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🚀 LinkedIn Decision Maker Finder

A powerful Apify Actor that finds key decision makers (CEO, CTO, VP, etc.) at target companies using public LinkedIn data. No LinkedIn login required.

📋 Overview

The LinkedIn Decision Maker Finder is an Apify Actor designed to identify decision-maker profiles at companies you're targeting. Given a list of company names or LinkedIn URLs, it uses Google search (via the Apify GOOGLE_SERP proxy) to discover the public LinkedIn profiles of C-level executives, VPs, directors, and founders — returning each person's name, LinkedIn profile URL, and job title.

Key Highlights:

✅ No LinkedIn Login Required – Discovers public profiles via Google search, with no LinkedIn authentication or cookies ✅ Company Name or URL – Provide plain company names or LinkedIn company URLs ✅ Customizable Titles – Target specific roles (CEO, CTO, VP) or use built-in defaults ✅ Confidence Scoring – Each result is scored as high, medium, or low confidence ✅ Reliable & Block-Free – Sources data entirely from search results, so it isn't subject to LinkedIn's logged-out anti-bot blocking ✅ Structured Output – Returns normalized JSON with both company and person data

✨ Features

🏢 Company Resolution

Resolves each input company to its LinkedIn company page:

• Resolves company names to LinkedIn company pages automatically via Google search
• Accepts direct LinkedIn company URLs for instant resolution
• Populates companyName and companyLinkedInUrl

👤 Decision Maker Discovery

Finds key people at each company:

• Discovers public LinkedIn profiles matching target titles at each company
• Extracts the person's name, job title, and current company from the search result
• Configurable max persons per company (1–50)

🎯 Confidence Scoring

Each result includes a confidence score (high / medium / low) based on:

• Whether the person's title matches one of the target titles
• Whether the result's current company contradicts the target company (which lowers confidence)

⚡ How It Works

The Actor runs a 2-step Google-search pipeline (using the Apify GOOGLE_SERP proxy):

1. Resolve Companies – Converts company names to LinkedIn company pages (skipped when a LinkedIn company URL is supplied)
2. Search Decision Makers – Runs site:linkedin.com/in/ "<company>" (<titles>) style queries to find matching profiles, then parses each result for the person's name, title, and current company

Why no direct LinkedIn page scraping? Logged-out requests to linkedin.com/in/... and /company/... pages are blocked by LinkedIn's anti-bot systems almost 100% of the time (HTTP 999), and expose little structured data even when they slip through. The Actor therefore sources everything from Google search results, which is reliable and block-free. See Output Format for which fields this populates.

🚀 Quick Start

1. Get Started: Create an Apify account if you don't have one
2. Prepare Input: List the companies you want to search (names or LinkedIn URLs)
3. Run the Actor: Use the Apify Console to run the Actor
4. Download Results: Export your data as JSON, CSV, or Excel

🛠️ Usage

Input Format

The Actor accepts a JSON input with the following fields:

{
"companies":[
"Apify",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/qdrant"
],
"titles":["CEO","CTO","Founder"],
"maxPersonsPerCompany":5,
"country":"com"
}

Default Titles

When no custom titles are provided, the Actor searches for:

CEO, CTO, COO, CFO, CMO, CIO, CISO, VP, Vice President, Director, Head of, Founder, Co-Founder, Managing Director, General Manager, Partner, President, Owner

📊 Output Format

Each result in the dataset contains both company and person data:

{
"companyName":"Apify",
"companyLinkedInUrl":"https://www.linkedin.com/company/apify",
"companyIndustry":null,
"companySize":null,
"companyHeadquarters":null,
"companySpecialties":null,
"personName":"Jan Curn",
"personTitle":"CEO & Co-Founder",
"personProfileUrl":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/jancurn",
"personLocation":null,
"personEducation":null,
"personConnections":null,
"personCurrentCompany":"Apify",
"personAboutSnippet":null,
"confidence":"high",
"scrapedAt":"2025-01-15T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Field availability

Because all data comes from Google search results (not from scraping LinkedIn pages directly), the fields populate as follows:

The null fields are retained in the output schema for backward compatibility. If you need richer person data (email, clean title, firmographics), pass personProfileUrl to a dedicated enrichment provider downstream.

Export Options

Your data can be:

• Downloaded as JSON, CSV, or Excel from the Apify Console
• Accessed via the Apify Dataset API
• Integrated with Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, and more

🔍 Error Handling

The Actor handles errors gracefully:

• Unresolved Companies: If a company's LinkedIn page can't be resolved, person discovery still runs (it only needs the company name), and companyLinkedInUrl is set to null
• Empty Searches: A company that returns no matching profiles simply yields no records; it doesn't stop the run
• Automatic Retries: Up to 2 retries for failed search requests
• Garbage Filtering: Non-person results and unparseable titles are dropped rather than emitted as bad data

📈 Tips for Best Results

• Use LinkedIn URLs when possible for faster, more accurate company resolution
• Be specific with titles to narrow results to exactly the roles you need
• Adjust country to match the region where your target companies operate
• Start small with a few companies to test before running large batches