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# 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
{% tabs %}
{% tab title="cURL" %}
```bash
curl "https://api.scrapingdog.com/profile/?api_key=5eaa61a6e562fc52fe763tr516e4653&type=profile&id=rbranson"
```
{% endtab %}
{% tab title="Python" %}
```python
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}")
```
{% endtab %}
{% tab title="Nodejs" %}
```javascript
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);
});
```
{% endtab %}
{% tab title="PHP" %}
```php
'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);
?>
```
{% endtab %}
{% tab title="Ruby" %}
```ruby
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
```
{% endtab %}
{% tab title="Java" %}
```java
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();
}
}
}
```
{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}
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