How to Export Sales Navigator Leads to a Spreadsheet: 4 Methods Ranked by Risk

Why Sales Navigator has no CSV export

Every Sales Navigator list I've built for a client ends at the same wall: a filtered set of leads sitting inside LinkedIn, with no clean way to take it anywhere else. That's not a bug or a missing setting you overlooked. LinkedIn's own help page states it plainly: "LinkedIn currently doesn't offer the option to export account and lead information from Sales Navigator into a CSV or XLS file." The product is built to keep you working inside LinkedIn, not to hand you a file you can load into whatever tool you actually send from.

That gap is exactly why a search for this query turns up mostly scraping tools and browser extensions rather than a straight answer. The four methods below are what's actually available, not what a vendor's landing page wants you to believe is the only option.

Method 1: CRM Sync, the only official export

The one export path LinkedIn itself built and supports is CRM Sync, which connects Sales Navigator to Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics or HubSpot and keeps records updated between the two in real time, per the same help page cited above. It's gated behind Sales Navigator Advanced Plus, the plan LinkedIn prices by quote rather than publishing a number for, which I cover in full in Sales Navigator pricing and plans. If your team already runs Advanced Plus and one of those three CRMs, this is the only method here with zero rules risk, since it's a feature LinkedIn built on purpose. If you're on Core or Advanced, it isn't available to you at any price, which rules this method out for most solo operators and small teams.

Method 2: copy it by hand for a short list

For a list under 50 or so names, I open each profile, copy the name, title and company into a spreadsheet, and move on. It's slow and it doesn't scale, but it touches nothing LinkedIn would flag: you're reading a public page the same way any visitor would, one at a time, at a human pace. For a founder validating a narrow ICP before committing to a tool or a bigger list, this is often the right amount of effort, not a workaround to graduate from as fast as possible.

Method 3: a browser extension or export tool

This is where most of the search results for this query point, and it's the fastest option for a list of any real size by a wide margin. Tools built specifically for this job read the lead list you already have open in Sales Navigator and turn it into a spreadsheet, usually adding email verification on top. Evaboot's own pricing page lists four tiers running from $9 a month for 100 export credits up to $299 a month for 15,000, each credit covering one exported lead with a verified email included. Wiza's own site describes a Chrome extension built for "one-click export from LI Sales Nav," priced from a free tier up to $199 a month per user for email and phone data. Both checked 2 November 2026; check current pricing before you buy, since credit-based tools change tiers often.

The trade-off is risk, not cost. These tools work by reading the Sales Navigator page in your browser while you're logged in, which is a different activity from the manual copy in Method 2 only in scale and automation, and scale and automation are exactly what LinkedIn's own rules target. I cover the actual rule in the next section rather than guessing at it.

Method 4: skip Sales Navigator and buy a database instead

The export question disappears entirely if the data never has to leave Sales Navigator in the first place, because you never needed it to be the source. A separate contact database such as Apollo sells bulk, exportable contact data by design rather than as a workaround, and I've laid out when that trade makes more sense than Sales Navigator in Sales Navigator vs Apollo.io. For a team running real volume prospecting, buying a database built for export from day one is often less friction than fighting Sales Navigator's export limits every month.

What LinkedIn's User Agreement actually bans

LinkedIn's User Agreement, under the list of things members agree not to do, bans using "software, devices, scripts, robots or any other means or processes... to scrape or copy the Services," and separately bans "bots or other unauthorized automated methods" to access the platform or download contacts. That second clause is the one that matters most here: it names downloading contacts specifically, not just scraping in general. A script that opens dozens of profiles unattended and pulls data from each one sits squarely inside that ban. I cover the fuller restriction picture, including what a flagged account actually looks like, in is LinkedIn automation safe.

Reading one profile at a time by hand, the way Method 2 works, doesn't touch this clause at all. A browser extension that automates dozens of exports in one click is closer to the conduct the clause describes, even though it feels no different to the person clicking the button.

Has LinkedIn actually acted on this

Yes, against tools and not usually against individual users for a single list. LinkedIn removed Apollo's own company page in March 2025 over scraping, a fact I go into in the Sales Navigator vs Apollo comparison linked above, and it's taken similar action against other automation vendors over time. That pattern tells you LinkedIn enforces at the tool and account level when it decides to, which is a reason to treat "the tool hasn't been banned yet" as a current status, not a guarantee.

All four methods, compared

What none of these methods give you: phone numbers

Sales Navigator doesn't carry phone numbers at all, official export or not, because the underlying data is a member's LinkedIn profile, which has no phone field most people fill in. If your workflow needs phone-verified direct dials rather than just an email and a name, none of the four methods above solve that; you need a provider built for it, which I compare in Lusha vs Cognism for phone-verified direct dials. Trying to stretch a Sales Navigator export into a calling list is a mismatch, not a missing step.

What goes stale the moment it leaves Sales Navigator

An exported row is a snapshot, not a live record. Job changes, title updates and company moves stop showing up the moment the data leaves LinkedIn, while the same lead inside Sales Navigator itself updates as the person edits their own profile. A list that sat in a spreadsheet for two months before you got to it is worth re-checking the title and company on, not sending to on the assumption that nothing moved. This is true of every method above, including CRM Sync between syncs, and it's a bigger source of bad sends than which export method you picked.

The order I'd actually use

1. Check whether your plan and CRM qualify for CRM Sync first. It's the only method with no rules risk at all, so it's worth ruling in or out before anything else.
2. For a list under 50, just copy it by hand. The time cost is lower than setting up a tool for something this small.
3. For real volume without CRM Sync, weigh a browser extension against buying a separate database rather than defaulting to the extension because it's what the search results push hardest.
4. Re-verify titles and companies before a send if the list sat for more than a few weeks, regardless of which method produced it.
5. Add phone numbers from a dedicated provider if your sequence needs calls, since no Sales Navigator export carries them.

Once a list is actually out of Sales Navigator and into a CRM or sending tool, I run it through email and LinkedIn as one sequence rather than treating them as two separate campaigns, since the export method stops mattering the moment both channels are working off the same record.

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