LinkedIn Connections Exporter
Export LinkedIn connections, filter them, download the list. Free, no signup.
How to export LinkedIn connections in 3 steps
LinkedIn gives you the file for free. The tool turns it into a list you can use.
1. Request your connections from LinkedIn
Click Me, then Settings & Privacy, Data privacy and Get a copy of your data. Tick Connections and press Request archive.
2. Drop Connections.csv into the tool
Download the file from LinkedIn's email and drop it above. Your totals, top companies, job titles and email share show at once.
3. Filter to your buyers, then download
Keep the job titles you sell to, drop the rest and set a date range. Download the CSV or copy the profile URLs.
What does a LinkedIn connections export include?
Seven columns for each 1st-degree connection: first and last name, profile URL, company, position, the date you connected and, for a few, an email address.
| What you get | Works? | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| First and last name | YesYes | For every connection |
| Profile URL | YesYes | The link to each profile |
| Company and position | YesYes | As the member wrote them |
| Connected on | YesYes | The day you connected |
| Email address | YesYes | Only when the member allows it |
| Phone number | NoNo | Not in the file |
| Location or headline | NoNo | Not in the file |
| 2nd-degree connections | NoNo | Your own connections only |
The file is a snapshot of the day you asked. Job titles change, so request a fresh copy before you reuse an old one.
LinkedIn also notes that CSV doesn't support every character set. Names in Chinese, Japanese or Hebrew can come through garbled.
Why are emails missing from my LinkedIn export?
Each member decides. LinkedIn includes an address only for connections whose privacy settings let their connections see or download it.
So an Email Address column that's mostly blank is normal. It isn't a broken file. The tool shows how many came through under With an email, and in most networks it's a small share.
Need one person's address? Open their profile and check Contact info. If it isn't there, they chose not to share it, and the export won't have it either.
Every connection can still be reached by LinkedIn message, email or not. LinkedIn message automation sends those messages from your own account and stops when someone replies.
How to export LinkedIn contacts to Excel or Google Sheets
Download the CSV, then open it where you work. LinkedIn's raw file needs one fix first.
- Excel
Open it in Excel
Double-click the CSV. LinkedIn's raw file starts with a few Notes lines, so delete the rows above First Name before you sort or filter.
- Google Sheets
Import it to Google Sheets
Choose File, Import, Upload and pick the CSV. Sheets splits the columns for you, and accented names stay intact.
- Your CRM
Import it to a CRM
Most CRMs take a CSV and ask you to match columns. Map profile_url to the LinkedIn field so existing contacts aren't added twice.
The tool's download has no Notes lines, writes dates as 2026-11-08 and saves in UTF-8, so Excel opens it cleanly.
Merging the export with links from other places? Run the combined column through the LinkedIn URL format cleaner so each person appears once.
How to filter LinkedIn connections by job title
Type the words your buyers' titles hold and the words to drop. The count updates as you type.
- Job title includes
- Any keyword
- founder, head of sales, VP
- Job title excludes
- Any keyword
- intern, student, recruiter
- Company contains
- Part of a name
- health finds Lumen Health
- Connected on
- A date range
- Both days included
- Live count
- As you type
- With a 10-person preview
- Download
- CSV or URLs
- Only the people who match
Keywords match the start of a word, so vp finds VP Sales but not SVP. Add svp as well if you want both.
Filter by date to find the people you met at one event, or the ones you haven't spoken to in years.
How many LinkedIn connections can you export?
All of them. You can have up to 30,000 1st-degree connections, and the file lists every one.
| Limit | What LinkedIn publishes |
|---|---|
| 1st-degree connections | 30,000LinkedIn, official |
The tool has no size cap. A full 30,000-person file takes a second or two to read on a laptop.
Big networks are where a filter pays off. Cut the file down to the few hundred people who fit your buyer before it reaches a spreadsheet or a CRM.
Growing the network instead? LinkedIn connection limits covers how many invitations to send each week.
LinkedIn connections export not working?
Most problems are the email, the zip or Excel. Here's the fix for each.
The email never arrived
Check spam, then check which address is primary under Sign in & security. Connections can take up to 48 hours, so ask again only after that.
The download link has expired
The link works for 72 hours. Request the archive again and download it the day the email lands.
There's no Connections.csv in the zip
You asked for other data files. Go back to Get a copy of your data, tick Connections and request it again.
Excel puts everything in one column
Your Excel expects semicolons. Use Data, then From Text/CSV, and pick comma. Or drop the file here, which reads both.
Accented names look garbled
Excel guessed the wrong encoding. Open the file through From Text/CSV with UTF-8, or use this tool's download, which Excel opens correctly.
Can you export someone else's LinkedIn connections?
No. LinkedIn's export holds only your own 1st-degree connections, and LinkedIn says you can't export contacts who aren't 1st-degree.
Tools that offer more read another member's connection list on screen while you're logged in. That only works where the owner left the list visible, and many hide it.
For people you haven't connected with yet, start from a LinkedIn search for their job title and export the search instead. Your own export stays the cleanest list you have: everyone on it already accepted you.
Frequently asked questions
1) Is the connections exporter free, and is my file uploaded?
2) How long does a LinkedIn data export take?
3) Can I export only some of my LinkedIn connections?
4) Why does my Connections.csv start with Notes?
5) Is it legal to export my LinkedIn connections?
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