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"

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