How to Use the LinkedIn Company Employees Export

Before you start

• Awareness of LinkedIn’s safety limits:
  • LinkedIn only displays up to 1000 employees per company.
  • With Sales Navigator, you can sometimes retrieve up to 2500 employees.
  • To keep your account safe, we recommend scraping no more than 1 company or 1000 employees per day (2500 with Sales Navigator).

Step 1: Provide company URLs

You can provide company URLs in three ways:

1. My Lists:
   Choose a saved LinkedIn Leads list you’ve already created in PhantomBuster.
2. A URL:
   • Paste a single LinkedIn company URL.
   • Provide a Google Sheet with LinkedIn company URLs (make sure it’s shared with “Anyone with the link”).

   • Upload a CSV file with LinkedIn company URLs (make sure it’s publicly accessible, and note that CSV upload is only available on paid plans).

     → If you’re using a spreadsheet, the Phantom defaults to the first column (A). To use a different column, enter the column’s header name in the field “Name of column containing company URLs.”

3. My Phantoms:
   Use results from another Phantom as input (e.g. LinkedIn Search Export results).

Step 2: Connect your LinkedIn account

To let the Phantom act on your behalf:

1. Install the PhantomBuster browser extension and connect your LinkedIn session in one click.
2. If you’re not using Chrome or Firefox, you can retrieve your session cookie manually (see our cookie guide).

Check your browser user agent
Make sure your browser is up to date before connecting your account. 
→ If your Chrome or Firefox version is outdated, your session cookie may expire much more quickly, and you’ll need to reconnect often.

Step 3: Configure employee extraction settings

Control how the Phantom extracts employees from each company:

1. Number of employees to scrape per company:
   • This Phantom will export a maximum of 1000 employees per company because LinkedIn only displays the first 1000 employees or 2500 with Sales Navigator.
   • If left empty, the Phantom scrapes 10 employees per company.
2. Number of companies to process per launch:
   • Default = 10 companies per launch.
   • Leave empty to process all companies in your input for that launch.
   • For safety, prefer multiple smaller launches rather than one large run.

Advanced settings (dropdown in setup)

• Filter by job position (optional):
  • Enter keywords for job titles to narrow down your export (e.g., Marketing Manager OR Sales Director). 
    → This filter applies only to job titles listed in the Experience section of LinkedIn profiles. It does not use the LinkedIn headline (the short description that appears under someone’s name).
    Example:
    • A profile might show the headline “Sales Manager, Gonher, S.A.” but have a job title of “Commercial Director” in their Experience section.
    • If you filter by “Sales Manager,” this profile won’t be included, because LinkedIn doesn’t treat the headline as a filterable job title.
  • LinkedIn treats each keyword separately. If you want singular and plural versions included, you must use OR. Without OR, only the exact word you type will be matched.
    Example: partnership OR partnerships
  • Additional details:
    • You can use up to 6 filters (max) separated by OR.
    • Leave the field blank to export employees from all roles.
    • In your export file, the “Job” column displays the headline value, which may look different from the job title used as a filter. This is expected behavior and not a bug, it’s how LinkedIn’s search works.

Step 4: Select launch frequency

Choose how often the Phantom should run:

1. Launch manually: Start the Phantom yourself whenever you need.
2. Launch once at a specific time: schedule a one-time run at a set date and time.
3. Launch repeatedly: schedule regular runs (e.g. once per day, several times during working hours).
4. Launch after another Phantom: chain automations together so this Phantom starts right after another finishes.
5. Advanced scheduling: customize the exact minutes, hours, days, or months when the Phantom should run.

→ For a complete walkthrough of scheduling options, see our guide to scheduling Phantoms automatically.

Step 5 (Optional): Advanced settings

Advanced settings are available if you want to fine-tune how your Phantom runs, but by default they’re already optimized for most use cases.

We recommend leaving them as they are unless a guide specifically instructs you to change something.

→ For a detailed overview of all advanced options (like execution limits, retries, email notifications, proxies, webhooks, and file management), see our Advanced settings guide.

Launch and results

When you’re ready:

1. Click Launch to start your Phantom.
2. Once it finishes, open the Results tab in the Phantom console to see the data collected.
3. Download your results as a CSV or JSON file, or view them as a dynamic list on the LinkedIn Leads page.
4. The LinkedIn Company Employees Export Phantom provides basic employee data (name, title, company, profile URL).
   → If you also want enriched details such as emails or additional profile data, use the LinkedIn Profile Scraper on your exported employees.

→ To learn how to export your data to Google Sheets, integrate with other tools, or reuse it in more automations, check our Access and Export your Phantom Results guide.

Export and input limits on the Free plan
If you’re on the Free plan or Free trial, some features are limited:
- CSV exports include only the first 10 rows of results.
- CSV download links (for dynamic viewing in Google Sheets or integrations) are not available.
- JSON exports are not available.
- CSV upload as an input method is not supported.
To unlock all features, you’ll need to upgrade to a paid plan.

What you give (Input) and What you get (Output)

This section gives you a detailed breakdown of everything you need to provide to run this Phantom, and everything you’ll receive once it completes.

What you give (Input)

What you get (Output)

Tips and troubleshooting

Common pitfalls

• Using a private Google Sheet → make sure it’s shared with “Anyone with the link.”
• Expecting more than 1000 results per company without a Sales Navigator account.
• Extracting too many employees at once, which may force you to reconnect your session cookie.
• Extracting too many companies in one launch (high “companies per launch” value), which may lead to LinkedIn loading errors.

If you run into issues

• Check how to troubleshoot your phantom using Logs.
• Browse the Fix Issues & Troubleshoot Errors section for solutions to common problems.
• Review our Automation Rate Limits by Platform guide.
• Check our Best Practices for Social Media Automation guide.

Suggested automations

After exporting employees, you can:

• LinkedIn Outreach → send personalized connection requests or messages to all or filtered results.
  • Pair it with an AI Phantom (e.g. AI LinkedIn Message Writer) to generate tailored outreach messages before sending.
• LinkedIn Auto Liker or Auto Commenter → engage with employees’ posts to build visibility and warm up leads.
• LinkedIn Activity Extractor → collect recent activity from employees (posts, likes, comments) to inform your outreach strategy.