LinkedIn Profile Scraper

Overview

The LinkedIn Profile Scraper is an essential tool for B2B sales teams, recruiters, and market researchers who need deep professional data. Unlike the restricted official LinkedIn API, this scraper allows you to extract highly detailed personal profiles, complete company structures (firmographics), and active job postings directly into your CRM or spreadsheets. You can scrape thousands of profiles to gather work experience, education history, skills, endorsements, and crucially, public contact information such as emails and phone numbers. It handles pagination, logs into the platform safely on your behalf (via cookies), and respects sophisticated rate limits to ensure your account remains secure while delivering structured lead data.

Key Features

Input Parameters

Sample Output

{
  "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/johndoe/",
  "firstName": "John",
  "lastName": "Doe",
  "headline": "VP of Sales at Apify | B2B Growth Strategy",
  "location": "San Francisco, California",
  "industry": "Computer Software",
  "email": "john.doe@example.com",
  "experience": [
    {
      "title": "VP of Sales",
      "company": "Apify",
      "duration": "Jan 2024 - Present",
      "description": "Leading the global sales team..."
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "school": "Stanford University",
      "degree": "MBA"
    }
  ],
  "skills": ["B2B Sales", "SaaS", "Leadership"]
}

How to Use

1. 1

   Click the 'Try for Free' button to access the LinkedIn Scraper on Apify.

2. 2

   Log in to your free Apify account.

3. 3

   Retrieve your `li_at` session cookie from your browser and paste it into the scraper's auth field.

4. 4

   Input the specific profile URLs, company URLs, or a LinkedIn Search URL.

5. 5

   Set a reasonable maximum limit to extract (e.g., 100 profiles).

6. 6

   Click 'Start'. Download your enriched leads as a CSV or Excel file for your CRM.

API Example

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: 'YOUR_API_TOKEN',
});

const input = {
    "cookie": "YOUR_LI_AT_COOKIE",
    "profileUrls": [
        "https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-gates/"
    ],
    "deepScrape": true,
    "limit": 10
};

const run = await client.actor("bebity/linkedin-premium-actor").call(input);

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Pricing Structure

Pay for usage model. Due to LinkedIn's strict anti-bot measures, residential proxies are required. The average cost is $4.00 - $8.00 per 1,000 deep-scraped profiles. The $5/month free Apify credit covers the extraction of hundreds of profiles at zero cost.

Limitations

• Requires a valid LinkedIn session cookie (`li_at`). You must log in using a real account.
• Aggressive scraping (e.g., thousands of profiles per day on a free standard LinkedIn account) can highly risk your account getting restricted. We recommend using 'burner' or dedicated scraper accounts.
• Direct personal emails are only extracted if the user made them completely public.

Frequently Asked Questions