Sales Navigator Search to Emails

PhantomBuster’s Sales Navigator Search to Emails Automation extracts leads from LinkedIn Sales Navigator searches and finds their professional emails. This tutorial walks you through setting up and running the Automation.

• Sales Navigator limits: Only the first 2,500 results are visible per people search. Use multiple search variations to extract more leads.

• Safety recommendations: Email discovery increases execution time per profile. Process roughly half the default daily recommendation to reduce the risk of hitting LinkedIn rate limits.

• Credit usage: One PhantomBuster credit equals one email attempt. Credits reset monthly. Not every profile will yield a verified email.

• Free plan limitations: CSV uploads are not supported as input, and CSV/JSON exports are limited to the first 10 rows.

• Slot usage: This workflow requires 2 PhantomBuster slots.

1. Connect your Sales Navigator account: Install the PhantomBuster browser extension to connect your session in one click. If you are not using Chrome or Firefox, manually retrieve your session cookie.

   Keep your browser updated. Outdated browsers can cause your LinkedIn session cookie to expire quickly, requiring frequent reconnection.

2. Add searches and set extraction limits: Submit a Sales Navigator search URL, lead list URL, or a Google Sheet containing URLs. You can also configure the number of results to process per search and set daily email discovery caps.

   Google Sheets must be shared with “Anyone with the link.” The automation looks for URLs in column A by default; specify a different column by its exact header name if needed.

3. Enable email discovery (optional): Choose between PhantomBuster credits or a third-party service like Dropcontact or Hunter (requires an API key) to enrich extracted profiles.

   Email enrichment occurs after the initial lead extraction. Do not expect emails to appear until the enrichment pass completes.

4. Adjust advanced settings (optional): Modify execution limits, proxy settings, or file management preferences only if necessary. The default settings are optimized for most use cases.

5. Launch and retrieve results: Turn the workflow ON. It runs hourly using two workers (Search Export and Email Finder) until your configured limits are reached. View your data in the Results tab or export it.

   Scheduling is fixed to run once per hour and cannot be customized.

For detailed instructions and troubleshooting, see the full tutorial on the help center.