How to Export Leads from LinkedIn Sales Navigator to CSV or Excel (2026)
You have built the search, saved the list, and now you want the rows in a spreadsheet. Sales Navigator has no export button, so every route runs through something that reads the results for you: your own hands, a browser extension, an export tool, an AI agent or a few lines of code. Pick by how many leads you need and whether the file is the end of the job or the first step.
The short version. Sales Navigator does not export leads or accounts to CSV or Excel natively – LinkedIn says so in its own help centre. For a handful of leads, copy them by hand. For the list you are looking at, a browser extension downloads a CSV in a few clicks. For a cleaned bulk file of a saved search, an export tool such as Evaboot runs it through your own session. When the export is the first step of a repeatable workflow, an AI agent or your own code runs the saved search on your seat and writes the file. Whatever the route, Sales Navigator shows at most 2,500 leads per search, and no route gets email addresses from Sales Navigator itself.
Can Sales Navigator export leads natively?
No. LinkedIn states it plainly in its Sales Navigator help centre:
"LinkedIn currently doesn't offer the option to export account and lead information from Sales Navigator into a CSV or XLS file."
Two things get mistaken for a native export, and neither one is:
- CRM Sync on Advanced Plus. The same help page says Advanced Plus users can sync lead and account information with Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics or HubSpot. That is a CRM synchronisation, not a file you download, and it requires the top tier plus one of those CRMs.
- The usage report export. Sales Navigator admins can export a usage report covering seat activity. That is licence administration data, not your leads.
So when a tool advertises "Sales Navigator export", it is not unlocking a hidden feature. It is reading the search on your behalf and building the file itself. For a standard LinkedIn search rather than Sales Navigator, the options and limits differ – see how to export LinkedIn search results.
What a Sales Navigator export actually produces
Whatever route you take, the ceiling is what Sales Navigator itself renders. A row typically carries the lead's name, headline or position, company, and location, plus the profile URL that identifies them.
Two things a Sales Navigator export does not carry, regardless of tool:
- Verified email addresses and phone numbers are not Sales Navigator fields. Export tools that advertise emails run a separate enrichment step against other data sources after the export, and coverage and accuracy vary by provider.
- Anything behind a filter you did not apply. The export inherits your search, so the quality of the file is decided before you export anything.
Search scope also caps the job: Sales Navigator shows up to 2,500 lead results across 100 pages, or 1,000 account results across 40 pages, per search (LinkedIn Help). Very large pulls mean splitting the search rather than exporting harder. Our Boolean search guide covers building searches that segment cleanly.
How to export Sales Navigator leads, step by step
By hand, for a handful of leads
- Open the lead search or lead list in Sales Navigator.
- Start a spreadsheet with columns for name, title, company, location and profile link.
- For each lead, copy the name, title and company from the result card, and the link from the lead page.
- Save the sheet as CSV (UTF-8) when you are done.
That is practical for a few dozen leads. Beyond that, the copying costs more than a tool.
With a browser extension
The steps below are the ones the SalesNav Exporter listing on the Chrome Web Store gives; most list exporters work the same way:
- Open your Sales Navigator lead list.
- Click the extension's icon.
- Choose how many pages to export.
- Select all and scroll to the bottom of each page, so every result loads.
- Download the CSV and open it in Google Sheets or Excel.
An extension reads what the page renders, so the file carries what the list shows – names, titles, companies – and runs on your own logged-in session.
With an export tool (Evaboot)
Evaboot's own export guide describes five steps:
- Create an Evaboot account.
- Install its Chrome extension; an "Export with Evaboot" button appears in Sales Navigator.
- Open the lead search, lead list, account search, account list or saved search you want, and click the button.
- Name the export and launch it in the Evaboot app.
- Download the cleaned list as CSV or Excel when it finishes.
Export tools clean the rows and offer email finding as a separate step. We compare the options in our Evaboot alternatives guide.
Sales Navigator scrapers and export tools compared
Capabilities below are as described on each named vendor's live product and help pages.
| Route | How it works | Owned seat required | Refresh model | Whose session runs it | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Browser extension | Reads the Sales Navigator page open in your logged-in browser | Yes | Manual, you rerun it | Yours | A quick list from a search you are already looking at |
| Export tool (Evaboot, Scrupp) | Runs your saved search through your own account, cleans the rows, returns a file, and offers email enrichment as a separate step | Yes | Manual, one export per run | Yours | A tidy bulk CSV of a saved search |
| Cloud actor or DIY script (Apify, GitHub projects) | Runs an actor or your own code; cookie-based actors use your session, some run cookie-free against public pages | Only if cookie-based | Scheduled or on demand, maintained by you | Yours if cookie-based, the provider's if not | Custom bulk work you are willing to maintain |
| No-account dataset (Bright Data) | Serves pre-collected public data at scale | No | Vendor-refreshed, so records can lag | Neither, it never touches your seat | Volume with no owned Sales Navigator seat |
| AI agent or code (Linked API) | Runs your Sales Navigator search on your own seat in a dedicated cloud browser and returns structured rows | Yes | On demand or on your schedule | Yours | A repeatable export that feeds the next step |
The distinction the tool pages blur is whose session does the work. A browser extension and an export tool both run on your own logged-in Sales Navigator session, so the activity sits on your account. A cloud actor may use your session cookies, in which case the same applies, or run cookie-free against public pages, in which case it never sees your Sales Navigator searches at all. A dataset never touches your account, and equally cannot see anything your seat can see.
Pace matters on every route that uses your own session: a bulk extension pulling a large search as fast as it can render is a very different activity profile from a paced export.
Export a saved search with an AI agent or in code
If you export the same search every week, or the file feeds a next step – enrichment, a CRM, outreach – run the search on your own Sales Navigator seat through Linked API instead of clicking through it. Its Sales Navigator people search takes the URL of a search you built in the browser, so every filter you set there applies, and returns up to 2,500 leads, the same ceiling Sales Navigator shows. A Sales Navigator seat on the connected account is required.
With an AI agent
Connect Claude, Cursor or another MCP client to the Linked API MCP server, or give a coding agent such as Claude Code or Codex the agent-friendly CLI, and describe the list:
Used Linked API: nv_search_people
- heads of RevOps in Germany, industry Software Development, up to 500 leads
- 312 rows written to sales-navigator-leads.csv
Saved 312 leads to sales-navigator-leads.csv – that is every result Sales Navigator returned for this search. The first rows:
| Name | Position | Location | Degree | Profile link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jonas B. | Head of Revenue Operations at a CRM software company | Berlin | 2nd | linkedin.com/in/ACoAA… |
| Elif K. | Head of RevOps, DACH – HR software | Munich | 3rd | linkedin.com/in/ACoAA… |
| Martin S. | Head of Sales & Revenue Operations at a SaaS company | Hamburg | 2nd | linkedin.com/in/ACoAA… |
The agent runs nv_search_people with filters built from your request – title, location, industry, current and past company, school, years of experience, connection degree. To reuse a search URL you copied from Sales Navigator, hand it to the agent as it is: nv_search_people takes it as customSearchUrl, and the CLI takes it as linkedin navigator person search --url. If the leads are headed for connection requests, the ready-made LinkedIn growth skill takes a Sales Navigator search URL directly and manages the invite pipeline. For how agents connect to a LinkedIn account, see the LinkedIn AI agent guide.
In code: a Sales Navigator search to CSV
Developers get the same export in their own code: nv.searchPeople takes the URL of a Sales Navigator lead search as customSearchUrl and returns up to 2,500 leads, which a few lines with the Node or Python SDK write to a CSV. A failed search comes back with LinkedIn's message, so stop on it rather than writing an empty file.
Each row carries the lead's name, position, location, your connection degree and a hashed profile link (linkedin.com/in/ACoAA…) rather than the public one. The company and the full profile come from opening the lead: Linked API's Sales Navigator person fetch returns them for each link. Contact details are a separate enrichment step.
Open the CSV in Excel or Google Sheets
In Excel, import the file through Data → From Text/CSV with UTF-8 as the file origin, rather than double-clicking it, so accented and non-Latin names survive. The full steps for Excel and Google Sheets, and how to keep a sheet or CRM updated, are in our search results export guide.
When you need an API instead
An export tool is the right answer when the file is the deliverable. It stops being the right answer when the export is step one.
If you need to search, pull a field, branch on it, message the lead, and pick the reply back up as a repeatable workflow inside your own product, you want programmatic access to your seat rather than a CSV. That is a different question with a different answer, including what LinkedIn's own partner-gated API does and does not cover. See our Sales Navigator API guide.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Split the search. Sales Navigator shows at most 2,500 lead results per search, so break one broad search into narrower ones – by geography, seniority, company size or industry – that each stay under the cap, then merge the files and remove duplicates by profile link.
An export tool produces a snapshot and the job ends when the file downloads. An account-based API exposes Sales Navigator actions as composable primitives on your own seat, so you can build a workflow that reads and acts repeatedly from inside your own code.
Get the file, or build the workflow
If a CSV is what you need, pick the route above that matches how the job ends. If the export is only the first step and you want search, fetch and outreach running as one repeatable workflow on your own Sales Navigator seat, that is what Linked API does – through the REST API, the Node and Python SDKs or the CLI, or out of the box through the MCP server, the agent-friendly CLI or a ready-made skill. Plans are flat per seat, from $49/mo billed annually.
Facts verified 4 November 2026 – native export, CRM Sync and the 2,500-lead limit checked against LinkedIn's Sales Navigator help centre, and the extension and Evaboot steps against their live pages, on that date; the routes table was checked against vendor pages on 29 July 2026.