Can you export leads from Sales Navigator? What LinkedIn allows, and what to use instead

No. LinkedIn says it doesn't offer a way to export lead or account information from Sales Navigator into a CSV or XLS file. On the Advanced Plus plan, you can sync leads and accounts with Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics or HubSpot, see Sales Navigator data inside those CRMs, and create a CRM record from a Sales Navigator lead page. Tools that copy search results out of Sales Navigator work against LinkedIn's User Agreement and put your account at risk. If what you need is a downloadable list of qualified LinkedIn leads, use a tool built to export its own data, such as traxy, which exports leads with the signal that explains why each person was found.

Last checked: November 11, 2026, against LinkedIn Help, Export account and lead information from Sales Navigator, LinkedIn's User Agreement (effective November 3, 2025) and traxy's exports documentation.

Can you export leads from Sales Navigator?

No. LinkedIn says Sales Navigator doesn't offer a CSV or XLS export of lead or account information. On Advanced Plus, CRM Sync links leads and accounts with Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics or HubSpot. For a spreadsheet, use a tool that exports its own data. traxy is our product: it finds high intent leads from LinkedIn activity, keeps people with a 50%+ ICP match, and exports them with the signal behind each one. It also runs LinkedIn and email outreach to them from your own connected accounts after you approve the launch, or you approve every message.

What LinkedIn says about exporting from Sales Navigator

The help article is short. LinkedIn "currently doesn't offer the option to export account and lead information from Sales Navigator into a CSV or XLS file." It then lists three alternatives, all tied to Advanced Plus:

So the official path out of Sales Navigator runs through a supported CRM, not a spreadsheet. If you are on Core or Advanced, there is no built-in export at all. For a breakdown of the tiers, see our Sales Navigator overview.

What about extensions and scrapers?

Plenty of browser extensions promise to "export Sales Navigator to CSV." Before you install one, read section 8.2 of LinkedIn's User Agreement. Members agree not to "develop, support or use software, devices, scripts, robots or any other means or processes (such as crawlers, browser plugins and add-ons or any other technology) to scrape or copy the Services, including profiles and other data from the Services."

The practical risk is to the account doing the copying, usually a rep's own profile. We cover what restrictions look like and how teams recover in LinkedIn account restricted.

Why do you want the export?

"Export" usually stands in for one of four jobs. Each has a different answer.

1. Get leads into your CRM

If your CRM is Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics or HubSpot and you have Advanced Plus, use CRM Sync. That is what LinkedIn built for this job.

If your leads come from somewhere other than Sales Navigator, send them to the CRM through an integration. traxy routes qualified leads to Zapier or a webhook, which can create the CRM record. See how to send LinkedIn leads to Salesforce and routing LinkedIn signals into HubSpot.

2. Hand a list to someone outside the team

A client, an agency partner or a teammate without a seat wants a spreadsheet. Sales Navigator won't produce one. A lead tool that owns its data can.

3. Enrich or score the list elsewhere

Sales Navigator has no CSV to send to an enrichment tool. If you need emails or phone numbers, look for a source that includes contact lookup or exports to your enrichment step. In traxy, contact lookup is a separate action on a lead, and Auto-Enrich can look up contacts for newly qualified leads. Email lookup is included with eligible plan access. Phone lookup requires the phone add-on or an entitlement that includes it (contact details).

4. Build an ad audience

Matched audiences need identifiers like work email. traxy prepares a customer-list CSV for Meta from qualified leads (Meta Ads integration). See LinkedIn engagers as a Meta Ads audience.

How exporting works in traxy

traxy is the LinkedIn GTM tool where teams find, qualify and work their LinkedIn leads, in the app or from an AI client. It finds people who engage with topics related to your offer, checks them against your lead criteria and keeps the ones with an ICP match of at least 50%. Those leads are yours to export.

1. Open Leads and apply the view and filters you want, for example "ICP match 70 or higher, Warm signals, last 30 days."

2. Review the selection. The table-header control can select all matching leads, the current page or the first number of leads in the current sort.

3. Choose the columns and any available enrichment options.

4. Confirm the export and follow its progress.

5. Download the file when it's ready. Past exports live under Settings > Exports.

Two details from the docs worth knowing. Deleting a finished export removes the file and its history entry, not the leads. And exporting a lead doesn't count against your lead capacity again; a person counts once, when first delivered as a qualified lead (plan and capacity).

If you want the data in code rather than a file, the REST API returns leads, their signals and recorded engagements.

What the traxy export has that a Sales Navigator list doesn't

A Sales Navigator list is a set of people who match a search. A traxy lead also carries the evidence behind it:

The signal tells the person writing the message what to reference. Our guide to writing from a LinkedIn signal shows how.

When to keep Sales Navigator

Sales Navigator remains the better tool for searching LinkedIn's member base by title, company and geography, and for account mapping. Many teams use both: Sales Navigator for search and account work, traxy for finding the people who are engaging with their problem recently and exporting or routing them. Finding leads in traxy doesn't need your LinkedIn account connected; you connect a sender account only if you want to run outreach from traxy. See traxy vs Sales Navigator.

FAQ

Can I export a Sales Navigator lead list to Excel?

Not with LinkedIn's own tools. LinkedIn's help page says there is no CSV or XLS export for leads or accounts.

Is CRM Sync available on Sales Navigator Core?

LinkedIn's help page ties CRM Sync and CRM lead creation to Advanced Plus.

Will LinkedIn ban me for using a Sales Navigator export extension?

LinkedIn's User Agreement prohibits using browser plugins and other software to scrape or copy profiles and data. LinkedIn says it can restrict, suspend or terminate accounts that break the agreement. How it enforces that in a given case isn't public.

Can traxy export my existing Sales Navigator lists?

No. traxy exports leads it found and qualified in your workspace. It doesn't read or copy your Sales Navigator lists.

Does exporting from traxy include emails?

Only if the contact details are saved or you pick an available enrichment option during export. Email and phone lookup follow your workspace's contact entitlements.

Next step

Build one view in traxy for the leads you'd want in a spreadsheet, export it, and compare it with the last list you pulled by hand.