LinkedIn Profile Scraper — Profile Data + Posts + Articles

Extract rich structured data from LinkedIn public profiles without login or cookies. Get full name, headline, location, follower count, employer, education, recent articles, and recent posts — all via fast HTTP requests using structured JSON-LD data.

$2 per 1,000 profiles — the cheapest LinkedIn profile scraper on Apify.

📦 What data can you extract?

👤 Profile

Field	Description
name	Full display name
username	LinkedIn username (slug)
profileUrl	Full LinkedIn profile URL
jobTitle	Current headline / job title
description	About / summary section
location	City, region, or country
followerCount	LinkedIn follower count
employer	Current employer name and LinkedIn URL
education	List of schools with names and LinkedIn URLs
profileImageUrl	Profile photo URL
websites	External URLs listed on the profile

📝 Content

Field	Description
recentArticles	Up to ~10 most recent LinkedIn articles with headline, date, URL, like count, and image
recentPosts	Up to ~8 most recent posts with text, date, URL, and like count

🎯 Use cases

• Lead generation — Build targeted prospect lists from LinkedIn profiles at scale
• Recruitment research — Gather job titles, education, and experience data for candidate screening
• Influencer analysis — Track follower counts, posting activity, and article topics for creators
• Competitor tracking — Monitor key people at rival companies — their posts, articles, and role changes
• Sales prospecting — Enrich contact lists with current job title, employer, and location
• Market research — Analyze professional backgrounds and expertise patterns across an industry
• CRM enrichment — Keep your CRM up to date with the latest public LinkedIn data

💰 How much does it cost?

Volume	Cost	Per Profile
100 profiles	$0.20	$0.002
1,000 profiles	$2.00	$0.002
10,000 profiles	$20.00	$0.002

Plus Apify platform usage (~$0.50 per 1,000 profiles for compute).

⚙️ Input

Provide profile URLs or usernames:

{
    "profiles": [
        "williamhgates",
        "https://www.linkedin.com/in/satyanadella/",
        "jeffweiner08"
    ],
    "maxResults": 0
}

Input fields

Field	Type	Default	Description
profiles	string[]	—	LinkedIn profile URLs or usernames. Accepts full URLs or bare usernames.
maxResults	integer	0	Maximum profiles to scrape. 0 = all provided.

📄 Output example

{
    "name": "Bill Gates",
    "username": "williamhgates",
    "profileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates",
    "jobTitle": "Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation",
    "description": "Sharing things I'm learning through my foundation work and other interests.",
    "location": "Seattle, Washington",
    "followerCount": 35418902,
    "employer": {
        "name": "Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation",
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/bill-&-melinda-gates-foundation"
    },
    "education": [
        {
            "name": "Harvard University",
            "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/school/harvard-university"
        }
    ],
    "profileImageUrl": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/...",
    "websites": [
        "https://www.gatesnotes.com"
    ],
    "recentArticles": [
        {
            "headline": "My annual letter: The year global health stood still",
            "datePublished": "2026-01-14T00:00:00.000Z",
            "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/annual-letter-year-global-health-stood-still-bill-gates",
            "likeCount": 14823,
            "imageUrl": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/..."
        }
    ],
    "recentPosts": [
        {
            "text": "AI is moving faster than any technology I've seen in my lifetime...",
            "datePublished": "2026-04-08T18:32:00.000Z",
            "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/williamhgates_ai-is-moving-faster-...",
            "likeCount": 9241
        }
    ],
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-11T10:00:00.000Z"
}

🔗 Other LinkedIn scrapers

• LinkedIn Company Scraper — posts, similar companies, full address, and employee counts
• LinkedIn Jobs Scraper — scrape job listings with salary, description, and filters
• LinkedIn Ad Library Scraper — search LinkedIn's Ad Library by keyword, company, or payer

💡 Tips and notes

• URL normalization: Paste full LinkedIn URLs (https://www.linkedin.com/in/username) or just the bare username — both work.
• Public profiles only: Only publicly visible profile data is extracted. Private or restricted profiles will be skipped.
• Content limits: LinkedIn embeds roughly 10 articles and 8 posts per profile page in the JSON-LD data. That is all that is available without a logged-in session.
• Rate limiting: The actor uses polite 2-second delays between requests to avoid rate limiting.
• No login required: This actor works entirely via HTTP requests with browser headers. No cookies, credentials, or Playwright needed.
• Invalid profiles: Unrecognized URLs or usernames are skipped with a warning — they don't crash the run.