Person Profile Scraper

This API can be used for scraping any public person's profile. You just have to pass the profile ID to our API.

You have to send a GET request to https://api.scrapingdog.com/profile along with the below given parameters.

Parameters

Parameter

Description

api_key required

Your personal API key. Available on your dashboard Type: String

id required

This is the ID of any person profile. This can be found inside the URL of any person profile. Type: String

type required

This is a string that helps us to identify whether you want to scrape a person profile or a company profile.

For a person profile, you have to pass type=profile

Type: String

premium

This is a boolean parameter that can enable premium proxies to bypass LinkedIn's fun captcha. By default it is false. Type: String

webhook

This parameter is used to schedule the scraping of a profile after 2-3 minutes. This can only be used when type=profile. This method is preferred when retrieving profile data as it increases the success rate of obtaining the profile. It is false by default. Type: String

API Example

curl "https://api.scrapingdog.com/profile/?api_key=5eaa61a6e562fc52fe763tr516e4653&type=profile&id=rbranson"

import requests

url = "https://api.scrapingdog.com/profile/"

params = {
    "api_key": "5eaa61a6e562fc52fe763tr516e4653",
    "type": "profile",
    "id": "rbranson"
}

response = requests.get(url, params=params)

if response.status_code == 200:
    data = response.json()
    print(data)
else:
    print(f"Request failed with status code: {response.status_code}")

const axios = require('axios');

const url = 'https://api.scrapingdog.com/profile/';
const params = {
    api_key: '5eaa61a6e562fc52fe763tr516e4653',
    type: 'profile',
    id: 'rbranson'
};

axios.get(url, { params: params })
    .then(response => {
        if (response.status === 200) {
            const data = response.data;
            console.log(data);
        } else {
            console.log(`Request failed with status code: ${response.status}`);
        }
    })
    .catch(error => {
        console.error('An error occurred:', error);
    });

<?php

// URL and parameters
$url = 'https://api.scrapingdog.com/profile/';
$params = array(
    'api_key' => '5eaa61a6e562fc52fe763tr516e4653',
    'type' => 'profile',
    'id' => 'rbranson'
);

// Initialize cURL session
$ch = curl_init();

// Set cURL options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url . '?' . http_build_query($params));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

// Execute the cURL request
$response = curl_exec($ch);

// Check for errors
if ($response === false) {
    echo 'cURL error: ' . curl_error($ch);
} else {
    // Process the response
    echo $response;
}

// Close the cURL session
curl_close($ch);
?>

require 'net/http'

url = URI.parse('https://api.scrapingdog.com/profile/')
params = {
  api_key: '5eaa61a6e562fc52fe763tr516e4653',
  type: 'profile',
  id: 'rbranson'
}

url.query = URI.encode_www_form(params)

response = Net::HTTP.get_response(url)

if response.is_a?(Net::HTTPSuccess)
  puts response.body
else
  puts "HTTP request failed: #{response.code} #{response.message}"
end

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            String apiUrl = "https://api.scrapingdog.com/profile/?api_key=5eaa61a6e562fc52fe763tr516e4653&type=profile&id=rbranson";
            URL url = new URL(apiUrl);

            HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
            connection.setRequestMethod("GET");

            int responseCode = connection.getResponseCode();

            if (responseCode == 200) {
                BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
                String inputLine;
                StringBuilder response = new StringBuilder();

                while ((inputLine = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                    response.append(inputLine);
                }
                reader.close();

                System.out.println(response.toString());
            } else {
                System.out.println("HTTP request failed: " + responseCode);
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

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