LinkedIn Services Marketplace Scraper

Scrapes LinkedIn's Services Marketplace — the directory where freelancers and independent professionals list themselves under 200+ service categories (accountants, web developers, graphic designers, business consultants, lawyers, coaches, and more). Returns provider name, profile URL, headline, description, skills, location, rating, and review count for every provider LinkedIn features on a category page. Public data only — no LinkedIn account or login required.

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What This Covers

LinkedIn organizes its Services Marketplace into 200+ categories, each with its own public browse page. This actor discovers the full category list from LinkedIn's own taxonomy page and, by default, walks every category, so a full run builds the whole marketplace rather than one slice of it. You can narrow it to specific categories, a location, or a keyword when you only need a slice.

Category coverage varies. LinkedIn shows a curated "top providers" shortlist only on categories with enough qualifying activity — some categories return a handful of providers, others return none. That reflects LinkedIn's own page, not a fault in the crawl.

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Features

• Discovers LinkedIn's live category taxonomy at run time, so new categories LinkedIn adds are picked up automatically
• Covers all 200+ categories by default, or scope to a specific list
• Optional location filter (substring match on the provider's displayed location)
• Optional keyword filter (matches against headline, description, and skills)
• Best-effort country code derived from the provider's profile URL
• Supports resuming a large run that stopped early, without re-paying for records you already have

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Who Uses This Data?

• Recruiting and staffing platforms — source freelance/independent talent by category and location
• Freelance-marketplace competitive intelligence — benchmark provider counts, ratings, and positioning against Upwork, Fiverr, or Bark
• Gig-economy and labor-market researchers — track category growth and geographic distribution of independent professionals
• Agencies and consultancies — find prospective subcontractors or partners in a specific specialty

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Input

{
  "maxItems": 100,
  "serviceCategories": ["graphic-designers", "web-developers"],
  "location": "",
  "keyword": ""
}

Field	Type	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	10	Required. Maximum number of records to return.
serviceCategories	array of strings	all 200+	LinkedIn Services categories to crawl (e.g. graphic-designers, accountants). Leave empty to crawl every category.
location	string	(none)	Keep only providers whose displayed location contains this text (case-insensitive).
keyword	string	(none)	Keep only providers whose headline, description, or skills mention this keyword (case-insensitive).

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Output Fields

{
  "service_id": "graphic-designers:azeez-ola-shoderu",
  "provider_name": "Azeez Olanrewaju Shoderu",
  "provider_linkedin_url": "https://ca.linkedin.com/in/azeez-ola-shoderu",
  "service_category": "graphic-designers",
  "service_title": "Language Coach, Author & Co-founder @ Roynch",
  "service_description": "A.O.S (Azeez Olanrewaju Shoderu) is a bestselling author...",
  "skills": ["Database Development", "Web Development", "Graphic Design", "..."],
  "location": "Brampton, ON",
  "country": "CA",
  "rating": 4.7,
  "reviews_count": 3,
  "source_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/services/graphic-designers"
}

Field	Type	Description
service_id	string	Synthetic ID: <category-slug>:<provider-slug>.
provider_name	string	Provider's display name.
provider_linkedin_url	string	Provider's LinkedIn profile URL.
service_category	string	Category slug this record was crawled from.
service_title	string	Provider's headline/tagline as shown on the card.
service_description	string	Provider's service description/summary.
skills	array	Skills/services listed on the card.
location	string	Location text as displayed on LinkedIn (city, region, etc.).
country	string | null	Best-effort 2-letter country code derived from the profile URL. Not always present.
rating	number | null	Average rating shown on the card (0-5).
reviews_count	integer | null	Number of reviews shown on the card.
source_url	string	Category page this record was extracted from.

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Resuming a large crawl

If a run stops early — hit a timeout, was manually aborted, or you just want to pick up later — pass the resumeCursor value from the previous run's output back into a new run's input. The next run continues from where the last one left off instead of re-crawling categories you've already collected, so you don't pay twice for the same records.

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FAQ

Do I need a LinkedIn account to use this?

No. This actor reads LinkedIn's public Services Marketplace category pages, which don't require a login.

Why did a category return 0 results?

LinkedIn only shows a "top providers" shortlist on categories with enough qualifying activity. Some categories simply don't have one populated — that's LinkedIn's own data, not a crawl error.

Can I get contact details, rates, or pricing?

No. Those fields live behind LinkedIn's login wall on individual profile pages and are out of scope for this actor.

Can I scrape just one category?

Yes — pass the category slug(s) in serviceCategories (see the category list in the input schema). Leave it empty to crawl all 200+ categories.

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Why Use This Scraper?

It's the only actor scoped specifically to LinkedIn's Services Marketplace rather than LinkedIn profiles or company pages in general, and it builds the full category taxonomy from LinkedIn's own browse page instead of a hard-coded list, so new categories are picked up without an actor update.