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How can I use LinkedIn Sales Navigator "connections of" search results as an external list source in Clay?

April 2026

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Short answer: you can't. LinkedIn locks "connections of" to your personal account. Workaround that actually works: 1. Use Chrome extension (Clay Clipper or Upcell) to grab profiles one-by-one 2. Export to CSV, import to Clay But real talk - if your list is over 100 people, this is painful. Better approach: Rebuild the search in Sales Nav using the actual signals (title, company size, location, tech stack). You'll get 80% of the same people without the manual work. Most GTM teams doing this wrong - they want "connections of" because they think warm intros work better. They don't. A cold ema

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Short answer: you can't. LinkedIn locks "connections of" to your personal account.

Workaround that actually works:

  1. Use Chrome extension (Clay Clipper or Upcell) to grab profiles one-by-one
  2. Export to CSV, import to Clay

But real talk - if your list is over 100 people, this is painful. Better approach:

Rebuild the search in Sales Nav using the actual signals (title, company size, location, tech stack). You'll get 80% of the same people without the manual work.

Most GTM teams doing this wrong - they want "connections of" because they think warm intros work better. They don't. A cold email with specific problem + social proof beats a lukewarm intro every time.

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