To find someone's email from their LinkedIn profile, the fastest legitimate methods are: check their profile's Contact info section, use an email-finder tool (Hunter, Apollo, and similar), guess the company email pattern and verify it, or — often simplest — just message them on LinkedIn instead. LinkedIn doesn't expose emails publicly, so "finding" an email usually means inferring and verifying it, or getting it from a connected contact. Below are 7 ways to get an email from a LinkedIn profile, from free to paid, plus a note on doing it compliantly and when to skip email entirely. (See also legal ways to export LinkedIn data and the prospecting guide.)
1. Check the profile's Contact info
The obvious first step people skip: on a profile, click Contact info (under the name). If you're connected — or the person chose to show it — their email may be listed there directly. Free, instant, and permission-based.
2. Connect first, then check
Once someone accepts your connection request, their Contact info often reveals more, including an email they've chosen to share with connections. A good reason to connect before hunting.
3. Use an email-finder tool
Tools like Hunter.io, Apollo.io, and Findymail take a name + company (or a LinkedIn URL) and return a likely email, often with a confidence/verification score. This is the standard method for outbound at volume — see email lookup & extractor tools compared.
4. Guess the company email pattern
Most companies use a consistent format: first.last@company.com, first@company.com, or flast@company.com. Find one known email at the company (a public contact, a team page), infer the pattern, and apply it to your target's name.
5. Verify before you send
Never send to a guessed address blind — bounces hurt your sender reputation. Run candidates through an email verifier (many finders include one) to confirm the mailbox exists before you email it.
6. Check their content and links
People list emails in surprising places: their About section, a featured post, a personal website linked from their profile, or a link-in-bio. A quick look often beats any tool.
7. Just message them on LinkedIn
The method people overlook: if they're on LinkedIn, you can often reach them there without an email at all — a connection request plus a message, or InMail. For a lot of B2B outreach, a LinkedIn message lands better than a cold email anyway, because it's in the place they already are.
A note on doing this compliantly
Finding and using business emails is normal outbound practice, but respect the rules: don't bulk-scrape LinkedIn against its terms, honor unsubscribe and anti-spam laws (CAN-SPAM, GDPR), and keep outreach genuinely relevant. Volume without relevance is spam whatever channel it's on.
Skip the email hunt entirely
Here's the reframe: for LinkedIn prospects, the email is a detour. They're already on LinkedIn — so reach them there, personally, and skip the find-verify-hope-it-doesn't-bounce cycle. Conextly does exactly that: it finds the right people on LinkedIn, tracks every conversation, and drafts a personalized message and follow-ups for each — you approve every send. No email finder, no bounce risk, no deliverability to manage. See how the outreach workflow works.