{"id":1036,"date":"2022-08-24T12:29:53","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T11:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lix-it.com\/blog\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2022-08-24T12:44:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T11:44:26","slug":"linkedin-scraping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lix-it.com\/blog\/linkedin-scraping\/","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn Scraping: Export Data from LinkedIn"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 4<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>\n
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With 830 million members, 53 million companies and more than 100 million active job listings, LinkedIn<\/a> is the largest store of public business data in history. The problem is, how do you extract that LinkedIn data to make use of it? Whether you\u2019re a salesperson looking to prospect, a market intelligence professional finding intel or an academic performing research – LinkedIn scraping can help you get the data you need, in the format you need it.
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What is scraping?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Data scraping is a method of data collection in which a computer program extracts data from websites and web pages. The purpose of this technique is to obtain otherwise inaccessible or unstructured data. This can be useful for businesses looking to use the information they collect in sales and marketing campaigns, competitive and market intelligence, or even just for their own purposes (such as tracking sales).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How can I use scraped data?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Understanding customers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Data scraping can provide insight into an individual\u2019s current role, organisation, education, interests, skills and a whole host of information that might be useful for a business. It can help you to form an ideal customer profile, or identify individual targets for prospecting. It can also help you to better understand groups, industries and verticals. For example, LinkedIn scraping might allow a company selling training courses to discover how many individuals with a specific job title already have a qualification.
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Understanding competitors<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Extracting competitor data can help you to learn about their business structure, products and services, pricing strategies, marketing campaigns, hiring patterns and more – all of which could be useful in improving your own company’s performance. Scraping a competitor\u2019s job postings, for example, could help you to determine which departments they are investing in and how fast they are growing. This is also useful information for investors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LinkedIn Scraping<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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You can scrape data from LinkedIn search results and also directly from profiles – as long as those profiles aren\u2019t private. The easiest way to do this is with a LinkedIn scraper tool, like Lix<\/a>. LinkedIn scraping with Lix is as easy as performing a search, setting your filters and choosing your export options. You can export People, Profile, Companies and Jobs data in minutes, saving you time and money.
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Let\u2019s take a look at some of the data you can export from LinkedIn using Lix:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Search Results: People, Companies and Jobs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The most common form of LinkedIn scraping happens on search result pages. This is the page you land on when you type a keyword into the search bar on LinkedIn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These are great for scraping, because they\u2019re packed with lots of data per page. This is is important because LinkedIn have some rules about how many pages you can view in a day. In order to comply with their fair usage policies, it\u2019s advised to not view more than 1,000 pages in a day. If you\u2019re exporting profile data, this means you can export a maximum of 1,000 profiles in a day. However, standard LinkedIn search results show 10 results per page – allowing you up to 10,000 rows of data per day. Sales Navigator gives you 25 results per page, giving you a potential 25,000 scraped rows per day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Currently, Lix can export People, Companies and Jobs results, but we will be adding other options in the future. Scraping these pages is super simple, here\u2019s a 40 second video showing you how it works:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Export LinkedIn connections<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Exporting LinkedIn connections is another popular form of LinkedIn scraping. You may want to export your own connections, to keep a record of your network or perhaps add them to a CRM.
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There are many instances where you may want to export someone else\u2019s connections, too. This is possible as long as you are connected to the individual whose connections you\u2019d like to scrape. This is due to data privacy laws and there is no way around this – other than connecting with that person.
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Want to know more about exporting LinkedIn connections? Here\u2019s a popular article we published<\/a>.
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Export LinkedIn profile data<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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A complete LinkedIn profile is packed with data. Data this is extremely important in the recruiting process, or for market intelligence research. It can also be a great source of icebreakers and deep dive info on sales prospects.
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Exporting LinkedIn profiles is a little more complicated than exporting search results, because you view far more individual pages in a short space of time. There is also a lot more data to collect for each result!
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Lix\u2019s Profile Enrichment tool works in conjunction with Sales Navigator, because Sales Navigator users can view more profiles per day without hitting LinkedIn\u2019s limits.
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The process itself is simple – export a list of individuals from a Leads search and then enrich that search in the Profile Enrichment area of your Lix dashboard. You get 50 free enrichments a month, so do give it a try and see what data you can get!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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