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# Extract LinkedIn Page Followers

> Extract all the followers from a company page (you need to be admin).

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

<ParamField path="linkedin_company_url" type="string" required={true} primary={true}>
  A LinkedIn Company URL should start with "[https://www.linkedin.com/company/](https://www.linkedin.com/company/)"
</ParamField>

### Parameters

<ParamField path="max_results" type="number" default={100} minimum={0} maximum={30000}>
  The maximum number of connections to extract per input.
</ParamField>

<ParamField path="skip_pages" type="number" default={0}>
  How many connections to skip. '1' means that the first 40 connections are being skipped.
</ParamField>

### Output Fields

The following fields are extracted for each follower:

<ResponseField>
  <Expandable title="properties">
    <ResponseField name="first_name" type="string">The first name of the follower</ResponseField>
    <ResponseField name="followed_at" type="string">The date when the follower started following</ResponseField>
    <ResponseField name="full_name" type="string">The full name of the follower</ResponseField>
    <ResponseField name="headline" type="string">The headline of the follower</ResponseField>
    <ResponseField name="last_name" type="string">The last name of the follower</ResponseField>
    <ResponseField name="linkedin_people_post_search_url" type="string">The LinkedIn people post search URL</ResponseField>
    <ResponseField name="linkedin_profile_handle" type="string">The LinkedIn profile handle</ResponseField>
    <ResponseField name="linkedin_profile_url" type="string">The LinkedIn profile URL</ResponseField>
    <ResponseField name="profile_image_url" type="string">The profile image URL</ResponseField>
    <ResponseField name="sales_navigator_profile_id" type="string">The Sales Navigator profile ID</ResponseField>
  </Expandable>
</ResponseField>

Below is the JSON schema for the output fields:

<Accordion title="Show JSON Output Schema">
  ```json
  {
      "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"
  }
  ```
</Accordion>

### Specificities

<Info>To scrape only new followers, extract all followers initially, then duplicate the job to extract new followers periodically.</Info>

<Steps>
  <Step title="Input the LinkedIn Company URL">Start by copying and pasting your company's LinkedIn page URL into Captain Data.</Step>
  <Step title="Configure Account Rotation">Ensure the process runs smoothly without any hitches related to account limitations.</Step>
  <Step title="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.</Step>
  <Step title="Email Cascade Configuration">Set up the email cascade to optimize email discovery, ensuring you end up with a usable email address for each lead.</Step>
  <Step title="Launch the Workflow">With the configuration complete, you can start the extraction process, which is designed to be quick and efficient.</Step>
</Steps>

<Note>You need to be an administrator of the LinkedIn company page to use this action.</Note>
