Download LinkedIn Contacts – Read This To Find Out How

Often users search queries like how do I download my LinkedIn Contacts to Excel or a CSV file. And, once somehow they download LinkedIn contacts, the next question they ask is how do I import my LinkedIn contacts to Office 365, Mac Address Books, Gmail or other famous platforms. Well, today we are here to resolve all your queries related to the same. So, stay with us and keep reading this article…

A great LinkedIn network is our treasure

We all use LinkedIn and we should be because it’s one of the best social networking sites that allow us to create and maintain our professional network. Besides, it is also known for its powerful online marketing strategies and finding job solutions. So, the wider your professional network, the better you achieve your professional goals.

But, do you know that connecting people at a somewhat personal level might lead you to next level opportunities and this is where we can help you out. Here we will show you how to export your contacts from LinkedIn to Excel so that you connect your professional contacts from different devices or applications regardless of platform issues.

And…here we go!

How to Download LinkedIn Contacts?

Step 1. Log in to your LinkedIn account
Step 2. Click My Network menu and select Connections

Step 3. Hit a click on Manage synced and imported contacts option

Step 4. Click Advanced Settings and choose Export Contacts

Step 5. From the next page, choose Connections tab and Download archive

Step 6. Type LinkedIn account password once again for verification (if asked)
Step 7. LinkedIn will notify when your contacts archive will be prepared and download LinkedIn contacts

That’s all!

All your LinkedIn Contacts are download in your local machine and once you will unzip the downloaded file, you will get CSV files with all your LinkedIn Contact details.

What can I do with downloaded LinkedIn Contacts?

Well, here comes the good part. Do you know can connect to your LinkedIn Contacts from various applications and devices from now on? And…yes it’s true.

But, if you will try to import the download LinkedIn contacts CSV to any of your applications or device, you might lose all your contact information. This is so because the CSV file exported from LinkedIn is not compatible with your platform. This is why, we recommend you to convert LinkedIn contacts CSV to vCard (which is a standard contact saving format supported by all platforms), TXT, PST (for Outlook), HTML(for Web Browsers), MSG (for various email clients), PDF (for all platforms).

Now, you might be thinking how can I do so. Well, we have a solution for that too, Mac CSV Contacts Converter Tool (for Mac users) and Excel to vCard Files Converter Tool (for Windows users).

Steps to Convert LinkedIn Contacts CSV to Other File Formats (on Mac)

• • Download Contacts CSV File Converter tool and launch it

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• Click Add File(s) button and add the exported LinkedIn Contacts CSV into it

• Select any of the export file formats from VCF (vCard), PST, HTML, TXT, MSG or PDF

• Map all your LinkedIn contacts properly with the exported file format (so that you won’t face information mismatching issues later)

• Choose a destination location and hit the Convert button

Steps to Convert LinkedIn Contacts CSV to vCard File Formats (on Windows)

• • Download tool to export Excel to vCard on your Windows machine and run it

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• Click on Browse button and add the LinkedIn Contacts CSV you have exported above

• Preview LinkedIn Contacts along with all the contact details and click Next

• Map CSV Contact Fields with vCard Contacts Fields and once all mapped properly, click Next

• Choose vCard v2.0, v3.0, or v4.0 (as per the platform you are going to import it next and for iCloud choose vCard v3.0 or 4.0). Check Import empty email addresses option select a saving location for the resultant vCard and click Convert

All the LinkedIn Contacts saved in CSV will get converted into vCard file format after this and can be imported and accessed from several email clients, mobile / computer devices and others.

Additional Software Benefits

The software we have recommended above are completely safe and 100% secure to download in Windows and Mac OS X respectively. These tools have been tested on an expert level and result in no data loss or do conflict with other installed applications. Despite all this, there are multiple other software features that you can get in bonus and some of them are:

• Convert unlimited contacts from CSV to selected file format in a single go
• Export 50+ contact fields from CSV including Name, Contact, Email, etc.
• Allow doing manual mapping of CSV contact fields with exported file format
• Compatible with all the available versions of Windows and Mac OS X

So, this is how you can download LinkedIn contacts and access them from a variety of platforms.