Linkedin Company People Scraper

How it works

This actor is designed to extract information from LinkedIn company pages, capturing details that include the names of individuals, their positions, usernames, profile images, the URLs of their LinkedIn profile pages, and the names of their associated companies.

Features

This actor offers the following features:

• Multiple Page Scraping: Capable of scraping data from a variety of page URLs. Input can either be formatted as https://www.linkedin.com/company/{company-name} or you can directly copy and paste the company's LinkedIn URL.
• Authentication Requirement: To enable more extensive scraping capabilities, users are required to log in using cookie-based authentication.
• Customizable Configuration: Offers adjustable settings to cater to a wide range of data extraction requirements.

How to Use

1. Set Up: Ensure you have an Apify account and access to the Apify platform.
2. Install Cookie-Editor (there is option to Export cookies as JSON) or EditThisCookie chrome extension.
3. Login to your Linkedin account
4. While you are on Linkedin tab, Click on the extension and export the cookies. Cookies are used to authorize actor with Linkedin.com site. Install any (or all) of the following chrome extensions to copy cookies:
   • Copy Cookies
   • Cookie-Editor
   • EditThisCookie
5. Paste the cookies to this actor's Cookie input field
6. Specify the Linkedin company URL you want to scrape. Input your search URLs in the format https://www.linkedin.com/company/{comapany-name}. You can add multiple URLs for a broader search scope.
7. (Optional) Configure proxy settings for enhanced reliability.
8. Run the actor and obtain the extracted data in your preferred format.
9. Data Collection: The scraper will output data in your chosen format, which can include JSON, HTML, CSV, Excel, or others as supported by Apify.

Input Data

Here's a simple example of how to set up a search for page details in Linkedin:

1{
2    "cookies": [
3        {
4            "domain": ".linkedin.com",
5            "expirationDate": 1740231415.466268,
6            "hostOnly": false,
7            "httpOnly": false,
8            "name": "c_user",
9            "path": "/",
10            "sameSite": "no_restriction",
11            "secure": true,
12            "session": false,
13            "storeId": "0",
14            "value": "1248804295",
15            "id": 1
16        }
17    ],
18    "proxyConfiguration": {
19        "useApifyProxy": true,
20        "apifyProxyGroups": [
21            "RESIDENTIAL"
22        ]
23    },
24    "startUrls": [
25        {
26            "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifex-animation-studios/"
27        }
28    ]
29}

Output Structure

The output data typically includes:

1[
2    {
3        "name": "Shubham Bhalla",
4        "handle": "shubhambhalla",
5        "jobTitle": "VFX Compositor | 3D Artist | Graphic Designer",
6        "image": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D5635AQHO40L9eutv4A/profile-framedphoto-shrink_100_100/0/1624976064772?e=1713546000&v=beta&t=5V5qxK68NoQiff33q5K1Rk3CAzXJ1BDhqQUQcUTkM1U",
7        "companyName": "Artifex Animation Studios",
8        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/shubhambhalla",
9        "linkedinPeopleUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft/people",
10    },
11    ...
12]

Support

• Me: https://muhamed-didovic.github.io/
• Report an issue
• Share your experience
• Request customization or whole dataset: muhamed.didovic@gmail.com
• If you need anything else scraped, or this actor customized email me: muhamed.didovic@gmail.com
• If you'd like an API of this service (no apify fee, just usage fee for the API), contact me: muhamed.didovic@gmail.com