{ "data": { "id": "eVpEfjG27u2JhT8YE", "actId": "4hlFo3L9L4XcQGeQ1", "userId": "gYCOLcSy6IuM4XiTT", "startedAt": "2026-10-05T11:52:11.586Z", "finishedAt": "2026-10-05T11:52:27.724Z", "status": "SUCCEEDED", "meta": { "origin": "API" }, "stats": { "durationMillis": 16053, "runTimeSecs": 16.053, "computeUnits": 0.017836666666666667, "imageSizeBytes": 363519488 }, "options": { "useCache": false, "betaPackages": false, "tag": "latest", "memoryMbytes": 4096, "diskMbytes": 8192 }, "exitCode": 0, "inputSchema": "{\n \"title\": \"LinkedIn Profile Data Scraper\",\n \"type\": \"object\",\n \"schemaVersion\": 1,\n \"properties\": {\n \"profiles\": {\n \"title\": \"LinkedIn profiles\",\n \"type\": \"array\",\n \"editor\": \"stringList\",\n \"description\": \"One per line. A profile link (`https://www.linkedin.com/in/satyanadella`), a country one (`https://de.linkedin.com/in/...`) or just the part after /in/ (`satyanadella`). A company page belongs in our company listing; pasted here it is skipped with a note, not charged.\",\n \"prefill\": [\n \"satyanadella\",\n \"williamhgates\",\n \"reidhoffman\"\n ]\n },\n \"maxProfiles\": {\n \"title\": \"Maximum profiles\",\n \"type\": \"integer\",\n \"description\": \"A ceiling on one run, counted in profiles read. Refused and filtered profiles are never charged, whatever this says.\",\n \"default\": 100,\n \"prefill\": 3,\n \"minimum\": 1,\n \"maximum\": 200\n },\n \"minFollowers\": {\n \"title\": \"Minimum followers\",\n \"type\": \"integer\",\n \"description\": \"Keep only people with at least this many followers. Judged from LinkedIn's own count before the row is stored, so a person below the bar is never charged. 0 keeps everybody.\",\n \"default\": 0,\n \"minimum\": 0\n },\n \"onlyWithCurrentCompany\": {\n \"title\": \"Only profiles with a current employer\",\n \"type\": \"boolean\",\n \"description\": \"Drop people whose page lists no current organisation - students, retirees, and the profiles LinkedIn withheld the employer of. Dropped rows are free.\",\n \"default\": false\n },\n \"includeFailedProfiles\": {\n \"title\": \"Include refused profiles as rows\",\n \"type\": \"boolean\",\n \"description\": \"On by default: a profile LinkedIn would not serve comes back as a row with `status: blocked` and the reason, so a list of five hundred can be re-run against the gaps. Free either way.\",\n \"default\": true\n }\n },\n \"required\": [\n \"profiles\"\n ]\n}", "readme": "# LinkedIn Profile Data Scraper\n\nPaste LinkedIn profile addresses, get one row per person: name, headline, the\nAbout text, the current employer **with its LinkedIn page and the year they\nstarted**, past organisations, schools with years, city, country, follower count\nand photo.\n\nNo account, no cookie, no session to keep alive. The public profile page is read\nas a signed-out visitor sees it.\n\n## What one row looks like\n\n```json\n{\n \"status\": \"ok\",\n \"profileUrl\": \"https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates\",\n \"handle\": \"williamhgates\",\n \"fullName\": \"Bill Gates\",\n \"firstName\": \"Bill\",\n \"lastName\": \"Gates\",\n \"headline\": \"Chair, Gates Foundation and Founder, Breakthrough Energy\",\n \"about\": \"Chair of the Gates Foundation. Founder of Breakthrough Energy. Co-founder of Microsoft. Voracious reader. Avid traveler. Active blogger.\",\n \"badges\": \"Creator, Top Voice\",\n \"currentCompany\": \"Gates Foundation\",\n \"currentCompanyUrl\": \"https://www.linkedin.com/company/gates-foundation\",\n \"currentCompanyStartYear\": 2000,\n \"jobTitles\": [\"Co-chair\", \"Founder\", \"Co-founder\"],\n \"companies\": [\n {\"name\": \"Gates Foundation\", \"url\": \"https://www.linkedin.com/company/gates-foundation\", \"startYear\": 2000},\n {\"name\": \"Breakthrough Energy\", \"url\": \"https://www.linkedin.com/company/breakthrough-energy\", \"startYear\": 2015},\n {\"name\": \"Microsoft\", \"url\": \"https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft\", \"startYear\": 1975}\n ],\n \"schools\": [\n {\"name\": \"Harvard University\", \"url\": \"https://www.linkedin.com/school/harvard-university/\", \"startYear\": 1973, \"endYear\": 1975}\n ],\n \"city\": \"Seattle, Washington, United States\",\n \"country\": \"US\",\n \"followers\": 40675985,\n \"connections\": \"500+\",\n \"languages\": [],\n \"awards\": [],\n \"photoUrl\": \"https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/...\",\n \"maskedFields\": [],\n \"error\": null,\n \"scrapedAt\": \"2026-09-23T07:41:12+00:00\"\n}\n```\n\n25 fields. Views in the dataset tab: **Profiles**, **Lead list** (first name,\nlast name, company, location — the shape a CRM import wants), **Career**,\n**Audience**, **All fields**.\n\n## The two limits, stated up front\n\n**1. About one profile in five is refused.** LinkedIn answers some requests from\na datacenter address with a sign-in wall under HTTP 999. The run retries and\nmoves to a different address, and measured on 2026-09-23 four profiles in five\ncome back whole on the first pass. The fifth arrives as a row saying so:\n\n```json\n{\"status\": \"blocked\", \"profileUrl\": \"https://www.linkedin.com/in/someone\",\n \"error\": \"... answered 1530 bytes with no profile card in them ...\"}\n```\n\n**A refused profile is never charged.** Run the list again and the gaps usually\nfill; nothing is billed twice for the same person, because nothing was billed\nthe first time.\n\n**2. LinkedIn sometimes withholds a field.** The same page can come back with an\nemployer written as `********** ** *******`. The row never carries the\nasterisks — the field is empty and its name appears in `maskedFields`, so\n\"no employer\" and \"LinkedIn would not say\" stay different answers.\n\n## Input\n\n| field | what it does |\n|---|---|\n| **LinkedIn profiles** | one per line: `https://www.linkedin.com/in/satyanadella`, a country address like `de.linkedin.com/in/...`, or just `satyanadella` |\n| **Maximum profiles** | ceiling for one run |\n| **Minimum followers** | drop people below the bar **before** the row is stored, so they are never charged |\n| **Only profiles with a current employer** | drop students, retirees and profiles whose employer was withheld |\n| **Include refused profiles as rows** | on by default; turn off for a clean file |\n\nA company page pasted here is skipped with a note rather than failing the run —\ncompanies are a different listing.\n\n## What it does not do\n\n- **It does not log in**, so it sees exactly what a signed-out visitor sees: no\n contact details, no email, no phone, no connection list.\n- **It does not search.** Give it addresses; finding people by keyword is a\n different job.\n- **A name is not an address.** LinkedIn handles are not always the person's\n name, and there is no lookup from one to the other without a search surface.\n\n## Free plan\n\nEverything works on the free plan: the same fields, the same limits. Refused and\nfiltered rows cost nothing there too.\n", "actorDefinition": { "actorSpecification": 1, "name": "linkedin-profile-data-scraper", "title": "LinkedIn Profile Data Scraper", "description": "Public LinkedIn profiles by URL or handle: name, headline, About text, current employer with its LinkedIn page and start year, past organisations, schools with years, city, country, follower count and photo. No login, no cookie. A profile LinkedIn refuses comes back as a free row saying so.", "version": "0.1", "buildTag": "latest", "minMemoryMbytes": 256, "maxMemoryMbytes": 2048, "meta": { "templateId": "python-empty" }, "dockerfile": "../Dockerfile", "readme": "# LinkedIn Profile Data Scraper\n\nPaste LinkedIn profile addresses, get one row per person: name, headline, the\nAbout text, the current employer **with its LinkedIn page and the year they\nstarted**, past organisations, schools with years, city, country, follower count\nand photo.\n\nNo account, no cookie, no session to keep alive. The public profile page is read\nas a signed-out visitor sees it.\n\n## What one row looks like\n\n```json\n{\n \"status\": \"ok\",\n \"profileUrl\": \"https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates\",\n \"handle\": \"williamhgates\",\n \"fullName\": \"Bill Gates\",\n \"firstName\": \"Bill\",\n \"lastName\": \"Gates\",\n \"headline\": \"Chair, Gates Foundation and Founder, Breakthrough Energy\",\n \"about\": \"Chair of the Gates Foundation. Founder of Breakthrough Energy. Co-founder of Microsoft. Voracious reader. Avid traveler. Active blogger.\",\n \"badges\": \"Creator, Top Voice\",\n \"currentCompany\": \"Gates Foundation\",\n \"currentCompanyUrl\": \"https://www.linkedin.com/company/gates-foundation\",\n \"currentCompanyStartYear\": 2000,\n \"jobTitles\": [\"Co-chair\", \"Founder\", \"Co-founder\"],\n \"companies\": [\n {\"name\": \"Gates Foundation\", \"url\": \"https://www.linkedin.com/company/gates-foundation\", \"startYear\": 2000},\n {\"name\": \"Breakthrough Energy\", \"url\": \"https://www.linkedin.com/company/breakthrough-energy\", \"startYear\": 2015},\n {\"name\": \"Microsoft\", \"url\": \"https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft\", \"startYear\": 1975}\n ],\n \"schools\": [\n {\"name\": \"Harvard University\", \"url\": \"https://www.linkedin.com/school/harvard-university/\", \"startYear\": 1973, \"endYear\": 1975}\n ],\n \"city\": \"Seattle, Washington, United States\",\n \"country\": \"US\",\n \"followers\": 40675985,\n \"connections\": \"500+\",\n \"languages\": [],\n \"awards\": [],\n \"photoUrl\": \"https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/...\",\n \"maskedFields\": [],\n \"error\": null,\n \"scrapedAt\": \"2026-09-23T07:41:12+00:00\"\n}\n```\n\n25 fields. Views in the dataset tab: **Profiles**, **Lead list** (first name,\nlast name, company, location — the shape a CRM import wants), **Career**,\n**Audience**, **All fields**.\n\n## The two limits, stated up front\n\n**1. About one profile in five is refused.** LinkedIn answers some requests from\na datacenter address with a sign-in wall under HTTP 999. The run retries and\nmoves to a different address, and measured on 2026-09-23 four profiles in five\ncome back whole on the first pass. The fifth arrives as a row saying so:\n\n```json\n{\"status\": \"blocked\", \"profileUrl\": \"https://www.linkedin.com/in/someone\",\n \"error\": \"... answered 1530 bytes with no profile card in them ...\"}\n```\n\n**A refused profile is never charged.** Run the list again and the gaps usually\nfill; nothing is billed twice for the same person, because nothing was billed\nthe first time.\n\n**2. LinkedIn sometimes withholds a field.** The same page can come back with an\nemployer written as `********** ** *******`. The row never carries the\nasterisks — the field is empty and its name appears in `maskedFields`, so\n\"no employer\" and \"LinkedIn would not say\" stay different answers.\n\n## Input\n\n| field | what it does |\n|---|---|\n| **LinkedIn profiles** | one per line: `https://www.linkedin.com/in/satyanadella`, a country address like `de.linkedin.com/in/...`, or just `satyanadella` |\n| **Maximum profiles** | ceiling for one run |\n| **Minimum followers** | drop people below the bar **before** the row is stored, so they are never charged |\n| **Only profiles with a current employer** | drop students, retirees and profiles whose employer was withheld |\n| **Include refused profiles as rows** | on by default; turn off for a clean file |\n\nA company page pasted here is skipped with a note rather than failing the run —\ncompanies are a different listing.\n\n## What it does not do\n\n- **It does not log in**, so it sees exactly what a signed-out visitor sees: no\n contact details, no email, no phone, no connection list.\n- **It does not search.** Give it addresses; finding people by keyword is a\n different job.\n- **A name is not an address.** LinkedIn handles are not always the person's\n name, and there is no lookup from one to the other without a search surface.\n\n## Free plan\n\nEverything works on the free plan: the same fields, the same limits. Refused and\nfiltered rows cost nothing there too.\n", "input": { "title": "LinkedIn Profile Data Scraper", "type": "object", "schemaVersion": 1, "properties": { "profiles": { "title": "LinkedIn profiles", "type": "array", "editor": "stringList", "description": "One per line. A profile link (`https://www.linkedin.com/in/satyanadella`), a country one (`https://de.linkedin.com/in/...`) or just the part after /in/ (`satyanadella`). A company page belongs in our company listing; pasted here it is skipped with a note, not charged.", "prefill": [ "satyanadella", "williamhgates", "reidhoffman" ] }, "maxProfiles": { "title": "Maximum profiles", "type": "integer", "description": "A ceiling on one run, counted in profiles read. Refused and filtered profiles are never charged, whatever this says.", "default": 100, "prefill": 3, "minimum": 1, "maximum": 200 }, "minFollowers": { "title": "Minimum followers", "type": "integer", "description": "Keep only people with at least this many followers. Judged from LinkedIn's own count before the row is stored, so a person below the bar is never charged. 0 keeps everybody.", "default": 0, "minimum": 0 }, "onlyWithCurrentCompany": { "title": "Only profiles with a current employer", "type": "boolean", "description": "Drop people whose page lists no current organisation - students, retirees, and the profiles LinkedIn withheld the employer of. Dropped rows are free.", "default": false }, "includeFailedProfiles": { "title": "Include refused profiles as rows", "type": "boolean", "description": "On by default: a profile LinkedIn would not serve comes back as a row with `status: blocked` and the reason, so a list of five hundred can be re-run against the gaps. Free either way.", "default": true } }, "required": [ "profiles" ] }, "output": { "actorOutputSchemaVersion": 1, "title": "LinkedIn profiles", "properties": { "overview": { "type": "string", "title": "Profiles", "template": "{{links.apiDefaultDatasetUrl}}/items?view=overview" }, "leads": { "type": "string", "title": "Lead list", "template": "{{links.apiDefaultDatasetUrl}}/items?view=leads" }, "career": { "type": "string", "title": "Career", "template": "{{links.apiDefaultDatasetUrl}}/items?view=career" }, "audience": { "type": "string", "title": "Audience", "template": "{{links.apiDefaultDatasetUrl}}/items?view=audience" }, "all": { "type": "string", "title": "All fields", "template": "{{links.apiDefaultDatasetUrl}}/items?view=all" } } }, "storages": { "dataset": { "actorSpecification": 1, "fields": {}, "views": { "overview": { "title": "Profiles", "transformation": { "fields": [ "fullName", "headline", "currentCompany", "city", "followers", "profileUrl" ] }, "display": { "component": "table", "properties": { "fullName": { "label": "Name" }, "headline": { "label": "Headline" }, "currentCompany": { "label": "Company" }, "city": { "label": "Location" }, "followers": { "label": "Followers" }, "profileUrl": { "label": "Profile" } } } }, "leads": { "title": "Lead list", "transformation": { "fields": [ "firstName", "lastName", "headline", "currentCompany", "currentCompanyUrl", "city", "country", "profileUrl" ] }, "display": { "component": "table", "properties": { "firstName": { "label": "First name" }, "lastName": { "label": "Last name" }, "headline": { "label": "Headline" }, "currentCompany": { "label": "Company" }, "currentCompanyUrl": { "label": "Company page" }, "city": { "label": "City" }, "country": { "label": "Country" }, "profileUrl": { "label": "Profile" } } } }, "career": { "title": "Career", "transformation": { "fields": [ "fullName", "jobTitles", "companies", "schools", "maskedFields" ] }, "display": { "component": "table", "properties": { "fullName": { "label": "Name" }, "jobTitles": { "label": "Titles" }, "companies": { "label": "Organisations" }, "schools": { "label": "Education" }, "maskedFields": { "label": "Withheld by LinkedIn" } } } }, "audience": { "title": "Audience", "transformation": { "fields": [ "fullName", "followers", "connections", "badges", "about", "photoUrl" ] }, "display": { "component": "table", "properties": { "fullName": { "label": "Name" }, "followers": { "label": "Followers" }, "connections": { "label": "Connections" }, "badges": { "label": "Badges" }, "about": { "label": "About" }, "photoUrl": { "label": "Photo" } } } }, "all": { "title": "All fields", "transformation": {}, "display": { "component": "table" } } } }, "keyValueStore": { "actorKeyValueStoreSchemaVersion": 1, "title": "Run storage", "description": "Input, plus a per-run summary: how many profiles were stored and charged, which addresses LinkedIn refused and which were not profile pages at all, which filter dropped how many, how many rows had a field withheld by LinkedIn, and whether the run had to move to the proxy.", "collections": { "input": { "title": "Input", "keyPrefix": "INPUT", "contentTypes": [ "application/json" ] }, "summary": { "title": "Run summary", "keyPrefix": "RUN_SUMMARY", "contentTypes": [ "application/json" ] } } } } }, "buildNumber": "0.0.5", "imageDigest": "6cc3ea221c3b0aaa5bf8be71d94893305b283e74d77b6bea7eca6c43ded2930f", "actVersion": { "sourceType": "SOURCE_FILES", "buildTag": "latest", "versionNumber": "0.0" }, "usage": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": 0.017836666666666667 } } }