🔗 LinkedIn Network Connections Scraper

Export every profile in your personal LinkedIn network into a clean, structured table — first/last name, professional headline, profile photo, vanity URL, and the exact date you connected. Built for founders, sales pros, recruiters, creators, and RevOps teams who want real visibility into their growing network. 🚀

⚖️ This Actor only reads your own network connections, using your own authenticated session. It does not access private data of accounts you aren't connected to.

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✨ Why Choose This Actor?

• 🎯 One row per connection — results land in a tidy table you can sort, filter, and export to JSON / CSV / Excel.
• 💾 Live saving — every connection is saved the instant it's found, so a partial run is never a wasted run.
• 🌐 Self-healing network layer — starts on a direct connection and quietly escalates to Datacenter → Residential proxies only if LinkedIn pushes back.
• 📅 Date monitoring — capture only today's new connections, or everything up to a chosen date — perfect for daily network tracking.
• 🧘 Polite by design — randomized delays between pages keep things natural.
• 🪶 Lightweight — no headless browser, so it's fast and cheap to run.

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🔑 Key Features

Feature	Description
👤 Profile details	First name, last name, headline
🗓️ Connection date	Both a pretty label and an ISO date
🖼️ Profile photo	Highest-resolution available image URL
🔗 Profile URL	Direct link to each connection's profile
📄 Pagination	Walks your entire network, 40 per page
🛡️ Proxy fallback	direct → datacenter → residential, sticky

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📥 Input

Field	Type	Description
liAtCookie 🍪	string	Required. Your LinkedIn li_at session cookie. Masked in the UI, never logged.
starting_page 📄	integer	Page to start from (40 connections/page). Default 1.
waiting_time ⏱️	number	Base delay (seconds) between pages; randomized up to ×2. Default 2.
date_limit_today 📅	boolean	Capture only connections added today.
date_limit_str 🗓️	string	Stop once connections are older than this YYYY-MM-DD date.
proxyConfiguration 🌐	object	Proxy / residential country settings.

Example input

{
  "liAtCookie": "AQEDA...your-li_at-cookie...",
  "starting_page": 1,
  "waiting_time": 2,
  "date_limit_today": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

🍪 How to get your li_at cookie

1. 🌐 Log in to linkedin.com in your browser.
2. 🛠️ Open DevTools (F12) → Application → Cookies → https://www.linkedin.com.
3. 📋 Copy the Value of the cookie named li_at.
4. 📌 Paste it into the liAtCookie field. ✅

🔎 Tip: A li_at cookie is tied to your session. For the smoothest runs, use it from a trusted network, or pair it with a residential proxy if LinkedIn challenges requests from an unfamiliar IP.

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📤 Output

Each item is one connection:

{
  "vanityName": "seo-expert-raisul-islam",
  "firstName": "Raisul",
  "lastName": "Islam",
  "componentRef": "auto-component-4944675d-0046-4f5b-b02c-caa7ae82c97e",
  "connection_date": "Connected on May 21, 2026",
  "formated_connection_date": "2026-05-21",
  "picture": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/.../photo.jpg",
  "headline": "Digital Marketing Specialist | Meta & Google Ads Expert | SEO",
  "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/seo-expert-raisul-islam"
}

Field	Description
vanityName	Public profile slug
firstName / lastName	Connection's name
connection_date	Human-friendly "Connected on …" label
formated_connection_date	ISO YYYY-MM-DD date
picture	Best available profile photo URL
headline	Their LinkedIn headline
url	Direct profile link

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🚀 How to Use (Apify Console)

1. Log in at console.apify.com → Actors.
2. Open LinkedIn Network Connections Scraper.
3. Paste your li_at cookie and tune the options (dates, max, proxy).
4. Click Start. ▶️
5. Watch the real-time log fill up with captured connections. 👀
6. Open the Output tab when the run finishes.
7. Export to JSON / CSV / XLSX. 📦

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🤖 Use via API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/<ACTOR_ID>/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{"li_at":"AQEDA...","proxyConfiguration":{"useApifyProxy":true}}'

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💡 Best Use Cases

• 📈 Network growth tracking — run daily with date_limit_today to log new connections.
• 🧲 Lead generation — export your network to a CRM.
• 🧑‍💼 Recruiting — search your connections by headline.
• 🗂️ Personal backup — keep a structured archive of who you know.

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💳 Pricing

This Actor uses the Pay-Per-Event model. You're charged per connection saved to the dataset, plus standard Apify platform usage. See the Actor's Store page for current event pricing.

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❓ FAQ

Is my cookie safe? Yes — li_at is marked secret, never written to logs, and only used to authenticate your own requests.

Why did it stop early? Either you hit a date limit, reached the end of your network, or your li_at cookie expired (grab a fresh one).

Do I need a proxy? No. It runs direct by default and only escalates to Apify proxies if LinkedIn throttles you.

Will this get my account flagged? The Actor uses polite, randomized delays, but you are responsible for respecting LinkedIn's Terms of Service and your local laws.

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🛟 Support & Feedback

Found a bug or want a new field in the output? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab — feedback is welcome! 🙏