Type	Description
profileUrl	string	A single public LinkedIn profile URL, e.g. https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates/
profileUrls	array	Optional: several profile URLs at once
maxItems	integer	Max profile URLs to process (default 10)

Example:

{
    "profileUrls": [
        "https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates/",
        "https://www.linkedin.com/in/satyanadella/"
    ],
    "maxItems": 10
}

Output

{
    "name": "William H. Gates III",
    "headline": "Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation",
    "location": "Seattle, Washington",
    "about": "Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Sharing things I'm learning through my foundation work and other interests.",
    "profileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates/",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-07-17T00:00:00.000Z"
}

Common uses

• Sales and recruiting research (verifying a person's current role/headline)
• Enriching a contact list with public headline/location data
• Building lightweight people-search tools
• Verifying that a profile URL is live and public

Notes

• LinkedIn increasingly gates full profile content behind a login wall. When a profile is authwalled, this actor returns an item with error: "authwall" instead of failing the whole run — always check profileUrl/error fields for partial failures across a batch.
• name, headline, and about are extracted from og:title/og:description meta tags first, since these are the most stable public signal. Deeper fields (like location) are supplemented from embedded JSON where LinkedIn happens to expose it, but will legitimately be null on many profiles.
• Only public, non-authwalled profile content is scraped. No login credentials are used or required.