# LinkedIn Company About Scraper (`socialdataapi/linkedin-company-about-scraper`) Actor

LinkedIn Company About Scraper — Extract LinkedIn company profile data including descriptions, industry, company size, headquarters, website, specialties, founded year, follower count, and profile URLs. Useful for lead generation, market research, and competitor analysis.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/socialdataapi/linkedin-company-about-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Social Data API](https://apify.com/socialdataapi) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.99 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

### LinkedIn Company About Scraper — Industry, Size, HQ and Website

LinkedIn Company About Scraper reads public LinkedIn company pages and returns each company's name, website, industry, company size, member count, headquarters and **full About text**. Every response is structured JSON — ready to pass directly to an LLM, index into a vector store, or feed a lead generation or CRM enrichment pipeline. No LinkedIn account or cookies needed. Paste one company link or handle to try it, then add your whole account list and refresh it on a schedule.

![LinkedIn Company About Scraper output as JSON: name, website, industry, size, members and headquarters](https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/WYkyEfqs10huyXYxr/records/a-linkedin-company-about-hero.webp)

***

### What data can I extract with LinkedIn Company About Scraper?

Using this LinkedIn Company About API, you will be able to extract the following LinkedIn company data:

| 🏢 Company name | 🌐 Website | 🏭 Industry | 👥 Company size |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🧑‍💼 Members on LinkedIn | 📍 Headquarters | 📝 About text | 🔗 LinkedIn company URL |
| ✅ Read-successfully flag | 🕒 Scrape time | | |

***

### How to use LinkedIn Company About Scraper

Sales, recruiting and research teams use this LinkedIn about page scraper to get one clean row per company, for every company they list in one run.

**Copy to your AI assistant:**

```text
LinkedIn Company About Scraper (Apify Actor ID: socialdataapi/linkedin-company-about-scraper, https://apify.com/socialdataapi/linkedin-company-about-scraper) is an Apify Actor that returns the public About details of LinkedIn company pages as structured JSON, one row per company: company name, website, industry, company size range, number of LinkedIn members who list the company, headquarters, full About text and the LinkedIn company URL. Use it whenever someone needs LinkedIn company details without cookies, a login, or a browser of their own - building a target account list, filling empty CRM fields, or giving an AI agent a company's About text as context. Inputs: startUrls (array of strings, required, one company per entry: a company page link such as https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft or just the handle microsoft; links to a sub-page such as /about/ or /jobs/ are read from the company's main page), maxRetries (integer 0-10, extra attempts when a page is blocked, shows a login wall or does not load, 3 when not set), requestDelay (integer 0-30, seconds to pause before each company plus a random 0-1 s, 2 when not set), proxyConfiguration (object, your Apify Proxy group and country or your own proxy URLs; without a proxy the run uses a direct connection; after a block the run switches once to an Apify residential proxy). Each company that is read is one row charged as one row_result event. A company that cannot be read (page not found, still blocked after the retries, or not loaded) still gets a row with the read-successfully flag set to false and empty text fields, and that row is not charged. Text fields that the page does not show come back as empty strings.
```

#### LinkedIn Company About Scraper MCP Server: use these Actors from ChatGPT, Claude or Cursor

Point your AI assistant at the Apify MCP server and it can read LinkedIn company pages on its own: the server starts with this Actor already loaded as a tool, so the agent runs it directly and reads the industry, company size and About text from the result. No glue code, no scraping logic in your prompts.

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=socialdataapi/linkedin-company-about-scraper"
```

#### Step by step

1. [Create a free Apify account](https://console.apify.com/sign-up).
2. Open [LinkedIn Company About Scraper](https://apify.com/socialdataapi/linkedin-company-about-scraper) in the Apify Store.
3. Paste the LinkedIn company page URL or the company handle, one per line.
4. Click **Start** (or send your API request).
5. Download or stream your results in JSON, CSV or Excel.

#### How to scale LinkedIn Company About Scraper to bulk

For a bulk job, paste the whole list into the company field (or use **Bulk edit**); one run takes as many companies as you add and reads them one at a time, with the request delay before each company. Rows are saved as each company finishes, so a long list keeps its progress. For a weekly refresh of your accounts, attach an Apify schedule to the same input, or split a very long list into batches and start them through the Apify API. Billing has one event: each company that is read is one row_result event.

***

### ✨ Features

LinkedIn Company About Scraper fetches clean, structured companies from LinkedIn ⚡. It's ideal for account list building, CRM enrichment, market maps and a LinkedIn company headquarters lookup inside a larger workflow, as a LinkedIn company info extractor that needs no login.

It extracts, per company:

- **Industry** – the industry the company lists on its page
- **Company size** – the size range LinkedIn shows, such as 201-500 employees
- **Members on LinkedIn** – how many LinkedIn members list the company, a handy LinkedIn employee count by company
- **Headquarters** – the city and region of the head office
- **Website** – the company's own site, with short links followed to the real address (a LinkedIn company website finder in one field)
- **About text** – the full company description, not the shortened preview

⚡ No login is used: it reads only what a logged-out visitor sees, and a company that can't be read is saved with the read-successfully flag set to false and is not charged.

***

### Use cases 💡

- **Sales rep** — shortlist target accounts by LinkedIn company size and industry before outreach.
- **RevOps analyst** — fill empty CRM fields with website, headquarters and About text.
- **Recruiter** — gauge a client's team size from its member count before the first call.
- **Market researcher** — map an industry's companies by headquarters city in one table.
- **AI agent builder** — index company About text into a RAG store as account context.

Building an AI agent? [Connect LinkedIn Company About Scraper over MCP](#mcp-integration-for-ai-agents) and let it call the actor on its own.

***

### Why choose this actor?

- **Three companies in under half a minute.** A recorded run read Microsoft, Apify and Google (given as a link, a handle and an /about/ link) and saved 3 rows in 25.9 seconds, with the 2-second delay before each company.
- **The whole About section, not a teaser.** The recorded Microsoft row came back with its full 747-character About text, 10,001+ employees, 231,728 members on LinkedIn, Redmond, Washington and its website.
- **10 fields per company, every run.** Name, website, industry, size, member count, headquarters, About text, LinkedIn URL, a read-successfully flag and the scrape time, with the same keys on every row.

***

### ⬇️ Input

![Input fields of the LinkedIn Company About Scraper](https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/WYkyEfqs10huyXYxr/records/a-linkedin-company-about-input.webp)

The Actor accepts a list of LinkedIn company page links or company handles, one per line; this list is the only required field. Retries, delay and proxy settings are optional.

| Parameter | Required | Type | Description | Example value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `startUrls` | Yes | array of strings | One company per entry: a company page link or its handle. Links to a sub-page (/about/, /jobs/, /people/) are read from the company's main page. No default; the form is prefilled with the Microsoft link and `google`. | `["https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft", "apify"]` |
| `maxRetries` | No | integer | Extra attempts when a company page is blocked, shows a login wall or does not load. Allowed 0–10; 3 when not set (prefilled 3). | `3` |
| `requestDelay` | No | integer | Seconds to pause before each company, plus a random 0–1 s. Allowed 0–30; 2 when not set (prefilled 2). | `2` |
| `proxyConfiguration` | No | object | Your Apify Proxy group and country, or your own proxy URLs, used first. Without a proxy the run uses a direct connection. After a block the run switches once to an Apify residential proxy for the remaining companies. Prefilled with no proxy. | `{"useApifyProxy": false}` |

#### Free plan limits

Users on the Apify free plan can fetch up to 20 companies per run (all listed companies together) and 200 companies per month. When the limit is reached, the run finishes successfully with a status message explaining the limit. Upgrade to any paid Apify plan to remove these limits.

#### Example input

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft",
    "apify",
    "https://www.linkedin.com/company/google/about/"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  },
  "maxRetries": 3,
  "requestDelay": 2
}
```

***

### ⬆️ Output

![Output fields of the LinkedIn Company About Scraper](https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/WYkyEfqs10huyXYxr/records/a-linkedin-company-about-output.webp)

Every company is one typed, normalized JSON item with the same 10 keys on every run, so you can export LinkedIn company details to CSV, Excel or JSON (default) without misaligned columns. A company that can't be read is still one row, with the read-successfully flag set to false and empty text fields, and it is not charged.

#### Example output

```json
[
  {
    "company_name": "Microsoft",
    "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft",
    "domain": "https://news.microsoft.com",
    "category": "Software Development",
    "number_employees": "10,001+ employees",
    "associated_members": "231,728",
    "location": "Redmond, Washington",
    "description": "Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. \n\nMicrosoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.",
    "success": true,
    "scraped_at": "2026-10-03T11:16:50.084904"
  },
  {
    "company_name": "",
    "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/this-company-does-not-exist-zz9q",
    "domain": "",
    "category": "",
    "number_employees": "",
    "associated_members": "",
    "location": "",
    "description": "",
    "success": false,
    "scraped_at": "2026-10-03T11:08:54.305133"
  }
]
```

***

### How does it work?

You don't need a LinkedIn account. For each company, the Actor opens the public company page in a real browser, the same page any logged-out visitor sees, and handles the rendering automatically. It reads the company about text from LinkedIn and the other About details on that page, and follows short links in the website field to the real address.

When LinkedIn blocks the connection or shows a login page instead of the company, the Actor retries and switches once to a residential proxy for the rest of the run. Your own proxy settings are always tried first. A pause with a little random extra time before each company keeps the pace polite. It returns only publicly visible data, never solves CAPTCHAs, and every row follows one fixed schema of 10 fields, whether the company was read or not.

***

### How do you integrate LinkedIn Company About Scraper into your stack?

It works with what you already use: the Apify REST API from any language, the Apify MCP server for AI agents, and no-code tools.

#### MCP integration for AI agents

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=socialdataapi/linkedin-company-about-scraper"
```

This connects your agent to the Apify MCP server, which registers this Actor as a tool your agent can call directly, with no search or add step. Sign in with your Apify account when asked. The command is for Claude Code; Cursor and Windsurf connect to the same URL in their MCP settings.

#### No-code tools (n8n, Make, LangChain)

**n8n:** add the Apify node, choose **Run an Actor** and pick this Actor with your list of companies. Its dataset items flow into the next node, such as Google Sheets or your CRM.

**Make:** add the Apify app's **Run an Actor** module with this Actor and your input, then **Get Dataset Items** to pass the companies on. Map the company name, industry and website into any later module.

**LangChain:** install `langchain-apify` and load a finished run's dataset with `ApifyDatasetLoader`. Map the About text to the document content and the company name and industry to metadata.

***

### Is it legal to scrape LinkedIn data?

Scraping publicly available LinkedIn company data is generally legal. LinkedIn Company About Scraper returns only publicly available data: the company details any visitor sees without logging in, with no employee lists and nothing behind a login. GDPR: company details are mostly business data, and while scraping public data is generally permissible, storing and using it must comply with local data-protection law. This is not legal advice. Consult legal counsel if your use case involves bulk storage of personal data.

***

### Frequently asked questions

#### What fields does LinkedIn Company About Scraper return?

The top five are the company name, industry, company size, headquarters and About text. See [the data fields section](#what-data-can-i-extract-with-linkedin-company-about-scraper) for all 10.

#### Does LinkedIn Company About Scraper require a LinkedIn account or login?

No. Only public company data is extracted, and the input has no login, cookie or API-key field. No credentials needed.

#### How fast does LinkedIn Company About Scraper run?

A recorded run read 3 companies in 25.9 seconds and another read 3 companies plus one missing page in 28.2 seconds, each with the default 2-second delay before every company. Data is fetched live on every run, not cached.

#### What happens if a company page is private or doesn't exist?

You still get one row for it, with the read-successfully flag set to false and empty text fields, and that row is not charged. The same happens when a page stays blocked after all retries or does not load. In your code, filter on the read-successfully flag to separate companies that were read from the ones to check again.

#### Can I scrape multiple LinkedIn companies at once?

Yes. Put as many company links or handles as you need in one list; they are read one after another and each is saved as soon as it finishes.

#### Does LinkedIn Company About Scraper work with Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI agent tools?

Yes — this Actor is available as an MCP tool through the Apify MCP server. Register the server in Claude Code with the command below (Cursor and Windsurf use the same URL), and the agent can call this Actor right away.

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=socialdataapi/linkedin-company-about-scraper"
```

Any agent that can call an HTTP endpoint can also use the Apify REST API directly.

#### Does LinkedIn Company About Scraper return data in a format LLMs can use directly?

Yes. Every row is typed, normalized JSON with consistent field names. No HTML parsing, no selectors: pass it straight to an LLM, index it into a vector store, or feed it to an agent tool with no transformation step.

#### What happens when LinkedIn changes its layout or updates its anti-bot system?

The Actor is maintained, and when LinkedIn changes its company pages it is updated so your calls keep returning the same 10-field JSON schema with no changes on your end. Until then, a company that can't be read comes back with the read-successfully flag set to false instead of wrong data.

#### Can I use LinkedIn Company About Scraper without managing proxies or browser infrastructure?

Yes. The browser, the retries and the switch to a residential proxy after a block all run on the Actor's side. You send one request and get structured JSON back; no proxy account or headless browser setup is needed, and it does not solve CAPTCHAs.

#### Which LinkedIn company fields work best for AI training data and RAG indexing?

For RAG: the About text, industry and headquarters, with the company name and LinkedIn URL as metadata. For training data: the company size range, member count and the read-successfully flag. Every field is a typed primitive (strings and one boolean); the size and member count are kept as the text LinkedIn shows, so turn them into numbers if your model needs them. Treat it as your LinkedIn about section data source for that kind of dataset.

***

### Your feedback

Found a bug or missing a field? Let us know. Include the input you used and the run's log so the problem can be reproduced.

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

One company per line: a company page link (https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft) or just the handle from that link (microsoft). Links to a company sub-page such as /about/ or /jobs/ are read from the company's main page. Each company returns one row; a company that cannot be read gets a row with success = false and is not charged. Free plan: up to 20 companies per run (all listed companies together) and 200 per month; paid plans have no limit.

## `maxRetries` (type: `integer`):

How many extra attempts a company page gets when it is blocked, shows a login wall or does not load (0–10). When not set, 3 retries are used. After a block the run switches once to a residential proxy for the remaining companies.

## `requestDelay` (type: `integer`):

Pause in seconds before each company (a random 0–1 s is added) to lower the chance of being rate-limited (0–30). When not set, 2 seconds are used.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Your proxy is used first: Apify Proxy with the group and country you choose, or your own proxy URLs. Without a proxy the run uses a direct connection. If LinkedIn blocks the connection, the run switches once to an Apify residential proxy and keeps it for the remaining companies.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft",
    "google"
  ],
  "maxRetries": 3,
  "requestDelay": 2,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All scraped items in the Actor's default dataset.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "startUrls": [
        "https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft",
        "google"
    ],
    "maxRetries": 3,
    "requestDelay": 2,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": false
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("socialdataapi/linkedin-company-about-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "startUrls": [
        "https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft",
        "google",
    ],
    "maxRetries": 3,
    "requestDelay": 2,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": False },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("socialdataapi/linkedin-company-about-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft",
    "google"
  ],
  "maxRetries": 3,
  "requestDelay": 2,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}' |
apify call socialdataapi/linkedin-company-about-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,socialdataapi/linkedin-company-about-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/5gcwsGROPJFGgTqIY/builds/WQujF93D6tB5RWOTb/openapi.json