1. These are people you can see on the LinkedIn website, when you open a profile, there's "More profiles for you" sidebar, we scrape that one.
2. I'm not sure I understand the question. You can choose the scraper mode on the Actor input page https://console.apify.com/actors/M2FMdjRVeF1HPGFcc/input

Thanks for your help :) sorry i am big noob i cannot see where i can choose the scraper mode? I just need the short. Mind sending a screenshot? ah although i input 5 people, i only received 1, i gues it´s because i am still on the free plan, right?

You can select it from the dropdown menu.

And I see you provided 5 searchQueries, now we process only 1 search query per run. For example this is the latest schema:

{
    "maxItems": 10,
    "profileScraperMode": "Short ($4 per 1k)",
    "searchQuery": "test query"
}

oh so how could i run this for about 1700 people? If the price for Short is$4 per 1000 there is certianly a way?

One query can return up 2500 profiles. You just had a query that could find only 1 profile. Or do you want to run 1700 queries?

i thought my json query as attached would return 5 profiles? I would want to run a working test on about 100 profiles using the 4 USD plan, and depending on results run the query for about 1700 profiles.

searchQueries in the file contains multiple values. The actor will take the first one, since it scrapes one search query per run, that's why you get less than expected. If you provide a query that can find 100, it will return 100

i don´t understand. you say:

1. One query can return up 2500 profiles
2. The actor will take the first one, since it scrapes one search query per run

I am a noob, and to me these two statements are contradictory because i undertand from the first point that the actor can return up to 2500 profiles, but i understand from the 2nd point that it only can reurn 1 profile? What am i getting wrong?

How should i structure my json input file to return my 1700 target linkedin profiles? I have the first name, last name, job title, company name and company linkedin profile (all that data comes from linkedin directly), and what i expect to get with the actor is each of the 1700 people personal linkedin profile...

2. It scrapes 1 search query. I didn't say 1 profile. This 1 query will return 2500 profiles:

{
    "locations": [ "US" ],
    "searchQuery": "Bob"
}

Do you have 1 name Bob and you want to find 1700 Bobs? This is 1 query. Do you have names of 1700 people? You will need to create a script to run 1700 queries via API to find these people separately.

You can try this one https://apify.com/harvestapi/linkedin-profile-search-by-name as it's cheaper and faster