Sales Navigator Auto Connect

PhantomBuster’s LinkedIn Sent Request Extractor Automation collects the invitations you’ve sent from your LinkedIn account. This tutorial shows you how to connect your LinkedIn, set up the Automation, and export your sent invitation data.

• Required inputs: LinkedIn session cookie and your browser’s user agent (auto-detected with the Chrome/Firefox extension).

• Resource usage: This Automation consumes 1 slot and takes about 25 seconds per profile.

• Free plan limitations: CSV exports include only the first 10 rows, CSV download links and JSON exports are unavailable, and you cannot upload a CSV as input.

• Data limitations: Output fields depend on LinkedIn's display; sent dates may be missing, and messages appear only if included. Ensure you are logged into the correct account to view data.

• Safety: Keep browsers updated to prevent cookie expiration and respect platform automation rate limits.

1. Connect your LinkedIn account: Install the PhantomBuster browser extension and connect your LinkedIn session in one click, or manually retrieve your session cookie if using a different browser.

2. Select launch frequency: Choose how the Phantom should run: launch manually, schedule a single or recurring run, trigger after another Phantom finishes, or use advanced scheduling for precise timing.

3. Optional: Configure advanced settings: Leave defaults unless a guide instructs otherwise. Adjust execution limits, retries, notifications, proxies, webhooks, or file management if needed.

4. Launch and access results: Click Launch to start the Phantom. After it finishes, access your data from the Results tab and download as CSV or JSON.

For a detailed walkthrough, see the full tutorial on the help center.

You have two options:

1. Process a single profile
Copy the Sales Navigator profile URL and paste it into your Phantom's setup.

2. Process multiple profiles
Create a spreadsheet with Google Sheets. Copy the Sales Navigator profile URLs and paste them into your spreadsheet - one URL per row, all in column A.

Make this spreadsheet public so PhantomBuster can access it. 

Copy the spreadsheet URL and paste it into your Phantom's setup.

This section allows you to automatically greet your prospective connections in a personal way with a message of up to 300 characters.

Write the message of your choice and customize it with variable placeholder tags. You can find the available placeholder tags under the text box.

Any piece of data scraped from a profile can be used to personalize your message, such as #company#, #jobTitle#, and #location#. You can find a comprehensive list of these potential tags in the "What you get..." section on the Sales Navigator Auto Connect Phantom overview page.

You can also manually type the placeholder tag if you have a column in your output that you'd like to use that is not available as a ready made placeholder. Just type the column name within hashtags:

Hey #columnName#, let's connect!

Where the same column name is found in both your input and output spreadsheet, the input spreadsheet will take priority.

Take note: These tags are case-sensitive, so make sure to write them out correctly!

Choose how many profiles you want this automation to process each time it runs. This helps you control your usage and stay within platform limits.

Turn LinkedIn profiles into full-fledged leads by enriching them with professional email addresses.

How email discovery works:
The service uses each profile’s full name and company name to search for a professional email address, verify it, and return the result.

Choose your enrichment method:
1. Use PhantomBuster credits
Each PhantomBuster plan includes monthly email discovery credits:

• 1 credit = 1 attempt to find and verify an email for 1 profile.

• Credits reset monthly.

2. Use your own third-party service
Connect an external email discovery tool by entering your API key from one of these platforms:

• Dropcontact

• Hunter.io

• Snov.io

Take note: Not every profile will return a verified email address, but this step can dramatically increase your chances of landing in inboxes, not just InMail. It depends on the data available, so your number of emails found may be lower than your credits used.

Tip: To reduce the risk of hitting platform rate limits when using email discovery, process about half of the default daily recommendation for your Phantom. For example, with the LinkedIn Profile Visitor Phantom, aim for 40 profiles per day instead of the default 80.

Automation always produces better results in the long run. Set the Phantom to launch repeatedly and get results while you're away!

This Phantom runs from the cloud, which means you don't even need to have your browser open or computer on for these launches to happen.

For more automatic launch options, click on the three little dots in the top right and "Show advanced settings."