How to find someone's email on LinkedIn
By the LeadsPaw team · Last updated
To find someone’s email on LinkedIn, open their profile and click Contact info (usually only visible once you’re connected), then read their About section and search their recent posts. If none of those has it, work out the company’s email pattern or ask them directly.
The six methods at a glance
| Method | Needs a connection? | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Contact info panel | Usually | People you’re connected to |
| 2. About section | No | Freelancers, founders, creators |
| 3. Post search | No | Recruiters, people hiring or asking for pitches |
| 4. Company email pattern | No | Work emails at companies with a domain |
| 5. Ask directly | Helps | When you have a clear reason |
| 6. A Chrome extension | No | Doing 1–3 across many people at once |
1. Check the Contact info panel
On a profile, click Contact info just below the person’s name and headline. If they’ve added an email and you’re a 1st-degree connection, it’s listed there along with any website or phone number. If you’re not connected, the panel usually shows only their profile link.
Tip: send a connection request with a short note saying why you’d like to talk. Once they accept, check Contact info again.
2. Read the About section
Plenty of people, especially freelancers, consultants and founders, write “reach me at …” or “for collaborations: name@…” in their About section. It’s visible to anyone who can view the profile, so it’s worth reading even when Contact info is locked. Press Ctrl+F (or Cmd+F) and search for @ to spot it quickly.
3. Search their posts
People share emails in posts more often than on their profile: hiring announcements (“send your CV to …”), calls for speakers or guests, and requests for pitches. Open the person’s profile, go to Activity → Posts and look through recent ones.
To find emails from many people at once, use LinkedIn search with the Posts tab and a query like "email me" AND "marketing" or "send your resume" AND "remote", sorted by Latest. Our guide to finding HR and recruiter emails covers this search in detail.
4. Work out the company’s email pattern
For a work email, find where the person works, then learn the company’s format from any address that appears publicly (on its website, in a press release or in an employee’s post). Most companies use one of a few formats:
first.last@company.comfirst@company.comflast@company.comfirstl@company.com
This gives you a likely address, not a confirmed one. Sending to guessed addresses in bulk causes bounces that can hurt your own email reputation, so use it sparingly.
5. Ask them directly
A LinkedIn message asking for the best email is simple and often works, especially with a specific reason: “I’d like to send you the proposal we discussed. What’s the best email for that?” Without a connection you’ll need InMail or a connection note, so keep it to one or two sentences.
6. Use a Chrome extension for many profiles
Methods 1–3 work well for one person and get slow for fifty. Email Finder for LinkedIn runs them across a whole search: choose People or Posts, tap roles, industries and skills, and it reads contact info, About sections and post text, collecting every email people have shared. Results export to CSV, Excel, JSON or TXT.
Unlike tools that predict addresses from a database, it only returns emails a person published, so it won’t find an email for everyone. What it finds is real.
What doesn’t work
- Searching LinkedIn by email. LinkedIn no longer lets you look up a profile from an email address.
- “Download your data” for other people. LinkedIn’s data export includes your connections’ emails only where they allowed it, which is a small share.
- Scraping at high speed. Bulk automation that ignores pacing can get your LinkedIn account restricted. Whatever you use, keep it slow.