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🔍 Social Profile Extractor – Find Company Social Media Links (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, GitHub, etc.)

Crawl any website to discover social media profiles – Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, GitHub, Threads, Snapchat, Reddit.
The Social Profile Extractor intelligently navigates a domain (prioritising contact, about, team, and footer pages) and extracts all social media links. Outputs page‑level findings immediately, plus a final consolidated list per domain. Perfect for lead enrichment, competitor research, influencer discovery, and B2B prospecting.

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💡 What is the Social Profile Extractor?

The Social Profile Extractor is a specialised Apify actor that automatically finds all social media profiles associated with a given website. It works by:

• Crawling up to a user‑defined number of pages per domain (default 15)
• Prioritising pages likely to contain social links (contact, about, team, footer, support, social)
• Extracting links to 13+ social platforms:
  • Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, GitHub, Threads, Snapchat, Reddit
• Filtering out share/intent links (e.g., sharer.php, ?whatsapp)
• Producing two types of output:
  1. Page‑level items – as soon as a page is scanned (with any discovered social links or just a scan record).
  2. A final summary item – after the crawl finishes (or hits the page limit), containing all unique social profiles found.

The actor uses curl_cffi for high‑performance HTTP requests with Chrome impersonation, respects same‑domain navigation, and saves checkpoints to resume interrupted crawls.

Pay‑per‑event pricing – you are charged only for successfully processed pages ($0.0035 per page, $3.50 per 1,000 pages). Failed or blocked pages cost nothing. The actor start fee is $0.20 per run.

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🚀 Key Features

Feature	Description
13+ social platforms	Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, GitHub, Threads, Snapchat, Reddit.
Smart crawling	Prioritises contact, about, team, footer, and social‑related pages first.
Same‑domain only	Stays within the target website (no external links).
Page‑level immediate output	You see results as soon as each page is scanned – no need to wait for full crawl.
Final consolidated output	One summary item per domain with all unique social profile URLs.
Checkpoint & resume	Saves progress after every 5 pages; if interrupted, restarts where it left off.
Residential proxy ready	Bypasses anti‑bot measures (recommended for large crawls).
Pay‑per‑result pricing	$0.20 per run + $3.50 per 1,000 successfully crawled pages. Failed pages are free.
Clean JSON output	Easy to export to CSV, Excel, or integrate into CRMs.

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📥 Input Parameters

The actor accepts a JSON object with the following fields:

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
startUrls	array of objects	Yes	–	List of starting URLs (e.g., [{"url": "https://example.com"}]).
maxPagesPerDomain	integer	No	15	Maximum number of pages to crawl per domain.
concurrency	integer	No	20	Number of concurrent requests.
proxyConfiguration	object	No	–	Apify proxy configuration. Residential proxies strongly recommended.

Example Input

{
  "startUrls": [
    {"url": "https://stripe.com"},
    {"url": "https://shopify.com"},
    {"url": "https://airbnb.com"}
  ],
  "maxPagesPerDomain": 20,
  "concurrency": 15,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  }
}

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📤 Output Fields

The actor pushes two types of items:

1. Page‑level item (status: "scanned" or "new_found")

Sent after each page is parsed. If new social profiles were discovered on that page, you get a "new_found" item; otherwise a "scanned" item with the current socials found (may be empty).

Field	Type	Description
domain	string	The website domain.
start_url	string	The original starting URL.
page_url	string	The crawled page URL.
page_title	string	Page title (from <title>).
description	string	Meta description or OG description.
social_profiles	object	Dictionary of platform → array of URLs found on this page.
platform	string	(only in new_found items) Platform name.
profiles	array	(only in new_found items) List of URLs for that platform.
pages_scanned	integer	Running total of scanned pages for this domain.
status	string	"scanned" or "new_found".

2. Final consolidated item (status: "completed" or "partial")

Sent after the crawl finishes (reached maxPagesPerDomain or no more internal links).

Field	Type	Description
domain	string	The website domain.
start_url	string	Original starting URL.
social_profiles	object	Dictionary of platform → array of all unique URLs found across the whole crawl.
pages_scanned	integer	Total pages scanned.
status	string	"completed" (reached limit or finished) or "partial" (still links left but stopped).

Example Output (Final Item)

{
  "domain": "stripe.com",
  "start_url": "https://stripe.com",
  "social_profiles": {
    "twitter": ["https://twitter.com/stripe"],
    "linkedin": ["https://linkedin.com/company/stripe"],
    "github": ["https://github.com/stripe"],
    "youtube": ["https://youtube.com/user/stripe"]
  },
  "pages_scanned": 12,
  "status": "completed"
}

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💰 Pricing

Component	Price
Actor start (per run)	$0.20
Per successful page	$0.0035
Per 1,000 successful pages	$3.50

• You are charged only for pages that are successfully fetched and parsed (HTTP 200 with HTML content).
• Failed pages (404, 403, timeout, blocking) cost nothing.
• Actor start fee covers the infrastructure for the run (even if zero pages are scraped).
• Example: 500 successful pages = $0.20 + (500 × $0.0035) = $1.95.
• Example: 2,500 successful pages = $0.20 + (2,500 × $0.0035) = $8.95.

Checkpoint & resume: If the actor stops due to spending limit or interruption, restarting will continue from the saved state without re‑charging already processed pages.

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🛠 How to Use on Apify

1. Create a task with this actor.
2. Provide one or more start URLs – the actor will crawl each domain independently.
3. Set maxPagesPerDomain – how many pages to scan per site (default 15, which usually finds all social links).
4. Enable residential proxies – strongly recommended to avoid being blocked (especially for large sites).
5. Run – the actor will crawl, output page‑level results immediately, and finally push one summary per domain.
6. Export – download the dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Running via API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/your-username~social-profile-extractor/runs" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -d '{
    "startUrls": [{"url": "https://stripe.com"}],
    "maxPagesPerDomain": 20,
    "proxyConfiguration": {"useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]}
  }'

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🎯 Use Cases

Use Case	How It Helps
Lead enrichment	Add social media handles to your CRM records.
Competitor analysis	Quickly see which platforms competitors are active on.
Influencer discovery	Find social profiles of companies you want to partner with.
Sales prospecting	Use LinkedIn profiles to identify decision‑makers.
Brand monitoring	Check if a company’s social links are up‑to‑date.
Market research	Aggregate social presence across an industry.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

1. Which social platforms are supported?
Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, GitHub, Threads, Snapchat, Reddit.

2. How many pages should I crawl?
Most social links are found within the first 10–15 pages (homepage, contact, about, footer). maxPagesPerDomain = 15 is sufficient for most sites. Increase to 30 for very large sites.

3. Do I need a proxy?
For a small number of domains (1–5) with maxPagesPerDomain ≤ 15, you may not need a proxy. For larger runs or if you see 429 errors, enable residential proxies.

4. What is the difference between the page‑level and final item?
Page‑level items (status: "scanned") are pushed after each page so you can see progress immediately. The final item (status: "completed") contains all unique social profiles aggregated across all scanned pages.

5. Does it follow redirects?
Yes – the actor follows HTTP redirects (allow_redirects=True).

6. What happens if a page is blocked (Cloudflare, CAPTCHA)?
The actor logs a failure and moves to the next URL. No charge is applied for that page.

7. Can I crawl external websites (not same domain)?
No – the actor is designed to stay within the same domain. It will not follow links to other domains.

8. How are share links (e.g., twitter.com/intent/tweet) filtered out?
The actor ignores URLs containing sharer, intent, share, whatsapp, telegram, mailto, tel, etc. This prevents false positives.

9. What is the actor start fee for?
It covers the cost of launching the container, setting up proxies, and managing checkpoints – even if the crawl returns no pages.

10. Is there a free trial?
Apify gives new users $5 monthly credit, which is enough to test this actor on several domains. After that, pay‑as‑you‑go or subscription options are available.

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• LinkedIn Company Scraper – Get LinkedIn company page info.

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Start extracting social profiles today – $0.20 per run + $3.50 per 1,000 pages. Find every social link for any website.