How to Find Someone's Email on LinkedIn [9 Methods]

Knowing how to find someone's email on LinkedIn is a game-changer. With an accurate email address, you can quickly launch any prospecting workflow—and reach someone right in their inbox.

Whatever your lead enrichment goals, here's how to harness the power of LinkedIn profile data and get those highly-coveted business email addresses.

TL;DR

1. Use an automation tool on a person's profile:

• We recommend using the LinkedIn Profile Scraper

• Use a spreadsheet, HubSpot list, or LinkedIn profile URL as input for the automation

• Enable email discovery in the launch settings, either via PhantomBuster's native email finder tool, or connect your Hunter.io, Snov.io, or your Dropcontact.io account

• It might take a few minutes per email, but at the end, you'll get a resulting list of email addresses

1. Use a LinkedIn email finder tool: Email finders like Hunter.io, Snov.io, and Dropcontact—or email discovery features from lead generation automation tools like PhantomBuster—can help you collect verified professional email addresses.

2. Try LinkedIn Chrome extensions: Use a Google Chrome extension such as Kaspr to view contact data from LinkedIn in a single click.

3. Get emails from a LinkedIn Sales Navigator search: Automatically find email addresses from a Sales Navigator search URL.

4. Check the contact details on a person's profile: Many users will feature their email address in the 'Contact info' section of their profile.

5. Check the 'About' section on a LinkedIn profile: Some LinkedIn users might feature their business or personal email address in their written 'About' section.

6. Try bulk email exports on LinkedIn: Use LinkedIn's data export feature to get a downloadable file of your first-degree connections and their email addresses, if listed.

7. Send a connection request: By making someone a first-degree connection, you can sometimes then view their email address on their profile.

8. Send a private message: Don't ask, don't get! Reach out to your prospect and ask if they'd be happy for you to get in touch via email.

   

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Use an automation tool to export emails from LinkedIn profiles

If you just need one email, skip ahead to section 5 in this article to extract it manually.

But if you want to find email addresses in bulk, we recommend using an automation tool.

Here's how you can extract multiple email addresses from LinkedIn using PhantomBuster's LinkedIn Profile Scraper automation.

Step 1: Open the LinkedIn Profile Scraper

We recommend using the LinkedIn Profile Scraper automation. This automation will gather LinkedIn profile data on autopilot—including someone's email address.

You can use this automation to find emails from LinkedIn using different input files, depending on where you have your list of accounts that need to be enriched.

This means that you can either:

• Connect a list of LinkedIn profiles from your HubSpot CRM

• Share the URL of a public Google Sheet, with a list of profiles

• Input a list of prospects from a previous workflow with PhantomBuster

Step 2: Choose your settings, then extract emails on autopilot

Connect your LinkedIn account, and then choose your launch frequency and email finder tools (more on email finders below).

The LinkedIn Profile Scraper will then automatically export data files for each profile, including email addresses.

Use LinkedIn and an email finder tool to get verified email addresses

You could also use a LinkedIn email finder tool. Email finders use details from someone's LinkedIn profile to find their contact info.

For example, they might combine a name with a company's domain to correctly "guess" that individual's email address. They'll also verify it to avoid any dirty data.

So what email finder tools are out there?

You can choose to use PhantomBuster, which has a native email discovery service. Each account offers a certain number of email discovery credits, where 1 credit = 1 attempt at finding someone's email.

It also integrates with other email finder tools.

If you already have a Hunter.io, Snov.io, or Dropcontact.io account, then you can use PhantomBuster's integration and connect it with your chosen automation. Just bear in mind you already need to have an account with one of these tools for the integration to work.

Remember: No email finder tool can guarantee a 100% success rate. Their algorithms will combine keywords such as the company domain, job title, and first name to find the best match. But they might not always work, due to factors such as name variations, outdated information, and different email formats.

Use a LinkedIn email finder Chrome extension tool

What if you want to view contact info directly within LinkedIn?

For a quick way to find individual emails on LinkedIn, we recommend a free Chrome extension such as Kaspr. It lets you access phone numbers and emails via a purple widget on the screen.

From here, you can export contact data, and manage your B2B leads in the web app.

Kaspr's free account offers unlimited email addresses, plus 5 phone credits, 5 direct email credits, and 10 export credits per month. However, the downside is that you'll need to visit each profile to use the extension, so it works best when you only have a short list of contacts to enrich.

Automate LinkedIn Sales Navigator search export with emails

If you're looking to extract emails from Sales Navigator, then you can always use similar methods to what we showed you above.

But if you're looking at a larger list of potential leads to enrich, then we recommend using an automation tool for the job.

Here's how you can do it with PhantomBuster's Sales Navigator Search to Emails automation.

Step 1: Open the automation and connect your Sales Navigator account

Connect your LinkedIn Sales Navigator account via the session cookie. You can do this by clicking the Connect to LinkedIn button, and then following the steps.

After you've logged in, your session cookie will automatically appear in the setup.

This will allow PhantomBuster to search for emails on your behalf.

Step 2: Paste the search URL(s) into the automation

Copy and paste the Sales Navigator search URL into the settings.

Or, if you want to run several searches at once, copy all the URLs into a public Google Sheet. Share the spreadsheet URL in the setup, and PhantomBuster will process all the searches within that sheet.

Step 3: Choose your settings, then launch the workflow

Specify the number of profiles you want to process (keeping LinkedIn limits in mind) and choose your email finder tool. The workflow will then extract a list of profiles from your Sales Navigator search and export all available email addresses.

Watch this video to see the tool in action.

Manually check LinkedIn profiles' Contact info section

Sometimes, someone's email address might be hiding in plain sight.

Head straight to the person's LinkedIn profile and click on the Contact info link. Many users feature valuable information such as their company website and contact details, here.

Of course, this always depends on the prospect's data privacy settings.

By default, only first-degree connections can view the person's email address, unless they have stated otherwise on their Settings and Privacy page (see below).

But some people might have opted to allow anyone on LinkedIn to see their email. If so, then it's worth double-checking their profile.

Manually check LinkedIn profiles' 'About' section

Even if the Contact info section isn't bearing fruit, you can dig deeper and potentially find someone's email in their profile description.

For example, if you visited digital marketing influencer Neil Patel's profile, you wouldn't find his business email address in the Contact info section.

But don't give up! If you skim-read his About section, you'll spot an email address in the last paragraph.

Extract email addresses from LinkedIn connections in bulk

Did you know that LinkedIn offers an export option? This little-known feature just could be the key to finding someone's email address.

Simply head to your account settings, select Data privacy, and Get a copy of your data.

Select the Connections tab and click Request archive. You'll receive a download link with a list of your first-degree LinkedIn connections, along with their email addresses, if they've allowed them to be visible.

It takes about 10 minutes to generate the file, and you'll receive an email that looks something like this. You can then upload the CSV file to a spreadsheet or your sales prospecting tool.

Send a connection request

Remember that Contact info section, from earlier? If someone is your first-degree connection, you can sometimes view their email directly on their profile.

It's worth sending a connection request to your prospects, as it just might reveal their email address in the process. Plus, it strengthens your rapport with them, and you'll already be a familiar face before you appear in their inbox.

For an increased chance of success, it's worth adding a personalized note to your connection request. This will make you stand out and set the tone for future interactions. Take a look at these cold message examples for inspiration.

How to send connection requests at scale

If you want to send connection requests to a wider audience, you can always try using PhantomBuster's LinkedIn Auto Connect tool. It will send personalized connection requests on your behalf, giving you time to focus on the rest of your prospecting.

Just remember to use it slowly and steadily, keeping LinkedIn rate limits in mind.

Send a private message and ask

Sales statistics show that 82% of buyers accept meetings with people who proactively make contact. (In other words, nothing ventured, nothing gained!) If you're looking for someone's email address, all you have to do is ask.

You could easily send messages to your first-degree connections, or InMails, depending on your LinkedIn account type.

For example, you could write something like:

"Hey [Name], I saw that you're looking into [topic], and I've just written a research paper about it. Would you like to take a glance? Send me your email if so, and I'll forward it to you!"

How to make the most of AI message writers

Knowing exactly what to write can be hard. Everything depends on your target audience, including which tone of voice to use, the formality of your message, the content, and so on.

If you want to personalize messages to your prospects, you could try PhantomBuster's AI LinkedIn Message Writer, which will craft message content based on the person's LinkedIn profile.

That way, you can quickly and easily ask for someone's email address—without feeling weird!

All you have to do is:

1. Share which profiles you want to message.

2. Write a prompt template. For example, you could put, "Write a personalized LinkedIn message inviting someone to share their email address, so that I can forward a whitepaper to them." You can add more details to this prompt, depending on what you're looking for.

3. Choose your settings, such as which LinkedIn profile data to include, and then launch the message writer.

4. You'll then get a list of message templates to help you get those email addresses.

   

FAQs

Can you see someone's email on LinkedIn?

Yes, you can view your first-degree connections' emails on their profile, if they've enabled it in their privacy settings. If not—or if you aren't connected to them—you can also use email finder tools and other strategies to find an email address on LinkedIn.

Is it legal to get email addresses from LinkedIn?

Yes, you can legally access public email addresses from LinkedIn. LinkedIn users can choose the visibility of their personal email addresses, such as on a first-degree connection basis, or to anyone on LinkedIn, for example.

How do you scrape an email on LinkedIn?

Visit the Data privacy section of your profile settings, select Get a copy of your data, click the Connections box, and then select Request archive. You'll receive a downloadable file in 10 minutes with a list of your connections, and their email addresses if they're visible.

Conclusion

Getting emails from LinkedIn might sound like searching for a needle in a haystack. But finding someone's email on LinkedIn doesn't have to be hard, thanks to these 9 tried-and-tested techniques.

You might need a little patience, and other times you might need to reach out directly, but eventually you should end up with a strong list of emails for your prospecting.

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