Finding email addresses on LinkedIn isn’t hard. But it’s boring, time-consuming, and can distract your focus from selling.

You spend time identifying great prospects. You know exactly who you want to reach. But instead of starting meaningful conversations, you're stuck hunting for their contact details - one by one.

Most guides will tell you to check the “Contact Info” section or use a simple email finder. But that’s just the surface. The real advantage comes from going deeper—tracking engaged prospects, leveraging competitor audiences, and automating the process so emails land straight into your outreach system.

In this guide, you'll learn the fastest and most effective ways to find email addresses on LinkedIn. Whether you’re doing email outreach, LinkedIn outreach, or both, these methods will help you connect with the right people—without wasting hours on manual work.

Let’s get started.

TL;DR - How to find someone's email on LinkedIn

• Checking the Contact Info section can work for one-off searches but isn’t scalable.
• Chrome extensions can speed up the process but often return outdated or generic emails.
• Your LinkedIn engagement is full of warm leads - Trigify helps you extract emails of people who engage with your LinkedIn posts
• Your competitors’ audience is already interested in your space - Trigify can help you identify people who engage with your competitors and find their emails.
• People engaging with industry leaders and niche content creators are prime prospects - Use Trigify to identify them and find their emails.
• Dream customers signal when they’re ready (job changes, funding rounds, content engagement) - Use Trigify to detect those signals and find emails of those prospects.

A Quick Way to Find a Single Email on LinkedIn (But Not the Best for Scale)

If you need just one email, the fastest way to find it is on their LinkedIn profile.

Go to their profile, click "Contact Info," and check if they’ve added an email address. 

Some professionals list their business emails, while others make their personal emails visible.

But here’s the problem—this method doesn’t work at scale.

First, many profiles don’t have an email listed at all. Second, even when they do, it’s often a personal email, not a business one. And personal emails won’t help much in B2B outreach.

There’s another limitation: this only works if you check profiles one-by-one. If you’re building a list of potential leads, you can’t rely on this method—it’s too slow and inconsistent.

That’s why most B2B sales teams turn to automated ways of finding email addresses. But before we get to that, let’s look at a slightly better manual option—using Chrome extensions.

How to find emails on LinkedIn with Email Finder tools and Chrome extensions

Manually checking profiles one by one is slow. A better option? Use an email finder tool that pulls emails for you.

These tools scan LinkedIn profiles and extract emails in seconds. Some even work in bulk, saving you hours of manual work.

Here are a few popular options:

• BetterContact - finds emails in bulk or a single search (and verifies them automatically)
• Hunter.io – Finds and verifies emails but limits free searches.
• Kaspr – Extracts LinkedIn emails but is often hit-or-miss.
• Skrapp.io – Works well for B2B emails but can be inaccurate.

These tools are helpful, but they all have a common problem: they rely on guesswork or outdated databases. They often don’t find an email or return a generic company address like info@company.com.

The only exception to this is BetterContact since it doesn’t pull emails from a single database that might be outdated. Instead, it does a waterfall enrichment and checks dozens of databases and email providers to find the correct email (this also drastically increases the “success rate” of finding emails).

Once you log in to BetterContact, you’ll have options to look up a single email or find emails in bulk:

Simply provide the data they need, and you’ll get your results in a few moments.

But what’s the problem with traditional ways of finding emails on LinkedIn and building prospects lists?

Even if the prospects you have in your mind fit your ICP, you can’t be sure if they need your solution (or have the problems you solve).

So, what’s an alternative way of prospecting and finding emails on LinkedIn that eventually helps you find better prospects who need your service right now?

Identifying social signals on LinkedIn and finding emails of people who have shown specific interest in the problems you show.

That’s where Trigify comes in.

Unlike other extensions, Trigify doesn’t just scrape LinkedIn—it pulls live, verified emails based on real-time engagement signals. 

Whether someone interacts with your content, follows industry influencers, or engages with specific topics, Trigify finds their email when they’re actively showing interest.

Instead of guessing, you get real business emails verified and ready for outreach. There are no dead ends and no wasted searches.

If you're serious about finding quality emails of high-intent prospects at scale, Trigify is the smarter choice.

Let’s explore it.

Find emails of people who engage with your LinkedIn posts

Most sales and GTM teams chase cold prospects. But what if your best leads were already engaging with you?

People who like, comment on, or share your LinkedIn posts aren’t random strangers. They’re interested in what you’re talking about, making them far more likely to respond to your outreach.

Instead of letting that interest fade, you can turn those engaged users into email leads and start meaningful conversations.

How to Find Emails from Engaged Prospects

You could manually check who’s engaging with your posts, search for their emails, and build a list by hand. But that’s slow and inefficient—especially if you get consistent engagement.

A better way? Automate it with Trigify.

Trigify tracks everyone who engages with your content, finds their verified business email, and pushes it directly into your outreach system. There is no manual searching, and no time is wasted.

Here’s how to do this.

1. Log-in to your Trigify account (there’s a 7-day free trial to test this out if you want)
2. Click on the Engagement Setup in the left menu bar

3. Add the URL of your profile:

Now give Trigify a few minutes to sync all LinkedIn activity with your profile.

After 2-3 minutes, you’ll see a table like this:

This is a list of people who engage with your profile and content.

To find people who engage with specific posts, click on the Post in the upper-right corner:

Click on the post you want, and you’ll get a list of people who engaged with that specific LinkedIn post:

Scroll the table on the right, and you’ll see options to find emails and phone numbers (with the waterfall technique!) for all people who engage with you:

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Bonus Tip: Want Even More Leads? Use Lead Magnets

Instead of relying only on post-engagement, lead magnets take this strategy to the next level.

Distributing lead magnets will get you a lot of traction, engagement, and hand-raisers (leads).

For example, Max and Hugo from Trigify recently tested this by distributing a simple lead magnet. 

The result? Over 3,500+ leads. 

These weren’t random names—they were hand-raisers who showed real interest.

Why does this work so well? Because when someone downloads a guide, cheatsheet, or template, they tell you they have a problem you can solve. 

That’s the perfect moment to start a conversation.

What’s the next step we did?

We used the method we showed you above to get emails from everyone who engaged with these posts and then reached out to them (we’ll show you how to automatically send leads with their emails to your outreach tools later in the article).

Your audience is already interacting with your content. You just need the right system to capture and convert them.

Anyway, we don’t end here.

Do you want something even better?

Let’s see how to find emails on LinkedIn of people who engage with your competitors and influencers in the niche.

Find emails on LinkedIn of people who engage with your competitors and influencers

Your competitors are already doing the hard work—creating content, building trust, and attracting potential buyers.

And every time someone likes, comments, or shares their posts, they signal interest in the problem you solve.

Instead of starting from scratch, why not connect with those same people?

How to Find and Capture Competitor Engagement Leads

Every time a prospect engages with your competitor’s content—or with an industry influencer, thought leader, or niche content creator—it’s an opportunity. 

These people are actively learning, evaluating, and looking for solutions.

Manually tracking them? Impossible.

Again, this is where Trigify steps in.

Trigify automatically tracks who engages with your competitors and industry influencers. It then finds their verified business emails and adds them to your outreach sequence.

Instead of guessing who might be interested in your solution, you can direct your message to people who have already shown intent.

The process is the same as above, just instead of putting your LinkedIn profile URL in the Engagement Setup, put the LinkedIn profile URL of your competitors:

After a few moments, Trigify will give you a database of people who engage with that specific LinkedIn account.

Use the same process above to find their email addresses.

You can track up to 50 LinkedIn profiles like this and find the email addresses of those LinkedIn profiles.

Best part?

For better targeting, you can also filter and see, for example, only the people with specific job titles who engaged more than 3 times in the last 7 days.

This Works for More Than Just Competitors

This isn’t just about tracking direct competitors. You can use the same strategy to pull leads from:

• Industry influencers (people who educate your ideal buyers).
• Popular LinkedIn content creators (who attract large audiences in your space).
• Niche thought leaders (who shape opinions in your industry).

The key is engagement. Anyone interacting with relevant content is a potential lead—and Trigify ensures you never miss them.

Instead of starting cold, you’re reaching out to warm leads who already care about your space. That’s how you fill your pipeline with high-intent prospects—without wasting time on bad-fit leads.

What should you do with these emails and prospects?

So, how do you exactly engage with all those people who engage with your competitors and other industry leaders?

Easy.

Push them to your outreach tool (email, LinkedIn or both), and create a “soft” outreach sequence.

No hard pitching or selling. Instead - offer value. Send them relevant lead magnets or content based on the posts they engaged with.

Monitor Activity and Find Emails of Dream Customers

Most outbound sales teams cast a wide net, hoping something sticks. But high-performing teams? They focus on dream customers—the exact people who are most likely to buy.

Companies (or yourself) usually have a list of dream 100, 1000, 5000, or more customers you would love to work with.

They pay the most and stick the most.

So, how do you engage with them and find their emails?

Trigify also tracks LinkedIn activity and social signals of specific LinkedIn accounts you want to close.

This will help you identify the best time to reach out to them.

Here’s how to set this up.

1. Create a CSV list of dream prospects, including only LinkedIn profile URLs
2. Log in to your Trigify account (if you don’t have one, start a free trial here).
3. Click on Signals setup on the left

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4. Upload your list of prospects

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5. Select what signals you want to track

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And that’s it.

Once Trigify is done with syncing, you’ll see a table similar to this:

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Click on the leads you want, and you’ll see all the information (signals, timeline, etc):

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In the upper right corner (below the profile picture), you can find the buttons Access Email and Access Mobile to get prospects' email addresses and mobile numbers.

The Bottom Line

Most sales teams waste time chasing the wrong prospects or manually searching for emails. The real game-changer? Finding and reaching out to the right people, at the right time.

Instead of scraping random emails or blasting cold outreach, Trigify helps you pull verified business emails from people already engaging with relevant content, competitors, or key industry topics.

Whether you're scaling LinkedIn outreach, running targeted ABM campaigns, or just looking for high-quality leads, Trigify automates the entire process—so you focus on closing deals, not hunting for emails.

Start the free trial of Trigify today, and find the emails of the most qualified prospects.