Chrome Extension & LinkedIn

When our Chrome extension guesses an email on LinkedIn, it also displays a confidence score to help you know if you can rely on it. This score depends on the probability that our email pattern is correct and the complexity of the name you supplied.

If many profiles are visited on LinkedIn in a short span of time, LinkedIn can block the access to certain pages or can even ban the account. That’s why the extension displays a warning when it estimates the account is closed to have a restricted access. Please note that to save email addresses from search pages on LinkedIn, the extension also visits the profiles in the background to save the information associated with the lead.

No, however, they will see that you visited their profile. This is due to the way we extract and retrieve the email address from the profile you requested an email address for to get the email.

Installing the extension manually may be necessary if your country blocks Google or if you would like to test an unpublished version of the extension. To do so, please follow this short tutorial.

The only data we save from LinkedIn is the leads you want to save in your account. We are fully transparent on how the extension works since it's open source.

No, we only have the Chrome Extension for now, which means you can only use our extension on Chrome.

• The Hunter LinkedIn search is compatible with the free version of LinkedIn, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, and LinkedIn Recruiter.
• The checkboxes in searches are only available in the free version of LinkedIn and Sales Navigator.

Please refresh the page on LinkedIn to make sure it doesn't work and contact us if you think there is a problem.

In the Google Sheets Add-on, these are the columns you need to have to make the Email Finder work:

• The first name
• The last name
• The company name or the domain name of the company

Please note, the integration will return better results if you provide the domain names instead of the company names in your file.

No, requests are only used to find emails. Saving a lead doesn’t count a request.

Each time you visit a website, you can get a list of email addresses directly in your browser. We'll display every email address found on the web, with the domain name of the site you're visiting. For each email address, the extension shows our sources with their discovery date.

Yes! You can create a free account and get 150 free requests/month. Discover our premium accounts if you need more.

You can install our Chrome extension from the Chrome Web Store. You can't use it on other browsers than Chrome.

If many profiles are visited on LinkedIn in a short span of time, LinkedIn can block the access to certain pages or can even ban the account. However, the extension counts the number of profiles you visit and displays a warning when you are close to the limit to prevent you from having any issue with LinkedIn.

The extension uses the first name, last name, and company of the profile to find the email address in our database. The extension guesses the most likely email address using the email pattern used in the company (for example {first}.{last}@company.com) and returns a confidence score.

• "Read and change your data on hunter.io, LinkedIn.com and other websites": We have to ask this permission to allow the Hunter's Chrome extension to read the required information on LinkedIn profiles to find the email addresses and save these profiles as leads if you want to do so.

  On the other hand, we request to read your data to adapt pages on the Hunter website when you have installed the extension to provide a better experience. This permission will be also used if we decide to integrate the extension on other websites in the future.

• "Read your browsing history": This permission is required to get the domain name of the page you're visiting when you click on the browser button so you can make a Hunter search that corresponds to the right website. Please, note the extension only reads the content that is directly required to run the features described only.
• "Communicate with cooperating websites": This permission is required for communication with Hunter's website. We use it to know if you have installed the extension or not (for example to avoid sending you an email about the Chrome extension if you have already installed it).

There is no limit to how many leads you can save. That being said, there is a limit:

• On the number of emails you can find, which is defined by the plan you have on Email Hunter.
• On the number of profiles you can save from LinkedIn per day. When you save a profile from LinkedIn the extension visits it to collect the data you need. LinkedIn limits the number of profiles you can visit every day, which limits the number of leads you can save. Depending on the feedback we had, this limit seems to be around 500 profiles a day.

To save leads, the extension needs to visit the profiles in the background and collect the information. If it keeps displaying "Loading..." it probably means it couldn't load these pages.

This can happen is two cases:

• LinkedIn failed at returning the profiles. The risk increases if you try to save many profiles in one click. In this case, the workaround is simply to refresh the page and try again.
• LinkedIn blocks the access to profiles. This can happen if you tried to save many leads during the same day (there should be a warning displayed by the extension if you're close to the limit). To verify if this is the case, try to visit a profile.