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Getting LinkedIn Cookies

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Which cookies you need

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Step-by-step: Chrome / Edge / Firefox

1. Log in to LinkedIn Sales Navigator — open https://www.linkedin.com/sales in your browser and make sure you’re fully logged in.
2. Open Developer Tools — press F12 (or Cmd+Option+I on Mac) to open DevTools.
3. Go to Application > Cookies:
   • Chrome / Edge: Application tab → Storage → Cookies → https://www.linkedin.com
   • Firefox: Storage tab → Cookies → https://www.linkedin.com
4. Find the two cookies:
   • Locate li_at in the cookie list and copy its Value
   • Locate JSESSIONID in the cookie list and copy its Value (including quotes)
5. Build the cookie string — combine them in the format the API expects:
   li_at=<li_at_value>; JSESSIONID=<JSESSIONID_value>
   
   For example:
   li_at=AQEDARSKH0YB7llVAAABi8Q2N...; JSESSIONID="ajax:0988250529423116538"
   

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Alternative: copy as cURL

1. Log in to LinkedIn Sales Navigator and navigate to a search page
2. Open DevTools (F12) → Network tab
3. Refresh the page
4. Right-click any request to www.linkedin.com → Copy → Copy as cURL
5. In the copied cURL command, find the -H 'cookie: ...' header — that entire string is your cookie value

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Providing cookies to the API

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Option A: Cookie string (recommended)

{
  "cookies": "li_at=AQEDARSKH0YB7llVAAABi8Q2N...; JSESSIONID=\"ajax:0988250529423116538\"",
  "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/sales/search/people?query=...",
  "start": 0,
  "scraper_type": "contacts"
}

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Option B: List of cookie objects

{
  "cookies": [
    { "name": "li_at", "value": "AQEDARSKH0YB7llVAAABi8Q2N..." },
    { "name": "JSESSIONID", "value": "\"ajax:0988250529423116538\"" }
  ],
  "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/sales/search/people?query=...",
  "start": 0,
  "scraper_type": "contacts"
}

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Troubleshooting

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Next steps

• Quickstart — use your cookies in a real request
• Pagination — page through results
• Scrape API Reference — full endpoint documentation