What is the LinkedIn Profile Scraper?
InsightSocial's LinkedIn Profile Scraper is a free Chrome extension that saves the LinkedIn profile you have open as one row in Excel, CSV or JSON: name, headline, location, current company, school, website, follower and connection counts, and, for your 1st-degree connections, the email and phone LinkedIn shows you. It reads the page in your own logged-in browser, one profile per run.
If LinkedIn hides something from you, such as contact details reserved for 1st-degree connections, the extension never sees it either.
What a run saves depends on your LinkedIn layout
LinkedIn is moving accounts to a new page layout, and the two layouts give different rows.
| Older layout | New layout | |
|---|---|---|
| Name, headline, location, profile link | Yes | Yes |
| Current company, school, website | Yes | Yes |
| Followers and connections | Yes | Yes |
| Current title, skills shown on the page | Yes | No |
| Email and phone (1st-degree connections only) | Yes | No |
| Full experience, education and skills lists | No | No |
Which layout you see is LinkedIn's choice, not a setting in the extension.
Profiles at scale
The profile run is one profile at a time; there is no list or Sales Navigator mode. To collect many people with their name, headline and profile link in one run, start from a post instead:
- LinkedIn Post Likers Scraper: everyone who reacted to a post, with the reaction type.
- LinkedIn Comments Scraper: everyone who commented, with what they wrote.
The headline is where most people put their job title and company, so those exports often answer "who are these people" without opening each profile.
The person's posts
On the same profile, pick Posts instead of Profile to export what they published, with reactions by type, comments and reposts. Profile and Posts are separate runs. See the LinkedIn Posts Scraper.
Using the data responsibly
LinkedIn's terms restrict automated collection, and that risk sits with the account you use. Keep runs to what you need, and handle personal data under GDPR, CCPA and the rules where you work.