LinkedIn Scraper API

Scrape LinkedIn profiles, posts, companies, and jobs. Collect data such as profile URL, ID, name, city and country, current position, about, experience, education, company name, industry, company size, employee count, job title, and post engagement.

5K free records/month · Credit card not required

Available LinkedIn scrapers

Pick a LinkedIn scraper and call it. Every LinkedIn scraper lists its output fields, delivery volume, and live success rate.

Explore thousands of production-ready scrapers

Pay only for successful results, no surprises – Proxies, unlocking, browsers and retries are built in.

#1

Ranked (by AIMultiple)

99.2%

Avg. success rate

100M+

Requests weekly

400M+

Proxy IPs built in

GDPR & CCPA

Compliant

LinkedIn Scraper API Pricing

Only pay for what’s successfully delivered. No hidden fees, no charges for failed deliveries.

Free Tier
5K
records
Start free
  • 5K records per month
  • No credit card required
  • Expert support
Pay as you go
$1.5/1K record
Start free
  • Pay only for success
  • Set monthly spend limits
  • Unlimited concurrency
  • Expert support
Scale
$499 /month
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  • 384,000 records included
  • $1.3/1K additional records
  • Unlimited concurrency
  • Cancel anytime
  • Expert support
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How it works

From zero to LinkedIn data in 3 steps

No proxies to configure, no infrastructure to manage. Pick, call, and receive.
  1. Pick a scraper

    Choose from the LinkedIn scrapers above or create your own with AI in minutes.

  2. Call the API

    One API call with up to 5,000 target URLs. Python and Node.js SDKs, CLI, MCP server, or any HTTP client.

  3. Get structured data

    Receive clean, parsed [current_scrper_name] data in JSON, NDJSON, or CSV. Delivered via API, webhook, or cloud storage.

Scraper API Call
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer API_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '[{"url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/elad-moshe-05a90413/"},{"url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-myrvik-3baa01109"},{"url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/aviv-tal-75b81/"},{"url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/bulentakar/"},{"url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/nnikolaev/"}]' "https://api.brightdata.com/datasets/v3/trigger?dataset_id=gd_l1viktl72bvl7bjuj0&format=json&uncompressed_webhook=true"
Response payload
[
  {
    "db_source": "1788642333624",
    "timestamp": "2026-09-05",
    "id": "cel***lac***a-2*********",
    "name": "Celia L*****a",
    "city": "Canada",
    "country_code": "CA",
    "position": "--",
    "about": null
  },
  {
    "db_source": "1788642333624",
    "timestamp": "2026-09-05",
    "id": "ama***-er***dso*********57",
    "name": "Amanda E*******n",
    "city": "Surrey, British Columbia, Canada",
    "country_code": "CA",
    "position": "Sales Specialist at COBS Bread",
    "about": null
  },
  {
    "db_source": "1788642333624",
    "timestamp": "2026-09-05",
    "id": "ron***for***l-0*********",
    "name": "Ronja F*****l",
    "city": "Greater Malmö Metropolitan Area",
    "country_code": "SE",
    "position": "Procurement Specialist på Akind",
    "about": "Thr***ng ***env********* th*********************ear***************************************"
  },
  {
    "db_source": "1788642333624",
    "timestamp": "2026-09-05",
    "id": "mar***-li***n-1*********",
    "name": "Margot L****n",
    "city": "Canada",
    "country_code": "CA",
    "position": "--",
    "about": null
  },
  {
    "db_source": "1788642333624",
    "timestamp": "2026-09-05",
    "id": "che***bda***-ta*********7a1***",
    "name": "Chef A*****a T****i",
    "city": "Pesaro, Marche, Italy",
    "country_code": "IT",
    "position": "Head chef",
    "about": "******"
  }
]
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Everything you need, built in

You pay for results. Proxies, rendering, concurrency, and delivery are always included, on every plan.

Go straight to the source

Every request runs on Bright Data infrastructure. 400M+ IPs, unlocking and browsers are built in.

Scale to millions of pages instantly

Send unlimited concurrent requests - no infrastructure to manage, no configs to change.

Scrapers auto-fix when sites change

AI-powered self-healing detects site changes and repairs scrapers. Your pipelines keep running.

Thousands of verified scrapers

Every scraper is built, tested, and maintained by Bright Data. No community guesswork.

Pay per result, nothing extra

One price per record . Proxies, retries, rendering, unblocking - all included, no surprises.

Compliant and fully supported

GDPR & CCPA compliant. 24/7 human support on every plan, including free.

LinkedIn data scraping use cases

Real-time LinkedIn intelligence for your business.

Effective competitive analysis

Companies
Employees
Posts
Leverage firmographic data to track company growth, identify key companies, professionals, employee movement between companies, and more efficient competitive intelligence and analysis.

Market trends & growth

Companies
Industries
Headcount
Evaluate company growth and industry trends for data-driven decision-making. Hedge funds, VCs, and financial firms looking to enhance their investment analysis gain massive value from scraping LinkedIn data (public).

B2B company data

Firmographics
Industries
Company size
Fuel your lead generation pipeline and sales intelligence with high-quality data on companies and employees by integrating and enriching your CRM.

Talent sourcing & recruitment

Profiles
Positions
Skills
Build candidate pipelines from public profile data covering skills, seniority, and job changes. Recruiters and HR teams use LinkedIn data to shorten time-to-hire and sharpen workforce planning.

Leading the way in ethical web data collection

Only publicly available data. ISO 27001 certified, SOC 2 controls, GDPR & CCPA compliant. Every use case is reviewed by a dedicated Compliance & Ethics team, backed by a documented Know Your Customer process and Acceptable Use Policy.



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LinkedIn Scraper API FAQs

The LinkedIn Scraper API is a powerful tool designed to automate data extraction from the LinkedIn website, allowing users to efficiently gather and process large volumes of data for various use cases.

The LinkedIn Scraper API works by sending automated requests to targeted website, extracting the necessary data points, and delivering them in a structured format. This process ensures accurate and quick data collection.

Yes, the LinkedIn Scraper API is designed to comply with data protection regulations, including GDPR and CCPA. It ensures that all data collection activities are performed ethically and legally.

Absolutely! The LinkedIn Scraper API is ideal for competitive analysis, allowing you to gather insights into your competitors' activities, trends, and strategies.

The LinkedIn Scraper API offers flawless integration with various platforms and tools. You can use it with your existing data pipelines, CRM systems, or analytics tools to improve your data processing capabilities.

Yes! Every new Bright Data account automatically includes 5,000 free credits per month (approximately $7.50 in value) — no credit card required, no promo code, no commitment. These credits apply to Scrapers (including the LinkedIn Scraper API), as well as the Unlocker API and SERP API. Credits renew on the 1st of each month, and you can start making API calls immediately after signing up.

When your 5,000 free monthly credits are exhausted, behavior depends on your account balance. If you have pre-deposited funds, usage continues seamlessly at standard PAYG rates with no interruption. If you have no deposited funds, requests will return an error until you add funds or until your credits renew on the 1st of the following month. Note that unused free credits do not roll over.

To avoid interruptions, you can enable auto-recharge in your billing settings at brightdata.com/cp/billing/settings.

There are no specific usage limits for the LinkedIn Scraper API, offering you the flexibility to scale as needed.

Yes, we offer dedicated support for the LinkedIn Scraper API. Our support team is available 24/7 to assist you with any questions or issues you may encounter while using the API.

Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Google PubSub, Microsoft Azure Storage, Snowflake, and SFTP.

JSON, NDJSON, JSON lines, CSV, and .gz files (compressed).

The easiest way to scrape LinkedIn data at scale