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LinkedIn profiles contain a wealth of information that can significantly enhance your CRM data. This includes job titles, industry, years in position, employee range, education, and even volunteer experience. Such detailed insights allow for a more nuanced approach to lead qualification and personalization.
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Identify the Need for LinkedIn Data

Understand that enriching CRM records with LinkedIn data allows you to qualify leads more effectively, offering insights beyond basic contact information.
2

Navigate to Captain Data

Access the “Extract LinkedIn People Profile” workflow. This tool is specifically designed to pull detailed information from LinkedIn profiles.
3

Prepare Your Input File

Your input should primarily consist of the LinkedIn profile URLs you wish to extract data from. Additionally, integrating a CRMRecordID ensures that the extracted data can be accurately mapped back to the corresponding records in your CRM, maintaining data quality and avoiding duplicates.
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Input Fields Consideration

Be meticulous with the input fields to prevent overwriting existing data in Captain Data. Use unique identifiers for each field to distinguish them from Captain Data’s output fields.
5

Launch the Job

Upload your prepared file to Captain Data, configure your account as necessary, and start the workflow. The process is efficient, capable of enriching numerous profiles in just under a minute.

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Inputs

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linkedin_profile_url
string
required
A LinkedIn Profile URL should start with ‘https://www.linkedin.com/sales/people/’, ‘https://www.linkedin.com/sales/lead/’, ‘https://www.linkedin.com/pub/’ or ‘https://www.linkedin.com/in/’.

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Parameters

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parameters
object
No additional parameters are required for this action.

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Output Fields

The extracted data includes a comprehensive set of fields that provide detailed insights into the LinkedIn profile.
Below is the JSON schema for the output fields: 
{
  "birth_date": "string",
  "company_employees_range": "string",
  "company_industry": "string",
  "company_name": "string",
  "connection_degree": "string",
  "current_company_name": "string",
  "current_company_url": "string",
  "current_job_title": "string",
  "education": "string",
  "experiences": "string",
  "first_name": "string",
  "full_name": "string",
  "headline": "string",
  "industry": "string",
  "job_title": "string",
  "languages": "string",
  "last_name": "string",
  "linkedin_company_id": "string",
  "linkedin_company_url": "string",
  "linkedin_people_post_search_url": "string",
  "linkedin_profile_handle": "string",
  "linkedin_profile_id": "string",
  "linkedin_profile_url": "string",
  "location": "string",
  "number_connections": "integer",
  "number_followers": "integer",
  "open_to_work": "boolean",
  "past_company_name": "string",
  "past_job_title": "string",
  "past_linkedin_company_id": "string",
  "past_linkedin_company_url": "string",
  "past_sales_navigator_company_id": "string",
  "profile_country": "string",
  "profile_image_url": "string",
  "profile_language": "string",
  "sales_navigator_profile_id": "string",
  "school_name": "string",
  "skills": "string",
  "summary": "string",
  "tracking_id": "string",
  "volunteer_experiences": "string"
}
This workflow has a daily limit related to profile enrichment of 3000 credits.