Our LinkedIn profile scraper offers a powerful feature for lead generation, recruitment, and networking: the ability to find and validate email addresses associated with a LinkedIn profile.

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How It Works

While LinkedIn does not publicly provide email addresses or phone numbers on profiles, our tool uses a sophisticated, multi-step process to find a person’s contact information. Our process is designed to be both effective and accurate, focusing primarily on finding professional, work-related emails.
  1. Data Extraction: When you use our profile scraper in “email search” mode, it first extracts a person’s name and their current company’s domain from their LinkedIn profile.
  2. Email Generation & Validation: Using this information, our tool generates possible email address combinations (e.g., first.last@company.com, f.last@company.com). We then perform comprehensive validation checks on these generated addresses, including SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) checks, to verify that they are deliverable.
  3. Accuracy and Personalization: For cases where multiple deliverable options are found, our tool performs a supplementary Google search to provide the most accurate result. While the majority of the emails we find are work emails, if a person has included a personal email in their public profile description, we’ll provide that instead, as long as it’s also deliverable.
  4. Adaptive cost: If a LinkedIn profile lacks sufficient information to perform an email search, we will not charge you for the attempt. Profile scraping costs still apply.
Note: In the case of catch-all company domains, these emails will be marked as ‘risky’ due to the unknown deliverability of specific email addresses within that domain. Important Note: The scraper cannot extract emails or phone numbers directly from a LinkedIn profile as this information is not publicly available on the platform. The email search is performed independently and is not guaranteed to find an email for every profile.

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Trying It Out

Try it out in our API Explorer You will need to provide:
  • API key obtained from the admin, fill in the X-API-Key field.
  • Profile URL, fill in the url field.
  • Fill true in the findEmail field.

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API Usage

const params = new URLSearchParams({
  url: 'https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates',
  findEmail: 'true',
});

fetch(`https://api.harvest-api.com/linkedin/profile?${params.toString()}`, {
  headers: { 'X-API-Key': '<api-key>' },
})
  .then((response) => response.json())
  .then((data) => console.log(data));