How to find someone's email on LinkedIn

On any profile, the Contact info link sits just below the person's name and headline. Click it and you see what the member chose to share: their profile link, and sometimes a website, an email address or a phone number.

Who sees the email is the member's choice, not yours. Under Settings & Privacy, then Visibility, LinkedIn gives every member four options:

• Only visible to me. Nobody sees it.
• 1st-degree connections. Only people they're connected to.
• 1st and 2nd-degree connections. Their connections and their connections' connections.
• Anyone on LinkedIn. Every member who views the profile.

By default, LinkedIn shows a member's primary email only to their direct connections. So if you aren't connected to someone, you usually see no email at all.

Why most profiles don't show an email

• You aren't connected. The default setting hides the email from 2nd and 3rd-degree members.
• They chose Only visible to me. Plenty of people do, to keep recruiters and sales pitches out of their inbox.
• The address isn't the one you want. The email in Contact info is the one the member signed up to LinkedIn with. That is often a personal address, or a work address from a job they left years ago.

That last point matters most. For B2B outreach you want the person's current work email, and LinkedIn doesn't give you that. You have to find it.

These methods are free and stay within LinkedIn's terms. They work, but each one takes time per person and none of them gives you a verified address.

1. Connect, then check Contact info

Send a connection request with a short, honest note. Once they accept, open Contact info again. With the default setting, their email now shows. You can also message them and ask for the best address to send something to.

Tip: Don't pitch in the connection note. A request that reads like an ad gets ignored, and you lose the chance to see Contact info at all.

2. Read the About and Featured sections

People who want to be contacted often put an email in their About section, in a Featured link, or at the end of a post. Founders, consultants, freelancers and recruiters do this most. Press Ctrl+F (Cmd+F on a Mac) on the profile page and search for “@” to find it in seconds.

3. Go to the company website from the profile

Click the current company in the Experience section to open its LinkedIn page, which lists the company website. Check the team page, press page and blog author bios. Even when no address is listed, you now have the company domain, which the next method needs.

4. Work out the email pattern, then verify it

Most companies use one format for every employee. For a fictional Maya Ortiz at fernway.example, the common patterns look like this:

Find one real address at the company, such as a press contact or a blog author, to see which pattern they use. Then run your guess through an email verifier before you send. Never send to an unchecked guess: guessed addresses bounce, and bounces damage your sender reputation. Why your bounce rate is high explains the damage.

Some company mail servers accept every address, real or not. These are called catch-all domains, and a verifier can't confirm the person exists on them. That is where a guess is most likely to fail.

5. Download your connections file

LinkedIn lets you download data about your own 1st-degree connections. Go to Settings & Privacy, then Data privacy, then Get a copy of your data, and choose Connections. The file lists each connection's name, profile URL, company and position.

The email column is only filled for people who allowed their connections to export it, so expect many blank cells. Keep the file anyway. Its profile URL column is exactly what you need for the bulk method further down.

The fastest way to get someone's email from LinkedIn is ContactYard. Give it the person's LinkedIn profile URL and it returns their verified work email and their mobile number when available. No connection request, no pattern guessing, no separate verifier.

1. Copy the profile URL from your browser's address bar, for example linkedin.com/in/mayaortiz. Drop anything after a question mark.
2. In ContactYard, open Enrich Contacts and give it the profile URL.
3. Get the work email and, when available, the mobile number. Both come in the same result.

One credit covers the whole contact: the work email, the mobile when available, and the email verification. Every work email is checked before delivery, not taken on trust from the original source, and the data is refreshed every 30 days. ContactYard matches the person against 100M+ verified B2B prospects, including people other lead databases don't have.

Other tools typically charge 1 credit for the email, 2 to 10 more for the mobile and 1 more to verify. That's 4 to 12 credits for the same contact ContactYard gives you for one.

Have 50 or 5,000 profile URLs? They might come from your connections file, an event, a CRM export or a list your team built by hand. Enrich Contacts does them all in one go and hands the sheet back with work emails and mobiles filled in.

One row per person, with a header row such as linkedin_url. Keep any other columns you have, such as your own notes or IDs. They come back unchanged next to the new data.

Some rows have no URL? A row also matches with first name, last name and company domain together.

Open Enrich Contacts and drop in the file. ContactYard suggests which column holds which detail. Confirm that your URL column is mapped to LinkedIn profile URL, and check the preview rows below the mapping.

Press Enrich contacts. When the job finishes you see how many emails and phones were found and how many credits were used. Download the file to get every original column plus the work email and mobile.

Tip: Sort by the cy_status column to split rows ready for email from rows ready for calls. Fill missing emails and phones in a spreadsheet explains every status.

LinkedIn shows a phone number only when the member added one to Contact info and allows you to see it. Most profiles don't have one. The manual options are the same as for email: connect and check Contact info, read the About section, or call the main line listed on the company website, which reaches reception rather than the person.

The fast way is the same ContactYard lookup. The profile URL returns the mobile number when available, in the same credit as the email, with no extra phone credits. Building a calling list? Read how to get phone numbers for cold calling.

LinkedIn's User Agreement doesn't allow bots, scripts or browser add-ons that copy data from its site. Every method in this guide respects that. You read profiles yourself, use LinkedIn's own data download, or give a profile URL to ContactYard, which matches the person in its own database.

Then write like a person. Send one short, relevant email, say who you are, and stop if they ask you to. Is cold email legal covers the rules by country.

Starting from a name and company instead of a profile? Read how to find someone's email. Ready to try it on a real profile? Start free and paste the first LinkedIn URL.

Can you find someone's email on LinkedIn?

Yes, if they share it with you. Click Contact info on their profile. By default LinkedIn shows the email only to 1st-degree connections, so if you aren't connected you usually see nothing. To get their work email without connecting, paste their profile URL into ContactYard.

How do I see someone's email on LinkedIn if we aren't connected?

LinkedIn won't show it unless the member set their email to visible for 2nd-degree connections or anyone. Check their About and Featured sections for an address, or use ContactYard: their profile URL returns their verified work email for one credit.

Is the email in LinkedIn Contact info a work email?

Often not. It's the address the member signed up to LinkedIn with, which is frequently a personal address or a work address from an earlier job. For B2B outreach, look up their current work email instead.

How do I get someone's email from LinkedIn for free?

The manual methods are free: connect and check Contact info, read the About and Featured sections, find the company domain and verify the email pattern, or download your connections file. ContactYard also lets you start free with trial credits.

How do I get phone numbers from LinkedIn?

A phone number appears in Contact info only if the member added one and lets you see it. The faster route is ContactYard: one LinkedIn profile URL returns the mobile number when available, in the same credit as the work email.

How do I find emails for a list of LinkedIn profiles?

Put the profile URLs in one column of a spreadsheet, upload it to ContactYard's Enrich Contacts, map the column, and download the file with work emails and mobiles added. Each found contact uses one credit.

Will the person know I looked up their email?

Looking someone up in ContactYard doesn't send them anything. Visiting their LinkedIn profile can show up in their profile viewers, depending on your LinkedIn privacy settings.