🔍 LinkedIn Profile Search by Services

Find the right professionals on LinkedIn by the services they offer — and get back clean, structured profile data. Type a service or role (e.g. Machine learning engineer, Web Development, Marketing Manager), and this actor returns matching LinkedIn members with their identity, services, experience, education, skills, and more.

Built for speed: it talks to LinkedIn over plain HTTP with a real browser fingerprint (no slow headless browser), saves every profile to your dataset the moment it's found, and automatically escalates through proxies if LinkedIn pushes back.

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✨ Why Choose This Actor?

• ⚡ Fast & lightweight — pure-HTTP, no browser overhead.
• 🧭 Two depth modes — Short for quick lists, Full for complete profiles.
• 📍 Location filtering — narrow to any country or city.
• 🛡️ Self-healing proxies — starts direct, then datacenter, then residential — automatically.
• 💾 Live results — records stream into the dataset as they're collected; a stopped run still keeps everything found so far.
• 📊 Ready-to-read views — results pre-organized into Profiles, Services, Stats, and Contact tables.

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🔑 Key Features

Feature	Description
🔎 Service search	Search LinkedIn by any service/role keyword, with operator support (AND, OR, quotes).
🧭 Profile modes	Short (core fields) or Full (experience, education, skills, certifications…).
📍 Locations	Filter by one or more LinkedIn locations (names auto-resolved to LinkedIn geos).
📑 Pagination	Control the start page and how many pages to scan.
🔁 Retries	Transient errors retried with exponential backoff.
🛡️ Proxy ladder	Direct → datacenter → residential, sticky once escalated.

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📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
search	string	✅	Service/role to search for (e.g. Web Development).
cookie	string	✅	Your LinkedIn li_at session cookie (bare value or li_at=...).
profileScraperMode	string	–	Short, Full, or Full + email search. Default Short.
maxItems	integer	–	Maximum profiles to collect. Default 20.
locations	array	–	LinkedIn locations to filter by (e.g. ["United Kingdom"]).
startPage	integer	–	First results page (1-based). Default 1.
takePages	integer	–	How many pages to scan. Default 10.
proxyCountry	string	–	Residential exit country if proxies are needed. Default US.
proxyConfiguration	object	–	Apify proxy settings. Default: no proxy.

Example input

{
  "search": "Machine learning engineer",
  "cookie": "AQEDA....your_li_at....",
  "profileScraperMode": "Full",
  "maxItems": 20,
  "locations": ["United Kingdom"],
  "startPage": 1,
  "takePages": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false }
}

🍪 How to get your li_at cookie

1. Log into LinkedIn in your browser.
2. Open DevTools → Application → Cookies → https://www.linkedin.com.
3. Copy the value of the li_at cookie.
4. Paste it into the LinkedIn Cookie field.

Use a dedicated account. For best results, set proxyCountry to the country your account usually signs in from to avoid security checkpoints.

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📤 Output

Each record follows a rich, stable schema. Example (trimmed):

{
  "id": "ACoAAEEvayAB...",
  "name": "Jane Doe",
  "headline": "Machine Learning Engineer | NLP | MLOps",
  "location": { "linkedinText": "London, England, United Kingdom", "countryCode": "GB" },
  "linkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/janedoe",
  "serviceUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/services/page/abc123",
  "services": { "servicesList": ["Web Development", "Custom Software Development"], "requestUrl": "..." },
  "about": "I help teams ship ML products...",
  "experience": [ { "position": "ML Engineer", "companyName": "Acme", "startDate": { "text": "Jan 2022" } } ],
  "education": [ { "schoolName": "University of X", "degree": "BSc" } ],
  "skills": [ { "name": "PyTorch" }, { "name": "MLOps" } ],
  "followerCount": 1234,
  "verified": false
}

The dataset ships with four ready-made views: 👤 Profiles · 🛠️ Services · 📊 Stats & Status · 📇 Contact & Links.

Short mode fills core fields (identity, services, headline, location). Full mode additionally fills about, experience, education, skills, certifications, languages, counts, and more.

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🚀 How to Use (Apify Console)

1. Log in at console.apify.com → Actors.
2. Open LinkedIn Profile Search by Services.
3. Enter your search query and paste your li_at cookie.
4. Pick a mode and limits, then click Start.
5. Watch profiles stream into the log in real time.
6. Open the Output tab and export to JSON / CSV / Excel.

🤖 Use via API

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 '{"search":"Web Development","cookie":"<li_at>","profileScraperMode":"Short","maxItems":20}'

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💡 Best Use Cases

• 🧲 Lead generation — find freelancers / agencies offering a specific service.
• 🧑‍💼 Recruiting — source candidates by skill or specialization.
• 📈 Market research — map who provides a service in a given region.
• 🤝 Partnerships — discover potential collaborators.

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💳 Pricing

This actor is published with a straightforward usage-based model. If you enable the optional pay-per-event plan, you are billed per profile collected (row_result). Either way, you only pay for the profiles that are actually saved to your dataset.

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❓ FAQ

Do I need a LinkedIn account? Yes — the actor uses your li_at session cookie. Use a dedicated account.

Why did Full mode return core fields only for some profiles? LinkedIn restricts detailed views of certain profiles depending on your account's network/trust. Those profiles still return their core (search) fields.

How many profiles can I scrape? Set maxItems. Keep volumes reasonable and humane to avoid session checkpoints.

My run found nothing — what now? Refresh your li_at cookie (it may be expired/checkpointed) and try a broader query.

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⚖️ Legal & Compliance

This actor collects publicly available profile information. You are responsible for complying with LinkedIn's Terms of Service and applicable laws (GDPR, CCPA, anti-spam, etc.). Do not use the data for unlawful purposes.

📬 Support

Questions or feature requests? Email scrapier.io@gmail.com.