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.

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Available LinkedIn scrapers

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

LinkedIn people profiles

ID, Name, City, Country code, Position, About, Posts, Current company, and more.
Views130.4K+
Downloads14.9K+
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LinkedIn company information

ID, Name, Country code, Locations, Followers, Employees in linkedin, About, Specialties, and more.
Views36.5K+
Downloads12.2K+
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Linkedin job listings information

URL, Job posting id, Job title, Company name, Company id, Job location, Job summary, Job seniority level, and more.
Views16.3K+
Downloads2.8K+
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Linkedin job listings information - Discover new jobs by keyword

URL, Job posting id, Job title, Company name, Company id, Job location, Job summary, Job seniority level, and more.
Views16.3K+
Downloads2.8K+
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Linkedin job listings information - Discover jobs by company URL

URL, Job posting id, Job title, Company name, Company id, Job location, Job summary, Job seniority level, and more.
Views16.3K+
Downloads2.8K+
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LinkedIn posts

URL, ID, User id, Use url, Title, Headline, Post text, Date posted, and more.
Views12.2K+
Downloads1.5K+
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LinkedIn posts - Discover user's articles by URL

URL, ID, User id, Use url, Title, Headline, Post text, Date posted, and more.
Views12.2K+
Downloads1.5K+
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LinkedIn posts - Discover posts by Profile URL

URL, ID, User id, Use url, Title, Headline, Post text, Date posted, and more.
Views12.2K+
Downloads1.5K+
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LinkedIn posts - Discover new posts company URL

URL, ID, User id, Use url, Title, Headline, Post text, Date posted, and more.
Views12.2K+
Downloads1.5K+
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LinkedIn people search

URL, Name, Subtitle, Location, Experience, Education, Avatar, and more.
Views226+
Downloads82+
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LinkedIn Scraper API Pricing

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

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commonly billed per scraper runtime hour or compute unit
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commonly billed per GB-month
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Data transfer / egress
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Parsing to structured JSON
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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 LinkedIn 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 
[
  {
    "timestamp": "2026-10-08",
    "id": "ped***alc***-ab*********",
    "name": "Pedro A****o",
    "city": "Belém, Pará, Brazil",
    "country_code": "BR",
    "position": null,
    "about": null,
    "posts": null
  },
  {
    "timestamp": "2026-10-08",
    "id": "pau***ee-***",
    "name": "Paul ***",
    "city": "New York, New York, United States",
    "country_code": "US",
    "position": null,
    "about": "Int***sts***uil*********lyt*********************one******************************************",
    "posts": null
  },
  {
    "timestamp": "2026-10-08",
    "id": "cha***a-s***har*********",
    "name": "Chandra S*****r",
    "city": "New Delhi, Delhi, India",
    "country_code": "IN",
    "position": null,
    "about": null,
    "posts": null
  },
  {
    "timestamp": "2026-10-08",
    "id": "ayi***i-g***iel*********3",
    "name": "Ayideji G*****l",
    "city": "Nigeria",
    "country_code": "NG",
    "position": null,
    "about": null,
    "posts": null
  },
  {
    "timestamp": "2026-10-08",
    "id": "zak***a-m***ouh*********3",
    "name": "Zakaria M*****h",
    "city": "Casablanca, Casablanca-Settat, Morocco",
    "country_code": "MA",
    "position": null,
    "about": null,
    "posts": null
  }
]
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TERMINAL

Tell your agent:

Read https://brightdata.com/SKILL.md and get structured JSON for this LinkedIn profile via the linkedin_person_profile pipeline: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elad-moshe-05a90413/

Or run it yourself:

npx -p @brightdata/cli bdata login
bdata pipelines linkedin_person_profile "https://www.linkedin.com/in/elad-moshe-05a90413/"

Or connect over MCP:

https://mcp.brightdata.com/mcp?token=YOUR_API_KEY
Get your token-filled URL in the control panel 
For coding Agents

Plug LinkedIn scrapers into your agent

Your agent picks from LinkedIn scrapers we already maintain. Let it run whenever you need, and every run delivers real-time web data straight to your storage. Works in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and any other coding agent.

  • Runs with npx, nothing to install
  • bdata login opens browser auth, no key to paste
  • Name a scraper, get JSON back
  • Delivers to AWS · GCP · Azure · Snowflake · Webhook
World's #1 scraping platform

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.
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Choose your path

Start collecting LinkedIn data in minutes

Call the API from code, click through the control panel, or hand it to your AI agent.
Call it from code
Trigger runs with parameters, schedule recurring jobs, and deliver to your storage or webhook.
  • Build requests in any language
  • Automate with schedulers and webhooks
  • JSON, NDJSON, or CSV delivery
Run it in the control panel
No engineering required: configure inputs, run, and download results in one place.
  • Configure inputs visually
  • Run with one click
  • Download JSON or CSV
Hand it to your agent
Your agent reads SKILL.md over MCP or the CLI and scrapes on its own.

  • Works with any MCP-compatible agent
  • One prompt to scrape
  • Structured JSON straight back to your agent
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Instantly scrape LinkedIn profile follower counts and collect name, position, city, current company, and more.

LinkedIn Ads

Scrape LinkedIn and collect data such as: advertiser name, ad headline, ad copy, call-to-action, ad format, campaign start date, impressions, sponsored by, ad creative/image, landing page URL, and more.

LinkedIn Groups

Scrape LinkedIn Groups and collect data such as: group name, number of members, topics discussed, recent posts, engagement metrics, group description, group admins, and more.

LinkedIn Profile

Scrape LinkedIn profiles (public) and extract LinkedIn data such as name, about, education, interest, company, job title, experience, and more.

LinkedIn Company

Scrape LinkedIn companies and collect public LinkedIn data such as company name, industry, location, company size, and more.

LinkedIn Post

Scrape LinkedIn posts and collect data on businesses and public users who share posts. Extract data such as URL, user ID, title, headline, date posted, posts text, comments, likes, and more.

LinkedIn Jobs

Scrape LinkedIn jobs and collect public LinkedIn data such as job ID, title, company, location, job description, and more.
Use cases

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.
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Other scraping providers
Auto-scaling infrastructure
Unlimited
Partial
Anti-bot & CAPTCHA bypass
Built-in
Partial
Residential proxy network
400M+ IPs
Limited pool
Pre-built scrapers
1,400+
50–200
Auto-maintenance (site changes)
24/7
Depends on who built it
Pricing model
One all-in price per record
Compute, proxy, and storage metered separately
Failed requests
Free, pay only for success
Often billed
Custom sites (no pre-built scraper)
AI builds it in minutes, self-healing included
Community-built scrapers, no SLA
Compliance (GDPR, CCPA, SOC 2)
Full
Partial
Structured output (JSON/CSV)
Automatic
Support
24/7 experts, even on the free tier
Community forum
Free tier
5K records/mo
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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).

Yes. Connect any agent through the hosted MCP server, point a coding agent at brightdata.com/SKILL.md to set itself up, or use the CLI. Agents authenticate once with browser OAuth and can run any of the LinkedIn scrapers.

The easiest way to scrape LinkedIn data at scale

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