LinkedIn Profile Scraper

Build B2B prospect lists at scale: scrape public LinkedIn profiles for name, title, company, location, education, and contact-relevant fields — without a LinkedIn account, cookies, or paid SDR tools.

What you get

Structured data from public LinkedIn profiles, ready to drop into a CRM or sequencing tool. Give it a list of profile URLs or usernames and get full names, professional headlines, current and past positions with dates, education history, about sections, locations, follower counts, profile photos, and recent articles. No LinkedIn account needed.

Build B2B prospect lists from LinkedIn profiles

Sales, RevOps, and ABM teams use this actor to turn raw LinkedIn URLs into enriched prospect rows. Feed in 1K–100K profile URLs (sourced from LinkedIn search exports, Sales Navigator lists, conference attendee lists, GitHub commits, or Google), get back current title + current company + location for each — exactly the fields outbound tooling cares about. Pair with the LinkedIn Company Employees Scraper to first build the URL list, then this actor to enrich it.

LinkedIn lead generation without Sales Navigator

Sales Navigator costs roughly $99/seat/month and caps profile views; Apollo, ZoomInfo, and Lusha charge per-record on multi-thousand-dollar annual contracts. This actor returns the same public profile fields (name, title, company, headline, location, education) at a flat per-result price with no seat license, no daily view limit, and no LinkedIn account at risk. Use it as a drop-in replacement for the "enrich LinkedIn URL" step in any sales workflow.

Output fields

Field	Description
name	Full name
headline	Professional headline
current_titles	Current job titles
current_companies	Current companies with start dates
past_positions	Previous positions with company, title, and date range
education	Schools, degrees, and fields of study
about	About / summary section
location	Profile location
profile_photo_url	Profile photo URL
followers_count	Number of followers
profile_url	LinkedIn profile URL
articles	Recent articles with title, date, and like count

Example output

{
    "name": "Satya Nadella",
    "headline": "Chairman and CEO at Microsoft",
    "current_titles": ["Chairman and CEO"],
    "current_companies": [{"name": "Microsoft", "start_date": "2014"}],
    "past_positions": [
        {"name": "EVP, Cloud and Enterprise", "company": "Microsoft", "start_date": "2011", "end_date": "2014"}
    ],
    "education": [
        {"school": "University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee", "degree": "MS", "field": "Computer Science"}
    ],
    "about": "As Chairman and CEO of Microsoft...",
    "location": "Redmond, Washington",
    "followers_count": 10000000,
    "profile_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/satyanadella/"
}

Input parameters

Parameter	Required	Description
profileUrls	Yes	LinkedIn profile URLs or usernames. Accepts usernames (satyanadella), paths (/in/satyanadella), or full URLs (https://www.linkedin.com/in/satyanadella/).
maxProfiles	No	Maximum number of profiles to scrape. Default 5.
proxyConfiguration	No	Apify proxy settings. Leave default for best results.

Use cases

• SDR / sales teams: Build a 10K-prospect list of CTOs at Series B SaaS companies in 4 hours — feed in LinkedIn URLs, get back title, company, location, headline ready for sequencing.
• RevOps / Marketing Ops: Enrich CRM records with current title, current company, and location from a column of LinkedIn URLs — replace the Apollo / ZoomInfo enrichment step.
• ABM teams: List every decision-maker at the 200 named accounts you're targeting and pipe straight into 6sense / Demandbase / HubSpot.
• Recruiters: Research candidate backgrounds, find passive candidates with a specific skill at target companies, verify titles before outreach.
• Investor research: Track talent movement at portfolio companies — who joined, who left, where they came from.
• Researchers: Study career trajectories, company-to-company flows, and founder bios.
• HR and operations: Verify employment history and education claims at scale.

Use cases & recipes

Step-by-step guides on thirdwatch.dev/blog:

• Build a Candidate Shortlist from LinkedIn Profiles (2026)
• Enrich Your CRM with LinkedIn Profile Data (2026 Guide)
• Find Decision-Makers by Title and Company on LinkedIn (2026)
• Scrape LinkedIn Profiles Without Login at Scale (2026)

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Limitations

• Only public profiles — profiles with restricted visibility may return limited or no data.
• Skills, endorsements, recommendations, and certifications are not returned (they require login on LinkedIn).
• Some privacy-configured profiles return a subset of the fields listed above.

Compared to alternatives

• vs. Apollo.io / ZoomInfo / Lusha: Those tools charge $1K–$50K/year for seat licenses + per-record enrichment, and their data is often stale (titles 6–18 months old). This actor pulls the same public profile fields live from LinkedIn at a flat per-result rate, with raw JSON output you control.
• vs. LinkedIn Sales Navigator scrapers: Sales-Navigator-based tools require an active paid LinkedIn seat (and risk account ban). This actor needs no LinkedIn account at all — just public /in/{username} URLs.
• vs. LinkedIn's own API: LinkedIn does not offer a public developer API for profile data. This actor is the structured-data alternative for profiles you can already view in a browser without being logged in.
• vs. other LinkedIn profile scrapers on Apify Store: Many competitors require cookies, session tokens, or paid LinkedIn accounts. This actor works with plain public profile URLs.

Pairs well with LinkedIn Company Employees Scraper (to find profiles) and LinkedIn Jobs Scraper (to enrich hiring manager profiles).

FAQ

Do I need a LinkedIn account or cookies? No. Only public profile URLs are needed.

Can I enrich profiles I find via Google or other sources? Yes — anything that resolves to a /in/{username} URL will work.

How many profiles can I scrape in one run? Up to 1000 via maxProfiles.

How fresh is the data? Pulled live at run time.

Last verified: 2026-05

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