How to Discover and Verify LinkedIn Profiles with n8n

Finding accurate LinkedIn profiles for prospects or candidates is a core challenge for sales, recruitment, and data enrichment teams. Manually searching, identifying, and double-checking LinkedIn URLs is slow, error-prone, and doesn’t scale when you’re looking to enrich hundreds or thousands of contacts. Public libraries and APIs often fail when it comes to the nuances of LinkedIn—like handling login, bypassing CAPTCHA, or matching profiles against ambiguous person info.

This Airtop automation, built for use with n8n, changes that. By leveraging Google search for initial discovery and real LinkedIn session authentication for in-depth validation, the automation delivers verified LinkedIn profiles that match complex criteria like company, job title, or email, dramatically improving accuracy. The automation uses an authenticated Airtop profile to visit LinkedIn, confirming relevance by matching information such as the person’s role or history. With reliable, structured JSON output, your data is ready for downstream enrichment, recruitment pipelines, or CRM automation—no manual intervention or unreliable scraping required.

The result: scalable, high-accuracy LinkedIn profile discovery and verification for any workflow. Powered by n8n, you get robust scheduling, easy integration, and the flexibility to slot Airtop’s automation into any automation process.

Who is this Automation for?

• Recruiters verifying candidates by LinkedIn background

• Sales and SDR teams enriching prospect lists with LinkedIn data

• Marketing or growth teams building accurate lead databases

• Data and automation engineers seeking to automate contact enrichment workflows in n8n

Key Benefits

• High-accuracy, real-browser LinkedIn profile discovery with login and validation

• No-code, repeatable workflow in n8n for easy setup and scheduling

• Structured JSON output ready for CRM, recruitment, or analytics

• Scalable, automated verification—reduce manual work and errors

Use Cases

• Recruitment: Enrich candidate lists by verifying their latest LinkedIn experience

• Sales prospecting: Append LinkedIn URLs to outbound leads

• Automated contact enrichment: Link email addresses with real LinkedIn profiles

• Marketing and ABM: Build accurate LinkedIn-based contact segments

• CRM integration: Auto-update records with LinkedIn profile fields

• Executive search: Quickly vet high-value prospects’ backgrounds

• Data research: Scrape and validate LinkedIn for org charts or industry studies

Getting Started with the Discover Profile Automation

Kickstart your automated LinkedIn profile discovery and validation workflow in just a few steps.

How the Discover Profile Automation Works

The automation takes structured person information (such as name, email, or company) and performs a Google search to find likely LinkedIn profiles. It then uses your authenticated Airtop Profile to access LinkedIn directly, validating whether the discovered profile matches the supplied criteria (checking fields such as current company or role). The result is a verified LinkedIn URL (or "NA" if not found or matched), enabling seamless integration with any downstream n8n process.

What You’ll Need

• Free Airtop account

• Airtop Profile authenticated to LinkedIn (required for validation)

• n8n account

Setting Up the Automation

1. Click on Try Automation

2. Select "Use for free" and go through the setup steps in n8n

3. When prompted, enter your authenticated Airtop Profile for LinkedIn access

4. Run the automation

5. Optional: Schedule recurring runs by turning the scheduler switch on in n8n

Customize the Automation

You can tailor this automation for your specific use cases using the flexibility of Airtop and n8n:

• Expand matching rules: Require match against specific LinkedIn fields like education, skills, or previous employers

• Chain with enrichment: Automatically look up additional data (emails, phone) after profile verification

• Batch processing: Feed bulk CSV lists of contacts, automating high-volume LinkedIn discovery

• Integrate with CRM: Push verified LinkedIn URLs directly to Salesforce, HubSpot, or any connected database

Automation Best Practices

• Use the most specific person info possible for higher match accuracy

• Keep your Airtop Profile’s LinkedIn authentication active for uninterrupted validation

• Test with single profiles before running bulk jobs to confirm your matching criteria

• Regularly review automation outputs to tune and improve search and validation logic

Try this Automation

Automate reliable LinkedIn profile discovery and verification for any contact enrichment, recruiting, or sales workflow using Discover Profile with n8n.

Need help customizing this automation? Book a Demo today!