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Finding a LinkedIn Profile by Name, Partial Title, and Company Name

Hello Is it possible to find a person linkedin profile just by his name, partial title and company name, without relying on the domain of the company?

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Guy M.
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https://app.clay.com/workspaces/210823/tables/t_4gTw5LzC8KCi/views/gv_5GJ5Kz6GF8S2
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Hi Guy, thanks for getting in touch!
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You can try this:
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then scrape that link and run a linkedin enrichment
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Guy M.
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I really prefer to use the linkedin search and not google search, since I'm not sure it works as good as the original linkedin search
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Hey Guy! Happy to jump in for Juan, but as he pointed out, without an identifier like domain or company LI URL, the LI tools would have a hard time because that's a vague search. Pairing it up with a Google search is likely to increase accuracy but still some misses. There's one that combines the search in one column, called Find & Enrich from Google Search
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Alternatively, Claygent and it's AI capabilities could help a bit too, but it'll likely rely on a google search too if it can't scrape LI for any reason
Guy M.
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Hi Thank you I don't understand why it has to be so complex and why do I must have the LI ID or domain, why can't I just do a simple search like you do on linkedin? Like this: https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=rotem%20mizrahi%20isracard&origin=SPELL_CHECK_NO_RESULTS&sid=FX0&spellCorrectionEnabled=false
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Because for that we would need to log into linkedin through your session and this will put you at risk of being banned, that's why we scrape the linkedin profile from the outside (google) using a simple search
Guy M.
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I just found out that apollo can do that actually It worked well on a few rows, but doesn't work on the last one, can you check why?
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Lack of data probably
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You will find more insight with the normal linkedin enrichment
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I recommend you to follow that path: web search name+company+linkedin> scrape link> enrich
Guy M.
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OK Sometimes I only have the first letter of the person, or just the first name, but I know that they always have "marketing" in their title. Trying out that last path doesn't really work well (check the table). How can I make it more accurate?
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with some conditionals combining this and apollo you will extract most of the profiles
Guy M.
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Rotem Livnat is not correct. The first letter of the last name is M..
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With lack of data this becomes inaccurate ideally we have NAME+ SURNAME +TITLE+ DOMAIN+ LINKEDIN
Guy M.
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What if I want to find someone using their first name and title? Maybe getting a list of all the options? Or the best choice?
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yes, but hen you need to navigate through all the links manually to pick up the right one
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the best inputs are email or name+company domain
Guy M.
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How do I do that? By getting the links from the google search?
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which inputs do you normally have?
Guy M.
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I would have the first name and company name
Guy M.
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Also, currently even having full name + company LI URL fails. Can you look at my table at my own entry, Guy Manzur? Why is it failing?
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From the company url you can extract the company name, or domain and then with the full name you will have a high chance of finding the personal linkedin of the prospect
Guy M.
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I usually don't have a company URL
Guy M.
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Anyway why is it failing on Guy Manzur on the right coloumn?
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Can you provide that table?
Guy M.
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https://app.clay.com/workspaces/210823/tables/t_VojjWTV7tIAw/views/gv_5gc25Rn7V4Hq
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Hey Guy! I'll jump in for Juan in the meantime. Taking a look
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Also, to add to the explanations as to why it would seem so complicated. The Find Contacts enrichment by default asks for a company identifier, that's part of this provider's endpoint and not a fuzzy search as you would directly in LI. This is why combining a query/google search with as many inputs as you can provide would probably help increase accuracy.A quick reminder that since none of them have access to your account or cookies, profiles labeled as private (by the person or LI itself) aren't scraped.
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That last part seems to be the case with your profile, if you don't have restrictions yourself then it's likely LI that did it.
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Guy M.
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That you That's weird, because it did work for a few times, and now it doesn'
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it may work better if we have the perosnal linkedin profile url, but if the profile is private it may find more difficultis starting from the find roles enrichment
Guy M.
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I lost the user I used for this table for some reason, can you tell me which username owns that table?
Guy M.
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username/email I mean
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Guy M., I'll dm you the email used in this account, just in case you'd like to keep it hidden.