# LinkedIn Public Profile Scraper (`cryptosignals/linkedin-profile-scraper`) Actor

Scrape public LinkedIn personal profiles. Extract name, headline, about, experience and education. No company-page mode, no skills field, no email. Inputs: profileUrl, username, or profileUrls. Pay-per-result. For recruiting and research.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/cryptosignals/linkedin-profile-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Web Data Labs](https://apify.com/cryptosignals) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Jobs
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 114 total users, 4 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $4.00 / 1,000 result scrapeds

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?

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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.

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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 Public Profile Scraper

Scrape **public LinkedIn personal profiles** without login credentials or API access. Returns name, headline, about, experience, and education from publicly visible profile pages.

This actor does **not** scrape company pages, does **not** extract a skills field, and does **not** return email addresses or other private contact details.

### What It Does

Fetches publicly available data from LinkedIn `/in/` profile pages using a headless browser. No LinkedIn login or cookies required.

Supports one profile or a batch of profile URLs in a single run.

### Input Parameters

| Field | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|-------|------|----------|---------|-------------|
| `profileUrl` | string | No\* | — | Full LinkedIn profile URL (e.g. `https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates`) |
| `username` | string | No\* | — | LinkedIn username / vanity slug (e.g. `williamhgates`). Built into `/in/{username}`. |
| `profileUrls` | array of strings | No\* | — | List of LinkedIn profile URLs for batch scraping |
| `maxItems` | integer | No | all provided, max 50 | Cap on how many of the provided profiles to scrape |

\*Provide at least one of `profileUrl`, `username`, or `profileUrls`. There is no `action` field and no company-page mode.

Common aliases (`urls`, `startUrls`, `linkedinUrl`, `usernames`) are also accepted.

Non-LinkedIn URLs, private or deleted profiles, and insufficient run timeout/memory return an explanatory dataset row instead of failing.

**Username example:** `williamhgates` (from `linkedin.com/in/williamhgates`)

### Output Format

Public personal profiles only. Shape matches what the actor actually extracts:

```json
{
  "name": "Bill Gates",
  "headline": "Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation",
  "location": "Seattle, Washington, United States",
  "about": "Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation...",
  "profilePhoto": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/...",
  "connectionCount": "500+",
  "experience": [
    {
      "title": "Co-chair",
      "company": "Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation",
      "duration": "2000 – Present"
    }
  ],
  "currentRole": "Co-chair",
  "currentCompany": "Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation",
  "education": [
    {
      "school": "Harvard University"
    }
  ],
  "profileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates"
}
```

Fields that are **not** returned: `email`, `skills`, company-page fields (`companySize`, `industry`, `headquarters`, `companyUrl`).

### Use Cases

- **Recruiting** — Collect public headline, location, and experience from profiles you already have URLs for
- **Research** — Pull publicly visible about/experience/education text from a known profile list
- **CRM enrichment** — Attach public headline and current role to records you already hold (not a source of emails)

### How to Run via API

```python
import requests

run = requests.post(
    "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/cryptosignals~linkedin-profile-scraper/runs",
    params={"token": "YOUR_API_TOKEN"},
    json={
        "profileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates",
        "maxItems": 1
    }
).json()

dataset_id = run["data"]["defaultDatasetId"]
results = requests.get(
    f"https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/{dataset_id}/items"
).json()

for p in results:
    print(f"{p.get('name')} — {p.get('headline')}")
```

Batch example:

```json
{
  "username": "williamhgates",
  "profileUrls": [
    "https://www.linkedin.com/in/satyanadella"
  ],
  "maxItems": 2
}
```

### Limitations

- **Public `/in/` profiles only** — no company-page (`/company/`) mode
- **No skills field** — skills are not extracted
- **No email / phone / InMail** — this is not a contact-finder
- LinkedIn guest pages can return empty or blocked responses from some networks; a failed empty run is a failed run, not a partial dataset
- Maximum 50 profiles per run
- **Anonymous usage statistics:** this actor reports one anonymous-content record per run: outcome counts and non-identifying run metadata (duration, verdict, whether the caller is on a paid Apify plan). No URLs, profile names, input values, or results are collected.

### Related Actors

- [cryptosignals/google-search-scraper](https://apify.com/cryptosignals/google-search-scraper) — Find LinkedIn profile URLs via search
- [cryptosignals/linkedin-company-scraper](https://apify.com/cryptosignals/linkedin-company-scraper) — Company pages (separate actor)

### Handling empty or blocked pages

LinkedIn may restrict access from some IP ranges. If a run returns no profiles, retry later or enable Apify proxy (residential recommended if you see HTTP 999 / empty pages). This actor does not gate features by Apify plan.

***

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# Actor input Schema

## `profileUrl` (type: `string`):

LinkedIn profile URL (e.g. https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates)

## `username` (type: `string`):

LinkedIn username (e.g. williamhgates). Alternative to Profile URL.

## `profileUrls` (type: `array`):

List of LinkedIn profile URLs for batch scraping.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of profiles to scrape. Default: all provided, max 50.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "profileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates",
  "username": "",
  "profileUrls": [],
  "maxItems": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "profileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates",
    "username": "",
    "profileUrls": [],
    "maxItems": 50
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("cryptosignals/linkedin-profile-scraper").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 = {
    "profileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates",
    "username": "",
    "profileUrls": [],
    "maxItems": 50,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("cryptosignals/linkedin-profile-scraper").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 '{
  "profileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates",
  "username": "",
  "profileUrls": [],
  "maxItems": 50
}' |
apify call cryptosignals/linkedin-profile-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/DDpcgUAXNnOeFnbKI/builds/zkVtfJPgsqncwW1O7/openapi.json