LinkedIn Profile Search & Ranking Engine

Find the best-matched LinkedIn profiles based on your target skills and location — returns ranked profile URLs ready for manual review or further processing.

⚠️ What This Actor Does:
This actor finds and ranks the best-matching LinkedIn profile URLs based on the skills and location you provide. It does not scrape full profile details. All further information — experience, education, contact info — must be reviewed manually by visiting each profile URL.

How It Works

1. You provide a job title, location, and list of skills
2. The actor searches across multiple engines for matching LinkedIn profiles
3. Profiles are scored and ranked by how well they match your skills
4. You receive a ranked list of LinkedIn profile URLs with basic metadata
5. Visit each URL manually to review full profile details

Who It's For

• Recruiters and talent sourcers building candidate shortlists
• Sales teams finding leads by role and location
• Market researchers mapping talent in a region
• Automation pipelines that need a profile discovery step

Features

• Skill-based profile matching and relevance ranking
• Location-targeted search
• Multi-engine discovery (DuckDuckGo, Bing, Mojeek, Brave)
• Auto-fallback and query widening when results are limited
• Must-have skills filtering — exclude profiles missing critical skills
• Nice-to-have skills boosting — surface stronger matches first
• CSV and Apify dataset export
• No login, no cookies, no LinkedIn API required

Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
baseTitle	string	✅ Yes	"Data Scientist"	Job title or role to search for
location	string	✅ Yes	"Pune"	City or country to target
skills	array	No	["Python","SQL","ML"]	Skills used for matching and ranking
maxProfiles	integer	No	10	Max profiles to return (1–500)

Output

Returns a ranked list of the best-matching LinkedIn profile URLs with basic metadata. Full profile details are not included — visit each URL to review manually.

{
  "firstName": "Priya",
  "headline": "Senior Data Scientist | Python · ML · NLP",
  "skills": ["Python", "Machine Learning", "SQL"],
  "profileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/priya-example"
}

What's Included vs. What Requires Manual Review

✅ Actor Provides	🔍 Visit Profile Manually
Ranked LinkedIn profile URL	Work experience & history
First name	Education details
Professional headline	Contact information
Matched skills list	Certifications & endorsements
Relevance ranking score	Connections & recommendations

Run Settings

Setting	Value
Default timeout	600 seconds
Default memory	1024 MB
Proxy	Residential

Limitations

• Returns profile URLs and basic metadata only — not full profile content
• Operates entirely on publicly accessible search data
• Does not use LinkedIn's API or bypass any authentication
• Some profiles may return fewer fields if public visibility is restricted
• Match quality depends on what search engines have indexed