LinkedIn People Finder by Name & Company (No Login)

Turn a list of names into LinkedIn profiles — with the current employer, location, headline, photo and followers — without a LinkedIn account, cookie or proxy. Give the actor names plus an optional company or location, and it returns the people who match.

What this actor does

• Looks up each name in LinkedIn's public people directory and returns the matching profiles, up to 50 candidates per name.
• Narrows the list with strict current company and location filters: every candidate's public profile page is checked before a row is kept, so a person whose company only appears in a directory summary is verified or dropped.
• Opens each matched profile to fill the public details: current employer, location, followers, "500+" connection indicator, about text, education and profile photo.
• Understands full names, single names, middle names, and one-sided searches (first:Madonna, last:Smith).
• Removes duplicates, so the same profile is never returned twice in one run.
• Works with zero credentials and zero proxy setup. No LinkedIn login is used at any point.

Output per profile

Field	Description
name	The person's name as shown on their profile.
profileUrl	Canonical https://www.linkedin.com/in/... profile URL.
headline	Real headline when publicly visible or recoverable from an indexed public result (headlineSource: "page" or "search_engine"); omitted when LinkedIn hides it everywhere.
currentTitle	Job title parsed from a real headline, when available.
location	The location shown on the profile.
currentCompany	Current employer as {name, slug, url}.
companyText	The employer summary shown in the directory card, kept for traceability.
companyRedacted	true when LinkedIn hides the employer and would otherwise show the job title in its place.
about	The public About text (aboutSource: page, dom or og).
aboutTruncated	true when LinkedIn only exposes a truncated About excerpt to logged-out visitors.
followersCount	Follower count.
connectionsText	Public connection indicator, usually "500+".
currentSchool	School shown in the profile's top card.
education / educationCount	Public education entries (profile data, with an og:description fallback) and their count.
profilePicture / profileImageUrl	Profile photo URL when the member has a real photo.
searchName	The input name that produced this row.
discoveredVia	directory, directory_profile (the directory page was the profile itself) or search_engine.
searchEngine	yahoo or duckduckgo when the row came from the search-engine fallback.
scrapedAt	ISO 8601 UTC timestamp.

Empty fields are omitted, never emitted as null. The legacy keys connectionDegree, verifiedStatus, openToWork, mutualConnections and commonInterests remain part of the record shape but are not available without a logged-in session, so they do not appear.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
names	List of strings	–	Names to look up. Full names, single names, or first: / last: for a one-sided search. Required.
maxResultsPerName	Integer (1–50)	10	Profiles to return per name.
currentCompany	String	–	Keep only people whose current employer contains this text.
location	String	–	Keep only people whose location contains this text.
enrichProfiles	Boolean	true	Open each matched profile for photo, about, followers, education and a verified employer. Off = directory cards only.
includeHeadlinesFromSearchEngines	Boolean	true	Best-effort extra matches and indexed headlines from public search engines, including a company-specific headline fallback derived from each profile. Also drives the company-augmented rescue query.

Example: name plus company

{
  "names": ["Satya Nadella", "Sundar Pichai"],
  "currentCompany": "Microsoft",
  "maxResultsPerName": 5
}

Example: location filter

{
  "names": ["John Smith"],
  "location": "London",
  "enrichProfiles": true
}

Example: fastest mode

{
  "names": ["Ada Lovelace", "Grace Hopper"],
  "enrichProfiles": false,
  "maxResultsPerName": 10
}

Use cases

• Lead research — turn a list of names into current employer, role and profile links.
• Recruiting — confirm a candidate's current company and location before outreach.
• CRM cleanup — refresh LinkedIn URLs and employers for existing contacts.
• Name disambiguation — use company or location to pick the right person among namesakes.

FAQ

Do I need a LinkedIn cookie or account? No. The actor reads only LinkedIn's public directory and logged-out profile pages. It never asks for a login and does not use your account.

Why is a person missing from the results? LinkedIn's public directory shows at most 50 candidates per name. Very common names ("John Smith") can push the person you want outside that window. Add a company or location filter: the actor then also runs a company-augmented public search-engine query, which recovers many common-name cases, and verifies every candidate against its profile.

Are the company and location filters exact? They are case-insensitive text matches, verified against the profile the actor opens. They keep people whose current employer or location contains your text. They are not LinkedIn's own server-side filters.

Why is the headline missing for some people? LinkedIn hides most logged-out headlines and replaces them with asterisks or the current company. The actor returns a real headline when it is visible on the page or recoverable from an indexed public result (name, vanity and name+company query forms); otherwise the field is left out rather than guessed.

Why do some rows have companyRedacted: true? On some profiles LinkedIn hides the employer and puts the job title where the company should be. The actor detects that pattern, never reports the job title as a company, and marks the record instead.

Why does the connection count say "500+"? LinkedIn caps the public connection indicator at "500+". An exact number is not exposed to logged-out visitors.

Can I get email addresses, skills or full work history? No. Those fields require a logged-in LinkedIn session and are outside this actor's public-data scope.

What happens when a name has no matches? No row is emitted for that name; the run continues with the remaining names.

Is this actor affiliated with LinkedIn? No. It is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by LinkedIn Corporation.

Data source & limitations

The actor reads LinkedIn's public people directory (/pub/dir/) and the public, logged-out profile pages it links to. It selects its own access path automatically; no proxy configuration is needed.

Honest limits: the directory window is about 50 candidates per name; exact connections, skills, full experience history, education degrees and contact details are not public; and headline visibility depends on what LinkedIn and public search indexes expose to logged-out visitors. The search-engine fallback is best-effort and may pause itself when the engines rate-limit. About texts are often truncated for anonymous visitors (flagged with aboutTruncated).