🔎 LinkedIn Companies Suggestions Scraper

Find the "Pages people also viewed" lookalike companies for any LinkedIn company — instantly, in bulk, with follower counts and industry tags. Perfect for competitor research, ICP / lookalike audience building, outbound prospecting, and market mapping.

Give it a LinkedIn company URL → get back a clean list of similar companies, each with title, industry, profile URL, and follower count.

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🌟 Why Choose This Actor?

✅ Feature	What it means for you
🚀 Real LinkedIn data	Pulled live from LinkedIn — not stale exports.
📦 Bulk input	Drop in 1 or 100 company URLs. The actor handles the rest.
👥 Follower counts	Every lookalike includes its current follower count.
🛡️ Smart proxy handling	Uses Apify Residential proxies (required for LinkedIn) and auto-rotates IPs on a block.
💾 Live results	Each lookalike is saved to the dataset the moment it is scraped.
🧩 Clean output	Table-friendly schema: title, subtitle, url, followers.
🤖 API / MCP ready	Call from your code, n8n, Make, Zapier, or your LLM via MCP.

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✨ Key Features

• 🔎 Similar pages discovery — the same "Pages people also viewed" list you see logged into LinkedIn
• 🏢 Title + industry + profile URL for every lookalike
• 👥 Live follower counts via LinkedIn's own Voyager API
• 📦 Bulk-friendly — one job, many input companies
• 🛡️ Anti-block engine — Chrome TLS fingerprint + smart proxy escalation
• 💾 Crash-safe — partial results are always saved
• ⚡ Async + concurrent — fast even on large input lists
• 💳 Pay-per-result pricing — you pay for lookalikes, not failed runs

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📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
urls	array	✅	LinkedIn company URLs (or /showcase/ URLs). Bulk supported.
liAtCookie	string	❌	Optional. Your LinkedIn li_at session cookie for follower counts. Leave blank to use the built-in session. Secret — never logged.
maxConcurrentFollowerLookups	integer	❌	Parallel follower lookups per company. Default 5.
delayBetweenCompanies	number	❌	Seconds between input companies. Default 1.5.
maxRetries	integer	❌	Retries per request. Default 3.
requestTimeout	integer	❌	Request timeout in seconds. Default 30.
proxyConfiguration	object	❌	Optional. Defaults to no proxy. Auto-escalates on block.

🍪 How to get your li_at cookie

1. Open linkedin.com and sign in.
2. Open DevTools (F12) → Application → Cookies → https://www.linkedin.com.
3. Copy the Value of the cookie named li_at.
4. Paste it into the liAtCookie field.

📋 Example input

{
  "urls": [
    { "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/financial-times/" },
    { "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-economist/" }
  ],
  "liAtCookie": "AQEDAUjBCq4FO9swAAAB...",
  "maxConcurrentFollowerLookups": 5,
  "delayBetweenCompanies": 1.5,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false }
}

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📤 Output

Each row in the output dataset is one lookalike company — easy to filter, sort, and export:

{
  "input_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/financial-times",
  "title": "The Economist",
  "subtitle": "Newspaper Publishing",
  "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-economist/",
  "followers": "13,120,759"
}

A grouped snapshot (per input company → list of lookalikes) is also saved to the key-value store as results.json:

[
  {
    "input_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/financial-times",
    "lookalikes": [
      {
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-economist/",
        "subtitle": "Newspaper Publishing",
        "title": "The Economist",
        "followers": "13,120,759"
      },
      {
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/bloomberg/",
        "subtitle": "Financial Services",
        "title": "Bloomberg",
        "followers": "2,207,096"
      }
    ]
  }
]

Field reference

Field	Description
input_url	The company you asked about.
title	Lookalike company name.
subtitle	Lookalike industry (LinkedIn's classification).
url	Lookalike company's LinkedIn URL.
followers	Current follower count, comma-formatted (e.g. 13,120,759). Empty string if unavailable.

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🚀 How to Use (Apify Console)

1. Log in at console.apify.com → Actors.
2. Open LinkedIn Companies Suggestions Scraper.
3. Paste your LinkedIn company URLs into urls.
4. Paste your li_at cookie into liAtCookie.
5. (Optional) Leave proxyConfiguration empty for a direct connection — the actor auto-escalates if LinkedIn blocks.
6. Click Start 🚀
7. Watch the live log — you'll see each lookalike streamed in real time.
8. When the run finishes, open the Output tab.
9. Export as JSON / CSV / XLSX or pipe to your downstream tools.

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🤖 Use via API / MCP

REST API (cURL)

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/<ACTOR_ID>/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{
       "urls": [{"url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/financial-times/"}],
       "liAtCookie": "AQEDAUjBCq4FO9sw..."
     }'

Python SDK

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("<ACTOR_ID>").call(run_input={
    "urls": [{"url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/financial-times/"}],
    "liAtCookie": "AQEDAUjBCq4FO9sw...",
})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

MCP

This actor is callable from any MCP client (Claude, Cursor, etc.) via the Apify MCP gateway at https://mcp.apify.com. Each tool call is a chargeable PPE event — see Pricing below.

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💼 Best Use Cases

• 🎯 Competitor research — discover companies your competitors are bucketed with.
• 🧲 Lookalike audience building — feed similar companies into your outbound list.
• 🗺️ Market mapping — chart adjacent industries and emerging players.
• 🎯 ABM enrichment — expand each target account into a cluster of similar accounts.
• 📈 Investment scouting — surface peers of a portfolio company in seconds.

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💳 Pricing (Pay-Per-Event)

• Per result item — billed for each lookalike company returned (result-item event).
• ✅ You only pay for successful results. Failed runs and zero-result inputs are free.
• 🛑 Hard-cap your spend with Max total charge in the run config — the actor stops cleanly when reached.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Why do I need a li_at cookie? A: LinkedIn's follower counts are only available to logged-in users. The guest view exposes the lookalike list, but not the follower counts. We use your li_at only to call LinkedIn's own API for those counts.

Q: Is my cookie safe? A: The cookie field is marked as a secret — Apify masks it in the run config UI and it is never written to logs.

Q: What if LinkedIn blocks the request? A: The actor uses Apify Residential proxies by default (required to reach LinkedIn from Apify's network) and automatically rotates to a fresh residential IP if a block is detected.

Q: How many lookalikes do I get per company? A: Whatever LinkedIn shows in its "Pages people also viewed" panel — typically 5–10 per company.

Q: Can I use this without a cookie? A: The lookalike list itself works without auth, but follower counts will be empty. We strongly recommend providing the cookie.

Q: Does it work for /showcase/ URLs? A: Yes — showcase pages are supported alongside /company/ URLs.

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⚖️ Cautions & Legal

• Data is collected only from publicly viewable LinkedIn surfaces and your own authenticated session.
• Honor LinkedIn's Terms of Service and your local privacy laws (GDPR, CCPA, etc.).
• This actor is intended for research, market intelligence, and B2B use cases — not for spam or harassment.
• You are responsible for how you use the data.

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🆘 Support & Feedback

Found a bug? Have a feature request? Open an issue in the Actor's Issues tab on Apify, or contact the publisher directly.

Happy scraping! 🚀