How to Scrape LinkedIn Followers from Competitors (2026)

It's no surprise that 90% of B2B marketers use LinkedIn for lead generation. And imagine how many of your competitors are in this 90%.

This means, why bother building a qualified target audience from scratch when you can scrape LinkedIn followers and gain direct access to your competitors' audience?

I'm going to show you 3+1 ways to scrape competitors' followers on LinkedIn.

Let's see how you can use LinkedIn scraping tools to steal your competitors' audience.

Why Steal Your Competitors' Audience on LinkedIn?

Targeting competitors' LinkedIn followers is faster than cold prospecting because those people have already signaled interest in your niche. That pre-qualification cuts your acquisition cost before you send a single message.

Your competitors' LinkedIn followers are pre-qualified prospects: they already follow a business in your niche, which means they have demonstrated interest in the exact problem you solve. Targeting them cuts prospecting time and lowers customer acquisition cost compared to outreach on a cold list.

By targeting your competitors' audience, you can:

Using LinkedIn scraping tools to identify and engage with your competitors' audiences is an efficient way to grow your business, enhance your digital marketing efforts, and outperform your competition.

Scrape Your Competitor's LinkedIn Followers

To scrape a competitor's LinkedIn company-page followers, you need a LinkedIn Sales Navigator account and a Chrome scraper like Evaboot together they let you export a filtered, named list of followers (excluding employees) directly into a CSV with contact details. T

his technique can also be used for competitor analysis.

Here are the steps you need to follow:

1. Create a fake LinkedIn account

You can't use this technique with your account, as LinkedIn prevents you from doing too much. So, the first step is to create a new LinkedIn account and add a job experience at your competitor's company.

When you are done optimizing your LinkedIn profile, connect with the company followers. You can start by sending 5 connection requests daily to avoid being spammy.

2. Take the Sales Navigator free trial

LinkedIn Sales Navigator is LinkedIn's paid prospecting platform that unlocks advanced lead-search filters including a 'Following your company' buyer-intent filter not available in free LinkedIn accounts.

You don't want to pay LinkedIn Sales Navigator to get your competitor's followers.

So you can use a Sales Navigator one-month free trial.

3. Select company page followers

Open LinkedIn Sales Navigator. Go to the leads, and in the "Buyer intent" category, select "Following your company."

Don't forget to exclude the people of the company working for your competitor!

You don't want to send prospecting messages to the company owners or employees.

4. Extract followers and get their emails with a scraper tool

Once you have this list, you can extract it into a CSV and get their email addresses with the Evaboot Chrome extension.

Evaboot is a Chrome extension that exports LinkedIn Sales Navigator search results including company-page followers into a clean CSV and enriches each record with verified business email addresses.

The process is straightforward. You must click "Extract with Evaboot" to download and put the list into an Excel file.

5. Followers outreach

Once you have this list with contact details, you can contact them manually or send them to your CRM and build a LinkedIn prospecting campaign.

For this type of outreach strategy, I would recommend something straightforward like this.

Template for competitors' followers outreach

It's essential to be precise if the prospect is still interested because he may have followed this company a while ago.

To scale your outreach past manual one-by-one messages, set up a drip sequence in your CRM or LinkedIn automation tool.

Map a 3–5 touch cadence first message, follow-up after 3 days, value-add content share on day 7 so 500 scraped followers turn into an automated nurture campaign instead of a weekend of copy-paste.

If you want even higher reply rates, run each profile through an AI personalization layer that reads their headline, recent posts, and job history to auto-generate a unique first-line icebreaker per lead — turning your 500-row scraped list into 500 personalized DMs without manual review.

That's it for the first technique. Let's move on to the second technique: extracting competitors' post commenters.

Reach Out To Your Competitor's Post Likers & Commenters

Post likers and commenters are your warmest cold prospects: a public reaction is real-time proof they care about the exact topic your product addresses. That makes them higher-intent than a cold company-follower list.

1. Follow everyone in your niche

You need to have competitors' posts in your LinkedIn feed to detect opportunities in your niche.

So, follow every competitor and LinkedIn influencer in your niche.

Timing is critical in this kind of outreach campaign. If you send messages to post commenters right after they comment on the post, your reply rate will be much higher, as their memory is still fresh.

On the other hand, you want to allow enough time for the post to gather a maximum number of reactions. That's why I recommend waiting at least 24 hours before doing the second step.

If you see an interesting post, you can copy-paste the post URL to have it for later.

2. Extract post commenters and likers

Phantombuster is a cloud-based automation tool that runs pre-built scripts ("phantoms") to extract public LinkedIn data — post commenters, likers, event attendees — and outputs results as a downloadable CSV. We'll use its post commenters and post likers export.

Just copy and paste the URL of your post here:

For every post, commenters or likers:

3. Post commenters outreach

Here is an example of results I've obtained with this tactic for a webinar promotion—approximately a 30% reply rate for the campaign.

Here is a template you can use:

Template for Post commenters and likers outreach

It's always better to propose content and not directly your product or service.

For even stronger results, feed the original post text plus each engager's recent activity into an LLM to draft a context-aware DM that references why they likely engaged (agree, disagree, curiosity). AI outbound tools now read both the source post and the prospect's timeline together to build a two-sided personalization prompt, pushing reply rates past the generic 30% template. You can personalize at scale without writing each message by hand.

For the following technique, we will use the same technique and tools but for LinkedIn event attendees.

Reach Out to Competitors' Event Attendees

To reach competitors' event attendees: click 'Attend' on any LinkedIn event to unlock the Networking tab, then run the list through Phantombuster's event-attendees extractor and export to CSV. LinkedIn event attendees are among the highest-intent prospects you can target because they actively registered for content about a problem in your niche, and the attendee list is publicly visible to anyone who clicks 'Attend' — meaning you can access it without a paid subscription.

1. Look for LinkedIn events

Attending a LinkedIn event means people are interested in a topic. If you want to find LinkedIn events:

1. Go to the LinkedIn search
2. Write some keywords
3. Use the event filters

You are going to see a list of events filled with potential customers.

2. Extract LinkedIn event attendees

To get access to the list of event attendees, you must click on "Attend."

Once you click on it, the "Networking" tab will appear, and you will have access to the list of all event attendees.

Once done, you can return to Phantombuster and look for the event attendees' extractor.

You will get all the info you need into a CSV file:

Let's see the best way to contact these guys.

3. Event guests outreach

You have 2 options to contact LinkedIn event guests: before the event or after the event.

For this kind of LinkedIn outreach, I would recommend something super simple and concise:

Template for guest outreach before the event

The goal here is not to sell but to open a conversation about the problem you are solving.

Template for guest outreach after the event

Here, you are looking for feedback regarding your competitor's performance. If your competitor has disappointed your prospect, that's a golden opportunity for you.

Once you have your raw scraped list (name + LinkedIn URL from Evaboot or Phantombuster), run it through an AI enrichment agent that auto-qualifies each lead against your ICP your Ideal Customer Profile, which ranks leads by how closely they match your best customers across industry, seniority, company size, and tech stack.

This scores fit so you only spend outreach credits on the top slice of a competitor's followers rather than blasting everyone.

AI agents can now chain LinkedIn URL → enrichment API → ICP-scoring prompt in a single workflow, turning a 500-row export into a 50-row high-fit shortlist in minutes.

Bonus: Reach Out to Competitors' Group Members

Competitors' LinkedIn group members are extractable via Phantombuster or Evaboot — but only target this list if the group shows recent posts and genuine member activity; most groups are dormant.

If your competitors have built a LinkedIn group, you can extract the group members using Phantombuster. If you have a LinkedIn Sales Navigator account, you can also use Evaboot.

Here is a video tutorial:

However, I don't recommend this technique. Most LinkedIn groups are dead or full of spammers.

If you want to try this approach anyway, here is a template you can use:

Template for group members outreach

Can You Scrape LinkedIn Followers in 2026?

Yes, but with limits. LinkedIn's terms of service prohibit automated scraping, but the platform doesn't expose follower lists through any official API. That leaves you with three paths: manual export (if you control the page), third-party tools that operate in a gray area, or native analytics that show aggregated demographics without individual profiles.

What works: Sales Navigator exports, Chrome extensions that capture visible follower lists one page at a time, and engagement scrapers that pull public likes and comments. What breaks: Mass-scraping tools that hammer LinkedIn's servers get rate-limited or flagged. Your personal account can face restrictions if you extract thousands of profiles in a day.

LinkedIn Page Analytics for Follower Demographics

If you run a LinkedIn company page or can convince a competitor's team to share a screenshot — Page analytics show follower breakdown by seniority, function, industry, company size, and location. No scraping required.

Navigate to your company page admin view, then Analytics > Followers. You'll see charts for:

Use case: You're targeting Series A SaaS founders in the US. A competitor's page analytics show 18% of their followers are C-level, 22% are in Software & IT Services, and 40% are in the 11–50 employee band. That's validation you're fishing in the right pond and a demographic filter set for Sales Navigator.

Limitation: You see aggregates, not names. Pair this with a follower-scrape tool to get the individual profiles that match the promising segments.

Alternative Tools: Apify, TexAu, and the Scraper Landscape

Evaboot and Phantombuster handle most workflows, but the scraper ecosystem is wider. Here's where Apify and TexAu fit:

When to branch out: Apify's LinkedIn scrapers let you pull follower lists at scale if you're comfortable with JSON configs and want to avoid per-credit pricing. TexAu bundles scraping, waterfall enrichment, and email sending.

Useful if you're running the entire outbound motion solo and want fewer tool hops.

Spread your scraping across sessions, keep volumes under 500 profiles per day per account, and accept that some lists will need manual spot-checks.

How to Export Followers from a LinkedIn Company Page

Short answer: LinkedIn doesn't give you a button. The platform shows you follower demographics in Page Analytics (see above), but exports zero individual profiles through the admin UI.

Your options:

• Use a follower-scraper tool. Phantombuster's "LinkedIn Company Info Scraper" or Apify's "LinkedIn Company Scraper" can pull follower lists if you feed them the company page URL. You'll get names, headlines, profile URLs no direct emails.
• Sales Navigator search. Filter by "Current company = [Competitor Name]" + your ICP criteria (title, seniority, geography). Export that list with Evaboot. You're not technically scraping followers, but you're reaching the same audience employees and engaged prospects.

• Manual screenshot + OCR (last resort). If the page shows a "See all followers" modal with paginated results, you can screenshot each page and run OCR to extract names. Tedious, low-yield, only worth it for a <100-person list you can't get any other way.

Why this matters for competitor research: A competitor's follower list includes buyers who've signaled interest but haven't converted yet. If you can export even 20% of that list, you're prospecting into a pre-qualified pool people who already care about the category.

Turn Scraped Follower Data into Qualified Outreach

Scraping a list is step one. Here's the workflow to turn 500 LinkedIn profiles into 50 booked meetings:

1. Define Your ICP Before You Enrich Anything

Don't enrich every profile. Filter the scraped CSV first: remove students, job-seekers (headline = "Open to work"), and anyone outside your target seniority or geography. A competitor's follower list includes investors, partners, past employees, and tire-kickers — you want the 30% who match your buyer profile.

Quick filter columns: Job title (contains "VP", "Head of", "Director"), location (if geo matters), headline keywords (exclude "Consultant", "Freelance" unless that's your ICP).

2. Enrich Profiles for Email and Firmographic Data

Waterfall enrichment = check multiple data sources in sequence until you find a verified email. Tools that do this:

• Clay — pulls from Apollo, Hunter, Prospeo, Snov.io in one workflow
• Evaboot's built-in enrichment — if you exported the list from Sales Navigator
• Apollo or ZoomInfo — upload your CSV, match on LinkedIn URL, export emails + company data

What to enrich beyond email: Company size, funding stage, tech stack (BuiltWith, Clearbit), recent job changes (signal they're re-evaluating vendors).

3. Verify Emails Before You Send Anything

A 70% valid rate on a scraped + enriched list is normal. Catch-alls, role addresses (info@, sales@), and stale contacts will tank your deliverability if you blast them.

Run the enriched list through Zerobounce, Bouncer, or Millionverifier. Remove anything flagged as invalid or catch-all (unless you're willing to hand-verify catch-alls by searching the person's name + company domain).

Deliverability math: 500 scraped → 350 post-ICP filter → 245 enriched emails → 170 verified = your real outreach universe. Plan volume accordingly.

4. Segment Contacts by Why They Are on the List

Not all signals are equal. Someone who liked three of your competitor's posts in the last month is warmer than someone who followed the page two years ago and went silent.

Segment by:

Tag each row in your CRM or CSV with the source signal. Write separate email variants for each segment. A post-liker email that opens with "I noticed…" lands; the same line sent to a cold follower feels like you're pretending to know them.

5. Multichannel Sequence: LinkedIn + Email

Don't rely on email alone. If you scraped these people from LinkedIn, they're active there — so follow up where they already spend time.

Simple two-channel sequence:

• Day 0: LinkedIn connection request with a short note ("Saw you follow [Competitor] — we help similar teams with X, happy to share a case study")
• Day 3: If accepted, send a LinkedIn message with one specific insight or resource
• Day 5: Email (if you found it) — reference the LinkedIn context, same insight
• Day 10: Email follow-up — new angle, different value prop
• Day 15: Final LinkedIn message — "Still interested or should I close the loop?"

Conversion benchmark: Expect 5–12% reply rate on a well-segmented, competitor-audience list. That's 2–4× a cold spray-and-pray campaign, because you're prospecting into demonstrated category interest.

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