LinkedOut

A Chrome extension that captures LinkedIn people data — employees at a company, keyword searches, or filtered searches — and exports the enriched contact list as JSON.

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Features

• Company capture — scrape all current employees from any LinkedIn company page
• Keyword search — search people by job title, name, or keywords and capture results
• Filter search — capture results from any people search with active filters (connection degree, location, company, etc.), no keywords required
• Profile enrichment — enriches each contact with email, phone, location, industry, and title via LinkedIn's profile API
• Auto-pagination — walks all result pages automatically
• JSON export — copies all contacts to clipboard as clean JSON
• Badge counter — shows total contacts captured in the extension icon

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Installation

1. Clone or download this repository
2. Open Chrome and navigate to chrome://extensions
3. Enable Developer mode (top right toggle)
4. Click Load unpacked and select the project folder
5. Navigate to a LinkedIn company page or people search and click the extension icon

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Usage

Capture company employees

1. Go to any LinkedIn company page (e.g. linkedin.com/company/openai/people)
2. Open the extension — the button will read Capture [Company] Employees
3. Click to start — it will auto-paginate and enrich all current employees

Capture search results

1. Run a people search on LinkedIn (with keywords or filters)
2. Open the extension — the button will read Capture Search Results
3. Click to start

Export contacts

Once captured, click Copy JSON in the footer to copy all contacts to your clipboard. Paste into any text editor and save as .json.

Search from popup

Use the Search LinkedIn box to navigate directly to a keyword search on LinkedIn from the popup.

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Data Captured Per Contact

Field	Source
Name, First, Last	Search result
Title, Company, Headline	Search result
Location	Search result
Connection degree	Search result
Profile URL	Search result
Photo URL	Search result
Email	Profile API (contact info)
Phone	Profile API (contact info)
Twitter	Profile API (contact info)
Websites	Profile API (contact info)
Industry	Profile API
City, State, Country	Profile API
Summary	Profile API
Scraped at	Timestamp

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Project Structure

linkedout/
├── manifest.json              # Chrome MV3 manifest
├── background/
│   └── service-worker.js      # Badge update logic
├── content/
│   ├── scraper.js             # Voyager API scraper + enrichment
│   └── scraper.css            # Minimal content script styles
├── popup/
│   ├── popup.html             # Extension popup UI
│   ├── popup.js               # Popup logic + progress tracking
│   └── popup.css              # Dark theme styles
├── utils/
│   └── storage.js             # chrome.storage.local helpers
└── icons/
    ├── icon-16.png
    ├── icon-48.png
    └── icon-128.png

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Permissions

Permission	Reason
activeTab	Read the current tab's URL to detect page type
storage	Persist captured contacts locally
tabs	Navigate the tab when searching from popup
host_permissions: linkedin.com	Make authenticated Voyager API calls

No data leaves your machine. All contacts are stored in chrome.storage.local.

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Notes

• Requires an active LinkedIn session — you must be logged in
• LinkedIn rate-limits API calls; the scraper delays between requests automatically
• Enrichment calls the profile and contact-info endpoints per person — for large lists this takes time
• The extension uses LinkedIn's internal Voyager API which is undocumented and may break if LinkedIn changes their API

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License

MIT — Copyright (c) 2026 theonlytruebigmac