LinkedIn data: find, fill and verify

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ListPlus has four separate LinkedIn actions, each for a different situation — finding a URL you don't have, filling a full profile from a URL you do have, searching for a profile without a URL, and checking whether a profile exists for a name and company at all.

The four actions#

  • "LinkedIn URL (by Name & Company)" — a free Google search that finds a person's LinkedIn profile URL from their name and company. It only fills empty LinkedIn URL cells and doesn't fetch the profile itself.
  • "LinkedIn Profile (by LinkedIn URL)" — fetches the full profile (current job title, company, location, experience) once you have the URL, whether it came from the free search above or from your own data.
  • "LinkedIn Profile Search (by Name & Company)" — searches LinkedIn directly by name and company and returns the full profile in one step, when you don't want to find the URL first. It costs more than the free URL search plus a profile fetch combined.
  • "Verify LinkedIn Profile" (by name + company) — checks whether a LinkedIn profile exists for that name and company, without pulling the full profile. If it finds one and your LinkedIn URL cell is empty, it fills in the URL. It costs 0.25 credits, or 0.5 when it first has to look up the company from the email domain, and it's charged per check even without a match.

A LinkedIn company page follows the same by-URL pattern: "LinkedIn Company" looks up a company's LinkedIn page and returns industry, size, headquarters and website.

See "Price list: what every action costs" for the exact credits and charge rule for each — the free URL search always runs for free, and two of the four ("LinkedIn Profile Search" and "Verify LinkedIn Profile") charge even when they don't find anything, since the search or check itself still runs against LinkedIn.

Where to run them#

In the Enrich menu, Verify LinkedIn Profile is under Verify, and the other three are under Contact Enrichment ("LinkedIn Company" is under Company Enrichment). The selection bar's Enrich offers the same actions scoped to selected rows. The record panel offers LinkedIn Profile, LinkedIn Profile Search and LinkedIn Company, but not the free URL search or Verify. See "Which Enrich button do I use?" for the full decision table.

Related topics: which-enrich-button · price-list · where-does-the-data-come-from · data-sources-table · find-verified-email.

FAQ#

How do I find someone's LinkedIn URL if I don't have it?#

Run "LinkedIn URL (by Name & Company)" from the Enrich menu — it's a free Google search that fills empty LinkedIn URL cells from the person's name and company, without charging credits.

"LinkedIn Profile (by LinkedIn URL)" fetches the full profile from a URL you already have, for 0.5 credits on a hit. "LinkedIn Profile Search (by Name & Company)" does the search and the fetch in one step when you don't have the URL, for 1 credit per attempt, even without a match.

What does "Verify LinkedIn Profile" actually check?#

It checks whether a LinkedIn profile exists for that name and company, without pulling the full profile data. If it finds one and your LinkedIn URL cell is empty, it fills in the URL for you.

Does Verify LinkedIn Profile cost credits even if it finds nothing?#

Yes — it's charged every time it runs, whether or not it finds a match: 0.25 credits, or 0.5 when it first has to look up the company from the email domain. See "Price list: what every action costs" for the exact range.

Can I look up a company's LinkedIn page the same way?#

Yes — "LinkedIn Company" in the Enrich menu takes a LinkedIn company page URL and returns industry, size, headquarters and website, priced the same way as a person's "LinkedIn Profile" lookup.

Does ListPlus use my own LinkedIn account for any of this?#

No. All LinkedIn lookups run through a specialised LinkedIn data provider on ListPlus's side; it never signs in as you and never uses your LinkedIn account or session.

Is repeating a LinkedIn lookup free the second time?#

Yes, for a while — your own LinkedIn profile and company lookups are reused for free if you repeat them within 30 days. See "Where does the data come from?" for the full caching rules.

Which action tells me whether a contact is on LinkedIn at all?#

"Verify LinkedIn Profile" — it checks whether a LinkedIn profile exists for a name and company without fetching (and paying for) the full profile, and fills in the URL cell at no extra cost when it finds one.