LinkedIn Search Scraper

What does LinkedIn Search Scraper do?

Search LinkedIn by keyword and get back the matching profiles, posts, companies or jobs as structured data — the link, the title and a short description of each one.

No LinkedIn account, login, or cookie is needed. Type what you are looking for, choose what kind of page you want, press Start, and download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel — or pull them straight from the Apify API.

Why use LinkedIn Search Scraper?

• Build a lead list — find people by role, skill and city, and export them in one go.
• Find companies — pull every company page matching an industry or description.
• Follow a topic — collect posts about a subject and see who is talking about it.
• Recruit — search for candidates by title and location.
• Feed other tools — the links this Actor returns can be dropped straight into the LinkedIn Post Scraper or the LinkedIn Profile Scraper for the full details.

How to use LinkedIn Search Scraper

1. Enter your Search keywords, for example python developer London.
2. Choose What to search for — people, posts, companies or jobs.
3. Set Maximum results to how many you want.
4. Optionally add Extra search terms to narrow it down.
5. Click Start, then open the Output tab when it finishes.

Getting better results

A few ways to sharpen a search:

• Put a phrase in quotes to require it exactly: "head of growth"
• Add a city or company name to narrow things down: product manager Berlin Spotify
• Put a minus in front of a word to exclude it: developer -recruiter

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
Search keywords (keywords)	string	Yes	What to look for.
What to search for (search_type)	select	No	People, posts, companies or jobs. Default people.
Maximum results (limit)	integer	No	How many results to return. Default 50.
Extra search terms (extra_terms)	string	No	Extra words to add to the search.
Language (language)	string	No	Two-letter language code. Default en.

Example input:

{
  "keywords": "python developer London",
  "search_type": "people",
  "limit": 30
}

Output

One record per LinkedIn page found:

{
  "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/gemmahentsch",
  "identifier": "gemmahentsch",
  "title": "Gemma Hentsch - Lead Python Developer",
  "snippet": "LinkedIn · Gemma Hentsch · 570+ followers",
  "search_type": "people",
  "search_keywords": "python developer London"
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

Data fields

Field	Description
url	Link to the LinkedIn page.
identifier	The short name at the end of the link — a profile name, company slug or post id. Handy as a unique key.
title	The page's title, usually the person's name and headline.
snippet	A short description of the page.
search_type	Which kind of page this is.
search_keywords	The search that produced this row, handy when you merge several runs.

What it returns

For every match you get the link, a title and a short description — enough to review a list of results, sort it, or hand it to something else.

Fuller detail such as follower counts, complete post text or a full work history is not part of a search result. To get those, run the links through:

• LinkedIn Post Scraper — for post links, to get the text, author, reactions and comments.
• LinkedIn Profile Scraper — for profile links, to get the full profile.
• LinkedIn Jobs Scraper — the better choice if you only want jobs, with salary, seniority and full descriptions.

Two other things worth knowing:

• Results come back by relevance, not newest first. Something posted in the last few hours may not appear straight away.
• Very large result counts are not possible. A search realistically returns up to a couple of hundred results; narrow the keywords instead of raising the limit.

How much does it cost to search LinkedIn?

Very little. Thirty results took about thirty seconds and cost around a cent and a half. Cost scales with how many results you ask for.

Tips

• Be specific. product manager fintech Berlin returns far more useful results than manager.
• Run several narrow searches rather than one broad one — you will get better coverage overall.
• Use quotes for exact phrases when a job title matters, like "chief technology officer".
• Chain it. Search here, then feed the links into the Post or Profile Actor to enrich them.

FAQ and support

Do I need a LinkedIn account or cookie? No. Nothing to log in with and nothing to keep alive.

Why is there no follower count or full post text? Those are not part of a search result. Use the Post or Profile Actor on the links to get them.

Why do I get fewer results than the limit I set? Because the search ran out of matches. Broaden the keywords or try a different phrasing.

Is scraping LinkedIn legal? This Actor collects only publicly available data. You are responsible for how you use it, and you should not collect personal data without a legal basis. If in doubt, take legal advice.

Found a bug, or need a field that is not here? Open an issue on the Issues tab.