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### Support
Issues and feature requests via the actor's Issues tab, or email above.
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### ⚠️ Disclaimer
This actor accesses only data visible to the logged-in account whose session you supply. Use it on data you are entitled to access, and comply with LinkedIn's Terms of Service and applicable data-protection law — including the GDPR and CCPA — when storing or processing results. Personal data carries obligations around lawful basis, retention and subject access. You are the data controller for anything you collect; the actor's author is not. Do not use output for unlawful discrimination, harassment, or unsolicited bulk messaging.
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# Actor input Schema
## `scrapeMyConnections` (type: `boolean`):
Turn this on to scrape your own first-degree connections instead of supplying URLs yourself. The actor reads your My Network list, then scrapes the full profile of every connection it finds. Leave Start URLs empty when using this. There is no 1,000-result limit — it walks your whole network.
## `maxConnections` (type: `integer`):
Only used when 'Scrape my own connections' is on. Caps how many connections are collected before scraping starts.
## `startUrls` (type: `array`):
Profile URLs to scrape. Leave empty if you turned on 'Scrape my own connections' above.
## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):
Maximum number of Profiles/Items to scrape per crawl.
## `language` (type: `string`):
Ask LinkedIn for profile text (headlines, job titles, school and skill names) in this locale. Members who published a translation come back in that language; everyone else keeps their original wording, so you never lose rows. Leave empty for US English.
## `maxSkills` (type: `integer`):
Keep only the first N skills on each profile. LinkedIn returns them ordered by endorsement strength, so the top ones survive. Leave at 0 to keep the full list (often 30-50 entries, which bloats CSV exports).
## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):
Maximum number of pages that can be processed at the same time.
## `minConcurrency` (type: `integer`):
Minimum number of pages that will be processed at the same time.
## `maxRequestRetries` (type: `integer`):
Number of times the crawler will retry a failed request before giving up.
## `cookies` (type: `array`):
Cookie used to authorize actor with linkedin.com. Install EditThisCookie chrome extension. Login to your linkedin.com account. Click on the extension and press Export to copy all linkedin.com cookies, then paste them here.
Paste the full exported list of cookie objects — not a single value. Both li_at and JSESSIONID must be present: li_at is the session, and JSESSIONID is used as the CSRF token for LinkedIn's internal API. It should look like this:
[
{"name":"li_at","value":"AQED...","domain":".linkedin.com"},
{"name":"JSESSIONID","value":"ajax:...","domain":".linkedin.com"}
]
## `proxy` (type: `object`):
Leave empty — the actor already routes all traffic through its own built-in residential proxy at no extra cost to you. Only set this if you want to use your own proxies.
## Actor input object example
```json
{
"scrapeMyConnections": false,
"maxConnections": 5000,
"startUrls": [
{
"url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/harsh-shuddhalwar/"
}
],
"maxItems": 100,
"language": "",
"maxSkills": 0,
"maxConcurrency": 10,
"minConcurrency": 1,
"maxRequestRetries": 10,
"cookies": []
}
```
# 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 '' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
token: '',
});
// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
"startUrls": [
{
"url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/harsh-shuddhalwar/"
}
],
"cookies": []
};
// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("memo23/linkedin-profile-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 '' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("")
# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
"startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/harsh-shuddhalwar/" }],
"cookies": [],
}
# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("memo23/linkedin-profile-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 '{
"startUrls": [
{
"url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/harsh-shuddhalwar/"
}
],
"cookies": []
}' |
apify call memo23/linkedin-profile-scraper --silent --output-dataset
```
## MCP server setup
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"apify": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,memo23/linkedin-profile-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 ` 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/o6kG0foqWs6cu5Orb/builds/zj3PcEmB082xb4yU4/openapi.json
