B2B Lead Discovery by Job Title & Location

Find public LinkedIn profiles by job title, location, or company using cookieless web search. Returns names, best-effort titles and companies, locations when shown, canonical profile URLs, and quality flags. No verified emails or phone numbers.

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Input schema

Input fields, types, required flags, descriptions, defaults, and prefills come from the published definition. Prefill examples are distinct from defaults.

Field	Type	Required	Description
`jobTitles`	array	required	Job titles to search for (e.g. 'Software Engineer', 'CEO', 'Marketing Manager'). Each title generates a separate search query.
`locations`	array	optional	Locations to target (e.g. 'New York', 'California', 'United States'). Leave empty to search globally.
`companyNames`	array	optional	Specific companies to target (max 5). Leave empty to search all companies.

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Field	Type	Required	Description
`jobTitles`	array	required	Job titles to search for (e.g. 'Software Engineer', 'CEO', 'Marketing Manager'). Each title generates a separate search query.
`locations`	array	optional	Locations to target (e.g. 'New York', 'California', 'United States'). Leave empty to search globally.
`companyNames`	array	optional	Specific companies to target (max 5). Leave empty to search all companies.
`maxLeads`	integer	optional	Maximum number of leads to return (1-100).
`includeEmailGuess`	boolean	optional	Add a best-effort email guess derived from name + company domain. Guesses are NOT verified and may be wrong. Off by default.
`proxyConfiguration`	object	optional	Optional Apify proxy configuration. Yahoo may block datacenter IPs.

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{
  "description": "Find public LinkedIn profiles by job title, location, and company using cookieless Yahoo search. Returns name, title, company, location, profile URL, and data-quality flags. No login or API keys.",
  "properties": {
    "companyNames": {
      "default": [],
      "description": "Specific companies to target (max 5). Leave empty to search all companies.",
      "editor": "stringList",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "title": "Company Names",
      "type": "array"
    },
    "includeEmailGuess": {
      "default": false,
      "description": "Add a best-effort email guess derived from name + company domain. Guesses are NOT verified and may be wrong. Off by default.",
      "title": "Include Unverified Email Guess",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "jobTitles": {
      "description": "Job titles to search for (e.g. 'Software Engineer', 'CEO', 'Marketing Manager'). Each title generates a separate search query.",
      "editor": "stringList",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "minItems": 1,
      "prefill": [
        "CEO"
      ],
      "title": "Job Titles",
      "type": "array"
    },
    "locations": {
      "default": [],
      "description": "Locations to target (e.g. 'New York', 'California', 'United States'). Leave empty to search globally.",
      "editor": "stringList",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "title": "Locations",
      "type": "array"
    },
    "maxLeads": {
      "default": 25,
      "description": "Maximum number of leads to return (1-100).",
      "maximum": 100,
      "minimum": 1,
      "prefill": 1,
      "title": "Max Leads",
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "proxyConfiguration": {
      "description": "Optional Apify proxy configuration. Yahoo may block datacenter IPs.",
      "editor": "proxy",
      "title": "Proxy configuration",
      "type": "object"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "jobTitles"
  ],
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "title": "Lead Finder Input",
  "type": "object"
}

Output schema

Published result links and storage locations. This schema is not an exhaustive contract for every field in a dataset record.

Field	Type	Required	Description
`results`	string	optional	Dataset with discovered B2B leads

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{
  "actorOutputSchemaVersion": 1,
  "description": "B2B leads with name, job title, company, LinkedIn profile, location, and data-quality flags.",
  "properties": {
    "results": {
      "description": "Dataset with discovered B2B leads",
      "template": "{{links.apiDefaultDatasetUrl}}/items",
      "title": "Leads",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "title": "B2B Lead Discovery by Job Title & Location Output"
}

Dataset schema

Published dataset views and any declared field definitions. A view can select only a subset of the returned record fields.

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{
  "actorSpecification": 1,
  "title": "Lead Finder Results",
  "views": {
    "detailed": {
      "display": {
        "component": "table",
        "properties": {
          "company": {
            "format": "text",
            "label": "Company"
          },
          "emailGuess": {
            "format": "text",
            "label": "Email Guess (Unverified)"
          },
          "emailGuessStatus": {
            "format": "text",
            "label": "Email Guess Status"
          },
          "linkedinUrl": {
            "format": "link",
            "label": "LinkedIn URL"
          },
          "location": {
            "format": "text",
            "label": "Location"
          },
          "name": {
            "format": "text",
            "label": "Name"
          },
          "position": {
            "format": "number",
            "label": "Position"
          },
          "scrapedAt": {
            "format": "text",
            "label": "Scraped At"
          },
          "sourceQuery": {
            "format": "text",
            "label": "Source Query"
          },
          "title": {
            "format": "text",
            "label": "Title"
          }
        }
      },
      "title": "Detailed View",
      "transformation": {
        "fields": [
          "name",
          "title",
          "company",
          "location",
          "linkedinUrl",
          "sourceQuery",
          "position",
          "emailGuess",
          "emailGuessStatus",
          "scrapedAt"
        ]
      }
    },
    "overview": {
      "display": {
        "component": "table",
        "properties": {
          "company": {
            "format": "text",
            "label": "Company"
          },
          "linkedinUrl": {
            "format": "link",
            "label": "LinkedIn"
          },
          "location": {
            "format": "text",
            "label": "Location"
          },
          "name": {
            "format": "text",
            "label": "Name"
          },
          "title": {
            "format": "text",
            "label": "Title"
          }
        }
      },
      "title": "Leads Overview",
      "transformation": {
        "fields": [
          "name",
          "title",
          "company",
          "location",
          "linkedinUrl"
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}

Key-value schema

Published key-value store definitions, when provided by this build.

This definition is not present in the default published build. See the published README for available documentation.

Published README

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B2B Lead Discovery by Job Title & Location

Find public LinkedIn profiles by job title, location, and company using cookieless Yahoo search. No login, cookies, or API keys are required.

What this actor does

Builds site:linkedin.com/in queries from one or more job titles, optionally combined with locations and company names.
Parses public search-result snippets into lead records and deduplicates by canonical LinkedIn profile URL.
Adds honest data-quality flags instead of presenting inferred values as verified facts.
Optionally adds an explicitly unverified email-pattern guess. It never claims a mailbox was verified.

Output per lead

Field	Description
`name`	Profile name.
`title`	Current headline/title when the card or snippet exposes it.
`company`	Company when exposed by the card, snippet, or title.
`location`	Location when exposed by the card, snippet, or title.
`linkedinUrl`	Canonical `https://www.linkedin.com/in/<slug>` URL.
`snippet`	Public Yahoo search snippet (truncated).
`sourceQuery`	Query that produced the lead.
`position`	Position on the results page (stable ordering).
`scrapedAt`	ISO 8601 UTC timestamp.
`dataQuality`	`title`, `company`, and `location` are `verified`, `inferred`, `missing`, or `mismatch`; `partial` is added when the query plan was capped or a query failed.
`emailGuess` / `emailGuessStatus` / `emailGuessNote`	Only with `includeEmailGuess`; a pattern guess whose domain has MX records. Not verified.

Fields that cannot be resolved are omitted rather than filled with placeholders.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
`jobTitles`	array	required	Titles to search, e.g. `["CEO", "VP of Marketing"]` (max 10).
`locations`	array	`[]`	Locations such as `"Austin, Texas"` (max 10).
`companyNames`	array	`[]`	Companies to target (max 5).
`maxLeads`	integer	`25`	Maximum leads to return (1-100).
`includeEmailGuess`	boolean	`false`	Add unverified name/domain email guesses.
`proxyConfiguration`	object	none	Optional Apify proxy. Yahoo may block datacenter IPs.

Hard limits: 24 queries per run, 3 pages per query, 5 leads per company.

Example

{
  "jobTitles": ["CEO"],
  "locations": ["Austin, Texas"],
  "maxLeads": 25
}

Data quality and limits

Yahoo Search is an unofficial, cookieless source and may block or throttle requests. The actor retries and can use Apify proxy, but runs can return partial results.
Location fill is roughly 50% and location precision among filled rows is about 75%; some snippets omit location entirely.
Titles/companies can be inferred from headlines. Check dataQuality before using a row for outreach.
Verified email and phone are not available from public search alone; email guesses are unverified pattern guesses, not mailbox checks.

Use cases

Recruiting and sourcing by title and region.
Market/account mapping across named companies.
Building shortlists for manual review before outreach.

Backward-compatible fields

The pre-revamp snake_case output is preserved alongside the new fields: full_name, first_name, last_name, linkedin_url, company_name, company_domain, email, and scraped_at. They are emitted only when a value exists; email is the same unverified guess as emailGuess.

Python quickstart

Use a schema-derived input and the Python standard library to start a run. An Apify account and token are required for execution.

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