
I Built a LinkedIn Profile Scraper on Apify for Public Profiles, Company Enrichment, and Lead Research
Public LinkedIn data is still one of the most useful inputs for lead generation, recruiting, founder sourcing, and market research. The problem is that many LinkedIn scraping workflows have too much friction: they depend on cookies they break the moment setup is slightly wrong they return shallow profile data they make you wait until the whole run finishes before you can use anything I wanted something simpler. So I built a LinkedIn Profile Scraper on Apify that works with public profile URLs, does not require LinkedIn cookies, and returns structured profile data plus company enrichment and best-effort contact discovery from public company websites. What the actor does You pass in one or more public LinkedIn profile URLs like this: { "profileUrls" : [ "https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates" , "https://www.linkedin.com/in/satyanadella" ] } For each public profile, the actor can return: full name, headline, summary, location followers and connections current role and company work exp
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