LinkedIn Profile Scraper

"Professional Profile & Personal Branding Analysis" by John Rippy | johnrippy.link

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Scrape LinkedIn profiles and their recent posts for personal branding analysis. Perfect for building a voice profile of your LinkedIn presence or analyzing top performers in your niche.

Features

Profile Data: Followers, connections, headline, about section, experience
Post Scraping: Recent posts with full text, engagement metrics
Engagement Metrics: Likes, comments, reposts per post
Content Analysis Ready: Output formatted for AI voice analysis

Use Cases

1. Personal Branding: Analyze your own LinkedIn content performance

2. Competitor Research: Study how top performers in your niche write

3. Voice Training: Collect posts to train AI on your writing style

4. Content Strategy: Identify what posts perform best

Input

{
"profileUrls": ["https://linkedin.com/in/username"],
"cookies": "[{\"name\":\"li_at\", ...}]",
"maxPosts": 20,
"includeComments": false
}

Getting LinkedIn Cookies (Required)

If you have Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA/2FA) enabled on your LinkedIn account, you must use cookies - there's no alternative login method.

Step 1: Install a cookie export extension:

Cookie-Editor by Moustachauve - Clean interface, supports Chrome/Firefox/Edge/Safari
EditThisCookie by Francesco Capano - Chrome extension, classic choice

Step 2: Log into LinkedIn in your browser Step 3: Click the cookie extension icon, then:

Cookie-Editor: Click "Export" → "Export as JSON"
EditThisCookie: Click the export button (looks like ↓)

Step 4: Paste the JSON array into the "cookies" field

The most important cookie is li_at - this is your LinkedIn session token.

Output

{
"profile": {
"name": "John Doe",
"headline": "CEO at Company",
"followers": 15000,
"connections": 500,
"about": "..."
},
"posts": [
{
"id": "123",
"text": "Post content...",
"likes": 150,
"comments": 23,
"reposts": 5,
"postedAt": "2025-12-15T10:00:00Z"
}
],
"stats": {
"avgLikes": 145,
"avgComments": 18,
"postingFrequency": "3x per week"
}
}

Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing:

Example costs:

1 profile with 10 posts: $0.10 + $0.10 + (10 × $0.01) = $0.30
5 profiles with 20 posts each: $0.10 + (5 × $0.10) + (100 × $0.01) = $1.60

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Built by John Rippy | johnrippy.link