💼LinkedIn scraper
LinkedIn Scraper API for Developers
Pull public LinkedIn profiles, company pages, posts, and Ad Library data from one API. No Sales Navigator license. No partner program. No OAuth.
LinkedIn has no public profile or company read API. The official Marketing and Talent APIs require partner program approval that takes months. Sales Navigator costs $1,600 per seat per year and rate-limits scraping. CreatorCrawl gives you any public LinkedIn URL — a person, a company, a post, or an ad — and returns structured JSON. Pay-as-you-go credits, MCP-native for AI agents, no seat licenses.
What you get
Profile data for any public LinkedIn URL
Name, photo, location, follower count, about text, recent posts, experience, education, and similar profiles. Perfect for CRM enrichment and B2B prospecting.
Company intelligence in one call
Employee count, founded date, industry, specialties, funding rounds, headquarters, and similar companies. Build sales intelligence pipelines without a license per seat.
LinkedIn Ad Library search
Spy on competitor ads. Search by company, keyword, country, and date range. See creative, advertiser, targeting language, and impressions buckets.
No Sales Navigator seat needed
Sales Nav costs $1,600 per seat per year. CreatorCrawl is $29 for 5,000 credits with no seats, no licenses, and no rate-limit drama.
Code example
Pass your API key in the x-api-key header. Get structured JSON back.
# Get a LinkedIn person profile
curl "https://creatorcrawl.com/api/linkedin/profile?url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/parrsam/" \
-H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"
# Get a LinkedIn company page
curl "https://creatorcrawl.com/api/linkedin/company?url=https://linkedin.com/company/shopify" \
-H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"
# Search the LinkedIn Ad Library
curl "https://creatorcrawl.com/api/linkedin/ads/search?company=microsoft&countries=US" \
-H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"How it works
Sign up for 250 free credits
No credit card required, no Sales Navigator license needed. Your API key is generated instantly.
Pass a LinkedIn URL
Pass any public LinkedIn profile, company, post, or ad URL. Get back structured JSON in 2 seconds.
Enrich your CRM or sales pipeline
Pipe enriched LinkedIn data into your CRM, lead-scoring model, or AI agent. Process thousands of profiles concurrently with no rate limits.
Add MCP to Claude or Cursor
Connect the CreatorCrawl MCP server so your AI agent can read LinkedIn profiles, companies, and ads in natural language.
Endpoints
Every endpoint below is part of the CreatorCrawl LinkedIn API and is also exposed as a native MCP tool.
GETPerson Profile/linkedin/profileGETCompany Page/linkedin/companyGETCompany Posts/linkedin/company/postsGETPost/linkedin/postGETAd Library Search/linkedin/ads/searchGETAd Details/linkedin/adFrequently asked questions
Can I scrape LinkedIn legally?
Reading publicly available LinkedIn data is generally considered legal under precedents like hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn (2022), which held that LinkedIn could not block hiQ from accessing public profile data under the CFAA. Specifics depend on jurisdiction. Review LinkedIn Terms of Service, GDPR, and CCPA against your downstream use before going live.
Do I need a Sales Navigator license?
No. Sales Navigator costs $1,600 per seat per year and still rate-limits scraping. CreatorCrawl pulls the same public LinkedIn data with no seats, no license cost, and no rate limits.
Does LinkedIn have an official API for profile data?
No. LinkedIn does not offer a public profile read API. The official Marketing and Talent APIs are gated behind partner programs that take months to apply for and reject most commercial use cases. Profile data is only accessible to authenticated users or through scraping.
What data fields does the LinkedIn profile endpoint return?
Name, profile photo URL, location, follower count, connection count, about/headline text, recent posts and reshares with images and links, experience entries, education history, articles, activity, publications, projects, recommendations, and similar profiles surfaced by LinkedIn.
Can I read private profiles or premium-only content?
No. CreatorCrawl only exposes data that LinkedIn shows to logged-out browsers and search engines. Private profiles, locked posts, Sales Navigator-gated insights, and Premium-only data are out of scope.
How fast is the API and can I scale?
Average profile fetch returns in 2 to 4 seconds. There are no rate limits, so you can run hundreds of concurrent requests. Customers regularly process 50,000+ LinkedIn URLs per hour through CreatorCrawl.