Day 4. This might be the most powerful scraper in the entire series.
LinkedIn’s people search is incredibly useful. You can search for “CTO San Francisco” or “VP Sales Berlin” or “Founder AI startup” — whatever your ICP looks like. The problem has always been that you can’t export the results. You’re stuck scrolling and manually copying profiles.
Not anymore.
The workflow:
Do a LinkedIn people search with whatever filters you want — role, location, industry, company. Open DevTools, find the GraphQL request in the Network tab, and copy it as fetch. Paste it into Needle, connect a Google Sheet, and run.
Here’s what makes this one special: the workflow automatically iterates through ALL pages of results. In my test, “CTO San Francisco” returned 44 pages. The workflow went through every single one and wrote each profile to my Google Sheet in real time.
I watched hundreds of profiles pour in — names, titles, companies, locations, LinkedIn URLs.
The quality depends on your search:
This scraper is only as good as your LinkedIn search. Use the filters aggressively: location, current company, past company, industry, school, connections. The more specific your search, the more targeted your lead list.
A search for “CTO” gives you noise. A search for “CTO, Series A startup, San Francisco, AI/ML” gives you a hit list.
When this is useful:
You have a clear ICP and want to build a targeted list at scale. Sales teams, founders doing outbound, recruiters, BD — anyone who needs a list of specific people.
Tomorrow: Scraper #5 - LinkedIn Viral Post Likes.
