Person Profile Scraper

Scrape publicly available LinkedIn person profiles by their profile ID. Pass type=profile along with the person's LinkedIn ID to retrieve full profile data. Each successful request costs 50–100 credits.

Endpoint: https://api.scrapingdog.com/profile

API Parameters

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Scrapingdog Parameters

api_key Required
Your personal API key. Available on your dashboard.

Type: String

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Profile

id Required
The ID of any person profile. This can be found inside the URL of any LinkedIn person profile (e.g., rbranson from linkedin.com/in/rbranson).

Type: String
type Required
Must be set to profile to scrape a person profile.

Type: String

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️ Advanced

premium Optional
Set to true to use premium proxies to bypass LinkedIn's anti-bot measures. Default: false.

Type: String
webhook Optional
Set to true to schedule profile scraping after 2–3 minutes, which increases the success rate. Default: false.

Type: String

API Examples

Code to Integrate

curl "https://api.scrapingdog.com/profile?api_key=APIKEY&type=profile&id=rbranson"

import requests

params = {
    "api_key": "APIKEY",
    "type": "profile",
    "id": "rbranson"
}

response = requests.get("https://api.scrapingdog.com/profile", params=params)
print(response.json())

const params = new URLSearchParams({
  api_key: "APIKEY",
  type: "profile",
  id: "rbranson"
});

const response = await fetch(`https://api.scrapingdog.com/profile?${params}`);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

<?php
$url = 'https://api.scrapingdog.com/profile?' . http_build_query([
    'api_key' => 'APIKEY',
    'type'    => 'profile',
    'id'      => 'rbranson',
]);
echo file_get_contents($url);