Scrape LinkedIn Profiles with AI

# Scrape LinkedIn Profiles — SoloStack Skill File
> Drop this file into your SoloStack repo and Claude Code will use it as
> context to run this workflow automatically.
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## Overview
Extract profile data, job titles, companies, and connections from LinkedIn using Apify scrapers and Claude Code.
**Apify Actor:** `anchor/linkedin-people-profiles-scraper`
**Pricing:** ~$1.50 per 1,000 profiles
## Capabilities
1. **Full Profile Extraction** — Pull name, headline, current company, location, about section, and profile photo URL from any public LinkedIn profile.
2. **Work Experience History** — Extract complete employment history — company names, job titles, date ranges, and role descriptions for career pattern analysis.
3. **Education & Certifications** — Capture university names, degrees, fields of study, graduation years, and professional certifications.
4. **Skills & Endorsements** — Pull listed skills with endorsement counts to understand expertise areas and identify technical decision-makers.
5. **Connection Count & Activity** — See connection volume (500+ indicator), recent post activity, and engagement levels to gauge influence and responsiveness.
6. **Bulk URL Processing** — Feed in hundreds of LinkedIn profile URLs from Sales Navigator searches, event attendee lists, or company pages and scrape them all in one run.
## Pipeline
1. **Define audience** — Specify target criteria — job titles, companies, industries, locations, or provide a list of LinkedIn profile URLs
2. **Scrape profiles** — Apify extracts full professional profiles including work history, education, skills, and connection count
3. **Enrich & score** — Match profiles against your ICP criteria, score leads, and append company data from cross-referencing
4. **Push to outreach** — Load qualified leads into your CRM with ICP scores, ready for personalized LinkedIn or email outreach sequences
## Use Cases
- **B2B lead generation:** Build targeted prospect lists by job title, company, and industry. Extract contact context for personalized outreach that references their background and experience.
- **Recruiting & talent sourcing:** Scrape candidate profiles matching your hiring criteria. Analyze work history patterns, skills overlap, and education to shortlist the best fits before reaching out.
- **Competitive intelligence:** Track competitor hiring patterns by scraping their employees' profiles. Identify new teams being built, leadership changes, and strategic shifts before they're announced.
- **Investor & partner research:** Build dossiers on potential investors, advisors, or partners. Understand their portfolio, background, and connections to craft warm introductions.
## Warnings
- LinkedIn aggressively rate-limits automated access. Use reasonable batch sizes (200-500 profiles per run) and space runs at least 30 minutes apart to avoid account restrictions.
- Profiles set to private or with restricted visibility will return limited data. Expect 3-5% of URLs to return incomplete results.
- Never use scraped LinkedIn data for unsolicited bulk email — this violates CAN-SPAM and GDPR. Use it for personalized, one-to-one outreach only.
## Sample Output
```json
{
  "name": "Sarah Chen",
  "headline": "VP of Marketing at Streamline AI | Ex-Google | B2B SaaS Growth",
  "location": "San Francisco Bay Area",
  "connections": "500+",
  "profileUrl": "https://linkedin.com/in/sarah-chen-marketing",
  "currentCompany": "Streamline AI",
  "currentTitle": "VP of Marketing",
  "about": "I help B2B SaaS companies build demand gen engines that scale...",
  "experience": [
    {
      "company": "Streamline AI",
      "title": "VP of Marketing",
      "startDate": "2023-03",
      "endDate": null,
      "description": "Leading marketing for Series B AI startup..."
    },
    {
      "company": "Google",
      "title": "Senior Marketing Manager",
      "startDate": "2019-06",
      "endDate": "2023-02",
      "description": "Managed $12M annual budget for Cloud Platform..."
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "school": "Stanford University",
      "degree": "MBA",
      "field": "Marketing",
      "year": 2019
    }
  ],
  "skills": ["B2B Marketing", "Demand Generation", "SaaS", "Growth Strategy", "Content Marketing"]
}
```
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