👤 LinkedIn Profile API | Scrape LinkedIn Profiles to JSON

The LinkedIn Profile API is a reliable LinkedIn profile scraper that turns any public LinkedIn person profile into clean, structured JSON. Use this actor with Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible AI agent to scrape name, headline, location, current company, experience, education, and follower counts, on reliable infrastructure and billed per profile.

Send one or many profile URLs and get one row per profile, collected in parallel. It works as a straightforward LinkedIn data scraper for lead enrichment, people research, and recruiting, and it is built API-first and MCP-ready so AI agents can call it as a tool.

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📋 What this API returns

Field	Description
name, firstName, lastName	The person's name.
headline	The profile headline / current position line.
about	The About / summary section.
location, countryCode	Where the person is based.
currentCompany, currentTitle	Current company and job title.
experience	Work history entries (title, company, dates, location).
pastCompanies	Distinct company names from the experience history.
education	Education entries (school, degree, field, dates).
honorsAndAwards	Honors and awards listed on the profile.
followers, connections	Audience size.
avatar	Profile photo URL.
publicUrl, linkedinId	The public profile URL and handle.
email	Always null (email is not available from this source).
summary	A plain-language one-line interpretation of the profile.

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🎯 Use cases

• Sales prospecting. Enrich a list of prospect profile URLs with role, company, and seniority.
• Recruiting. Pull candidate headlines, experience, and education for sourcing and screening.
• Lead enrichment. Append firmographic and role data to CRM records from a profile URL.
• Account-based marketing. Map decision-makers at target accounts by title and tenure.
• People search and list building. Turn a set of profile URLs into a structured people dataset.
• Talent-market research. Analyze roles, career moves, and education across a cohort of profiles.
• AI agent workflows. Drive this API over MCP from Claude to look up and summarize profiles in-conversation.

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🔁 Use it as a LinkedIn profile scraper at scale

Paste a batch of URLs and this LinkedIn data scraper collects them in budget-capped chunks, one row per profile, so a large run never overshoots what you set. Every profile comes back with the same flat, predictable fields, which is what makes it easy to load into a sheet, a database, or a CRM. If a URL cannot be collected, you get a clear error row for that URL instead of a failed run, so one bad link never sinks the batch. To scrape a LinkedIn profile once or ten thousand times, the shape of the output stays the same.

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⚙️ Input examples

One profile

{
  "profileUrls": ["https://www.linkedin.com/in/satyanadella"]
}

Several profiles at once (collected in parallel)

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

URLs that are not LinkedIn /in/ profile URLs are skipped with a warning. The API returns one row per profile. You can pass up to 1000 URLs per run; contact us to raise the limit for your account.

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📤 Example output

Each profile is returned as one JSON row:

{
  "result_type": "profile",
  "name": "Satya Nadella",
  "headline": "Chairman and CEO at Microsoft",
  "currentCompany": "Microsoft",
  "currentTitle": "Chairman and CEO",
  "location": "Redmond, Washington, United States",
  "countryCode": "US",
  "followers": 12056751,
  "connections": 500,
  "pastCompanies": ["Microsoft", "University of Chicago", "Starbucks"],
  "education": [{ "title": "The University of Chicago Booth School of Business" }],
  "email": null,
  "publicUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/satyanadella",
  "summary": "Chairman and CEO at Microsoft, based in Redmond, Washington, United States, 12,056,751 followers"
}

The email field is always null; email is not available from this source.

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💰 Pricing (pay-per-event)

You pay per profile returned. There is no per-run setup fee. The current per-event price is shown on the Store card and in the Actor's Monetization details. Because billing is per profile, you only pay for the profiles actually delivered.

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🔌 Use this API from Claude (MCP)

This Actor is MCP-server-compatible, so Claude Code (free trial), Claude (desktop and web), Cursor, and other MCP clients can call it as a tool through Apify's hosted MCP server.

Add it with this Actor-specific URL:

https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=actors,docs,johnvc/linkedin-profile-api

Apify MCP integration docs: https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp

Setup walkthrough:

New to Claude Code or Claude Cowork? Start a free trial.

Then ask Claude:

"Use the LinkedIn Profile API to look up the CEO of Microsoft and summarize their background."

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🔌 Integrations: run profile enrichment on a schedule

This API is most useful as a recurring step in a pipeline, not a one-off run:

• Tasks and Schedules. Save a set of profile URLs as a Task, then attach a Schedule to refresh that people dataset daily, weekly, or monthly with no code.
• n8n, Make, and Zapier. Trigger a run when a new lead lands in your CRM, then push the enriched profile back. Apify has native connectors for each.
• Supabase, Google Sheets, and databases. Send the dataset straight to storage with a webhook or the Apify API so the rows land where your team already works.
• MCP. Call the API as a tool from Claude and other AI agents (see the section above) to enrich profiles inside an agent workflow.
• Webhooks. Fire a webhook on run completion to kick off the next step in your own system.

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🔗 Related Tools

Build a full picture of a person, their company, and their activity by pairing this with the rest of the LinkedIn suite:

• LinkedIn Company API - firmographics and sales intelligence for the companies your prospects work at.
• LinkedIn Posts API - a person's public posts and engagement, for social selling and research.
• LinkedIn Jobs API - open roles by keyword, company, and location.

Comparison point: some LinkedIn profile scrapers on the Store are unmaintained and low-rated (for example bestscrapers/fresh-linkedin-profile-data, rated under 2 stars). This API is built for reliability, pay-per-profile billing, and MCP access from AI agents.

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📎 Applications

Ready-made task pages for common jobs. Open one, run it, or duplicate it as a starting point:

Scrape LinkedIn Profiles to Structured JSON

Turn public profile URLs into clean JSON with name, role, company, experience, and education.

Bulk-Scrape LinkedIn Profiles from a URL List

Paste up to 1000 profile URLs and get one clean row each, collected in batches.

Extract LinkedIn Profile Data to JSON

Extract role, company, experience, education, location, and followers from a profile.

LinkedIn Profile Data API for Python

Call the API from Python: a profile URL in, structured JSON out.

LinkedIn Profile Enrichment API

Enrich a profile URL into structured fields for CRM and lead records.

Scrape LinkedIn Profiles in an n8n Workflow

Add profile data to an n8n workflow: pass URLs, get structured JSON back.

Get LinkedIn Profile Data in Claude via MCP

Use profiles as a tool in Claude and other AI agents over MCP.

Monitor Employee LinkedIn Profiles for Flight Risk

Check your team's public profiles on a schedule and watch headline, role, and activity for signs someone may be leaving.

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🚀 How to get started

1. Open the Actor and paste one or more LinkedIn profile URLs into profileUrls.
2. Run it and read the results from the dataset (JSON, CSV, Excel, or API).

View on Apify Store

Example code: Python quick-start + MCP setup on GitHub - call the API from Python, or install it as a tool in Claude, Cursor, and ChatGPT.

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❓ FAQ

Is this a LinkedIn API or a LinkedIn profile scraper?

Both descriptions fit. You call it like an API (a profile URL in, structured JSON out), and under the hood it is a LinkedIn profile scraper that reads public profile pages. You never touch scraping infrastructure; you get clean fields back.

How do I scrape LinkedIn profiles with this actor?

Paste public LinkedIn /in/ URLs into profileUrls and run it. Each URL returns one row of structured data. This works whether you want to scrape a LinkedIn profile once or run a large batch.

Is it legal to scrape public LinkedIn profiles?

This actor collects only public profile data. Public-data scraping has been addressed in court cases such as hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn, but you are responsible for your own use, including GDPR and platform terms. Consult your own counsel for your use case.

Can I run it from Claude or another AI agent over MCP?

Yes. The Actor is MCP-server-compatible, so Claude Code (free trial) and other MCP clients call it as a tool. See the MCP section above for the setup URL.

Can I schedule it or connect it to my other apps?

Yes. Save your inputs as a Task and attach a Schedule for recurring runs, and connect the output to n8n, Make, Zapier, Supabase, or your own system by webhook. See the Integrations section above.

How do I find a LinkedIn profile URL by name and company?

This actor takes a profile URL as input, so you supply the URL. Once you have it, the API returns the person's role, company, experience, and education as structured data.

Do you return email addresses?

No. The email field is always null; email is not available from this data source.

Can I collect many profiles at once?

Yes. Provide a list in profileUrls; they are collected in parallel and returned one row per profile, up to 1000 per run.

What if a profile cannot be collected?

The API returns a clear error row for that URL explaining why, so a single bad URL does not fail the whole run.

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Last Updated: 2026.07.27