# LinkedIn Services Marketplace Scraper (`jungle_synthesizer/linkedin-marketplace-services-scraper`) Actor

Scrape public LinkedIn Services Marketplace listings across 200+ service categories (accountants, developers, designers, lawyers, and more). Returns provider name, category, headline, description, skills, location, rating, and review count. Auth-less, no login needed.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/jungle\_synthesizer/linkedin-marketplace-services-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [BowTiedRaccoon](https://apify.com/jungle_synthesizer) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business, Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.60 / 1,000 record scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## LinkedIn Services Marketplace Scraper

Scrapes [LinkedIn's Services Marketplace](https://www.linkedin.com/services/) — 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.

***

### 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.

***

### 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

***

### 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

***

### Input

```json
{
  "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). |

***

### Output Fields

```json
{
  "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.                                       |

***

### 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.

***

### 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.

***

### 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.

# Actor input Schema

## `sp_intended_usage` (type: `string`):

What will this data feed? E.g. lead lists, KYB checks, price tracking.

## `sp_improvement_suggestions` (type: `string`):

Provide any feedback or suggestions for improvements.

## `sp_contact` (type: `string`):

We'll personally help with your use case. No spam.

## `resumeCursor` (type: `string`):

Leave empty for a fresh crawl. To CONTINUE a previous run where it stopped — without paying again for records you already received — paste the `resumeCursor` value from that run's Output (the run's OUTPUT key). Resume promptly: the previous run's data expires with your account's retention window (free tier: your ~10 most recent runs).

## `serviceCategories` (type: `array`):

Limit the crawl to specific LinkedIn Services categories. Leave empty to crawl all 200+ categories.

## `location` (type: `string`):

Optional — keep only providers whose location text contains this string (case-insensitive substring match).

## `keyword` (type: `string`):

Optional — keep only providers whose headline, description, or skills mention this keyword (case-insensitive substring match).

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of provider records to return.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...",
  "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...",
  "sp_contact": "Share your email here...",
  "serviceCategories": [],
  "maxItems": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...",
    "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...",
    "sp_contact": "Share your email here...",
    "serviceCategories": [],
    "location": "",
    "keyword": "",
    "maxItems": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("jungle_synthesizer/linkedin-marketplace-services-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...",
    "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...",
    "sp_contact": "Share your email here...",
    "serviceCategories": [],
    "location": "",
    "keyword": "",
    "maxItems": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("jungle_synthesizer/linkedin-marketplace-services-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...",
  "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...",
  "sp_contact": "Share your email here...",
  "serviceCategories": [],
  "location": "",
  "keyword": "",
  "maxItems": 10
}' |
apify call jungle_synthesizer/linkedin-marketplace-services-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,jungle_synthesizer/linkedin-marketplace-services-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/ooiLYIe1YQfXhnVlI/builds/KBV3D5p0rSbVXC7Ir/openapi.json