What the LinkedIn Bulk Scraper API does and who it is for

The LinkedIn Bulk Scraper API is a third-party scraping layer that sits on top of LinkedIn's platform, giving developers programmatic access to public (and session-based) LinkedIn data without an official LinkedIn partner agreement. The defining feature is its bulk capability: you can submit up to 25 profiles or entities in a single call, making it meaningfully faster than sequential single-profile lookups.

The most natural users are recruitment tech companies building talent pipelines, sales teams enriching CRM data, market research tools aggregating company intelligence, and job-board aggregators pulling live job listings. The 37 available endpoints are broad enough that a single integration can power several distinct product features simultaneously.

One thing to keep in mind before integrating: this is a scraping API, not an official LinkedIn API. The provider links to a Data Processing Agreement (DPA), which is worth reading carefully — especially if you handle personal data under GDPR or similar frameworks.

Key capabilities and endpoint walkthrough

The 37 endpoints divide logically into several groups.

Person and profile data

  • POST /person and POST /profiles are the core profile-scraping endpoints. Submitting multiple profile URLs or identifiers at once takes advantage of the 25-concurrent-call architecture.
  • POST /person_urn accepts a LinkedIn URN (the internal identifier), which is useful when you already have URN data from another source.
  • POST /person_data_with_open_to_work_flag is a useful variant for recruiters who want to filter candidates by their publicly signaled job-seeking status.
  • POST /person_skills isolates the skills section specifically — handy for talent-matching pipelines that only need that slice.
  • GET /profile_updates and GET /comments_from_recent_activity expose what a person has been posting and commenting on, enabling engagement-based outreach strategies.
  • GET /similar_profiles rounds out person data by surfacing LinkedIn's own