LinkedIn URL Format Cleaner
Clean profile links to the LinkedIn URL format. Free, no signup.
How to clean a list of LinkedIn profile URLs in 3 steps
Paste anything that holds LinkedIn links. The cleaner finds them, whatever shape they're in.
1. Paste the links from wherever they live
Paste a CRM export, a spreadsheet column, an event sign-up list or an email as it is. Lines without a LinkedIn link are skipped.
2. Press Clean URLs
Every profile link comes back as www.linkedin.com/in/name/ in lower case, with tracking, country hosts and sub-pages cut. Duplicates go, and the counts show what changed.
3. Check the flagged links, then copy the list
Links that aren't public profiles are listed with the reason and what to do. Copy the clean list, or download it as a one-column CSV.
What the cleaner gives you
Six things, all built in your browser from the text you paste.
- Clean list
- Unique /in/ URLs
- In the order you pasted them
- Counts
- 4 numbers
- Found, unique, duplicates, flagged
- Flagged links
- Reason and fix
- One line for each link
- CSV file
- One column
- UTF-8, so accents open right in Excel
- Member-ID links
- Counted
- Kept with their capitals
- List size
- No limit
- Paste a whole export at once
Each duplicate you drop is an invitation you won't send twice. LinkedIn connection limits explains why every invitation counts.
What is the LinkedIn URL format?
A LinkedIn profile URL is www.linkedin.com/in/ followed by the member's custom name and a slash, as in www.linkedin.com/in/jane-doe/. Every other shape points to the same person.
| What you pasted | What it is | What the cleaner does |
|---|---|---|
| www.linkedin.com/in/jane-doe/ | The standard format | Keeps it |
| linkedin.com/in/Jane-Doe?trk=… | Capitals and tracking | Lowercases it, cuts the ?… |
| uk.linkedin.com/in/jane-doe | A country host | Rewrites it to www |
| m.linkedin.com/in/jane-doe | The mobile site | Rewrites it to www |
| …/in/jane-doe/recent-activity/all/ | A page inside the profile | Cuts it back to the profile |
| …/in/jane-doe/fr | A second-language profile | Cuts the language code |
| …/in/jan-nov%C3%A1k | Accents, %-encoded | Decodes it to jan-novák |
| …/in/ACoAAB… | A member-ID URL | Keeps it as it is |
Every cleaned URL is a full secure address with www in front and a slash at the end, the form LinkedIn gives you when you copy a profile link.
This matters because a spreadsheet or a CRM sees two shapes of one profile as two people. The same person gets imported twice, and can be contacted twice. Clean the list first, and removing duplicates finally works.
LinkedIn URL examples
One example of each kind of LinkedIn URL, and whether the cleaner takes it. Only a profile URL points to a person; every other kind is flagged, never guessed.
| Example URL | Works? | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| Profile: linkedin.com/in/jane-doe/ | YesYes | Cleaned to the standard format |
| Member-ID profile: linkedin.com/in/ACoAAB… | YesYes | Kept and counted |
| Old profile: linkedin.com/pub/jane-doe/… | NoNo | Open it, copy the /in/ URL |
| Company page: linkedin.com/company/acme-logistics/ | NoNo | Not a person, so skipped |
| Post: linkedin.com/posts/jane-doe_cold-outreach-activity-… | NoNo | Not a person, so skipped |
| Sales Navigator lead: linkedin.com/sales/lead/ACwAAB… | NoNo | Open it, then View LinkedIn profile |
| Recruiter profile: linkedin.com/talent/profile/AEMAAB… | NoNo | Open it, copy the public link |
| People search: linkedin.com/search/results/people/?keywords=cfo | NoNo | Run the search, open each profile |
| Short link: lnkd.in/… | NoNo | Open it, copy the full address |
Most of your list came from Sales Navigator? Use the search itself as the source instead. The LinkedIn Sales Navigator scraper shows how.
Messaging the clean list next? LinkedIn message automation sends the follow-ups from your own account and stops when someone replies.
How to find your LinkedIn URL on desktop and in the app
Your profile URL is in the address bar whenever your profile is open. In the app, it's under Contact info.
- Desktop
On a computer
Open your profile and copy the address bar. To see or edit the URL, click Edit next to Public profile & URL on the right.
- iPhone or Android
In the LinkedIn app
Open your profile, tap the More icon next to Add section, then tap Contact info. Your profile URL is listed there.
- Anyone else
For another member
Open their profile in a browser and copy the address. Not sure which profile is theirs? Find it through Google with the LinkedIn x-ray search tool.
Putting it on a CV or in an email signature? Keep just linkedin.com/in/your-name. It's shorter than the full address, and it still opens your profile.
How to customize your LinkedIn URL
Open your profile, click Edit next to Public profile & URL, then edit your custom URL and save. It's the part after /in/: 3 to 100 characters, and capitals don't matter.
| Limit | What LinkedIn publishes |
|---|---|
| Custom public profile URL | 100 charactersLinkedIn, official |
It can't hold spaces, symbols or the word LinkedIn. JaneDoe and janedoe open the same profile, which is why the cleaner writes every name in lower case.
Members can change their URL, so a list built from old addresses goes stale slowly. Clean it again before each import.
A profile in a second language keeps the same URL with a language code on the end, such as /fr. The cleaner cuts it back to the main profile.
LinkedIn vanity URL vs member-ID URL
A profile can have two addresses: the custom name you see, and an internal ID that some apps and exports use.
| Detail | Vanity URL | Member-ID URL |
|---|---|---|
| Looks like | /in/jane-doe | /in/ACoAAB… |
| Set by | The member | |
| When it changes | When the member edits it | Never |
| Capitals | Ignored | They matter |
| The cleaner | Lowercases it | Keeps it, counts it |
Member-ID links turn up in exports from some tools and in links copied from LinkedIn's apps. A list that mixes both forms can hold one person twice, and no text tool can match the pair, because the ID and the name share nothing.
Keep the member-ID links anyway: they're valid profiles, even though they look odd.
Frequently asked questions
1) Is the URL cleaner free, and is my list uploaded?
2) What happens to my old LinkedIn URL when I change it?
3) Why does my LinkedIn URL have numbers in it?
4) Can I convert a Sales Navigator URL to a LinkedIn profile URL?
5) How does the cleaner spot duplicates?
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