How to Export a Lead List From LinkedIn Sales Navigator: Four Ways That Work
By Muhammad Amir, Searcora Digital Ltd · Updated 6 November 2026
Sales Navigator is excellent at finding the right people and saving them to lead lists, but it has no “Export to CSV” button. That surprises most new users. There are still four practical ways to get a lead list out of Sales Navigator and into Excel, Google Sheets or your CRM. This guide explains each one, what it gives you, and what it costs in time or risk.
Can you export leads from Sales Navigator?
Not with a single button. Sales Navigator keeps your leads and accounts inside its own lists. LinkedIn offers a direct route into a CRM only on its top tier, and everything else is either manual or done with outside tools. Here are the four routes, from the most official to the least:
| Method | What you get | Plan needed | Trade-off |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. CRM sync | Leads and contacts created and updated in your CRM | Advanced Plus | Highest plan; CRM required |
| 2. Manual export to a sheet | Name, title, company, location and profile link | Core or Advanced | Slow for big lists |
| 3. Your connections file | All first-degree connections as a CSV | Any account | Only people you are connected to |
| 4. Third-party extensions | Lists in CSV, often with emails added | Any Sales Navigator plan | Account and data-quality risk |
Export Sales Navigator leads to a CRM with Advanced Plus
If your team lives in a CRM, this is the clean route. Sales Navigator Advanced Plus connects to CRMs such as Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics 365 and HubSpot, creates leads and contacts from Sales Navigator, and keeps activity in sync. Core and Advanced do not include this. The full feature split is on Sales Navigator Advanced Plus; most small teams find Advanced, with lists kept in Sales Navigator and the best prospects added to the CRM by hand, is enough.
Export a Sales Navigator lead list to Excel manually
- 1. Build the list. Run a lead search with your filters and save the right people to a lead list.
- 2. Open the list view. It shows each lead’s name, title, company and location in rows.
- 3. Copy into a sheet. Copy each page of the list into Excel or Google Sheets, then add the profile links you need.
- 4. Clean and enrich. Split names, standardise job titles and add the company website, so the list is ready for outreach.
- 5. Keep Sales Navigator as the source of truth for updates such as job changes, which it alerts you to.
It is slow for thousands of rows, but for a focused list of 50 to 200 decision-makers it is often the best option: accurate, and nothing outside LinkedIn touches your account.
Export your LinkedIn connections as a CSV
If the people you want are already connections, LinkedIn lets you download them directly. In your LinkedIn settings, open Data privacy, choose Get a copy of your data, and select Connections. LinkedIn emails you a file with each connection’s name, company, position, profile link and connection date. Email addresses are only included when a connection has allowed it. This is the only fully native export, but it covers first-degree connections only, not your Sales Navigator lead lists.
Third-party Sales Navigator export tools
A number of browser extensions read Sales Navigator search results or lists and turn them into a CSV, often adding work emails from their own databases. They are fast, but weigh three things before using one:
- Account risk. Tools that page through results automatically can trigger checks on your account; see LinkedIn account restricted for what that looks like and how to recover.
- Data quality. Emails and phone numbers come from the tool’s database, not from LinkedIn, so verify them before sending.
- Cost. Most charge per export credit on top of your Sales Navigator plan.
Which export method should you use?
- A CRM-led sales team with budget for the top tier: Advanced Plus CRM sync.
- A founder or small team working a focused list: manual export from the list view.
- Re-engaging your existing network: the connections CSV.
- Large outbound volumes: a third-party tool, used carefully, with emails verified before sending.
Every method starts with a good list, and that starts with a Sales Navigator seat. Through Searcora, Sales Navigator Core or Advanced is activated on your own account from $30 a month — see Sales Navigator prices or our LinkedIn lead generation services if you would rather we build and work the list for you.