LinkedIn Company Scraper

Enrich companies with LinkedIn data: employee count, industry, headquarters, description, specialties, website, founded year, follower count, top employees with profile URLs, and recent company posts.

HTTP-only, no browser needed. ~128MB RAM, pay-per-result.

How It Works

1. If linkedin_url is provided, the actor extracts the company slug directly (recommended).
2. If not provided, the actor searches Google via GOOGLE_SERP proxy to find the LinkedIn company page.
3. The actor scrapes the public LinkedIn guest page (/organization-guest/company/{slug}) which contains full company data in structured HTML. No login or cookies required.
4. Optionally scrapes the people page for employee profiles filtered by title.

Use with AI Agents (MCP)

Connect this actor to any MCP-compatible AI client: Claude Desktop, Claude.ai, Cursor, VS Code, LangChain, LlamaIndex, or custom agents.

Apify MCP server URL:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=santamaria-automations/linkedin-company-scraper

Example prompt once connected:

"Use linkedin-company-scraper to enrich these companies with LinkedIn data. Return the results as a table."

Clients that support dynamic tool discovery (Claude.ai, VS Code) receive the full input schema automatically via add-actor.

Input

{
  "companies": [
    {
      "company_id": "acme-1",
      "company_name": "Example Company Ltd.",
      "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/example-company"
    },
    {
      "company_id": "acme-2",
      "company_name": "Sample Widgets GmbH",
      "website_domain": "sample-widgets.example"
    }
  ],
  "includeEmployees": true,
  "maxEmployeesPerCompany": 10,
  "employeeTitleFilters": ["HR", "CEO", "CTO"],
  "requestDelay": 3000,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  }
}

Input Fields

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
companies	array	Yes	-	Companies to enrich
companies[].company_id	string	Yes	-	Your internal identifier
companies[].company_name	string	Yes	-	Company name
companies[].linkedin_url	string	Recommended	-	Direct LinkedIn URL (skips search)
companies[].website_domain	string	No	-	Improves search accuracy when no URL provided
includeEmployees	boolean	No	false	Scrape employee profiles from people page
maxEmployeesPerCompany	integer	No	10	Max employees per company (1-50)
employeeTitleFilters	string[]	No	["HR","CEO","CTO","Recruiter","People","Talent"]	Filter by title keywords
requestDelay	integer	No	2000	Delay between requests in ms
linkedinCookie	string	No	-	Optional li_at cookie for authenticated access (more data)
linkedinEmail	string	No	-	Optional: login to get li_at automatically
linkedinPassword	string	No	-	Optional: login password

Output

Each company produces one dataset row:

{
  "company_id": "acme-1",
  "company_name": "Example Company Ltd.",
  "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/example-company",
  "employee_count": 5000,
  "employee_count_range": "1,001-5,000",
  "industry": "Software Development",
  "headquarters": "Munich, Bavaria",
  "description": "Example Company Ltd. builds sample software for demo purposes.",
  "specialties": ["Sample Product", "Demo Service", "Widget Manufacturing"],
  "website": "https://www.example.com",
  "founded": "2015",
  "company_type": "Privately Held",
  "follower_count": 182760,
  "address": null,
  "employees": [
    { "name": "Jane Doe", "title": "Head of People", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jane-doe-example" }
  ],
  "posts": [
    { "text": "We are hiring across our engineering teams.", "posted_at": "2d", "likes": null, "comments": null }
  ],
  "error": null
}

Extracted Fields

Field	Description
employee_count	Upper bound of employee range (e.g., 5000 for "1,001-5,000")
employee_count_range	Raw range string from LinkedIn
industry	Company industry
headquarters	City, Region
description	Full company description
specialties	List of specialties or focus areas
website	Company website URL
founded	Year founded
company_type	"Privately Held", "Public Company", etc.
follower_count	LinkedIn follower count
employees	Top visible employees with LinkedIn profile URLs
posts	Up to 5 recent company updates

Pricing

Pay-per-result via Apify Pay-Per-Event billing:

Event	Price	Description
Actor start	$0.001	Charged once per run
Company enriched	$0.005	Charged per company row returned

Enriching 1,000 companies costs about $5, plus RESIDENTIAL proxy traffic. No monthly fees.

Numeric LinkedIn IDs

Older websites sometimes embed LinkedIn URLs in the numeric-ID form (for example https://www.linkedin.com/company/19051). LinkedIn walls those URLs behind a login page, so the actor probes a small set of candidate slugs built from company_id (typically the website domain) and company_name, and switches to the first slug URL that returns real company data. When this happens the output row sets resolved_from_numeric_id: true. If no candidate resolves, the row is emitted with error: "numeric_id_unresolvable" and no per-result charge is applied.

Tips

• Always provide linkedin_url when available. It is faster and more reliable than search.
• LinkedIn URLs can be found on company websites (footer or header links), Google Maps data, or business directories.
• The LinkedIn slug often differs from the legal company name (e.g., "Example Company AG" may map to example-company, not example-company-ag).
• Use requestDelay: 3000 or higher to avoid rate limiting (HTTP 999).
• RESIDENTIAL proxy is required. Datacenter IPs get blocked.

Use Cases

• B2B Lead Enrichment: add employee counts, industry, and HQ to your company database.
• Sales Intelligence: find decision-maker profiles via the employees list.
• Market Research: analyze industry distribution, company sizes, and specialties across a list of companies.
• Competitive Analysis: track competitor follower counts and recent posts.

Related Actors

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• GBP Completeness Audit - score Google Business Profiles for lead prioritization

Issues & Feature Requests

If a field is missing or looks off for a given company, open an issue on the actor's Issues tab and we will take a look.