LinkedIn Data Scraping

With over 900 million users, LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional social network. For any function, whether marketing, sales, or recruiting, LinkedIn has the data to drive revenue for your business. Unfortunately, exporting data from the platform is not straightforward.

This is where Bardeen comes in! Our AI tool scrapes the data, imports it in your preferred spreadsheet, database, or CRM, and provides many export options. In this guide, we’ll show you how to scrape data from LinkedIn using Bardeen safely and reliably, and we’ll also introduce many automations for your go-to-market motion!

What is LinkedIn Data Scraping?

LinkedIn data scraping involves gathering publicly available data from LinkedIn posts and pages. For example, you can

• Scrape LinkedIn followers for a specific company or individual, giving you a list of potential leads for sales prospecting campaigns.
• Extract a prospect's recent posts, then use OpenAI to summarize and find relevant topics prior to a discovery call.
• Export LinkedIn Sales Navigator searches as a csv, then use an enrichment tool to find contact information. The resulting list can be imported into a CRM or outreach tool to help your team build sales pipeline.

To web scrape LinkedIn data, you usually require an AI automation tool. This lets you quickly retrieve information from without hours of manual copy pasting.

One of the best tools for scraping LinkedIn data is Bardeen. Bardeen’s AI features make it easy to scrape LinkedIn for the data you need. You can build automated workflows or use our pre-built automations like our Scraper to find the data you need.

Why Scrape LinkedIn Data? (Benefits)

Here are the benefits of extracting data from LinkedIn:

1. Sales Prospecting: By collecting LinkedIn data from followers or profiles in a search result, you can compile lists of potential customers for your company. This helps with sales prospecting strategies and automatically brings the candidates to you.
2. Lead Generation: LinkedIn scraping is valuable for generating leads. You can enrich your prospect data with information from their company or profile page to create personalized follow-up messages. Generative AI tools like Bardeen are especially suited for lead generation as they can automatically handle outreach.
3. Enhanced Outreach: You’ll be able to reach a lot more people when you scrape LinkedIn for information. Rather than manually compiling data lists and emails yourself, simply use Bardeen’s workflows to automatically scrape data from LinkedIn and write outreach messages for you.
4. Personalize Your Emails: With Bardeen, you can automate your LinkedIn workflows with AI-written personalized emails. This takes the valuable data you collected to create customized outreach emails, helping you connect with people in your industry and develop professional relationships.
5. Market Research: By collecting data from LinkedIn, you can analyze the current and future trends in your industry. Gather information on what the leading figures are saying in their posts to help you stay on top of the market and outperform your competitors.

You might be wondering how LinkedIn is different from other sales intelligence tools (like Apollo, Clearbit, Zoominfo). As the largest professional social network, users are incentivized to keep the most up-to-date information possible on LinkedIn. This means your sales tactics will be accurate, well informed, and well-timed when you use LinkedIn data.

How Bardeen's LinkedIn Data Scraper works

Bardeen is a free AI workflow automation Chrome extension integrated with LinkedIn. Bardeen's LinkedIn Data Scraper will allow you to export your most relevant leads to your spreadsheet or CRM, so you can personalize outreach, enrich emails, or plan further sales workflows. Here's how it works.

It works by extracting information directly from a webpage's HTML code. Normally this would be a technical endeavor, requiring knowledge of CSS selectors, XPath expressions, and Javascript. However, Bardeen does this with a low-code interface - all you have to do is select the elements you want to scrape by clicking.

Run the LinkedIn Scraper on any LinkedIn page

Bardeen's LinkedIn Scraper comes stocked with a catalog of scraper templates. These are constantly updated to ensure you can export data from every critical LinkedIn page.

To run the scraper, Bardeen requires a few pieces of information:

• Page URL: This is the page Bardeen will extract data from (e.g. profiles, posts, comments, followers)
• Scraper template: Each webpage is structured differently. This means you need to instruct your scraping tool on how to properly extract the fields you want.
• Data destination: Once the data is extracted, you will need to define how and where it's saved (e.g. CRM, csv, outreach tools)

Is it legal to scrape LinkedIn data?

LinkedIn, like all major social media platforms, discourages data scraping. However, their user agreement essentially states that as long as you scrape data reasonably and be respectful of the privacy of other users, you should be fine.

A recent ruling by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals stated that scraping public data from websites is not prohibited by any federal law. This means that, currently, LinkedIn data scraping is legal, provided you keep to safe “rate limits” for scraping data on LinkedIn. Here are the current rate limits that trigger how many profiles you can view:

• Up to 80 profiles a day if you have a free account on LinkedIn.
• Up to 150 profiles a day if you have a premium or LinkedIn Sales Navigator account.
• Up to 100 page or post extractions per day.

Abiding by these rate limits is important to avoid unethical scraping. We recommend never scraping data to invade people's privacy or facilitate malicious activities. Always ensure that the web scraping tools you use are committed to ethical standards.

Remember: While LinkedIn data scraping is legal, it's still not encouraged by the platform. In fact, LinkedIn uses algorithms to detect unauthorized scraping by monitoring activities that don't seem natural. For example, browsing loads of profiles in a short span of time may set off LinkedIn's automation detection alarm bells.

Key LinkedIn data you can extract with Bardeen

There are multiple categories of data you can extract with Bardeen:

Personal and Company Information

• Profile (experience, tagline, school, interests)  
• Company followers (follower count, follower profiles, follower locations)  
• Activity feed for a specific user (recent posts, comments, shared articles)  

Activity Feed

• Posts in Activity Feed (post text, reactions, comments, post links)  
• Recent Activity - Reactions (post reacted to, type of reaction, author)  

Post and Interaction Data

• Post (text, author, engagement metrics, timestamps)  
• Comments (comment text, author, replies, timestamps)  
• Messaging (message text, timestamps, sender details)  

Analytics and Metrics

• Metrics (impressions, clicks, reactions, shares)  
• Recent Posts (post text, engagement metrics, date posted)  

Group and Networking Data

• Group members (member names, roles, join date, profile links)  

Note that some data is only accessible to users who are logged in or are 1st degree connections of the target.

How to Scrape LinkedIn Profiles

Bardeen's ready-to-use automation playbooks make it easy to scrape LinkedIn profile data. You can also connect your favorite data apps with the LinkedIn profile scraper to further streamline your workflow. No need to copy and paste data.

Using the automations below, you can scrape LinkedIn profiles easily and find all the information you need. This will help you personalize your outreach messages or find the right contact information to get hold of a potential sales lead.

There are also other pre-built automations for scraping LinkedIn profiles with Bardeen. For example, you can use the tool to enrich LinkedIn data from a scraped profile. You can also copy data from all profiles in a search rather than scrape data from a sole profile.

Save LinkedIn Profile data to your CRM

This automation takes a singular LinkedIn profile, enriches their contact data, then creates a contact in your CRM (like HubSpot or Salesforce).

Save LinkedIn Profile data to CRM

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Save profile data from LinkedIn Search to spreadsheet

This automates takes a batch approach, when run on a LinkedIn search, it will save all profile data to a spreadsheet like Google Sheets or Excel.

Save profiles from LinkedIn Search to spreadsheet

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How to Scrape LinkedIn Post Data

You can also scrape data from LinkedIn posts using Bardeen. All you have to do is open the post you want to extract data from and run the relevant Bardeen automated workflow. You can collect information from a specific post, find listed job posts from the currently opened LinkedIn Jobs page, and save everything to external integrations like Notion and Google Sheets.

These workflows are beneficial for collecting data on a specific topic. By automatically extracting data from LinkedIn posts, you can gather insights into industry trends and thought leaders and use the information to get ahead of your competition.

Create leads from LinkedIn Post commenters

Other than demographics and firmographic data, a prospect's actions can provide the best signal for whether they are interested in a product. Bardeen turns your social network into a database of leads to sell to.

Create leads in CRM from LinkedIn Post commenters

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Create sales outreach from LinkedIn Post content

We find the best sales calls come from engaging with your prospects LinkedIn posts, but it's not a very scalable tactic. This playbook makes it one click. Anytime you see an interesting post from your potential prospect, you can run the automation to generate a draft email with the perfect hook personalized by AI based on their LinkedIn post.

Create sales outreach based on LinkedIn Post

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How to Scrape LinkedIn Job Data

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Looking to find out information on a job through LinkedIn? You can scrape LinkedIn job data using Bardeen and export it into Google Sheets, Notion, Coda, and Airtable. These automations are great for marketers and recruiters looking to perform market research on their competitors. It’s also ideal if you’re looking for a new job and want to find LinkedIn recruiters to collect as much data about what’s out there as possible.

Save LinkedIn Job posts to a spreadsheet

You might think this is only helpful for job seekers, but a great way to prospect is through a company's job postings. If you're selling software, look for job requirements that require skills related to your tool. We've even seen some companies ask their employees for "Bardeen experience".

Copy a list of LinkedIn job posts to a Google Sheet

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How to Scrape LinkedIn Company Data

Are you building a profile on a business? Perhaps you’re gathering information on competitors to optimize your marketing campaigns. With Bardeen, you can scrape companies and company pages on LinkedIn and copy the data directly to Google Sheets, Notion, Pipedrive, Airtable, and other apps.

You can also scale your operations by scraping LinkedIn company data in large volumes. You’ll be able to enrich your information on individual prospects and leads by extracting data scraped from LinkedIn company pages. Bardeen’s automations make it easy to scrape and save the data you want from LinkedIn and export it further to other platforms.

Export LinkedIn Companies data to CRM

Export LinkedIn Company data from search to CRM

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Save qualified LinkedIn Companies to CRM

Export qualified LinkedIn Company Data to CRM

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How to Scrape LinkedIn Mutual Connections

Mutual connections are a great place to look for people who can make a warm introductions to a particular contact. This increases the likelihood you will book calls with potential leads and ultimately close a deal.

Bardeen's Mutual Connection scraper extracts a list of LinkedIn profiles from the mutual connection page. This data can be exported as a csv or to a tool like Google Sheets for additional enrichment. Here are a few automations for sales and marketing teams.

Save LinkedIn mutual connections data to CRM

Save LinkedIn mutual connection data to spreadsheet

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How to Scrape LinkedIn Email Addresses

LinkedIn is a hotbed of leads to build your company's pipeline. However, despite the powerful search and filtering features, contact information is usually unavailable or hidden. 

To manually get LinkedIn emails, navigate to the “Me” icon on your LinkedIn homepage, then select “Settings & Privacy” > “Privacy” > “How LinkedIn uses your data” and click “Download your data” to request your connection data, which includes available email IDs. After completing the process, LinkedIn will email you a downloadable file containing the emails of your direct connections who have opted to share their contact information.

You can automatically do this with Bardeen, which combines best-in-class sales intelligence tools like Apollo.io, Clearbit, and Zomminfo to help you find your potential prospects' phone numbers, email addresses, and firmographic data.

These automations combine this functionality with Bardeen's task automation capabilities to automate manual sales and marketing tasks end to end.

Get contact data for a list of LinkedIn Profiles

Get contact data for a list of LinkedIn Profiles

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How to Scrape LinkedIn Sales Navigator Data

Scraping LinkedIn Sales Navigator can be critical for your outbound sales efforts. By extracting valuable data on your ideal customers or even lists of customers themselves, you can personalize outreach and improve conversion rates. In fact, studies show that 79% of B2B marketers believe personalization boosts engagement. 

You could extract data manually from LinkedIn. Visit profiles in Sales Navigator Search Results or individual LinkedIn Profile Pages. Copy-paste fields like Name, Job Title, Company Name, Location, and LinkedIn Profile URL into a spreadsheet. Free but time-consuming, ideal for under 100 prospects.

But why do that when companies like Deel, Miro, and Kearney use Bardeen to automate their scraping tasks? Here are a few automations that make sales a breeze.

Export Sales Navigator company search

Export Sales Navigator people search

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How to Create Your Own LinkedIn Automations with Bardeen

Alongside pre-built automations, Bardeen also allows you to unleash your creativity with your own automations. Bardeen has integrations with a variety of popular apps and CRMs, including LinkedIn, Instagram, Notion, Coda, Airtable, Pipedrive, Google Sheets, Slack, and ClickUp.

Using the Workflow Builder, you can develop any automation you want. There are endless possibilities for what you can do, whether you want to build simple scraping automations or more complex processes involving email outreach and campaign management. You can even create your own right-click automations.

The video below shows how you can design automated workflows with Bardeen:

Here are some examples of what you can do with Bardeen:

• Create a recruiting email draft from a LinkedIn profile page.
• Create an AI-generated outreach email from scraped profile data.
• Create a job application email draft from the currently opened LinkedIn job post.
• Create an Asana task from a LinkedIn profile and draft a recruiting email.
• Create a Coda entry from a LinkedIn profile and draft a recruiting email.
• Copy a LinkedIn profile to a ClickUp list.

Can You Scrape Data From Any Website Using Bardeen?

Bardeen lets you scrape data from any website, even one that’s not integrated with the tool itself. You just need to create a web data scraper workflow or use our pre-built instant data scraper to extract the data you want and export it in the desired format. This is a visual tool, so there’s no coding required!

For example, you can scrape data from social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook, and it’s just as simple as LinkedIn! Here are a few automations you can perform to scrape data from Instagram and Facebook:

• Save Instagram following or followers to Google Sheets.
• Get data from the currently opened Instagram profile.
• Get data from a Facebook profile.
• Get a Facebook business page summary information.
• Copy an Instagram profile to a ClickUp list.
• Export a job entry to Notion.

The video below explains no-code web scraping with Bardeen in more detail:

Is Bardeen Safe for Scraping LinkedIn Data?

Bardeen is a browser-based scraper, which means it uses your computer’s IP address to scrape data from LinkedIn, not a cloud server. This makes it relatively safe, but you still need to be careful to not set off LinkedIn’s algorithms.

However, please be aware that excessive or abusive use of scraper extensions, bots, or automation tools on some websites can lead to penalties, including temporary or even permanent restrictions on your account. We recommend that you read and adhere to the specific terms of the websites you visit and use to avoid any disruptions or issues.