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The lobstr.io email discovery service finds professional and verified email addresses from any LinkedIn Sales Navigator profile, using the information scraped from LinkedIn. When you download your dataset, you’ll find a dedicated email column:
Dataset with lobstr.io email enrichment
All emails are server-verified — meaning lobstr.io sent an email to the address and confirmed it was successfully received. You can use them with absolute peace of mind.

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How much does it cost?

Email enrichment uses the credits from your lobstr.io subscription — there’s no separate email-credit pack.
lobstr.io pricing plans
Each enriched lead costs 10 credits in total:
  • 1 credit to scrape the Sales Navigator profile (so lobstr.io has the name and company for enrichment).
  • 9 credits to find and validate the email.
Based on lobstr.io’s monthly plans, that works out to:
Email enrichment cost breakdown per plan
  • 1,000 verified emails for $20 (Starter)
  • 10,000 verified emails for $100 (Pro)
  • 100,000 verified emails for $500 (Team)
  • 200,000 verified emails for $1,000 (Business)
lobstr.io does not offer standalone email enrichment. You can’t upload an existing list of leads and get emails added — email discovery only runs on profiles lobstr.io has scraped on its own platform.
Check the Sales Navigator Leads Scraper pricing calculator for a live estimate based on your inputs.

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What happens if no email is found?

No email, no enrichment charge. The 9 enrichment credits are only consumed when an email is successfully found and validated. The 1 credit for scraping the profile is always charged — that’s part of every scraped row regardless of enrichment. Success rate depends on the company type:
  • 80%+ for large companies and startups
  • 30–50% for SMEs
  • 2–5% for freelancer profiles or independent companies
If you want to find email addresses of independent contractors or freelancers, this tool isn’t the right fit.

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Can I get personal email addresses?

No. lobstr.io does not provide personal email addresses. These aren’t GDPR-compliant — sending marketing emails to personal addresses requires explicit consent.
Commercial prospection for B2C is illegal according to the CNIL
See the French CNIL article for details.

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How to use it

Once you’ve created a Squid, go to Settings and switch the Email Enrichment toggle to on.
Enable Email Enrichment in Squid settings
Emails are automatically discovered during scraping:
lobstr.io console with email enrichment
Email discovery on Sales Navigator is available through the Sales Navigator Leads Scraper.

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How does it work?

Emails aren’t publicly visible on LinkedIn or Sales Navigator. lobstr.io reconstructs them in three steps:
1

Collect random company addresses

lobstr.io runs thousands of scrapers that browse web pages and collect any publicly available company emails. For example, on this page, the email of lobstr.io’s founder Sasha Bouloudnine is publicly listed:
Email collected from a public website
2

Identify the company email pattern

Using AI-based pattern matching, lobstr.io figures out the company’s email format. For the example above, the pattern is {first}.{last}@lobstr.io. Many patterns exist — the most popular ones:
Usual email patterns
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Reconstruct and verify

From LinkedIn or Sales Navigator, lobstr.io collects the person’s first and last name:
First and last name from LinkedIn profile
Then it visits the company page and collects the domain:
Website collected from LinkedIn company page
lobstr.io builds the business email (e.g. sasha.bouloudnine@lobstr.io) and sends a verification to confirm it’s deliverable.

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What does the email status mean?

Every email in your dataset includes an email status column.
Email status column in dataset
It tells you how confident lobstr.io is that the address can actually receive emails. Three possible values:
Email validation status

✅ Valid

The email works. Our discovery service confirmed the address is real and active — send with confidence.

⚠️ Risky

The email is valid, but we can’t be 100% sure it will receive. This happens with catch-all domains, role emails (like info@), or servers that hide info.

❓ Unknown

The mail server didn’t respond in time or blocked our check. We can’t confirm whether the address works.
For best results, focus on Valid emails. Risky and Unknown addresses can be included in outreach, but they may lower your deliverability rate.

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Will already enriched contacts be enriched again?

No. If a contact has already been enriched inside your Squid, lobstr.io will not enrich it again — this saves you from burning credits on the same contact twice.
Already enriched contacts are skipped
Example: You create a Squid with email enrichment on and scrape 100 leads. lobstr.io enriches 40 of them. If you run the same Squid again, lobstr.io will skip those 40 and only enrich new leads.
“Already enriched” means already enriched inside that specific Squid. To enrich the same contacts again, create a new Squid — a new Squid always scrapes fresh and enriches all profiles.If you previously scraped with email enrichment turned off, then turn it on, the scraper will go back and enrich the contacts it already scraped.

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Does it work everywhere?

Yes. Email enrichment works for profiles from all countries worldwide.