LinkedIn Scraper: People, Companies & Posts

Give it a list of LinkedIn URLs. Get back people with their work history and recent posts, company pages with follower and employee counts, and individual posts with full engagement — in one run, with no LinkedIn login and no cookies.

Mix people, companies and posts in the same list. Each URL is routed to the right lookup automatically.

Built for lead research, competitor monitoring, recruitment sourcing and content analysis.

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What it does

• People — full work history, education, follower count, and their recent posts and reposts with the complete text, so you can see what someone actually talks about
• Companies — description, industry, size, follower and employee counts, every office location, and the companies LinkedIn lists as similar
• Posts — full text, reactions, reaction types, comments, and video with per-quality URLs and transcripts
• Comments included free — post comments are part of the post price, not a separate charge
• Related profiles — around twenty "people also viewed" per person, which turns one name into a prospect list
• No login required — no LinkedIn account, no cookies, no session token, ever
• Every URL accounted for — each one you supply comes back with a record, so you always know what was found
• Honest about gating — where LinkedIn hides a field from logged-out visitors, the record names it rather than leaving you guessing

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Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
urls	array	—	Required. Mix people, companies and posts freely. Anything that is not one of those is skipped and costs nothing. Max 500 per run
includePostComments	boolean	true	Return comments on post URLs. Included in the post price
includeRelatedProfiles	boolean	false	Add the "people also viewed" list to person records. Included in the profile price

Accepted URL shapes

People      linkedin.com/in/satyanadella
Companies   linkedin.com/company/microsoft
Schools     linkedin.com/school/harvard-university
Posts       linkedin.com/posts/…-activity-7298318111240257536-MZHu
            linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7298318111240257536

A missing https://, a trailing slash, a query string, or a regional subdomain like in.linkedin.com all work.

Example input

{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.linkedin.com/in/satyanadella",
    "https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft",
    "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/satyanadella_activity-7298318111240257536-MZHu"
  ],
  "includePostComments": true,
  "includeRelatedProfiles": true
}

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Output

One record per URL. Every record carries type (profile, company or post), url (the page it is for) and status.

Person records

Field	Type	Description
fullName, firstName, lastName	string | null	Name
publicIdentifier	string | null	The handle from the profile URL
headline	string | null	Profile headline
location, country	string | null	Stated location
about	string | null	About text
followers, connections	number | null	Audience size
profilePhotoUrl, coverImageUrl	string | null	Profile picture and banner
currentCompany, currentSchool	object | null	Present employer and school
totalExperiences	number | null	How many positions were found
experience	array	Work history with company, dates and duration
education	array	Education history
activity	array	Recent posts and reposts with full text, author and link. A repost is marked in action
activityCount	number | null	How many activity items were returned
articles	array	Long-form articles with title, link and cover image
awards, volunteerExperience, recommendations, publications, websites	array	Where the profile shows them publicly
relatedProfiles	array	"People also viewed". Empty unless requested
fieldsWithheldByLinkedIn	array	Which fields LinkedIn does not render publicly
aboutTruncated	boolean | null	Whether LinkedIn cut the About text

Company records

Field	Type	Description
companyName, tagline, description	string | null	Identity
industry, specialties, companyType	string | null	Classification
companySize	string | null	Band, e.g. 10,001+ employees
followersCount, employeesCount	number | null	Audience and headcount
headquarters, website	string | null	Where and what
logoUrl, coverImageUrl	string | null	Company logo and banner
locations	array	Every office with address
similarCompanies	array	Ten companies LinkedIn lists as similar
sampleEmployees	array	A handful of staff with name, title and profile link
recentPosts, companyUpdates	array	A sample of the page's own content

Post records

Field	Type	Description
postId, postType, postedAt		text, image, video, article or discussion
caption, articleBody	string | null	The post text
hashtags	array	Hashtags used in the post
authorName, authorHandle, authorProfileUrl	string | null	Who wrote it. Handle is null for company-page authors
authorFollowerCount	number | null	The author's total followers
likeCount, commentCount, viewCount	number | null	Engagement
reactionTypes	array	Which reactions are present — like, praise, empathy and so on
comments	array	Author, text, likes and timestamp per comment
commentsReturned	number	How many this record contains
commentsRemaining	boolean	Whether the post has more than LinkedIn shows publicly
videoUrl, videoUrlsByQuality, transcript, captionsVttUrl		Video, at each quality, with transcript
imageUrls, thumbnailUrl, durationSeconds		Media

Every record also carries status: ok, not_found for a page that is not publicly visible, or unavailable if the source could not be reached.

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Pricing

Charged per page looked up, plus a small fixed fee when a run starts. Comments on posts and related profiles are included — there is no separate charge for either.

Prices fall on larger Apify plans.

Event	Free plan	Starter	Scale	Business and above
Person profile	$2.90 per 1,000	$2.70	$2.55	$2.40 per 1,000
Company page	$2.90 per 1,000	$2.50	$2.10	$1.80 per 1,000
Post	$2.90 per 1,000	$2.50	$2.10	$1.80 per 1,000
Run start	$0.005 per run	$0.005	$0.005	$0.005

A URL that is not a LinkedIn profile, company or post is rejected before any lookup and costs nothing.

Worked examples, at Business-plan rates

Totals are rounded to the nearest cent.

Lead research — 250 people 250 × $0.0024 + $0.005 = ≈$0.61

Competitor watch — 50 companies and 200 of their posts 50 × $0.0018 + 200 × $0.0018 + $0.005 = ≈$0.46

Sourcing sweep — 750 people with related profiles 750 × $0.0024 + $0.005 = ≈$1.81

Set Maximum cost per run in the run options to cap spend. The Actor stops cleanly at that ceiling and returns everything it charged for.

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Good to know

Comments on a post are capped at roughly ten. That is LinkedIn's own limit — a public post page embeds about ten comments however many the post really has. commentsRemaining tells you when there are more. No tool reading public pages can return the rest.

LinkedIn hides some profile fields from logged-out visitors. Skills, certifications and per-position job titles are not rendered publicly, and the About text is often cut short. Rather than silently returning blanks, every person record lists exactly what was withheld in fieldsWithheldByLinkedIn.

You supply the URLs. There is no keyword or name search — this Actor reads pages you point it at.

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Tips

• Start with people, add companies later. Person records carry the richest signal, particularly the activity feed.
• Turn on related profiles for sourcing. One good profile yields around twenty adjacent ones, at no extra cost.
• Use the activity feed to qualify. It tells you whether someone actually posts, and what about, which a static profile cannot.
• Keep lists tidy. Every URL you supply is looked up, so a clean list keeps runs quick.

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Support

Report a problem through the Issues tab on this Actor's page. Issues are reviewed regularly.

When reporting, please include the run ID, the input you used, and what you expected.

For volume enquiries, custom requirements, or anything not specific to a single run, email socialhtz@gmail.com.