# LinkedIn Profile Scraper — Full Career History, No Cookies (`b2bsearch/profile-lookup`) Actor

LinkedIn profile scraper alternative with no cookies. Profile URLs in, the complete career record out — every position with dates and descriptions, education, skills, certifications. $3.20 per 1,000 found (the most used profile scraper: $4); with emails & phones $8 (theirs: $10). Misses free.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/b2bsearch/profile-lookup.md
- **Developed by:** [B2B Search Enriched](https://apify.com/b2bsearch) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Social media, AI
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 40 total users, 19 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: 5.00 out of 5 stars

## Pricing

from $2.56 / 1,000 profile founds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

**LinkedIn Profile Scraper** by profile URL, also usable as a LinkedIn profile API: the full career record of each profile, without cookies or a LinkedIn account.

> **$3.20 per 1,000 complete profiles. Not found costs $0.** The standard row
> is the whole career record: every position with dates and descriptions,
> education, skills, certifications, patents and publications. Emails and
> phones are an opt-in tier at $8 per 1,000 people who have one that works.

Turn LinkedIn profile URLs into structured data. Paste links, bare handles
or mobile URLs and get one row per profile, with the profile link, location
and current employer in their own columns for spreadsheets.

Answers come back in seconds from 800M+ professional profiles. No cookies,
no login, no account risk.

### Why this one

1. **The complete record at the standard price.** Every position with its
   description, the whole education list, skills, languages,
   certifications, patents, publications, articles.
2. **You pay only for found.** Unmatched URLs are free `not_found` rows,
   removed profiles free `profile_removed` rows.
3. **Contacts priced by whether they work.** With `contacts` on you pay $8
   per 1,000 only for people with a personal mailbox, an address at their
   current employer, a phone or an X, Facebook or GitHub link. An old work address alone is charged
   as a plain profile.

### Who is this for

- Sales and GTM teams enriching sign-ups and CRM contacts.
- Recruiters turning sourced profile links into structured candidate data.
- Data teams feeding scoring models with career histories.

### Input

```json
{
  "profileUrls": ["satyanadella", "https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates"],
  "contacts": false,
  "mustHave": []
}
```

Links, bare handles and mobile URLs all work; spellings of the same
profile are looked up once.

Coming from another profile scraper? The Actor also reads the list under
the names those use: `urls` (plain strings or `{ "url": "…" }` objects)
and `publicIdentifiers`. An existing integration keeps its input and only
changes the Actor id.

### Emails and phones: `contacts`

Turn on `contacts` to get the recorded email addresses and phone numbers
with each profile. The best address and a phone are lifted into their own
columns: `email`, `emailType` (`work` / `personal`), `employerMatch`,
`workEmails`, `personalEmails`, `emailCount`, `phone`, `phones`.

You pay the contacts price, **$8 per 1,000**, only for a person with a
contact that reaches them today:

- a personal mailbox (gmail, outlook, ISP mail);
- an address on the domain of their **current** employer;
- a phone number not flagged as a company switchboard;
- an X, Facebook or GitHub link (other than one you looked the person up by).

Everyone else is delivered at the $3.20 profile price, old work addresses
included. The `_tier` column says which price each row was charged at.
X, Facebook and GitHub links ship only with contacts; the profile alone
carries the professional profile URL and website.

How often that is, measured on 30 September 2026 over 200 employed
professionals per country: the contacts price applied to 53% of people in
the US, 42% in India, 40% in France, 33% in the UK and 32% in Germany.
Everyone else shipped at the lower price.

### Only people who have what you need: `mustHave`

List what a person must have for you to pay: `email`, `personalEmail`,
`workEmail`, `currentWorkEmail`, `phone`, `github`, `twitter`, `facebook`.
A person who is found but lacks one comes back as a free
`missing_required` row that says what was missing (and names nobody).
The email, phone and social requirements
need `contacts` on, and a run that asks for them without it is refused
before anything is charged.

### Output

One row per profile, aligned with your list. A real row:

```json
{
  "_status": "found",
  "_input": { "profile": "satyanadella" },
  "updatedAt": "2026-04-02 23:03:37.529Z",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/satyanadella",
  "location": "Redmond, Washington, United States",
  "countryCode": "us",
  "companyName": "Microsoft",
  "companySlug": "microsoft",
  "_view": "lite-v4",
  "slug": "satyanadella",
  "fullName": "Satya Nadella",
  "headline": "Chairman and CEO at Microsoft",
  "jobTitle": "Chairman and CEO",
  "industry": "Software Development",
  "connectionsCount": 500,
  "seniority": { "totalExperienceYears": 12, "currentTenureYears": 12, "averageTenureYears": 7 },
  "experience": {
    "work": [
      { "title": "Chairman and CEO", "company": "Microsoft", "startDate": "2014-02-01", "endDate": null },
      { "title": "Member Board Of Trustees", "company": "University of Chicago", "startDate": "2018-01-01", "endDate": null }
    ]
  },
  "education": [
    { "school": "University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee", "degreeName": "Master’s Degree", "fieldOfStudy": "Computer Science" }
  ],
  "contactInformation": {
    "socialLinks": { "profileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/satyanadella", "twitterUrl": null, "githubUrl": null }
  }
}
```

*(trimmed for display: the row also carries every past position with its
description, `about`, `skills`, languages, certifications, patents,
publications and articles whenever the profile has them)*

With `contacts` on, the same kind of row gains the contact columns
(values below are made up):

```json
{
  "_status": "found",
  "_tier": "contacts",
  "fullName": "Jane Doe",
  "companyName": "Acme",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jane-doe-example",
  "email": "jane.doe@acme.example",
  "emailType": "work",
  "employerMatch": true,
  "workEmails": ["jane.doe@acme.example", "jdoe@oldjob.example"],
  "personalEmails": ["jane.doe@example.com"],
  "emailCount": 3,
  "phone": "+15550100123",
  "phones": [{ "number": "+15550100123", "sharedBy": 1, "companyLine": false }]
}
```

When the URL matched several records the row carries `_matchCandidates`.

The **Output tab** has three views: *Overview*, *Career & education* and
*Contacts & signals*.

### Pricing

| Event | Price | When |
|---|---|---|
| Profile found | $0.0032 | matched URL, the complete career record |
| Profile found (with contacts) | $0.008 | `contacts` on and a contact that reaches the person today |
| Not found / removed / `missing_required` | **$0** | always free |

Prices above are for Apify's Free and Starter plans. Scale plans pay 10%
less and Business plans and up 20% less, applied by Apify automatically; the
Store page quotes the lowest of these as "from".

Your free $5 Apify credit is about 1,560 complete profiles.

### Ready-made examples

Each one opens with the input filled in; press Try for free and change it to your own.

- [Get Full Work History from LinkedIn Profile URLs](https://apify.com/b2bsearch/profile-lookup/examples/full-work-history-from-profile-urls): Get full work history from LinkedIn profile URLs, no cookies: every position with dates, education, certifications and skills. Misses are free.
- [Check Where Your Customer Contacts Work Now](https://apify.com/b2bsearch/profile-lookup/examples/where-do-my-contacts-work-now): Paste your customer contacts' profile URLs and see where each person works today, with current title and company. Spot champions who moved.

### FAQ

#### How many LinkedIn profiles can one run scrape?

Up to 1,000 entries per run; the Actor paces
itself and finishes in minutes. For bigger lists use
[Bulk People Enrichment](https://apify.com/b2bsearch/bulk-people-enrichment).

#### What happens with a wrong or dead LinkedIn URL?

A free row with
`_status: "not_found"` or `"profile_removed"` and your input echoed, so the
spreadsheet stays aligned.

### Use LinkedIn Profile Data by URL with AI agents and MCP

This Actor works as a tool for AI agents. Add it to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any other MCP client through the Apify MCP server:

```
https://mcp.apify.com?tools=b2bsearch/profile-lookup
```

- **Fast enough for a tool call.** A small request finishes in seconds, so the agent gets its answer inside one call.
- **The agent pays only for results.** Prices are per result (see the pricing section above) and every miss is a free row. Cap what one call may spend with `maxTotalChargeUsd`.
- **Rows explain themselves.** Each row has a `_status`; a row that is not a result says why in `_error`, so the agent can decide what to do next without guessing.
- **Compact rows for a context window.** `"compact": true` returns a short row — about 2 KB for a full profile instead of 10+ KB: identity, current role, the 5 latest positions, education, top skills and any contacts. Same price; leave it off to get the complete record.

Input an agent can send as is:

```json
{
  "profileUrls": [
    "satyanadella"
  ],
  "compact": true
}
```

The same Actor is available as a tool in LangChain, CrewAI and the OpenAI Agents SDK, and as a step in n8n, Make and Zapier through the Apify integrations.

### Which actor in this family?

One database, ten doors. Misses are free on every one of them.

| Actor | Input → output |
|---|---|
| **Profile Lookup** (this one) | profile URL → full career profile |
| [Reverse Email Lookup](https://apify.com/b2bsearch/reverse-email-lookup) | email → person, profile URL and employer |
| [Name to Profile](https://apify.com/b2bsearch/name-to-profile) | name + company domain → profile |
| [Social Handle Lookup](https://apify.com/b2bsearch/social-handle-lookup) | GitHub, X/Twitter or Facebook handle → profile |
| [Bulk People Enrichment](https://apify.com/b2bsearch/bulk-people-enrichment) | CSV of emails, URLs, handles or names → profiles |
| [LinkedIn Email Finder](https://apify.com/b2bsearch/linkedin-email-finder) | profile URL → email addresses on record |
| [Work Email Finder](https://apify.com/b2bsearch/work-email-finder) | name + company domain → work email candidates |
| [Company Employees](https://apify.com/b2bsearch/company-employees) | company domain → current staff |
| [People Database Search](https://apify.com/b2bsearch/people-database-search) | filters → people |
| [B2B Leads Finder](https://apify.com/b2bsearch/b2b-leads-finder) | filters → leads with a work or personal email, from $1.50/1k |
| [Company Database Search](https://apify.com/b2bsearch/company-database-search) | filters → companies |

### Free Apify plan

Free accounts get the same rows as paid ones, with three limits. A run delivers
at most 100 results; an account gets 500 dataset rows per calendar
month on this Actor, found rows and misses alike; and a row that finds nothing
carries only its status. Previews and counts, where this Actor offers them, stay
free and outside the monthly allowance. When a limit stops a run, the status
line and the last dataset row say which limit it was, what is left and when it
resets. Any paid Apify plan removes all of this: Starter is $19/month and
includes $19 of usage.

### Feedback and reviews

How did it go? A rating on this Actor's [Reviews page](https://console.apify.com/actors/CEsRjGeOf5Riu0vx8/info/reviews)
tells the next buyer what to expect; we read every word, good or bad. Got a wrong or stale
row? Open the **Issues** tab with the run ID. Issues are public, so leave out
emails, phones and names; the run ID is enough for us to find the row. We
check every report, fix what is ours to fix and answer in the thread.

### Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent product. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by
or sponsored by LinkedIn. It does not access, crawl or scrape any of them at
run time: answers come from our own database of publicly available
professional data, and the network names only describe the kind of data it
covers. To have a person's data removed, open an issue on this Actor with only
the profile link — nothing else is needed, and it is removed from every listing.

# Actor input Schema

## `profileUrls` (type: `array`):

One public professional profile URL or bare profile handle per line. Unmatched profiles come back as free "not_found" rows. Coming from another profile scraper? The Actor also reads the list as "urls" (plain strings or { url } objects) or "publicIdentifiers", so an existing input works as is. Up to 1,000 per run.

## `contacts` (type: `boolean`):

Adds recorded emails, phones and X, Facebook and GitHub links (the profile alone carries none). $8 per 1,000 people with a contact that reaches them today: a personal mailbox, an address at the current employer, a phone that is not a switchboard, or a social link. Everyone else ships at the $3.20 per 1,000 profile price.

## `mustHave` (type: `array`):

Deliver and charge only people who have all of these. A person who is found but lacks one comes back as a free "missing_required" row. Emails, phones and social profiles need "Include emails & phones".

## `compact` (type: `boolean`):

Returns a short row instead of the full record: identity, current role, location, the 5 latest positions, education, top skills and any contacts — about 2 KB per person instead of 10+ KB. Made for AI agents and LLM pipelines with a context limit. Same price. Off by default: a run returns the complete record.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "profileUrls": [
    "satyanadella"
  ],
  "contacts": false,
  "compact": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "profileUrls": [
        "satyanadella"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("b2bsearch/profile-lookup").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "profileUrls": ["satyanadella"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("b2bsearch/profile-lookup").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "profileUrls": [
    "satyanadella"
  ]
}' |
apify call b2bsearch/profile-lookup --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,b2bsearch/profile-lookup"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/CEsRjGeOf5Riu0vx8/builds/VkODmGaMHUBc65rZ0/openapi.json