LinkedIn Jobs Scraper — Global Job Data from the World's #1 Professional Network

Scrape public job postings from LinkedIn Jobs — the largest professional hiring platform on the planet, with 1B+ members and millions of active postings worldwide.

This actor returns structured JSON for every listing: title, company, location, posted date, full description, seniority, industry, applicant count, company logo, company LinkedIn URL, apply link and more. Works in any country LinkedIn serves.

Pairs naturally with our Indeed, Jobrapido, StepStone, Jobs.ch, Karriere.at and Pracuj.pl scrapers for complete multi-source coverage.

What you get

• Global coverage — every LinkedIn region, 30+ countries auto-detected to ISO country codes
• Three modes — search, search + full details, or direct URL re-scrape (for "still-alive" monitoring)
• Multi-query search with automatic cross-query deduplication and per-query limits
• Rich job data — title, company, location, description, seniority, industry, job function, applicant count, company logo
• Company enrichment — canonical LinkedIn company URL and logo for every listing
• Status detection — know which jobs are online, expired, or offline in direct-URL mode
• Swiss canton detection — automatic ZH / BE / GE mapping for CH jobs
• Posted date normalized to ISO-8601
• Advanced filters — date posted, job type, experience level, remote/hybrid/on-site, sort order
• Respectful pagination up to LinkedIn's guest API cap

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-scraper

Example prompt once connected:

"Use linkedin-scraper to scrape job listings from linkedin. Return results as a table."

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

Use cases

• Recruitment & sourcing — monitor open roles by keyword and geography; build candidate pipelines from employer hiring signals
• Job aggregators & vertical search — ingest normalized LinkedIn listings into your own job board, ATS, or talent marketplace
• Competitor hiring intelligence — track which companies are hiring for which roles, at which seniority levels, in which locations, week over week
• Labour-market research — quantify hiring velocity by industry, role, and region; build reports on remote-work adoption or senior-level demand
• Salary benchmarking — capture salary text when publicly displayed and benchmark by role × seniority × location
• Still-alive monitoring — re-check previously scraped jobs in direct-URL mode to flag expired postings in your own database

Example output

{
  "id": "4371481846",
  "title": "Senior Software Engineer, Checkout",
  "company": "GetYourGuide",
  "location": "Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland",
  "canton": "ZH",
  "country": "CH",
  "job_status": "online",
  "top_listing": false,
  "actively_hiring": true,
  "employment_type": "full-time",
  "seniority_level": "Mid-Senior level",
  "company_industry": "Technology, Information and Internet",
  "job_function": "Engineering and Information Technology",
  "applicants": "<25",
  "description_snippet": "Get ready for an exciting career with GetYourGuide...",
  "description_full": "Full job description with all details...",
  "posted_at": "2026-03-05T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4371481846",
  "source_platform": "linkedin",
  "search_query": "Software Engineer",
  "company_url": "https://de.linkedin.com/company/getyourguide-ag",
  "company_logo_url": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/company-logo/...",
  "apply_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4371481846",
  "scraped_at": "2026-03-09T08:30:00.000Z"
}

How to use

Pick one of three modes, configure filters, run.

Mode 1 — Search

Return basic job data from LinkedIn's search results. Cheapest option, great for discovery and broad market scans.

{
  "searchQueries": ["Software Engineer", "Data Scientist"],
  "location": "Switzerland",
  "datePosted": "past-week",
  "jobType": "full-time",
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 100
}

Mode 2 — Search + Details

Same as Mode 1 but also fetches each job's detail page for the full description, employment type, seniority, industry, job function, and applicant count.

{
  "searchQueries": ["Data Scientist"],
  "location": "Zurich",
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 50,
  "includeJobDetails": true
}

Mode 3 — Direct URLs (still-alive checks)

Pass a list of LinkedIn job URLs — the actor fetches each one and returns the full job data plus a job_status of online, offline, expired, or unknown. Perfect for verifying that jobs in your own database are still live.

{
  "directUrls": [
    "https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3812345678",
    "https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3823456789"
  ]
}

Input

Parameter	Description	Example
searchQueries	Keywords to search (deduplicated across queries)	["Software Engineer", "Data Engineer"]
searchQuery	Single keyword (legacy, backward compatible)	"Data Scientist"
location	City, region, or country	"Zurich", "Switzerland", "San Francisco Bay Area"
country	Alternative to location — country name or code	"DE", "Germany"
datePosted	any, past-24h, past-week, past-month	"past-week"
sortBy	"" (default), DD (most recent), R (most relevant)	"DD"
jobType	full-time, part-time, contract, temporary, internship	"full-time"
experienceLevel	entry, associate, mid-senior, director, executive	"mid-senior"
remoteFilter	remote, on-site, hybrid	"remote"
maxResultsPerQuery	Max results per keyword	100
maxResults	Global cap (0 = unlimited)	500
includeJobDetails	Fetch full descriptions from detail pages	true
directUrls	List of LinkedIn job URLs (skips search)	["https://..."]
proxyConfiguration	Apify proxy settings (Residential recommended)	{"useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]}

Output fields

Always present: id, title, company, location, country, canton (CH only), job_status, top_listing, actively_hiring, posted_at, source_url, source_platform, search_query, company_url, company_logo_url, apply_url, scraped_at.

With includeJobDetails: true or direct URLs: description_snippet, description_full, employment_type, seniority_level, company_industry, job_function, applicants, remote_option, salary_text.

The applicants field is normalized:

LinkedIn shows	Output
"Be among the first 25 applicants"	<25
"95 applicants"	95
"Over 200 applicants"	200+

Pricing

Pay only for what you receive — no monthly fees, no minimum spend.

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.05
Search result (includeJobDetails: false)	$0.002 / result
Detail result (includeJobDetails: true or directUrls)	$0.005 / result

Realistic examples

• 1,000 search results = $2.05 (start + 1,000 × $0.002)
• 1,000 jobs with full details = $5.05 (start + 1,000 × $0.005)
• 200 search + 50 detailed = $0.70 (start + 200 × $0.002 + 50 × $0.005)
• Still-alive check of 500 URLs = $2.55 (start + 500 × $0.005)

Compare to manual sourcing at EUR 0.50-1.00 per lead or commercial job-data feeds at EUR 1,000-5,000 / month.

Usage

Apify Console

1. Go to the actor page
2. Fill in searchQueries and location
3. Click Start — download the dataset as JSON / CSV / Excel

API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/santamaria-automations~linkedin-scraper/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "searchQueries": ["Software Engineer", "Data Scientist"],
    "location": "Switzerland",
    "maxResultsPerQuery": 100
  }'

Node.js SDK

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_API_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('santamaria-automations/linkedin-scraper').call({
  searchQueries: ['Data Scientist', 'ML Engineer'],
  location: 'Zurich',
  datePosted: 'past-week',
  includeJobDetails: true,
  maxResultsPerQuery: 50,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(`Found ${items.length} jobs`);

Still-alive monitoring

const run = await client.actor('santamaria-automations/linkedin-scraper').call({
  directUrls: [
    'https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3812345678',
    'https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3823456789',
  ],
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach(job => console.log(`${job.id}: ${job.job_status}`));

FAQ

Do I need to log in or provide a LinkedIn account? No. The actor only uses LinkedIn's public, guest-accessible job search — nothing behind the login wall.

Which countries are supported? Every country LinkedIn serves. Country codes are auto-detected for 30+ locales including DACH (AT / CH / DE), EU (FR / IT / ES / NL / BE / PL / PT / SE / NO / DK / IE / FI + more), UK, US, Canada, Australia, India, Singapore, Japan, Brazil, Mexico and more.

Can I use my own proxies? Yes — pass a custom proxyConfiguration object. Apify Residential proxies are recommended for large runs.

How large can a single search go? LinkedIn caps guest search at roughly 1,000 results per query (offset ~990). To go larger, split by city, date range, or job type and use multiple searchQueries.

Are salary fields always populated? Salary is only available when LinkedIn publicly displays it on the listing, which varies by employer and country. It's much more common in US listings than EU ones.

Limitations

• LinkedIn guest search caps at ~1,000 results per query (offset ceiling ~990). Large runs should split by filter (date, city, job type).
• Some fields (salary, requirements) depend on what the employer chose to publish and may be null.
• Contact-person fields are not exposed by LinkedIn and will be null.
• Only publicly accessible listings are scraped — nothing behind LinkedIn authentication.

Legal notice

This actor scrapes only publicly available job postings from LinkedIn's public job search (no login required, no data behind the authentication wall). Users are responsible for ensuring their use complies with LinkedIn's Terms of Service and applicable laws in their jurisdiction.

Issues & feedback

Facing an issue or need an extra field? Open an issue on the Issues tab — we respond within 24 hours and welcome feature requests.

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• Jobs.ch Scraper — Switzerland's #1 job site
• Karriere.at Scraper — Austria's leading job board
• Arbeitsagentur.de Scraper — German Federal Employment Agency
• Stellenanzeigen.de Scraper — German national job board
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