How to Use the Sales Navigator Profile Scraper

*Performance may slow down when email discovery is activated.

Before you start

• Awareness of safety limits:
  • Process a maximum of 150 profiles per day.
  • If you enable email enrichment, reduce to around 75 profiles per day.

Step 1: Choose which Sales Navigator profiles to extract

You can provide your profiles in three ways:

1. My Lists:
   Choose a saved LinkedIn Leads list you’ve already created in PhantomBuster.
2. A URL:
   • Paste a single Sales Navigator profile URL.
   • Provide a Google Sheet with Sales Navigator profile URLs (make sure it’s shared with “Anyone with the link”).
     → 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 profile URLs.”
   • Upload a CSV file with Sales Navigator profile URLs (CSV upload is only available on paid plans).
3. My Phantoms:
   Use results from another Phantom as input.

Step 2: Connect your Sales Navigator account

To let the Phantom act on your behalf:

1. Install the PhantomBuster browser extension and connect your Sales Navigator 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→ If your Chrome or Firefox version is outdated, your session cookie may expire much more quickly, and you’ll need to reconnect often.

Using multiple Sales Navigator accounts

This Phantom supports connecting and running with multiple Sales Navigator accounts at the same time. This lets you:

• Safely extract more results per day (e.g., 3 accounts = 3,000 results).
• Scale without duplicating automations.
• Keep everything in a single result file.

→ See our full guide: Use Multiple LinkedIn or Sales Navigator Accounts to Extract more Leads in one Automation.

Step 3: Configure how many profiles to extract and behavior

• Define the number of profiles to scrape per launch:
  • Default = 10 per launch.
  • Maximum is 150, but we recommend keeping it well below that.

Advanced settings (dropdown in setup)

• Simulate Sales Navigator’s dwell time (optional):
  • Wait ~1 minute at each profile visit.
  • Use this if you continue being logged out of Sales Navigator, even when following recommended limits.
• Save each profile picture as a JPEG (optional):
  • Exports profile photos.
  • You cannot download more than 1,000 images per ZIP file.
• Take a screenshot of the profile (optional):
  • Capture a full-page snapshot of each profile visited.
• Save the profile as a lead (optional):
  • Adds the connected profile to your Sales Navigator leads list.
• Extract additional details (optional):
  • Jobs
  • Schools
  • Skills
  • Company website
• Extract “Similar leads” list → Creates a JSON file of suggested similar leads.

Step 4: Enrich your leads with professional emails (optional)

You can choose to add verified professional email addresses to each LinkedIn profile.

Not every profile will return an email address. The match rate depends on the data available, so the number of verified emails may be lower than your credits used.

1. Click on the “Select your email discovery service” dropdown.
2. Choose one of the following options:
   • PhantomBuster credits (default option)
     • Each plan includes monthly email discovery credits.
     • 1 credit = 1 attempt to find and verify an email for one profile.
     • Credits reset monthly.
   • Third-party services
     • Connect your own account by entering your API key for:
       • Dropcontact.io
       • Hunter.io
       • Snov.io

Enabling email discovery means the Phantom will spend more time on each profile, since it needs to process both the message and the email lookup. This increases execution time per launch.

Step 5: 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 6 (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.

→ 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 spreadsheet (make sure it’s set to “Anyone with the link”).
• Using the wrong input type/URL → this Phantom only accepts Sales Navigator Profile URLs.
  → If you have LinkedIn Profile URLs, use the LinkedIn Profile Scraper instead.
• Expecting all profiles to return emails → Email availability depends on both connection degree and the use of an Email Discovery Service.
  • For 1st-degree connections, emails saved on the profile are visible directly.
  • For 2nd- and 3rd-degree connections, an Email Discovery Service (PhantomBuster credits or a third-party provider like Dropcontact, Hunter, or Snov) must be enabled to attempt finding verified professional emails.
• Expecting profiles to show as viewed in Sales Navigator: This Phantom does not visit the profiles. It extracts all profile data directly without loading the page, so profiles will not show as "viewed" in Sales Navigator. 
  → If you want profiles to be marked as "viewed," use the LinkedIn Profile Visitor Phantom instead (note: it only accepts LinkedIn profile URLs, not Sales Navigator ones).

If you run into errors or account 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 extracting Sales Navigator profiles, you can:

• Enrich further with the AI LinkedIn Profile Enricher → Analyze profile data to get insights and segmentation help (e.g., group leads by role, industry, or location before outreach).
• Engage with outreach using the LinkedIn Outreach Phantom → Send personalized connection requests and automated follow-up messages.