How to Use the LinkedIn Company Scraper

Before you start

• This Phantom only accepts regular LinkedIn company URLs. If you want to scrape Sales Navigator Account URLs, use the Sales Navigator Account Scraper instead.
• Awareness of LinkedIn’s safety limits:
  • Standard accounts: up to 80 companies/day.
  • Sales Navigator (or Premium): up to 150 companies/day.

Step 1: Choose which LinkedIn companies to scrape

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 or LinkedIn Profile Scraper results that include company URLs).

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→ If your Chrome or Firefox version is outdated, your session cookie may expire much more quickly, and you’ll need to reconnect often.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 Phantom behavior

In the Behavior step, you can set how many companies to process and what data to capture:

1. Number of companies to scrape per launch (optional):
   Enter how many companies the Phantom should process each time it runs.
   • We recommend scraping 10 companies per launch.
   • Stay within LinkedIn’s safe limits: up to 80 companies per day with a standard account, or 150 per day with Sales Navigator.
2. Delay between page loads (optional):
   Default is 2 seconds.
   → Increase this delay if you want the Phantom to simulate slower browsing behavior.
3. Save company logos (optional):
   Check “Save each company logo as a JPEG” to download logo files.
   → You won’t be able to download more than 1,000 logo files at once in a ZIP archive.
4. Extract related company pages (optional):
   Capture the “Pages people also viewed” section (up to 10 related companies per profile).
5. Scrape only the About page (optional):
   Skip other sections if you only want the basics (name, description, website, company size).

Result file settings (dropdown in setup)

1. Name your results file (optional)

   • You can customize the file name.

     If you rename the file between launches, the Phantom will create a new results file and start processing inputs from scratch.

2. Fields to keep (optional)
   • Export only the fields you care about by listing them (comma-separated).
     Example: name, industry, location.
   • This generates a second CSV file with just those fields.
   • Learn more in our guide: Customize how your Phantom results files are saved.

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.

→ 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

• Providing search URLs or profile URLs → this Phantom only accepts LinkedIn company page URLs.
• Processing too many pages at once → When LinkedIn loads too many company pages in a row, a known LinkedIn bug sometimes makes certain insights appear as if they don’t exist (the page displays no data). This isn’t an issue with the Phantom, it’s a LinkedIn behavior. To avoid this, lower the number of companies per launch and reprocess the same inputs later. Often, LinkedIn will display the missing data on a second attempt.
• Not extracting followers →This Phantom does not extract company followers. To capture followers, use the LinkedIn Company Follower Collector. Note that LinkedIn only allows you to export followers of company pages where you are an admin: you cannot extract followers from competitor or third-party pages.
• Expecting more than what’s available → this Phantom extracts all public fields on a company’s LinkedIn page (logo, description, website, size, industry, related companies, etc.). If you need additional data such as company emails, use the Data Scraping Crawler on the company’s website URL (retrieved from the LinkedIn profile). The crawler can scan the site and capture any publicly available email addresses or other details.

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 scraping company data, you can:

• Export employees: Run the LinkedIn Company Employees Export Phantom to collect employee profiles from each company.
• Engage leads: Once you have employee profiles, use LinkedIn Outreach to send connection requests or LinkedIn Profile Scraper to enrich individual profiles with more details.
• Analyze company data: Use the Advanced AI Enricher Phantom to generate insights, summaries, or categorizations based on the scraped company information.