LinkedIn profile API

Bright Data, pay as you go

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77% complete: 10 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sectionsSee which

under $2 per 1,000

$1.50per 1,000 profilesThe median plan costs $4.33 per 1,000. This plan costs less than 84% of the 1,302 priced plans.

Plan: Pay as you go one of Bright Data's 4 plans

About this item

Live. You get the profile from LinkedIn when you call, but for current title, jobs, schools: as of 2025-11-13.
10 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sections. Experience, Education, About, Location, Photo, Followers, Connections, Certifications, Languages, Recommendations.
You buy a pack of credits, then spend them on calls. You pay $0.
One call. You send profile URLs, notify, include_errors to POST /datasets/v3/scrape?dataset_id=gd_l1viktl72bvl7bjuj0. The call returns the answer if it's ready in time, or a job that another call reads.
Who can get it: anyone 18 or over, not sanctioned or in Russia, Belarus, Syria or Lebanon. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

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	This planBright Data, pay as you go	Fetchin, $75 on demand	Up2Data, $1,500 on demand	Coder on Apify, $199 monthly	Alexandre Manguis on Apify, $199 monthly
$ per 1,000	$1.50	$1.50	$1.50	$1.50	$1.50
Completeness	77%	100%	92%	85%	62%
Billing	pay first	pay first	pay first	monthly	monthly
Pay	$0	$75	$1,500	$199	$199
Enough for		50,000 calls	1,000,000 calls	about 132,666 results a month	about 132,666 results a month
Freshness	live (current title, jobs, schools: as of 2025-11-13)	live	live	live	live
Who can get it	anyone 18 or over, not sanctioned or in Russia, Belarus, Syria or Lebanon	anyone 18 or over with the legal capacity to enter into the terms	anyone	business use only, 18 or over	business use only, 18 or over

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-16.

Product details

We list each column of this plan's row on the sheet.

Experienceas of 2025-11-13
Educationas of 2025-11-13
Skills
Headline
About
Location
Photo
Followers
Connections
Certifications
Languages
Recommendations
Open to work

Price
$ per 1,000	$1.50
Billing	pay first
$ a month

Strengths
Strengths	under $2 per 1,000

Charges
Repeat free
Per	result
Extra fields

Overage
$ per 1,000

Not found
$ per 1,000

In their words
Their pitch	Send a LinkedIn URL, get structured JSON back. The Bright Data LinkedIn Scraper API handles proxies, CAPTCHAs, and parsing so you can focus on your data pipeline.

Data
Freshness	live (current title, jobs, schools: as of 2025-11-13)
Keep data	no limit
Use data	The Client shall not use the Services in violation of applicable law or regulations or any third party rights (including intellectual property rights) and not use the Service in any manner or for any purpose other than as stated in the intended use case provided to Bright Data, if applicable. [...] the Client will only use the Service in accordance with the Acceptable Use Policy, as may be amended from time to time. [...] When using the Data Services, the Client shall not distribute, transmit, reproduce, publish, license, transfer, or sell any Data in order to offer a similar or competitive product. [...] Client’s use of the data collector service is subject to all applicable laws, including without limitation data protection and privacy laws. To the extent applicable to processing of personal data, Client is solely responsible for determining the lawful grounds, providing notices, respecting data subject rights and all other related obligations. [...] Bright Data’s platform, technology, and network (collectively, “Services”) are meant for legitimate and legal purposes only and are subject to the Bright Data Master Service Agreement. [...] Any use of the Bright Data Services for illegal, fraudulent, or abusive activities is strictly prohibited. [...] Forbidden activities include, but are not limited to: Collection of nonpublic information (i.e data behind login), DDoS attacks, Spam: mass posting any mail/message boards/IRC/comments messages and images, Ad fraud or click fraud, Impersonation or spoofing for fraudulent purposes, Creating fake accounts or content, Use of automatic ticket purchasing (ticket-bots), Raffles, lottery, or gambling, Fake engagement (likes, comments, shares, etc.), Gaming or trading of in games items/currency, Reselling of proxies without Bright Data’s prior written approval (see our partners programs), Use of streaming related domains (videos, music or images streaming), Trading crypto/virtual currency or NFT, Any Search Engine Optimization (SEO) manipulation (i.e: fake clicks in search engines results), Posting on classified, used, and resell sites (such as Craig’s list), Completion of surveys in return for a benefit or anything of value, Any form of activity that is in violation of applicable law or regulations or any third party rights

Plan
Pay	$0
You get
Enough for
Expires

Rate limit
Per day
Per second
Concurrent
Batch

Speed
Answer	in the call or by polling
Median

The call
You send	profile URLs, notify, include_errors
Method	POST
Path	/datasets/v3/scrape?dataset_id=gd_l1viktl72bvl7bjuj0

About the plan
Plan	Pay as you go
Who can get it	anyone 18 or over, not sanctioned or in Russia, Belarus, Syria or Lebanon

The 40 fields in the plan's answer

profile ID, name, city, country code, current title, about, current company, current company LinkedIn URL, jobs, profile URL, people also viewed, school name, schools, recommendations count, profile picture, courses, languages, certifications, recommendations, volunteering, followers, connections, current company ID, publications, patents, projects, organizations, location, input data, username, member ID, cover image, honors, similar profiles, default avatar, memorialized, bio links, first name, last name, influencer