[Tuto 2023] How to export members of a LinkedIn group (with emails)

Want to get more leads for your prospecting campaigns? There are tricks to export members of a LinkedIn group with their email addresses. Nothing insurmountable! Let's take a look.

What is a LinkedIn Group?

A LinkedIn group is a place on the social network where many professionals sharing a common profession, theme or skills can be found. It allows them to exchange, share their ideas, their experiences, ask for advice and make many acquaintances.

If you are in the phase of looking for leads for a prospection, you can integrate these communities. One of the advantages is that you can interact with the members of the group in the most natural way possible. Of course it takes time, but getting to know your prospects is essential. These groups are a real gold mine, so don't neglect them!

How to find LinkedIn groups?

Are you convinced? How to join a LinkedIn group? Nothing very complicated.

Log into your LinkedIn account.
Press the search bar and enter a keyword that targets the topic/activity you are looking for.
Click on "Group."

A page will appear, choose the "Groups" filter or click on "See all results". A list of groups is displayed.

All you have to do is choose the groups you want to join.

⚠️ Some tips:

• Don't join a multitude of groups. Focus on the most relevant ones. One or two groups are enough to start with.
• Choose groups that are geared towards the type of customers you are looking for. The goal is to exchange with members before selling your products and services, so make the right choice.
• One of the mistakes you should not make is to jump straight into selling. Take the time to talk to and identify your prospects.

Why get members of a LinkedIn Group?

Interacting on LinkedIn Groups requires a certain investment of time. If you're wondering if it's worth it, here are some reasons to invest in this strategy:

• Building a large list of prospects: by joining one or two groups with many members, you can collect hundreds or thousands of contact addresses in a short time
• Gathering more data to improve your campaigns: by exporting your list of LinkedIn group members, you can retrieve emails, but also gather a lot of information: companies, URLs, titles… All this data allows you later to segment your lists for better prospecting campaigns with personalized messages.

Steps to extract members of a Linkedin group on Sales Navigator

Here we go! Let's take a look at how to easily export members of a LinkedIn group with a Sales Navigator account and the Derrick app.

PS: If you don't have a LinkedIn Sales Navigator account, you can get a free one-month trial when you sign up.

Join relevant groups

Joining LinkedIn groups is not necessarily a must, although it is recommended to avoid your prospecting campaigns looking like spam :).
As we saw in the 1st point of this article, you can join a few groups and participate in them to get to know your prospects. Reply to messages, share your content..

Get the list of group members on LinkedIn Sales Navigator

Log into your Sales Navigator.
Click on lead filters.

Click on group and enter the keyword of the group you are a member of. You can refine the search by entering the companies or the roles of the members with the various filters. Once finished, you will get a list of all members. If you prefer to keep that roster inside a spreadsheet from the start, our guide on sending LinkedIn data straight to Google Sheets shows the cleanest way to pipe the export.

Export LinkedIn group members and find emails with Derrick

Are you done with your search? Now it's time to export all that data so you can contact LinkedIn Group members for your prospecting campaigns.
If you haven't already done so, install the Derrick browser extension for free.
Then follow the tutorial below to get your leads.

Your list of leads is generated, now you need to retrieve the email addresses of all members. Thanks to the name, first name and company of each lead, Derrick is able to find their emails:

What if a group has more than 2500 members?
Toretrieve a maximum number of contacts, you should perform several searches with different filters. For example, apply a filter for the Ile-de-France region, export your search. Apply a filter for the PACA region and export your search again.

If you encounter any difficulties or have any questions, don't hesitate to leave us a comment below!

Who exports LinkedIn group members, and why

A group export is not a one-size trick. The same workflow serves very different teams, and seeing the use cases helps you decide how to filter your own list.

• Sales and SDR teams mine niche professional groups to find buyers who already self-identified an interest. A group named after a software category is a pre-qualified pool of people who care about that problem.
• Recruiters tap skill-based or alumni groups to source candidates with a specific background, then reach out with a role that fits the group's theme.
• Event and community managers export members to invite the right people to a webinar, meetup, or launch, and to keep nurturing the relationship after the event.
• Founders and marketers validate a positioning by talking to a focused segment first, using the group as a sounding board before scaling the outreach.

In every case the export is the bridge between a community you cannot message in bulk on LinkedIn and a contact list you control. What you do next depends on the goal, but the build-list, enrich, find-email, segment sequence stays the same.

What data you can collect from LinkedIn group members

A group export is only as useful as the fields you attach to each name. Once your member list is in a spreadsheet, you can enrich every row with the details that actually drive a campaign. Here is what a complete export usually holds and why each field matters.

• Full name and headline: the baseline for any personalized first line. The headline often tells you the person's focus better than their formal job title.
• Company and company size: lets you sort the list by the accounts you care about and drop the freelancers or students who joined the group out of curiosity.
• Job title and seniority: the fastest way to keep only decision makers or the exact role you sell to.
• Professional email: the field that turns a viewing list into a contactable list. Derrick's Email Finder looks for the business address from the name and company, and you only spend credits when an email is actually found.
• LinkedIn profile URL: keeps a direct link to each person for a manual touch or a connection request.

The point is segmentation. A raw group of 3,000 people is noise. The same 3,000 split by company size, country, and seniority becomes three or four clean micro-segments, each one ready for a message that reads like it was written for them. If you want a deeper look at pulling firmographic context onto the same list, our walkthrough on extracting company information from LinkedIn covers it.

How Derrick finds the emails after the export

Building the member list is half the job. The half that decides whether the campaign happens is the email step. Here is how Derrick handles it once your leads are in the sheet.

Derrick works as a sidebar inside Google Sheets, not as a set of formulas you have to maintain. You select the rows with your group members, and Derrick runs the lookup across the whole list at once. For each person, it reads the first name, last name, and company, then runs a multi-source lookup to find the matching professional email. The result lands in a new column next to each lead, ready to drop into your sending tool.

Two details matter for budgeting a group export:

• You pay per result found: Email Finder costs 5 credits per email and bills only when an address is actually returned. A row with no findable email costs you nothing, so a large group export never burns credits on dead ends.
• Enrichment is separate and cheaper: pulling profile or company fields runs through Enrich Leads at 1 credit per profile. That lets you enrich the whole roster first, segment it, then spend the pricier email credits only on the segment you will actually contact.

This order of operations is what keeps a 2,500-row export affordable: enrich and filter first, find emails second, send third. Derrick scales the same way whether you are working a single niche group of 200 people or stitching together a 10,000-member community across several searches.

Free plan or paid plan for a group export?

You can start a group export on the free plan, which includes 100 credits per month at no cost. That is enough to test the workflow on a small group and confirm the data quality before you commit. For a full community export, a paid plan removes the ceiling. Here is how the relevant pieces line up.

Plans run from the free tier at 0 euro up to PRO, where the per-credit cost drops to its floor for high-volume exports. The same workflow holds at every size, so you never outgrow it.

Common mistakes when exporting LinkedIn group members

A few avoidable errors turn a clean export into a list nobody answers. Watch for these.

• Exporting before filtering: dumping the whole group then trying to clean it later is slower than refining the Sales Navigator search up front with role, company, and region filters.
• Ignoring the 2,500 cap: if you do not split a large group, you silently lose everyone past the limit. Plan your filter splits before you start.
• Finding emails for the whole list: enrich and segment first, then run Email Finder only on the people you will actually message. It is cheaper and your deliverability stays healthy.
• Going straight to a hard sell: group members joined to exchange, not to be pitched cold. Warm the relationship in the group before the export turns into outreach.

For a wider view of the tools that handle each of these steps, see our roundup of the best LinkedIn scraping tools and how they compare on export limits and email accuracy.

How long does a LinkedIn group export take?

The manual part, building and filtering the member list in Sales Navigator, is the slowest step and depends on how many filter splits a large group needs. The data part is fast: once the leads are in your sheet, Derrick enriches and finds emails across the whole list in one pass rather than row by row. For a few hundred members you are looking at minutes, not an afternoon. For a multi-search community export, plan the searches first so the splits add up to full coverage, then run the enrichment and email lookup in a single batch at the end.

One last tip: keep your exports tidy in one spreadsheet per group so you can dedupe across searches and avoid messaging the same person twice. A clean, deduped list protects your sender reputation and makes your follow-up sequences far easier to manage.