LinkedIn Public Profile Credentials & Company Lookup

Turn a list of public LinkedIn profile URLs or usernames into structured records: identity, work history with per-role detail, education, skills, languages, certifications, publications, recommendations, courses, honors, recent posts, and the current employer's own company page. Everything is read from the logged-out public view, so no LinkedIn account or cookie is ever needed.

What this actor does

• Profile lookup by URL or username — paste full profile links, linkedin.com/in/... paths, in/..., or bare usernames; each input gets one row
• Deep public sections — per-role title, employer, dates, duration, employment type, location and description; education degree and field of study; skills; languages; certifications with credential IDs; publications; recommendations; courses; honors; projects; volunteer work; organizations; websites
• Current-company intelligence — followers, offices, affiliated pages, similar pages, recent updates, founded year, tagline, employee count, size, industry, website, headquarters, type, logo and specialties
• Honest data quality — missingFields, dataQuality, pageVariant, and a truthful error row for every input that cannot be read
• Empty fields are omitted — a row contains only fields the profile actually exposes; it never contains null, blank strings, or asterisk placeholders

Output per profile

• name, headline, location, summary
• profileUrl, profilePicture, publicIdentifier
• profileUrn, profileId — stable member URN and numeric member ID for joins and de-duplication
• currentTitle, allTitles
• currentCompany — name, url, slug and, when readable, companyId, employeeCount, size, industry, website, headquarters, organizationType, logoUrl, specialties, description, tagline, founded, followersCount, locations, affiliatedPages, similarPages, updates. If enrichment still fails after retries on alternate company URLs, the row carries enrichmentStatus: "failed" and enrichmentError instead of silently emitting a name-only company.
• currentPositions, pastPositions — each with company, companyUrl, title, startDate, endDate, duration, employmentType, location, description
• experiences — current and past positions combined
• education and educations — the same list under both keys, with school, schoolUrl, degree, fieldOfStudy, startDate, endDate
• followersCount, connectionsCount — connections is the coarse public band, such as 500+
• badges, isCreator, isTopVoice
• skills — skill names in the order shown on the profile
• languages — name, proficiency
• publications — title, publisher, date, description, url
• recommendations — recommender, recommenderUrl, text
• courses — title, url, instructor, duration, viewers
• recentPosts — text, url, postedAgo, reactions, comments, plus author/authorUrl; shares and reposts add isRepost and repostedBy while keeping the original author distinct
• recentArticles — genuine /pulse/ articles only, with title, url, publishedDate, text, likes; posts never appear here
• certifications — name, issuer, issuerUrl, issueDate, credentialId, credentialUrl
• honorsAndAwards — title, issuer, date, description
• testScores — name, score, date
• organizations — name, position, description
• volunteerExperience — role, organization, description
• projects — title, dateRange, description
• websites — label, url
• pageVariant, dataQuality, missingFields, partialFields
• inputUrl, order, scrapedAt

Run status rows

• A profile that cannot be read gets its own error row with _status: "error", _reason (blocked, not_found, auth_wall, wrong_identity, invalid_url, or error), _message, inputUrl, profileUrl, order and scrapedAt. wrong_identity means LinkedIn served a page whose canonical profile slug did not match the requested slug; no data from that page is emitted.
• A partial run adds one _status: "partial_results" row with _reason, _failureBreakdown and _message beside the successful rows.
• A run with no readable profile adds one _status: "no_data" row with _reason, _message, _help and scrapedAt.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
profileUrls	array	–	LinkedIn profile URLs or bare usernames to look up. Required, 1–1000 entries.
enrichCompany	boolean	true	Attach the current employer's public company page. One request per unique company, cached within the run.
maxPosts	integer	10	Maximum recent posts and recent articles per profile (0–50). Set 0 to skip both.
pacing	string	balanced	Delay between profiles: fast (0.5–1.5s), balanced (3–7s), or cautious (8–15s).
useUnblocker	boolean	true	Allow the stronger fallback after LinkedIn refuses a request. Profiles that load directly never use it.
proxyConfiguration	object	–	Optional Apify proxy used before the stronger fallback. Leave empty for direct-first requests.

Accepted entry formats: https://www.linkedin.com/in/username, linkedin.com/in/username, in/username, or a bare username.

Example: one public profile with company context

{
  "profileUrls": ["https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffweiner08"],
  "enrichCompany": true,
  "maxPosts": 5,
  "pacing": "balanced"
}

Example: a shortlist without company enrichment

{
  "profileUrls": [
    "https://www.linkedin.com/in/adammgrant",
    "https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickcollison"
  ],
  "enrichCompany": false,
  "maxPosts": 0
}

Example: mixed valid and invalid entries

{
  "profileUrls": [
    "williamhgates",
    "https://twitter.com/example",
    "not a profile"
  ],
  "enrichCompany": false,
  "useUnblocker": true
}

Example: a large cautious run

{
  "profileUrls": [
    "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffweiner08",
    "https://www.linkedin.com/in/melindagates",
    "https://www.linkedin.com/in/garyvaynerchuk"
  ],
  "enrichCompany": true,
  "maxPosts": 3,
  "pacing": "cautious",
  "useUnblocker": true
}

Use cases

• Recruiting and candidate sourcing — collect titles, employers, education, skills and languages for a shortlist of public profiles
• Sales and lead enrichment — attach current-company size, industry, headquarters and followers to a contact list
• Credential and claim verification — check certifications, credential IDs, honors and published work on a profile
• Research datasets — build a structured sample of career histories, skills and public activity across many profiles
• Founder and executive mapping — identify current roles, affiliated companies and similar pages around a target company
• Content and GTM research — review recent public posts and articles alongside a decision-maker's role and company

Limitations

• LinkedIn does not show every section to logged-out visitors. Skills, languages, publications, recommendations, certifications, honors, courses, projects, volunteer work and websites appear only when the profile exposes them; absent sections are listed in missingFields.
• connectionsCount is a coarse public band (for example 500+), not an exact count.
• Email addresses and phone numbers are not available on the logged-out profile view. This actor never fabricates or guesses them.
• Experience titles, dates and descriptions can be masked or withheld for some profiles and some networks. A masked page is returned with pageVariant: "masked" and the masked values are omitted.
• Ordinary (non-public-figure) profiles are often refused by LinkedIn after a small number of guest views. The actor retries and can use a stronger fallback, but some profiles remain unreadable on a given run; they appear as blocked error rows.
• Company pages usually include followers, offices, affiliated pages and similar pages, but founded and tagline are only present for some companies.
• Recent posts and articles reflect what the public page renders, which may be a subset of the member's activity.

FAQ

Is a LinkedIn login or cookie required? No. Every page is read the way a logged-out visitor sees it. No credentials, session cookies, or member account are used.

What do missingFields and dataQuality mean? missingFields lists the high-value fields the public page did not expose for that profile. dataQuality is full when the core identity, experience, education and recent-articles fields are present, partial when some of them are absent (for example a profile with posts but zero genuine articles), and masked when LinkedIn returned a redacted/limited view. partialFields flags values that were present but incomplete (such as a truncated summary on a masked page).

Why is connectionsCount a string like 500+? LinkedIn shows logged-out visitors a coarse connection band rather than an exact number. The band is returned as-is instead of inventing a precise count.

Can this return an email address or phone number? No. Those details are not on the public profile page. The actor does not guess, infer, or fabricate contact data.

Why did one profile return an error row instead of a profile row? The row's _reason tells you what happened. not_found means LinkedIn confirmed the URL does not exist. blocked means every attempt was refused on that run and the profile may succeed later. wrong_identity means every page LinkedIn served resolved to a different canonical profile slug than the one requested, so the actor refused to emit it. invalid_url means the entry was not a LinkedIn profile URL or username. auth_wall means the page showed no profile data to guests.

Does enrichCompany cover past employers? No. It enriches the current employer only. Each unique company page is fetched once per run and reused for profiles that share that employer.

Why are some experience or education fields missing on an otherwise complete profile? LinkedIn can withhold titles, dates, or descriptions for a specific profile and viewer combination. Masked values are dropped rather than returned as asterisks, and the row is marked masked or partial.

Do I need to configure a proxy? No. The actor starts with a direct request and only tries a stronger connection after a real refusal. The optional proxyConfiguration adds a middle step if you already have a proxy preference.

Does input order matter? Each row carries order, matching its position in profileUrls, so results can be lined up with the original input even when requests finish out of order.

Is this affiliated with LinkedIn? No. This is an independent, third-party actor that reads publicly available LinkedIn pages. It is not operated by or affiliated with LinkedIn.