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LinkedIn Scraper API

Extract professional profiles, job listings, and company information from LinkedIn. Ideal for talent sourcing, lead generation, and competitive business insights.

Use Cases

Recruiting & Talent Sourcing

Find potential candidates by scraping profiles that match certain skills or titles. For example, gather a list of software engineers in a specific city with experience in Python to approach for job openings.

Sales Lead Generation

Build a database of leads by extracting profiles of decision-makers at target companies. Sales teams can get names, titles, and companies of prospects to inform their outreach, without relying on official APIs or manual searches.

Job Market Analysis

Analyze job posting trends by scraping LinkedIn jobs. Track how many roles are open in a given field, what skills employers seek, and how job demand changes over time in different regions.

Competitive Intelligence

Monitor competitors’ hiring and company growth. By scraping job listings and company pages, you can see which departments are expanding or gather data on company size and new positions that indicate strategic moves.

API Endpoints

Available endpoints for the LinkedIn Scraper API

POST /v1/linkedin/company-employees

LinkedIn Company Employees API

Scrape a public LinkedIn company people page.

Parameters

company string required LinkedIn company slug.
limit integer Maximum number of results to return.
POST /v1/linkedin/post-comments

LinkedIn Post Comments API

Scrape public comments visible on a LinkedIn post page.

Parameters

url string required URL returned by the matching search endpoint.

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about the LinkedIn Scraper API

Do I need to log into a LinkedIn account for this to work?

No, our API targets publicly visible information or uses anonymous sessions. We do not use your personal account, so you won’t need to provide login credentials. However, data that is private or only visible to logged-in connections will not be accessible.

Can you get emails or contact info from profiles?

No, personal contact information (emails, phone numbers) is typically not public on LinkedIn profiles. Our scraper only captures what a public viewer can see: profile photo, headline, experiences, education, etc. For contact info, users would need to have made it public, which is rare.

Will LinkedIn detect the scraping?

We employ techniques like proxy rotation, simulated browser behavior, and rate limiting to avoid detection. LinkedIn is quite protective, so we ensure scrapes are distributed and mimic normal browsing. It’s important users also stay within reasonable request volumes.

Can I scrape my own connections or use this for sending messages?

The API is read-only and focused on publicly available data. It cannot send messages or access the “My Network” section that requires login. It’s designed for data collection like profiles and job posts, not for automating interactions on LinkedIn.

Can I scrape my own connections or use this for sending messages?

The API is read-only and focused on publicly available data. It cannot send messages or access the “My Network” section that requires login. It’s designed for data collection like profiles and job posts, not for automating interactions on LinkedIn.

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