How to see followers on LinkedIn and export them
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- Jorrit van Ginkel, founder of Ziplined
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On LinkedIn
Followers
1,480 followers- Grace Mensah
- Lotte Vermeer
- Tom Verbeek
In Ziplined
Your new followers who fit
Grace Mensah
Lead · Followed you
Lotte Vermeer
Lead · Followed you
To see your followers on LinkedIn, click My Network on desktop, then Following & followers, then Followers.
Short answer: you can see your followers on LinkedIn, but there is no export, and your followers are not in the "Get a copy of your data" archive. Copy them into a sheet by hand, or let the Ziplined Chrome extension keep each new follower and send the ones who fit your ideal client to your tools.
How to see who follows you on LinkedIn
To see who follows you on LinkedIn, open My Network, then Following & followers, then the Followers tab, on desktop. The Followers tab lists each person who follows you, with their name and headline.
Click My Network.
In the top bar, on desktop.
Click Following & followers.
Under Manage my network.
Open the Followers tab.
The Following tab next to it shows who you follow.
LinkedIn also notifies you when someone who is not a connection follows you. LinkedIn Help gives these steps for desktop only, and anyone can follow your public posts and articles.
LinkedIn facts: LinkedIn Help on following and followers, checked 12 November 2026.
Can you export your LinkedIn followers?
LinkedIn has no export of your followers list. The "Get a copy of your data" archive holds who you follow, not who follows you.
LinkedIn's creator analytics export counts new followers and shows top demographics, but names no one.
Get a copy of your data
Data privacy- Connections
- Member Follows, who you follow
- Company Follows
- Your followersNot in the archive
LinkedIn facts: LinkedIn Help on downloading your data and on creator analytics, checked 12 November 2026.
How to export LinkedIn followers to Excel without a tool
To get LinkedIn followers into Excel without a tool, copy them from the Followers tab by hand, by screenshot and AI, or with a script. Each way gives a snapshot, so new followers need a new round.
1. Copy and paste into a sheet
Open the Followers tab.
My Network, then Following & followers.
Copy each follower into a sheet.
Name, job title and company, one row at a time.
Mark where you stopped.
Next time, copy only the followers above that row.
Following & followers
1,480 followersGrace Mensah
Head of Sales, Northwind
Tom Verbeek
Student
Lotte Vermeer
Head of Sales, Kestrel Labs
Your sheet
Grace Mensah
Head of Sales, Northwind
Lotte Vermeer
Head of Sales, Kestrel Labs
No export button. By hand, one row at a time.
Time: minutes for a handful, hours for hundreds. Limit: one account, by hand, and the headline is not always the job title.
2. Screenshot the list and ask an AI assistant
Scroll through your Followers tab.
And screenshot each screen of names.
Upload them to ChatGPT or Claude.
Add the prompt below.
Check every row.
Then paste the table into Excel or your sheet.
Turn these screenshots into a table with name, job title and company.Limit: only what was on your screen. An AI assistant can misread a name or a company, so check the table.
3. A one-off script
Open your Followers tab.
Scroll until every follower you want is loaded.
Run a small script in the browser console.
It reads the names on the page. You write the script yourself: this page gives no code.
Paste the output into a sheet.
Check it, as with the other ways.
Limit: the script breaks when LinkedIn changes the page. Tools that click, send or crawl inside your LinkedIn account can get it restricted, so it is not for every week.
How to get your sales team's new LinkedIn followers in one list
LinkedIn cannot combine the followers of several reps: each rep sees only their own Followers tab. Without a tool, each rep copies their list and someone merges the sheets.
Every rep copies their new followers.
With way 1, 2 or 3, on their own account.
Merge the sheets into one team sheet.
Add a column for whose follower each person is, and remove duplicates.
Repeat every week.
Every sheet is a snapshot of the day it was copied.
Anna
1,480 followersBen
620 followersChris
2,150 followers
Team sheet, merged by hand
Grace Mensah
Follows Anna
Ruben Smit
Follows Ben
Lotte Vermeer
Follows Chris
Every rep copies, one person merges, every week.
With Ziplined, every rep who installs the extension adds their new followers to the same list, and each row says whose follower they are, such as "Followed Anna". On Solo ($49 a month) one person logs in, and each rep adds the extension with your workspace key (a key from your Ziplined settings that links a rep's extension to your workspace), without an account; Team, from $99 a month, adds logins for everyone.
The same works for your team's profile viewers and connections.
Which way to export LinkedIn followers fits you?
For a one-off look at your LinkedIn followers, copy and paste is enough. To keep up with new followers, see who fits and cover the whole team, the manual ways start over every time.
| Time each week | New followers | Who fits your ideal client | Team in one list | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copy and paste | Minutes to hours, by hand | A new round each time | You judge each row | One sheet per rep, merged by hand |
| Screenshots and AI | Minutes, plus checking | A new round each time | You judge each row | One sheet per rep, merged by hand |
| One-off script | Minutes per run, plus fixes when LinkedIn changes the page | A new run each time | You judge each row | One run per rep, and each account at risk |
| Ziplined | None; it reads when you open LinkedIn | Kept up to twice a day | Ziplined marks who fits | Every rep with the extension |
What is Ziplined and how does it export your new LinkedIn followers automatically?
Ziplined is a LinkedIn Lead Radar. It finds people who engage with your team, your competitors and your market, keeps the ones who fit your ideal client, and sends them to your tools while you sleep.
Install the extension once in Chrome.
Followers come in only through the extension; LinkedIn shows them to you alone.
It reads while you use LinkedIn.
When you open LinkedIn, at most twice a day, it reads your 100 most recent followers, along with your profile viewers and new connections. Nothing to click or copy.
New followers who fit land in your list and tools.
Download them as a CSV for Excel, or send them automatically to Slack or email, and on Team to Google Sheets or HeyReach.
For followers the extension is needed; the rest of Ziplined, such as post engagers, works without it. Ziplined itself takes no action on LinkedIn, and the extension only reads your profile viewers, new followers and new connections; it never likes, comments, connects or sends.
Does Ziplined get the followers I already have?
Ziplined keeps your followers from the day you add the extension. The first read keeps your 100 most recent followers, and every read after keeps each new one.
Older followers are not read, and alerts start with the people who follow you after that first read. Each read sees only your 100 most recent followers, so if more than 100 people follow you between two reads, the oldest of them are missed.
Before you add it
Not read
The first read
Your 100 most recent followers
Every read after
Each new follower, up to twice a day
How to filter your LinkedIn followers on your ideal client
Ziplined marks the new LinkedIn followers who fit your ideal client as Leads (people who fit your ideal client), from one sentence that describes who you sell to, which Ziplined suggests from your website. Students, recruiters and your own colleagues rarely get through; to be sure, exclude job titles such as recruiter.
You can also exclude seniorities, industries, company sizes and countries. A saved list (your filters, saved in Ziplined) narrows your Leads further, on whose follower they are, job title, company, company size, country, industry or seniority.
How to get a Slack alert when someone follows you on LinkedIn
Ziplined posts each new LinkedIn follower who fits your ideal client to a Slack channel, with whose follower they are, such as "Followed Anna". Email works the same way, both on every plan.
You choose hourly, daily or weekly: Slack is hourly by default, email daily, and a weekly alert goes out on Monday. New followers come in up to twice a day, when the extension reads them, so an hourly alert sends only what came in since the last one.
More in LinkedIn alerts to Slack.
How to send new LinkedIn followers to Google Sheets, HeyReach or a CRM
New LinkedIn followers download as a CSV file for Excel on every plan. On Team, from $99 a month, a saved list sends them automatically to Google Sheets, HeyReach, Clay or a webhook; a webhook reaches a CRM such as HubSpot through Zapier or Make.
Each saved list goes to its own tools, and your AI agent reads the same list through the Ziplined MCP, its connector for AI agents. Native HubSpot, Pipedrive and Attio connections are coming soon, as are Instantly and Waalaxy. See LinkedIn to Google Sheets for the Sheets connection.
What to do with new LinkedIn followers who fit your ideal client
A new follower who fits your ideal client is a warm signal: when Ziplined ranks people by how warm they are, a follow counts more than a like or a comment. Five plays to start with:
Thank them within a day
The alert tells you the day they follow, so you write while it is fresh.
Start with the warmest followers
A follower who also viewed your profile ranks above one who only followed.
Add followers who fit to a campaign
On Team, a saved list adds each new Lead to a HeyReach campaign.
Route each follower to the rep they follow
One saved list per rep, sent to that rep's Slack channel.
Ask your AI agent who to contact
Claude or ChatGPT reads the same list through the Ziplined MCP.
For the bigger picture of selling to people who already engage, see social selling tools.
The LinkedIn Lead Radar
- Watch your market for buying signals
- Analyze your own audience
- Takes no action on LinkedIn
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Grok Bot
- Cursor
- Slack
- HeyReach
- Google Sheets
- Clay
FAQ
How do I see who follows me on LinkedIn?
On desktop, click My Network, then Following & followers, then the Followers tab. LinkedIn also notifies you when someone who is not a connection follows you.
Does LinkedIn show who I am following?
Yes. On desktop, click My Network, then Following & followers: the Following tab lists who you follow, the Followers tab who follows you. Who you follow is also in the "Get a copy of your data" archive, as Member Follows and Company Follows.
What is the difference between followers and connections on LinkedIn?
Anyone can follow your public posts and articles, without your approval (LinkedIn Help, checked 12 November 2026). A connection is mutual: one person sends an invitation and the other accepts it.
Can I see my LinkedIn followers in the mobile app?
LinkedIn Help gives the steps for desktop only: My Network, then Following & followers, then Followers. It gives no steps for the mobile app.
Can I export my LinkedIn followers?
Not from LinkedIn. It has no export of your followers list, and your followers are not in the "Get a copy of your data" archive, which only holds who you follow. You copy them by hand, or the Ziplined Chrome extension keeps each new follower for you.
Can I download my LinkedIn followers to Excel?
Not with a LinkedIn button. Copy them into a sheet by hand, or let Ziplined keep your new followers and download them as a CSV file, which opens in Excel. CSV comes with every plan, from Solo at $49 a month.
Does LinkedIn's analytics export include my followers' names?
No. The creator analytics export counts new followers and shows top demographics, but names no one (LinkedIn Help, checked 12 November 2026).
Does Ziplined get all the followers I already have?
No, it starts from the day you add the extension. The first read keeps your 100 most recent followers, and every read after, up to twice a day, keeps each new one. Older followers are not read, and if more than 100 people follow you between two reads, the oldest of them are missed.
Do I get an alert for every new LinkedIn follower?
Only for the new followers who fit your ideal client, once you send a saved list to Slack or email. Followers who do not fit stay out of your Leads, and the followers from the first read are in your list, but not in an alert.
Can I combine the new followers of my sales team?
Yes, on Solo ($49 a month) and on Team (from $99 a month). On Solo one person logs in, and each rep adds the extension with your workspace key (a key from your Ziplined settings), without an account, so their new followers land in the same list with whose follower they are. The others get the Leads in Slack or by email. Team adds logins for everyone, HeyReach, Clay, Google Sheets, webhooks and 10,000 credits.
Can I export the followers of my LinkedIn company page?
Not with Ziplined. The extension reads the followers of your own LinkedIn profile, not of a company page.
How much does exporting LinkedIn followers cost?
Each new follower Ziplined collects costs 1 credit, including followers who do not fit your ideal client; only the ones who fit become Leads. Ziplined Solo is $49 a month with 3,000 credits. 7 days free with 3,000 credits: a card is needed at checkout, and the first charge comes when the 7 days end.
Does Ziplined message or follow back my followers?
No. Ziplined never sends messages and takes no action on LinkedIn. It tells you who followed you and who fits, and you or your outreach tool do the rest.
How does the extension work with my LinkedIn account?
For followers you need the extension; the rest of Ziplined works without it. Ziplined itself takes no action on LinkedIn, and the extension only reads your profile viewers, new followers and new connections; it never likes, comments, connects or sends.
