Read one LinkedIn profile

Opens one person's profile in the LinkedIn app and reads it top to bottom: the header, the About text, and the Experience and Education entries as far as the scroll budget allows. The most-run paid category on Apify is LinkedIn profile scraping, and it is the category scrapers get banned from; here it is your own signed-in app reading a page it is allowed to see.

Nothing is sent: no connection request, no message, no follow.

Inputs

person	the person's name as LinkedIn shows it, e.g. `Felicia Gittleman`
context	optional, a word or two to pick the right one in search, e.g. `immigration attorney Seattle`

Run it

One call. Substitute the inputs, URL-encoded in the link (spaces as %20).

run_task({
  "phases": [{
    "launch": "com.linkedin.android",
    "openUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?keywords=<person>%20<context>",
    "goal": "The LinkedIn People search results for '<person> <context>' are open. Do not type and do not use the search box. Tap the result whose name is <person> to open their profile. On the profile, keep scrolling down through About, Experience and Education. Do not tap Connect, Follow, Message or More.",
    "steps": [
      "People search results for '<person>' are showing",
      "A profile page with the name <person> in its header is showing"
    ],
    "findTexts": [
      "<person>"
    ],
    "maxSteps": 18,
    "collect": {
      "record": "a section or entry on the profile page: the header, the About text, one Experience entry, or one Education entry",
      "fields": {
        "section": "which part: header, about, experience or education",
        "text": "the entry's text: title and company for experience, school and degree for education, the paragraph for about, name and headline for the header",
        "dates": "the date range, if the entry shows one"
      },
      "where": "a profile page whose header names <person> is showing",
      "count": 6
    }
  }]
})

Poll get_task_status(task_id, wait_seconds: 30) until the status is done.

What comes back

result.collected holds one record per section or entry, in reading order. The header comes first, then About, then experience and education entries. The profile URL is not on this screen; it is under More → Contact info, which is a separate task.

Notes

Profiles in creator mode show Follow instead of Connect, and some hide the About text behind a 'see more'. The run reads what is visible; a truncated About comes back truncated.
Measured: header, About, three Experience entries and Education came back as seven records in fourteen steps before the run scrolled into 'People also viewed'. count is 6 so it stops while still on the profile.
To qualify someone by where they studied, read only Education and let the read judge each entry: add "judge": { "outside_us": "this school is located outside the United States", "is_education": "this entry is a school or university, not a job, a post or a skill" } and "require": { "is_education": 0.6 } to collect, with record set to one Education entry and count 3. LinkedIn lists education newest first, so the last entry is usually the first degree; years decide when they are shown.

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