What you need before you start
- A Sales Navigator lead search that returns the people you want. You build it in Sales Navigator as usual.
- A Prospectal account with credits. Each delivered lead uses 1 credit; packages start at $29 for 10,000 credits.
- Nothing else. Prospectal does not ask for your LinkedIn login, password, cookies or a browser extension.
Step 1: build a focused lead search
Use the filters that describe the people you actually want to reach: geography, industry, company headcount, function, seniority and, where it helps, title keywords. Check the result count before you export. Sales Navigator shows at most 2,500 leads for a single search, so a search above that size either needs narrowing or splitting (see below). A tighter search also means fewer rows you would later delete, and every delivered row uses a credit.
Step 2: copy the complete search URL
Run the search, then copy the whole address from your browser’s address bar on the results page. That URL carries every filter you applied, which is how Prospectal knows exactly which search to export. Copy it in full; a shortened or partial URL describes a different search.
Step 3: create the project in Prospectal
- Choose Sales Navigator Leads in the app and paste the URL.
- Set how many rows you need. Scraping projects start at 500 rows.
- Emails come with the leads when they’re available, at no extra charge. Turn on Verify Emails if you want each one marked Valid or Invalid (0.5 credit per email verified). It’s off by default.
- Submit. The credits the project may need are reserved, and anything not delivered is released back to your balance.
The project moves from Submitted to In Progress to Completed, and you get an email when it starts and when it completes.
Step 4: download and check the file
Download the CSV from the project. It has one row per lead with the person, role, company and profile fields the export provides; the Sales Navigator Leads page shows a full sample with every column. Results are kept for 30 days, so download what you need and keep your own copy. Before importing, scan the first few dozen rows: if titles or companies look off, the search filters need adjusting, not the file.
Searches with more than 2,500 leads
On the Agency, Scale and Custom packages you can submit the complete URL of a larger search: Smart Link Splitting divides it into smaller searches, runs them, removes duplicates and merges the result into one CSV. On Freelancer, the app asks you to lower the number of rows or upgrade; you can also split the search yourself by narrowing a filter such as region or headcount band.
What it costs
You pay 1 credit for each lead delivered in the file. A 2,000-lead export therefore uses 2,000 credits, with the emails that are available included; with Verify Emails on, add 0.5 credit for each email verified. Credits come in pay-as-you-go packages with no subscription, from $29 for 10,000 credits.
Doing the same from your own code
Everything above is also available through the Prospectal REST API: submit the search URL with POST /v1/jobs and the sales-navigator tool, check the project with GET /v1/jobs/{id}, and download the file with GET /v1/jobs/{id}/result. The API uses the same credits, rates and minimums as the app.
Put it into practice