🎣 Enrich LinkedIn leads in Google Sheets with PhantomBuster, Hunter and Dropcontact

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💡 Pro Tip — If you’re pulling LinkedIn data through HTTP requests or dealing with API restrictions, there’s a community node called ScraperNode that handles this natively. It has dedicated scrapers for profiles, companies, jobs, and people search — you just pass a URL and get structured data back.

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Description

Quick Overview

This workflow reads LinkedIn profile URLs from Google Sheets, enriches each lead using PhantomBuster profile and company scrapers, finds a work email via Hunter.io with a Dropcontact fallback, writes results back to Google Sheets, and posts optional batch summaries to Slack.

How it works

  1. Runs manually or every day at 8:00 AM and loads pipeline configuration values used by downstream steps.
  2. Reads rows from the Leads tab in Google Sheets and keeps only entries with a LinkedIn URL that have not been enriched yet.
  3. Processes leads in batches of five, validates each LinkedIn /in/ URL, and marks invalid URLs as Failed in Google Sheets.
  4. For valid URLs, runs PhantomBuster’s LinkedIn Profile Scraper, waits for completion, and stops with a Failed status if no profile data is returned.
  5. Uses PhantomBuster’s LinkedIn Company Scraper to extract company details such as website/domain from the profile’s company URL.
  6. Looks up a work email with Hunter.io using the person’s name and company domain, and falls back to Dropcontact enrichment when Hunter returns no email.
  7. Updates the original Google Sheets row with the enriched fields (and enrichment_status set to Enriched or Email Not Found), waits three seconds between batches, and posts a Slack webhook summary after each batch if configured.

Setup

  1. Create a Google Sheets OAuth credential with edit access and set the target spreadsheet ID in the workflow configuration.
  2. Add a PhantomBuster credential, provide your Profile Scraper and Company Scraper agent IDs, and fill in the required LinkedIn values (li_at session cookie, PhantomBuster identity ID, and a user agent string).
  3. Add credentials for Hunter.io and Dropcontact so the workflow can perform email discovery and fallback enrichment.
  4. Prepare a Google Sheet tab named Leads with a linkedin_url column plus output columns like enrichment_status, first_name, last_name, email, phone_numer, Company name, role, website, and email_source.
  5. (Optional) Create a Slack incoming webhook, paste its URL into the configuration (or leave it empty to disable notifications), and ensure the webhook can post to your intended channel.

🔗 Nodes Used

Google Sheets, HTTP Request, Hunter, Phantombuster, Dropcontact, Schedule Trigger

📥 Import

Download workflow.json and import into n8n: Workflow menu → Import from File

📖 Importing guide · 🔑 Credential setup