LinkedIn Email Finder API - Work Emails, Phones, Profiles

Find the work email, personal email and phone number behind a professional profile, search for people by job title, seniority, skills, employer, tenure and job change signals, pull the decision makers at any company, and enrich a profile URL, an email address or a company domain into a full record. One flat row per person or company.

What this actor does

• Turns profile URLs into contact details. Paste a list of public profile URLs and get back the work addresses, personal addresses and phone numbers the provider holds for each one, with a verification status on the work address.
• Searches people on the filters that actually segment a market. Job title with optional related titles, past job title, job function, seniority, skills, current and past employer, excluded employers, domain, location with a radius, industry, education, company size, years of experience, years in the current role, and whether the person changed jobs recently.
• Finds decision makers without knowing any names. Give it a domain or a company name and it walks the senior people at that company page by page.
• Searches companies by what is in their stack. Company search filters on technologies, industry, headcount, revenue range, founding year and headquarters location, and returns the funding history alongside the firmographics.
• Enriches three different starting points. A profile URL, an email address or a company domain all resolve to the same flat row shape, so lists that started life in different systems end up in one table.
• Keeps credit spend deliberate. Revealing contact details is what spends provider contact credits, so it is off unless you ask for it. With it off you still get the full profile, the employer and a flag for each contact type the provider holds, which is enough to decide who is worth revealing.
• Paces per route, not per run. The provider's ceilings differ by an order of magnitude between profile search and the rest, so the actor throttles to the ceiling of the route it is calling rather than slowing every request to the slowest one.
• Never charges for a miss. Only rows carrying a resolved result are billed.

Input

Field	What it does
mode	People search, company search, decision makers, profile contacts, profile enrichment, email enrichment or company enrichment.
jobTitles	Current job titles to match.
pastJobTitles	Titles held earlier in a career.
jobFunctions	Broad functions such as Engineering or Sales.
seniorities	Seniority levels such as Director or Vice President.
skills	Skills listed on the profile.
companies	Company names, as employers or as search targets.
pastCompanies	Previous employers.
excludeCompanies	Companies to leave out of the results.
companyFilter	Whether company names match current, past or either.
domains	Company domains.
profileUrls	Public profile URLs to look up.
emails	Addresses to enrich into a profile.
locations	Locations to match.
locationRadiusMiles	Widen each location to a radius.
industries	Industries to match.
education	Schools and degrees.
technologies	Technologies the company runs.
companySizes	Headcount bands.
yearsOfExperience	Total career length bands.
yearsInCurrentRole	Tenure in the current job.
recentlyChangedJobs	Only people who started a new role recently.
revealContactInfo	Return actual addresses and phones, not just availability.
dataTypes	Which contact types to ask for.
minRevenue, maxRevenue	Company revenue range.
foundedFrom, foundedTo	Company founding year range.
pageSize	Results per request, up to the provider's maximum of 25.
requestsPerMinute	Pace the run below the provider's ceilings.
skipNotFound	Leave unresolved inputs out of the dataset.
maxResults	Hard cap on rows, and therefore on spend and run time.
apiKey	Your own API key. Stored as a secret.

Example output

{
  "found": true,
  "mode": "peopleSearch",
  "query": "people search",
  "fullName": "Jane Doe",
  "headline": "Engineering leader, payments infrastructure",
  "position": "VP of Engineering",
  "jobFunction": "Engineering",
  "seniority": "Vice President",
  "organization": "Example Labs",
  "companyDomain": "example.com",
  "companySize": 850,
  "companyIndustry": "Financial Services",
  "industry": "Financial Services",
  "location": "San Francisco Bay Area",
  "country": "United States",
  "linkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/janedoe",
  "profilePictureUrl": "https://media.example.com/photo.jpg",
  "emails": ["jane.doe@example.com"],
  "workEmails": ["jane.doe@example.com"],
  "personalEmails": null,
  "workEmailStatus": "verified",
  "phones": ["+14155550123"],
  "hasWorkEmail": true,
  "hasPersonalEmail": true,
  "hasPhone": true,
  "workStatus": null,
  "followers": 4210,
  "skills": ["Distributed Systems", "Payments"],
  "experience": [],
  "education": [],
  "updatedAt": "2026-07-30T00:00:00Z",
  "error": null,
  "raw": { }
}

Frequently asked questions

What data does this contact finder API return for a person?

Each person row carries the full name, headline, current job title, job function and seniority, the employer with its domain, size and industry, the location and country, the profile URL and picture, the work and personal email addresses with a verification status on the work address, phone numbers, follower count, skills, and the work and education history. Contact values are returned only when you turn on reveal contact details; otherwise each row still carries a flag for every contact type the provider holds.

How do I find the decision makers at a list of companies?

Use decision makers mode and give it your list of domains or company names. It walks the senior people at each company page by page, so a list of two hundred accounts becomes a list of the people worth contacting at each one, without you having to know a single name in advance. Turn on reveal contact details when you want the addresses in the same pass rather than a second one.

What is the difference between profile contacts and profile enrichment?

Profile contacts returns only what you can reach the person on: work addresses, personal addresses and phone numbers. Profile enrichment returns the whole record, which is the professional history, education, skills, employer firmographics and the contact fields together. Use the first when you already have a segmented list and only need addresses; use the second when the rows need to stand on their own in a CRM.

Can I search for companies by the technology they use?

Yes. Company search takes a list of technologies and returns the companies running them, which you can narrow further by industry, headcount band, revenue range, founding year and headquarters location. Each company row carries the description, type, size, employee count, revenue, industry, headquarters, specialties, the full technology list, follower count, and the funding history with total raised, round count, funding status and the latest round date.

How do I find people who just changed jobs?

Turn on recently changed jobs in people search, optionally alongside a years in current role band of under one year. A job change is the strongest timing signal in most B2B motions, because a new hire revisits budgets, tooling and vendors in their first months. Pair it with the job titles and company size bands you sell into and you have a list that is both relevant and timely.

Does turning off reveal contact details make the search useless?

No, and leaving it off is usually the right first pass. With it off, the provider returns the full profile plus a flag for each contact type it holds, so you can see exactly which of the matched people are reachable by work email, personal email or phone before spending a single contact credit. Run the search with it off, filter the dataset down to the people you actually want, then run the profile contacts mode over just those profile URLs.

Do I need my own API key?

Yes. This actor does not include data access. You use your own API key from ContactOut, which is the provider whose contact data API this actor calls, created on their dashboard. Your own plan, credit balance and terms apply. Paste the key into the apiKey field, where it is stored as an Apify secret and sent in a request header rather than a URL parameter, so it never appears in a log line or a redirect.

How does this handle rate limits?

The provider publishes different ceilings per route family: 60 requests per minute on profile search, 150 on the contact availability checks and 1000 on everything else. The actor knows which ceiling belongs to which route and paces to that one, spacing requests evenly rather than bursting. A rate limit response is retried with backoff. A refusal for entitlement reasons, which is how a spent credit balance or a route outside your plan is reported, stops the run instead, because retrying cannot fix either.

What happens when a profile URL or an address returns nothing?

The row is written with found: false and an error giving the provider's own reason, and the run continues to the next input. Misses are not charged for. Set skipNotFound to true to leave them out of the dataset entirely.

How much does a run cost?

Pricing is pay per result: you are charged for each profile or company returned to the dataset, and never for misses or duplicates. Apify platform usage is included in the per-result price. Your own API provider's search and contact credits are separate and billed by them.

Keyword map

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