Comments on: Exporting Meta Data from LinkedIn

By: Jason Alba

Jason Alba — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:20:03 +0000

@Greg, that’s because they own the platform and the data, and understand that is a significant competitive advantage they don’t want to give up.

Unfortunately they don’t care if individual users want to export data – that is even against the rules for each user. It’s not about the user at that point.

Good luck getting someone on the phone.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:07:46 +0000

We would pay money to Linked In if they would let us import data that we export from Linked in – into our CRM. I have tried to get someone on the phone at Linked In and it is a challenge to say tyhe least. Only email with them and no phonme # to call. very strange!

By: Jason Alba

Jason Alba — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:41:15 +0000

@Greg, not that I know of (yet). Now that they’ve opened up the APIs that might change, however they are very sensitive to what is called “storable data” (google it).

I see you work for a CRM company so we are probably up against the same challenge…

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:39:23 +0000

Are there any apps or tools that will enable me to export data from searches on linked in?

By: Jason Alba

Jason Alba — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:30:35 +0000

Tom, of course you are right!! I must have been daydreaming when I did that… this is one of the most impt fields to export

I just fixed it in the post

By: Thomas E. Kenny

Thomas E. Kenny — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:51:36 +0000

I agree LinkedIn should export much more.
The only thing I found on my export that you had listed as blank was “E-mail Address”. Thus I have only 5 columns in the Outlook CSV export file from LinkedIn with any data.

By: Walter Feigenson

Walter Feigenson — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:08:52 +0000

Shame on you LinkedIn. This is not only unacceptable, it’s dumb.