This is Day 1 of my 7-part lead scraper series. Today: scraping attendees from Luma events.
Luma is where a lot of tech, AI, and startup events live these days. When someone RSVPs to an event, their profile — often including their LinkedIn — becomes visible to other attendees. That’s your lead list, sitting right there.
The workflow:
Go to any Luma event page and click on Guests. Open your browser’s DevTools (F12), go to the Network tab, and look for the “guest list” API request. Right-click it, copy as fetch, and paste it into Needle’s manual trigger. Hit run.
That’s it. You get a clean CSV with names, LinkedIn URLs, and whatever else attendees put in their profiles.
I tested this on our own monthly hackathon — 58 attendees, scraped in seconds.
When this is useful:
You want leads who attend specific types of events in your space. Hackathons, industry meetups, competitor events, conferences. The people who show up to these events are actively engaged in the topic — they’re not cold leads, they’re warm by default.
One slightly cheeky tip: You can RSVP to events you don’t plan to attend just to access the guest list. I’m not recommending it. I’m just saying the option exists.
What to do with the leads:
Enrich them (I’ll show you how on Sunday), connect on LinkedIn, or run a targeted outreach campaign. These are people who chose to attend an event in your niche — the relevance is already there.
Tomorrow: Scraper #2 — Meetup Event Attendees.
