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  • POSTCompany Search
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  • POSTProfile Search

LinkedIn Profile Search

1 credit

Find public LinkedIn profile URLs by name, company, job title, location, or keywords.

POST/api/v1/tools/linkedin/profile-search

Parameters

sourcestring

"publicWeb" (default) accepts any search field. "directory" needs firstName and lastName and accepts no other search field. "member" is not available.

firstNamestring

First name. 1 to 100 characters. Required for source directory.

lastNamestring

Last name. 1 to 100 characters. Required for source directory.

keywordsstring

Free search words. 1 to 200 characters. Source publicWeb only.

companyNamestring

Company name used as a search hint, for example to list employees. 1 to 200 characters. Source publicWeb only.

jobTitlesstring[]

Up to 10 job titles. Any one can match. Source publicWeb only.

locationsstring[]

Up to 10 locations. Any one can match. Source publicWeb only.

maxResultsnumber

Maximum profiles to return. 1 to 100. Defaults to 25.

maxPagesnumber

Maximum result pages to read. 1 to 10. Defaults to 5.

Response Schema

dataobject

LinkedIn profile search result

sourcestring

Source used: publicWeb or directory

querystring

Search terms the service used. Source publicWeb only.

profilesobject[]

Profiles found. Each URL appears once.

countnumber

Number of profiles returned

pagesnumber

Result pages read

stopReasonstring

Why the search ended: complete, max_results, max_pages, no_progress, time_limit, or source_error

skippedCardsnumber

Results that the service could not read

scrapedAtstring

ISO 8601 timestamp

metaobject

Request metadata

toolstring

Tool name (linkedin-profile-search)

creditsUsednumber

Credits consumed (1)

requestIdstring

Unique request ID

Request

curl -X POST https://scraper.run/api/v1/tools/linkedin/profile-search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sc_live_..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "companyName": "Example Co",
  "jobTitles": [
    "Engineer"
  ],
  "maxResults": 20
}'

Response Example

{
  "data": {
    "source": "publicWeb",
    "query": "\"Example Co\" \"Engineer\"",
    "profiles": [
      {
        "name": "Example Person",
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/example-person",
        "headline": "Engineer at Example Co",
        "searchTitle": "Example Person - Engineer at Example Co | LinkedIn",
        "snippet": "Engineer at Example Co. Experience: Past Company."
      }
    ],
    "count": 1,
    "pages": 1,
    "stopReason": "complete",
    "skippedCards": 0,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-11-10T10:00:00.000Z"
  },
  "meta": {
    "tool": "linkedin-profile-search",
    "creditsUsed": 1,
    "requestId": "req_abc123"
  }
}