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Discovering potential leads among your LinkedIn page followers can significantly enhance your sales and marketing efforts. In the video below, Mathilde from Captain Data presents a streamlined approach to extracting and enriching follower information, including the critical step of finding emails. This guide will walk you through the process of leveraging your LinkedIn followers as potential leads using Captain Data’s tools.

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Inputs

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linkedin_company_url
string
required
A LinkedIn Company URL should start with “https://www.linkedin.com/company/“

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Parameters

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max_results
number
default:100
The maximum number of connections to extract per input.
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skip_pages
number
default:0
How many connections to skip. ‘1’ means that the first 40 connections are being skipped.

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Output Fields

The following fields are extracted for each follower:
Below is the JSON schema for the output fields: 
{
    "first_name": "string",
    "followed_at": "string",
    "full_name": "string",
    "headline": "string",
    "last_name": "string",
    "linkedin_people_post_search_url": "string",
    "linkedin_profile_handle": "string",
    "linkedin_profile_url": "string",
    "profile_image_url": "string",
    "sales_navigator_profile_id": "string"
}

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Specificities

To scrape only new followers, extract all followers initially, then duplicate the job to extract new followers periodically.
1

Input the LinkedIn Company URL

Start by copying and pasting your company’s LinkedIn page URL into Captain Data.
2

Configure Account Rotation

Ensure the process runs smoothly without any hitches related to account limitations.
3

Customize Your Extraction

Specify the number of results you want and use the “pages to skip” feature to exclude certain followers, such as your company’s employees, from the extraction.
4

Email Cascade Configuration

Set up the email cascade to optimize email discovery, ensuring you end up with a usable email address for each lead.
5

Launch the Workflow

With the configuration complete, you can start the extraction process, which is designed to be quick and efficient.
You need to be an administrator of the LinkedIn company page to use this action.