If you work in sales, partnerships, BD, recruiting, or even if you’re just building your network, you’ve probably hit the same wall on LinkedIn.
You find someone perfect, like the right decision-maker or hiring manager, and it’s time to reach out to them. But you can’t find their email.
Now you could message them on LinkedIn. But while it’s a goldmine for discovering people and intent signals, when it comes to real conversations, email is still king, and in most instances, the most professional way to reach out.
Most importantly, it drives the likelihood of getting a response.
So, whether you’re trying to pitch a decision-maker, add contacts to your sales or marketing campaigns, find speakers, partners, hires, or investors, or just build a proper B2B pipeline, you’re going to need email addresses.
You could settle for simply messaging people on LinkedIn and hope for replies, but the truth? You’ll be outpaced by teams who know how to extract emails fast, and use them right.
Here’s your full, legal, and up-to-date playbook on getting emails from LinkedIn in 2025, along with actionable tips on how to automate the whole thing from start to finish.
How to get emails from LinkedIn
Let’s jump straight into it.
There are many legit ways to find anyone’s email for free, but we’ll focus specifically on LinkedIn email extraction methods, all of which fall into two categories — automated methods (using special software) and manual methods (doing the detective work yourself).
Below, we’ll explore the most common automated and manual methods, as oftentimes it’s best to have both in your arsenal. Also, depending on your exact professional needs, certain options will be more appropriate. Without further ado, let’s explore how to get someone’s email from LinkedIn in 2025 and beyond.
LinkedIn email scrapers (Chrome extensions)
One of the easiest and most straightforward ways to extract emails from LinkedIn profiles is with the help of dedicated LinkedIn email finders, aka LinkedIn scrapers.
These are simple (and oftentimes free) Chrome extensions that simply plug into your browser and follow you throughout your LinkedIn activity, automatically extracting emails, phone numbers, job titles, company names, and other data points related to each profile you visit.
These extensions get the job done by sourcing through the profile and, depending on the tool, other external sources to look for any data points it can pick up.
One great example of a LinkedIn email scraper is Findy — free, requires zero setup, validates emails in real-time, and integrates directly with outreach tools like Reply.
Using Findy is very straightforward — imagine you come across a promising prospect on LinkedIn who you would love to partner with. Instead of sending them an InMail and hoping for the best, you click on Findy, and within seconds, you get their business email (and potentially a phone number and other public data, depending on the profile).
No shady scraping. No API tricks. Just a clean, browser-based extension that works quietly in the background while you do your thing. If you simply need to extract around 50 verified emails a week from LinkedIn, tools like Findy are a no-brainer.
Lead databases
Sometimes you’re not looking for a specific person — you want all the right people that match certain criteria. This is where modern lead databases come into play.
These are cloud-based platforms that offer a large directory of business contacts, including emails, phone numbers, company details, and so on, aggregated from various external sources, including LinkedIn.
Therefore, the contact emails you’re looking to get from LinkedIn profiles are most likely already available in one of these contact databases.
Take Reply’s lead database, for instance — it has over 1 billion live contacts that are constantly updated in real-time, combining data from LinkedIn, company websites, public records, and other external sources.
The way it works is also very straightforward, you simply set up the filters to your liking (industry, location, headcount, technology used, etc.), and Reply will give you a list of all professionals matching your prospect criteria, along with their email addresses and other information.
So if you’re planning on building large-volume prospect lists, turning to such lead databases can be a much more effective way to extract emails. Not only do you get more targeted contacts in a matter of seconds, but most will also come back with enriched data points that you can leverage for meaningful outreach.
Just be mindful to use reputable databases like Reply’s that comply with all data privacy laws (they should only be gathering public or consented data, and provide accessible options to opt-out).
Best part? Most lead databases now come as part of a bigger automation suite, enabling you to make use of that data right away. With the example of Reply’s lead database, users can build targeted prospect lists with numerous filters, and then with a push of a button, launch multichannel, AI-powered outreach sequences for each unique contact, without lifting a finger.
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Thanks to the new and revolutionary AI sales agents, aka AI SDRs, identifying targeted email addresses has become easier than ever.
The way they work is fairly similar to the process of lead databases that we just explored, the only difference is — they do everything on their own.
That’s right, once you “feed” them the information about what kind of professionals you’re looking for, AI SDRs will autonomously look for the most relevant and targeted people, primarily on LinkedIn.
To better understand how they work, let’s explore one of the leading AI SDRs on the market — Jason AI. After you define your ICP (target roles, industries, geos, etc.), Jason AI will search the web, LinkedIn, and lead database information to find contacts that match your criteria.
It will then enrich all those data profiles with additional information like job title, company info, recent news, LinkedIn activity, and more.
Once that’s ready, Jason AI will create tailored outreach sequences for each unique lead and leverage that enriched data to craft hyper-personalized messages, all on its own, with virtually no human intervention.
Oh, and if all that’s not enough, Jason AI will also handle incoming replies — passing hot leads to your team, handling objections, and even booking meetings on your behalf.
And yes, Jason only uses public or opt-in sources to get email addresses, so everything is above board. The AI doesn’t hack anything — it just works faster (and often better) than your average human rep.
Manual profile check
Now that we’ve covered the top automation methods on how to get email addresses from LinkedIn, let’s take a step back and look at the manual options you have.
We’ll start with the simplest method, which is definitely not scalable — but hey, sometimes it works.
Some LinkedIn users share their email directly in their LinkedIn profiles. You’ll need to be a 1st-degree connection to see that information in most cases, though it depends on the privacy settings of each account.
Simply scroll through the profile, check their “Contact Info” section, and you may be lucky to find it there.
Additionally, you could skim their entire profiles for cues, perhaps they’ve dropped an email in another section like in “Featured” or “Experiences”, though once again, don’t get your hopes up too much.
You won’t always find something, in fact, from personal experience, very few people share their contact info on LinkedIn for the public, but it could be worth a quick look.
Google search
Still can’t find the email? The next method on how to get an email address from LinkedIn…doesn’t involve LinkedIn at all.
Think of all the places an email could be mentioned online — company websites, press releases, conference attendee lists, social media posts, personal blogs, etc.
In other words, if your prospect has ever posted their email publicly or it was published somewhere, Google (and other search engines) can often find it with the right query.
This method is old-school, but could still prove effective. You can experiment with different search queries, but here are some fairly common ones for finding a LinkedIn professional’s email address:
site:[companysite.com] “[name surname]” email
site:linkedin.com/in “Name Surname” “email”
“Name Surname” “email”
“Name Surname” + “@company.com”
It might work, it might not.
If not, you might at least find the prospect’s company email format, which leads us to the next method.
Guess the pattern
Most companies use standardized email formats for a more unified brand identity, and this is when we can use it to our advantage.
If you’ve done your research and found the email address of someone from the company your prospect also works for, then you can usually guess the email.
For instance, if the email format you found for your prospect’s colleague is “first name [email protected]”, and your prospect’s name is John Brown, it’s pretty safe to assume that their email address is: “[email protected]”.
Once you’ve got this address, definitely run it through an email verifier to confirm its validity, and if that checks out, mission accomplished!
Just ask
Our last method on how to get someone’s email from LinkedIn is … simply asking them for it.
This might sound almost too simple (or even like a cop out to simply add another point), but in many cases, it could be the most honest and straightforward approach.
This is especially effective when you’ve already engaged with the person in some way — maybe you connected in the past, commented on each other’s posts, or even had a brief chat. Then, it’s more than appropriate and preferred to simply send them a quick message asking for their email address, rather than looking for it yourself.
In most cases, they will be more willing to share their email when you’ve shown genuine intent, offering something specific/of value to them, or simply being respectful and non-pushy.
And as a cherry on top, you now have explicit permission to email them, making this perhaps the best-case scenario both practically and legally. Of course, this method isn’t scalable or even applicable to people whom you haven’t engaged in some way in the past. But if you’re looking for just 1 or 2 emails of people you have crossed paths with in the past, look no further.
LinkedIn outreach on autopilot
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Before you rush to gather 1000s of emails and launch cold outreach blasts, it’s crucial to cover the key best practices to ensure your efforts are not only effective but also ethical at all times.
Here’s what you need to know:
Respect and follow LinkedIn’s rules
LinkedIn explicitly forbids unauthorized email scraping on their platform, in simple terms — that means don’t overdo your email gathering efforts or use tools that blatantly violate their rules of conduct.
So if you’re using a Chrome extension, make sure to only go for reputable options like Findy that have gathered hundreds of verified reviews over the years, and avoid any sketchy ‘bots’ that promise to gather tons of email addresses on their own.
Even with reputable LinkedIn email finders, keep your volume light — ideally around 50 profiles per day to avoid triggering any LinkedIn violations and getting banned. In any case, when it comes to modern-day outreach, it’s quality over quantity every time.
It goes without saying, don’t create a fake LinkedIn profile for your email-gathering mission.
Respect data privacy laws
Once you get emails from LinkedIn, you will inevitably need to use them for outreach, and this is where it’s imperative to follow the applicable email and data privacy laws in place.
For B2B outreach, that means following GDPR (when connecting with EU individuals) and CAN-SPAM (when connecting with US individuals), just to name a few.
In practice, this means that you should have a legitimate and relevant reason for reaching out to someone, you must ensure everyone has a clear and accessible opt-out/unsubscribe option, and don’t add anyone to newsletters they didn’t sign up for.
Ideally, you could even mention where you got their contact info from, e.g., “I found your profile on LinkedIn while researching companies in [X] space” — this transparency will not only tick the “legitimate interest” box but also help build trust with the recipient.
Cold outreach is allowed. Cold spam isn’t.
Personalize and be respectful
This is relevant to both ethical best practices and outreach effectiveness, and it should go without saying — make sure each email you send to a LinkedIn user is professional, personalized, and most importantly, respectful.
Effective cold emails are an art of their own, and the foundation of all business communications should always be genuine and respectful messaging.
So don’t go through all the trouble of finding emails from LinkedIn profiles just to launch a generic blast. Instead, use the relevant information you found on their LinkedIn post to personalize your email, perhaps mention a recent promotion or an interesting post they made.
These are standard cold email best practices, but they go double for emails gotten from LinkedIn profiles.
Verify emails, enrich data
No manual or automated method we discussed is perfect at all times, so it’s always a good idea to verify emails, phone numbers, and all other kinds of data that you gathered from LinkedIn.
Sending messages to wrong or outdated email addresses will result in high bounce rates, damage your sender reputation and domain, and severely harm your email deliverability, which will negatively affect all future outreach efforts.
At the same time, it’s a good idea to enrich all your prospect profiles with more relevant data besides simple email addresses, for instance, company information, recent professional events/changes, etc. Doing so will help you get a better, more personal understanding of the person you’re about to reach out to, and help tailor your message for maximum impact.
Many email scrapers like Findy have built-in email verification, and dedicated AI outreach tools like Reply.io have both email verification and automated data enrichment features, giving you two less things to worry about during your outreach.
Turn LinkedIn contacts into real conversations
Getting the right email is just half the battle, the real magic involves turning those contacts into meaningful conversations. This is where a smart, and ideally automated, outreach strategy comes into play.
The key power plays here include building multichannel sequences and personalizing each message and touchpoint.
With tools like Reply.io, you can launch AI-powered outreach sequences across emails, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, and more. In this case, it enables you to fully leverage the power of both email messages and follow-ups, and LinkedIn touches like In-Mail messages, connection requests, profile views, and so on.
Given Reply’s native lead database with over 1 billion contacts, you could find the contact information of your target persona(s), automatically enrich their profiles with additional data, and launch AI-powered outreach campaigns tailored to each person in a matter of minutes.
And if you’re looking to take it one step further, you could also leverage Reply’s AI sales agent — Jason AI, who will do that entire prospecting and outreach process mentioned above on his very own, and even handle incoming replies on your behalf.
Why settle for just finding emails when you can launch effective, personalized, AI-powered outreach right away?
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LinkedIn is a treasure trove of potential leads and partnerships, and emails are the key to unlocking that treasure. Knowing how to get emails from LinkedIn (effectively and ethically) can be a real game-changer for all kinds of professionals, be it for sales, BD, hiring, or simply networking.
Depending on the volume of your email extraction efforts and what you plan to do with them, you’ve got options — free Chrome extensions like Findy, AI-powered outreach tools with native databases like Reply.io, and manual methods for low volumes to have in your back pocket.
Whichever path you take, always make sure to target real prospects, reach out with genuine intent, personalize your messages, and always stay professional.
Remember — with great data comes great responsibility. You never know, that one email you got from LinkedIn may one day turn into a future customer, partner, or hire.
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