# LinkedIn Profile Scraper API 💰$3/1K: Public Profiles (`spellzcode/linkedin-profile-data`) Actor

Get public LinkedIn profiles from a list of links: name, headline, about, location, followers, experience and education as shown publicly. No login or cookies needed. Profiles not available are free. Pay per profile.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/spellzcode/linkedin-profile-data.md
- **Developed by:** [Mårten Fitzback](https://apify.com/spellzcode) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Automation
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 3 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.40 / 1,000 profile founds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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 Profile Scraper: Public Profiles by URL, No Login

Give it LinkedIn profile links and get a clean row for each public profile. Useful for checking who is at an account and keeping a CRM's job titles current.

**You pay only for profiles found.** Profiles that are not public and refused pages come back with the reason and cost nothing.

### What you get

| Field | What it is |
|---|---|
| `name`, `jobTitles`, `about` | As shown publicly |
| `location`, `country`, `followers` | When shown publicly |
| `experience`, `education` | The entries on the public page, which are often partial |
| `partlyHidden` | True when LinkedIn hid some text on the public page; hidden text comes back empty |
| `linkedinUrl`, `photoUrl` | Links |
| `status`, `error` | `ok`, `no_data`, `not_found` or `refused`, and why |

**Expect refusals.** LinkedIn refuses a share of these pages: 4 of 11 in our test. Refused pages are free and listed so you can retry them later.

It does not return emails or phone numbers, and it does not search for people: you supply the links.

### Personal data

This is personal data. You are the controller of what you collect: under GDPR and similar laws you need a lawful basis, and you must honour people's rights, including objections and deletion. Do not use it for spam, harassment, or decisions such as hiring or credit without meeting the rules that apply to them.

### Limits

It reads public LinkedIn pages one at a time, without logging in, without proxies and without solving CAPTCHAs. If LinkedIn refuses repeatedly, the run stops, says so and charges nothing for those pages, so very large jobs may need several runs. Many people limit what their public profile shows, so fields can be empty or missing. Not affiliated with LinkedIn. You are responsible for using the data lawfully, including the site's terms and privacy law such as GDPR.

### Example output

```json
{
  "query": "williamhgates",
  "status": "ok",
  "name": "Bill Gates",
  "jobTitles": [
    "Co-chair",
    "Founder",
    "Co-founder"
  ],
  "about": "…",
  "location": "Seattle, Washington, United States",
  "country": "US",
  "followers": 40772579,
  "experience": [
    {
      "name": "Gates Foundation",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/gates-foundation",
      "description": null,
      "from": 2000,
      "to": null
    }
  ],
  "education": [],
  "linkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates",
  "partlyHidden": false
}
```

### Pricing

Pay per event: **$0.003 per profile found** ($3 per 1,000), with 10-30% off on paid Apify plans, plus a tiny start fee of $0.00005. Apify's platform usage is included in the price. Apify's free monthly credit covers a first test.

### Questions

Found a problem? Open an issue on the Issues tab and it will be looked at.

### Related tools

- [TikTok Profile Scraper](https://apify.com/spellzcode/tiktok-profile-data): followers, likes and bio for TikTok accounts by link
- [Threads Profile Scraper](https://apify.com/spellzcode/threads-profile-data): followers and bio for Threads accounts by link
- [Contact Details Scraper](https://apify.com/spellzcode/website-contact-extractor): public emails, phones and social links from company websites
- [All SpellzCode actors](https://github.com/Nutshell2000/spellzcode-apify-actors)

Tutorial: [keep your CRM's job titles current from LinkedIn profile links](https://dev.to/spellzcode/keep-your-crms-job-titles-current-from-linkedin-profile-links-without-logging-in-or-using-cookies-3pkk)

# Actor input Schema

## `profiles` (type: `array`):

LinkedIn profile links or the name in the link.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "profiles": [
    "https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates"
  ]
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

One item per result.

# 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 = {
    "profiles": [
        "https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("spellzcode/linkedin-profile-data").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 = { "profiles": ["https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("spellzcode/linkedin-profile-data").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 '{
  "profiles": [
    "https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates"
  ]
}' |
apify call spellzcode/linkedin-profile-data --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,spellzcode/linkedin-profile-data"
        }
    }
}
```

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/ZfHABeOqX6gIma08c/builds/1gW8sNo5es8cuXZgd/openapi.json