🎉 Linkedin Profiles
by prog-party
Automate LinkedIn profile searches by name. Perfect for recruiters, sales teams, and researchers to quickly generate leads and verify professional backgrounds.
Opens on Apify.com
About 🎉 Linkedin Profiles
Need to find someone on LinkedIn but don't have a direct connection or want to search manually? This actor is your go-to. It automates the process of searching for LinkedIn profiles using just a person's name. Think of it as a focused search assistant that saves you the hours you'd spend scrolling and guessing on the platform itself. It's incredibly useful for recruiters sourcing candidates, sales teams building prospect lists, or researchers verifying professional backgrounds. You feed it a list of names, and it returns the relevant profile URLs and key public data it can find. This lets you quickly build a clean list of leads to connect with or integrate into your existing CRM or outreach tools. I've used it to compile initial contact lists for campaigns, and it cut down my prep work significantly. Just remember, it works with publicly available information, so the results depend on how people have set up their profiles. For straightforward, automated LinkedIn profile discovery, this actor gets the job done without overcomplicating things.
What does this actor do?
🎉 Linkedin Profiles is a web scraping and automation tool available on the Apify platform. It's designed to help you extract data and automate tasks efficiently in the cloud.
Key Features
- Cloud-based execution - no local setup required
- Scalable infrastructure for large-scale operations
- API access for integration with your applications
- Built-in proxy rotation and anti-blocking measures
- Scheduled runs and webhooks for automation
How to Use
- Click "Try This Actor" to open it on Apify
- Create a free Apify account if you don't have one
- Configure the input parameters as needed
- Run the actor and download your results
Documentation
LinkedIn Profiles Actor
Scrapes LinkedIn for user profiles based on name filters and returns the results as structured data.
Overview
This actor searches LinkedIn and extracts public profile information. It's designed for lead generation and data integration workflows, outputting results to an Apify Dataset.
Key Features
- Profile Search: Finds LinkedIn profiles by person name.
- Structured Data Extraction: Returns consistent fields for each profile (title, URL, descriptions, image, first/last name).
- Result Limiting: Controls the number of profiles returned per run (1-10).
- Apify Dataset Integration: Outputs directly to a dataset for easy storage and further processing.
How to Use
Configure the actor run with a JSON input specifying your search criteria. The actor will execute the search, scrape the matching profiles, and push each result as a separate item to the output dataset.
Input
Provide input as a JSON object with the following optional fields:
| Field | Type | Description | Constraints |
|---|---|---|---|
limit |
Number | Max number of profiles to return. | 1 to 10 |
personName |
String | Filter by full name (e.g., "John Doe"). | Any string. |
Example Input:
{
"limit": 5,
"personName": "Jane Smith"
}
Output
The actor adds each found profile as an item to the Dataset. A typical output item includes:
{
"title": "Dennis Rosenbaum - Dem IT Holding B.V. | LinkedIn",
"url": "https://nl.linkedin.com/in/dennis-rosenbaum",
"shortDescription": "Dennis Rosenbaum. Dem IT Holding B.V. HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht...",
"longDescription": "Ik ben een ondernemer en ervaren freelance: solution architect | team lead | cloud…",
"image": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/...profile-displayphoto-shrink_200_200/0/17234...",
"firstName": "Dennis",
"lastName": "Rosenbaum"
}
Categories
Common Use Cases
Market Research
Gather competitive intelligence and market data
Lead Generation
Extract contact information for sales outreach
Price Monitoring
Track competitor pricing and product changes
Content Aggregation
Collect and organize content from multiple sources
Ready to Get Started?
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- Developer
- prog-party
- Pricing
- Paid
- Total Runs
- 331
- Active Users
- 15
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