🏢 LinkedIn Company Associated Members Scraper

Bulk-scrape LinkedIn company pages for aggregated people insights, affiliated pages, and associated member profiles — at scale, in real time.

Provide a list of LinkedIn company URLs (e.g. https://www.linkedin.com/company/google) and the actor returns:

• 📊 Aggregated people facets — top employers, locations, schools, service categories, network distance breakdown
• 🏷️ Affiliated pages — showcase pages, subsidiaries, acquired companies
• 👥 Associated member profiles — name, headline, location, LinkedIn URL

Every record streams to the dataset the moment it finishes scraping, so partial results are always available even if the run is interrupted.

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✨ Why Choose This Actor?

• ⚡ Bulk lookup — feed hundreds of company URLs in one run
• 🌐 Smart proxy ladder — starts direct, auto-escalates 🟢 Direct → 🟡 Datacenter → 🔴 Residential only when blocked
• 🛡️ Browser-grade TLS impersonation — curl_cffi with Chrome 131 fingerprint sneaks past basic anti-bot defenses without spawning a headless browser
• 📡 Real-time table output — each company is a row, every section a column
• 🍪 Cookie-based auth — bring your own li_at, no scraping farms
• 🔄 Self-healing queryIds — discovers LinkedIn's rotating GraphQL hashes from the live page; baked-in fallbacks if discovery is blocked

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🔑 Key Features

Feature	Description
🔗 Bulk URL input	Paste any number of company URLs — one per line
🌐 Auto proxy fallback	🟢 Direct → 🟡 Datacenter → 🔴 Residential (3 retries)
📡 Real-time output	Each company is pushed live to the dataset
🧮 Per-section columns	Locations, Schools, Service Categories, Affiliated Pages, Profiles — each as its own table column
🍪 Session-cookie auth	Bring your own li_at cookie
⏱️ Configurable delay	Random jitter on top of your throttle
🛟 Graceful errors	A failed company doesn't kill the run — it lands in the dataset with an error field

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📥 Input

{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.linkedin.com/company/google",
    "https://www.linkedin.com/company/amazon"
  ],
  "liAt": "AQEDAU...your_cookie...",
  "getAffiliatedPages": true,
  "getAssociatedMembersProfiles": true,
  "maxProfiles": 10,
  "requestDelaySeconds": 1.5,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false }
}

Field	Type	Description
urls	array<string>	Required. LinkedIn company / showcase / school URLs.
liAt	string	Required. Your li_at session cookie from a logged-in LinkedIn account.
getAffiliatedPages	boolean	Include affiliated / showcase / subsidiary pages. Default true.
getAssociatedMembersProfiles	boolean	Include associated profile listings. Default true.
maxProfiles	integer	Max profiles per company. Default 10.
requestDelaySeconds	number	Delay between LinkedIn requests (seconds). Default 1.5.
proxyConfiguration	object	Override the proxy ladder. Default: no proxy — actor escalates automatically.

🍪 How to grab your li_at cookie

1. Log into linkedin.com.
2. Open DevTools → Application (Chrome) or Storage (Firefox).
3. Cookies → https://www.linkedin.com → copy the value of li_at.
4. Paste it into the actor input. Treat it like a password — it gives access to your account.

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📤 Output

Each dataset row is one company. Example (abridged):

{
  "company_name": "Google",
  "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/google",
  "people_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/google/people/",
  "Current company": [
    { "name": "Google", "count": 11873 },
    { "name": "Microsoft", "count": 390 }
  ],
  "Locations": [
    { "name": "India", "count": 5122 },
    { "name": "United States", "count": 3623 }
  ],
  "Connections": [
    { "name": "1st", "count": 0 },
    { "name": "2nd", "count": 0 },
    { "name": "3rd+", "count": 0 }
  ],
  "School": [
    { "name": "Stanford University", "count": 224 }
  ],
  "Current Function": [],
  "Skill Explicit": [],
  "Service categories": [
    { "name": "Coaching & Mentoring", "count": 348 }
  ],
  "Field of Study": [],
  "affiliated_pages": [
    {
      "category": "Information Technology & Services",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/androidenterprise/",
      "company": "Android Enterprise"
    }
  ],
  "profiles": [
    {
      "profile_fullname": "Sundar Pichai",
      "profile_headline": "CEO at Google",
      "profile_location": "Mountain View, CA",
      "profile_linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sundarpichai"
    }
  ]
}

Field	Description
🏢 company_name	Resolved display name
🔗 url	Original company URL
👥 people_url	Direct link to the People tab
🏭 Current company	Top current employers of associated members
📍 Locations	Top member locations
🔁 Connections	1st / 2nd / 3rd+ degree breakdown
🎓 School	Top schools of associated members
💼 Current Function	Top job functions (LinkedIn may not expose this)
🛠️ Skill Explicit	Top declared skills (LinkedIn may not expose this)
🧩 Service categories	Service categories the members offer
📚 Field of Study	Top fields of study (LinkedIn may not expose this)
🏷️ affiliated_pages	Showcase / subsidiary / acquired pages
👤 profiles	Associated member profile previews
⚠️ error	Present only when a company failed to scrape

Note — LinkedIn no longer exposes Current Function, Skill Explicit, or Field of Study through their public people-search facets. Those columns are emitted as empty arrays for forward compatibility.

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🚀 How to Use (Apify Console)

1. Log in at console.apify.com → Actors.
2. Open LinkedIn Company Associated Members Scraper.
3. Paste your company URLs in the 🔗 Company URLs field.
4. Paste your 🍪 li_at cookie in the cookie field.
5. (Optional) Tune profiles, delay, proxy.
6. Click ▶ Start.
7. Watch the logs — each company is logged with proxy tier, facet samples, and a save confirmation.
8. Open the Output tab to see the table with per-section columns.

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🤖 Use via API

Run synchronously and get results in one call:

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": [
      "https://www.linkedin.com/company/google",
      "https://www.linkedin.com/company/amazon"
    ],
    "liAt": "AQEDAU...",
    "getAffiliatedPages": true,
    "getAssociatedMembersProfiles": true,
    "maxProfiles": 10
  }'

Or asynchronously (returns a run ID; poll for status):

curl -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/<ACTOR_ID>/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"urls":["https://www.linkedin.com/company/openai"],"liAt":"AQEDAU..."}'

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🌐 Proxy Strategy

The actor uses a sticky tiered fallback:

1. 🟢 Direct (no proxy)         ← start here
2. 🟡 Apify Datacenter Proxy    ← on first block
3. 🔴 Apify Residential Proxy   ← if datacenter blocked too (3 retries)

Once the actor escalates to a higher tier, it stays there for the rest of the run — no flapping back down. Each escalation is logged with the exact block reason (HTTP status, network error, etc.) so you can audit what happened.

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🎯 Best Use Cases

• 🧑‍💼 Sales & lead enrichment — qualify a list of target accounts by their team makeup
• 📊 Competitive intel — see where competitors hire from and which schools dominate
• 🤝 Recruiting & sourcing — discover talent pools at target employers
• 🔬 Market research — affiliated-page graphs reveal corporate structure at a glance

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💰 Pricing (Pay-Per-Event)

Event	What it covers
apify-actor-start	One-time charge per run (covers startup overhead)
company-result	Charged once per company successfully scraped

Failed companies still appear in the dataset (with an error field) for transparency, but they do not bill the company-result event.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Why do I need to provide a li_at cookie? LinkedIn's Voyager API requires an authenticated session. The cookie is the simplest way to authorize the actor as you. We never persist or log it.

Q: Is the cookie safe to share? It is masked in the input UI and sent over HTTPS only. Still, treat it like a password. Rotate it from LinkedIn's session-management page if you suspect leakage.

Q: Will I get rate-limited? Possible if you push the delay too low or scrape many companies in one run. The actor handles 429/503 gracefully — it backs off, then escalates to a paid proxy tier. Default requestDelaySeconds=1.5 is a safe starting point.

Q: Why are some facet columns empty? LinkedIn no longer exposes Current Function, Skill Explicit, and Field of Study through their public people-search facets. We keep the columns for forward compatibility with their API.

Q: Can the actor scrape profile email addresses? No — this actor only collects public people-search results. Email scraping requires a different actor and stronger legal cover.

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⚖️ Cautions / Legal

• Data is collected only from publicly available sections of LinkedIn that your account can access.
• Do not scrape private accounts or content behind closed groups / paywalls.
• The end user is responsible for legal compliance (GDPR, CCPA, anti-spam laws, LinkedIn's ToS).
• Respect rate limits — being a good citizen also reduces blocks.

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💬 Support & Feedback

Issues, feature requests, or custom integrations? Reach out at dev.scraperengine@gmail.com or open a message in the Apify Console.