# LinkedIn URL Examples: How to Find & Customize Yours (+ Free Sheet)

> See real LinkedIn URL examples, learn how to find and copy yours on desktop and mobile, customize your vanity URL, and turn any profile URL into full data.

- **Author**: Sasha Bouloudnine
- **Published**: 2024-04-03, updated 2026-09-15 (15 Sept 2026)
- **Reading time**: 14 min
- **Canonical**: https://www.lobstr.io/blog/linkedin-url-example

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*Every LinkedIn profile has a public web address.* LinkedIn passed [1 billion members](https://about.linkedin.com/), and each one has a LinkedIn URL.

Yet two things trip people up daily: they can't find their own, and the one they have looks like a cat walked across the keyboard.

This guide fixes both. You'll learn how to:

- find and copy your LinkedIn URL on desktop and mobile;
- turn the default gibberish into a clean, custom vanity URL;
- read real examples, good and bad, and see what makes one work;
- and turn any LinkedIn URL into a full profile, email included.

There's a free sheet of real data at the end. First, the basics.

## What is a LinkedIn URL?

Your LinkedIn URL is the unique public web address of your profile. LinkedIn generates it automatically the day you sign up, and it identifies you across the whole platform.

It always has two parts — a fixed prefix and an editable slug — plus, by default, a disposable tail:

![Anatomy of a LinkedIn URL: the fixed https://www.linkedin.com/in/ prefix, the editable vanity slug, and the trailing auto-generated hash you can delete](https://d37gzvgyugjozl.cloudfront.net/linkedin_url_example_anatomy_url_777260ccbb.png "width=1611;height=519")

The fixed part is `https://www.linkedin.com/in/`. The `/in/` stands for an individual member, and it never changes.

The editable part is where the personality lives. The default looks like this:

```bash
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sasha-bouloudnine-51908286
```

People also call that editable slug your LinkedIn handle — same thing, shorter name.

### /in/, /pub/, and the code after your name

That trailing string of digits is a uniqueness hash. Two Sasha Bouloudnines can't share a slug, so LinkedIn bolts on a random tail. It means nothing, and we'll learn how to delete it below.

You may also meet older `/pub/` URLs in the wild — LinkedIn's pre-2014 public-directory format. They still forward to the modern pages:

![linkedin.com/pub/dir/John/Smith redirecting to the modern LinkedIn people-search results for John Smith](https://d37gzvgyugjozl.cloudfront.net/linkedin_url_example_pubdir_redirect_96f100b7f7.png "width=1872;height=1460")

Our [LinkedIn people directory](https://www.lobstr.io/blog/linkedin-people-directory) guide maps that tree.

There's a second address most people never see: an opaque, coded one.

The same profile that lives at `linkedin.com/in/williamhgates` also carries a coded identifier, `ACoAAA8BYqEBCGLg...` — the form Sales Navigator and most tools return under the hood.

Why two? The vanity slug is pretty but mortal — people rename it. The coded one sticks to the account, which is why CRMs and scrapers key on it.

![Diagram: the same LinkedIn profile carries a coded ID (machine-coded, unmemorable, never changes) and a vanity URL (human-readable, memorable, can be renamed) — Bill Gates's real pair](https://d37gzvgyugjozl.cloudfront.net/linkedin_url_example_coded_vs_vanity_e6e56a4d83.png "width=1618;height=660")

You can convert in both directions. lobstr.io's [Sales Navigator Leads Scraper](https://www.lobstr.io/store/sales-navigator-leads-scraper) has a "Get Beautiful Profile URL" switch that turns the coded twin back into the readable one; the No-Login scraper does the reverse, returning the coded ID for any clean URL you feed it.

![The Sales Navigator Leads Scraper advanced settings with the Get Beautiful Profile URL toggle on and its tooltip highlighted](https://d37gzvgyugjozl.cloudfront.net/linkedin_url_example_salesnav_beautiful_toggle_a71e157adf.png "width=1848;height=896")

Same person, two doors, a converter each way.

> Slugs are case-insensitive. `/in/WilliamHGates` and `/in/williamhgates` land on the same profile, so capitalization is a styling choice, not a different address.

Enough theory. Before you can polish your URL, you have to find it.

## How to find and copy your LinkedIn URL

Your LinkedIn URL hides in plain sight, and the exact path differs on desktop and mobile. You are not the only one who has hunted for it.

![Reddit post on r/linkedin titled Link to profile: for the life of me I can't find a working link to my profile](https://d37gzvgyugjozl.cloudfront.net/linkedin_url_example_embed_reddit_findurl_ff62afdb8c.png "width=2776;height=1030")

Here is the definitive version.

### How do I find my LinkedIn URL? (desktop)

On a computer, sign in and open your profile: click your photo under *Me* in the top bar, then *View Profile*.

![LinkedIn desktop with the Me dropdown open and the View profile button highlighted in red](https://d37gzvgyugjozl.cloudfront.net/linkedin_url_example_desktop_me_dropdown_bd361d853a.png "width=3164;height=1878")

Your URL now sits in the browser's address bar. It also appears, ready to copy, in the *Edit public profile & URL* panel on the top right of your profile.

![A LinkedIn profile with the Public profile and URL panel highlighted on the right, showing the full profile URL](https://d37gzvgyugjozl.cloudfront.net/linkedin_url_example_desktop_edit_public_url_0ce24080d2.png "width=3164;height=1878")

### How to find your LinkedIn URL on the app (iPhone & Android)

The steps are identical on iOS and Android. Open the app, tap your profile photo, then *View Profile*.

Once on your profile, tap the three-dot menu, choose *Share via…*, then *Copy*. The URL is now on your clipboard.

![Two iPhone screenshots: step 1, the profile menu with Share via highlighted; step 2, the share sheet with Copy highlighted](https://d37gzvgyugjozl.cloudfront.net/linkedin_url_example_mobile_copy_ios_cab924cea6.png "width=2376;height=2532")

### How to copy your LinkedIn URL in one move

On desktop, the fastest copy is the address bar — and it's the only one. The *More* menu on a profile offers Save to PDF, Connect, even Report Bill. No copy-link.

![Bill Gates's LinkedIn profile with the More menu open: Save to PDF, Connect, Report, Block — but no copy-link option](https://d37gzvgyugjozl.cloudfront.net/linkedin_url_example_desktop_more_menu_9b543c3bd9.png "width=1999;height=1030")

And to find other people's URLs at scale, skip the clicking entirely — our [find LinkedIn profiles through Google](https://www.lobstr.io/blog/find-linkedin-profiles-google) guide runs the whole hunt with search operators.

Found yours and it's a jumble of numbers? Fix that next.

## How to customize your vanity URL

A custom URL — LinkedIn calls it a vanity URL — is cleaner, easier to remember, and reads better on a business card. It's the single fastest polish on your profile.

You can only change it on desktop. From your profile, click *Edit public profile & URL* (top right), then the pencil next to your URL, type the slug you want, and hit *Save*.

![LinkedIn public profile settings with the Edit your custom URL panel highlighted, the slug field editable](https://d37gzvgyugjozl.cloudfront.net/linkedin_url_example_edit_custom_url_2a1c5de3db.png "width=3164;height=1878")

### LinkedIn's vanity URL rules

LinkedIn's [own rules](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a542685) are short:

- 3 to 100 characters, letters and numbers only;
- no spaces, symbols, or the word "LinkedIn";
- you can change it up to 5 times within 6 months.

![LinkedIn's official Manage your public profile URL help page, with the Edit your public profile URL panel and the Customize your URL button](https://d37gzvgyugjozl.cloudfront.net/linkedin_url_example_linkedin_help_rules_7e5d71e42b.png "width=1622;height=812")

Note the fine print on that page: custom URLs are first come, first served — one each, and the good ones go fast. Even the greats sleep on it:

![X thread: Neil Patel replies that he doesn't know his LinkedIn URL, with his admission that he doubts he controls neilpatel as his user name highlighted](https://d37gzvgyugjozl.cloudfront.net/linkedin_url_example_embed_x_neilpatel_d58b5da280.png "width=1999;height=845")

That's Neil Patel — one of the most famous marketers alive — unsure he even controls his own name. Claim yours.

The five-change cap bites, too: after the fifth, you're locked for six months. Pick well. Our [LinkedIn limits](https://www.lobstr.io/blog/linkedin-limits) guide tracks every cap like this one.

> A vanity URL is not a tattoo. People rename them, which is why a link you saved last year sometimes 404s.

### What makes a good custom URL

The winning formula is boring and effective: your first and last name. If it's taken, add a middle initial, a role word, or your company rather than random digits.

![3 patterns for a clean vanity URL: first and last name (in/emmanuelmacron), name plus role (in/johannasafta-sales), or one memorable word (in/pizza)](https://d37gzvgyugjozl.cloudfront.net/linkedin_url_example_good_vanity_patterns_74811d55ab.png "width=1218;height=615")

Keep it short, skip the birth year, and don't bury a keyword nobody searches. A clean name beats a clever pun that no one can spell back to you.

Rules in hand, here's what great, and not-so-great, URLs look like in the wild.

## 10 real LinkedIn URL examples (good vs bad)

These are real, live profiles, not mockups. I pulled each one and grouped them by the pattern it uses. Eight work. Two are cautionary tales.

| LinkedIn URL | Who | The pattern | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [linkedin.com/in/williamhgates](https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates) | Bill Gates | Full name, no hyphen | ✅ the gold standard |
| [linkedin.com/in/laurencefink](https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurencefink) | Larry Fink | Full name — the real one, Laurence | ✅ |
| [linkedin.com/in/emmanuelmacron](https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmanuelmacron) | Emmanuel Macron | Full name, no hyphen | ✅ |
| [linkedin.com/in/satyanadella](https://www.linkedin.com/in/satyanadella) | Satya Nadella | Full name, no hyphen | ✅ |
| [linkedin.com/in/rbranson](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rbranson) | Richard Branson | First initial + last name | ✅ short, unmistakable |
| [linkedin.com/in/pizza](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pizza) | Jitse Groen, Just Eat Takeaway founder | One memorable word | ✅ impossible to forget |
| [linkedin.com/in/johannasafta-sales](https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannasafta-sales) | Johanna Safta | Name + role keyword | ✅ found for the job she wants |
| [linkedin.com/in/jlv97](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jlv97) | a Paris CTO | Initials + number | ✅ tidy for common names |
| [linkedin.com/in/sasha-bouloudnine-51908286](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sasha-bouloudnine-51908286) | me | Default hash | ❌ looks unfinished |
| [linkedin.com/in/patrickfarley2021](https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickfarley2021) | a US consultant | Year baked in | ❌ ages every January |

Most people never bother, either. In a sample of 9,395 profiles our No-Login scraper collected over the past 28 days, 58% still run the default hash URL — the clean vanity ones are the minority you are about to join.

![Chart: in a sample of 9,395 real LinkedIn profiles collected over the past 28 days, 58% keep the default hash URL and only 42% set a custom vanity URL](https://d37gzvgyugjozl.cloudfront.net/linkedin_url_example_default_vs_custom_633362a3f2.png "width=1380;height=658")

The full-name rows are the power move of people who claimed their URL early. Name taken? Shorten it, own one word, or add the role you want to be found for.

![Four live LinkedIn profiles with clean full-name URLs in the address bar: Bill Gates, Larry Fink, Satya Nadella, and Apple's Kate Bergeron](https://d37gzvgyugjozl.cloudfront.net/linkedin_url_example_examples_clean_montage_b273923495.png "width=2964;height=1170")

And the one-word grail is real: the founder of Just Eat Takeaway answers at `linkedin.com/in/pizza`.

![Jitse Groen's live LinkedIn profile with linkedin.com/in/pizza highlighted in the browser address bar and Founder bij Just Eat Takeaway.com underlined](https://d37gzvgyugjozl.cloudfront.net/linkedin_url_example_pizza_profile_2f25bbc257.png "width=2944;height=1105")

The two to avoid: the default hash — yes, I'm still guilty of it 👀 — and a baked-in year that ages the profile the moment the calendar turns.

![Good vs bad: Bill Gates's clean vanity URL with a green check on top, my default hash URL sasha-bouloudnine-51908286 with a red cross below](https://d37gzvgyugjozl.cloudfront.net/linkedin_url_example_good_vs_bad_8418229aac.png "width=1472;height=1167")

No shame, though — even Apple's hardware chief John Ternus, 58,411 followers, still runs the default hash.

![John Ternus's LinkedIn profile, Vice President Hardware Engineering at Apple, with the default hash URL john-ternus-2392b76 in the address bar](https://d37gzvgyugjozl.cloudfront.net/linkedin_url_example_ternus_default_hash_f621580cf7.png "width=2944;height=1080")

A clean URL is only worth it if people actually see it. Here's where to put it.

## 3 smart ways to share your LinkedIn URL

A vanity URL earns its keep when it travels. Three places do most of the work.

Your email signature is first. The average office worker sends [around 33 emails a day](https://www.mailbutler.io/blog/email/email-statistics-trends/); a link in the signature is free, repeated exposure to a warm audience.

![A Gmail compose window with the LinkedIn profile URL framed in the email signature](https://d37gzvgyugjozl.cloudfront.net/linkedin_url_example_signature_linkedin_url_2b6497e7d4.png "width=2322;height=1316")

Your resume is second. Add the URL near your name as a real link — or let LinkedIn do it: the *Save to PDF* export from the More menu ships with your URL already in the contact column.

![A resume with the LinkedIn profile URL framed in the contact details column](https://d37gzvgyugjozl.cloudfront.net/linkedin_url_example_resume_linkedin_url_f1271aeb3e.png "width=1712;height=1308")

> Most guides quote "a LinkedIn URL on your resume = 71% more interviews." The actual [ResumeGo study](https://www.resumego.net/research/linkedin-interview-chances/) compared a fully completed profile against no link — and a bare-bones profile did worse than no link at all. The URL only pays when the profile behind it delivers.

Your other bios are third: GitHub, your personal site — and yes, your X bio, where opinions differ.

![X post by chris: hot take — if you have your linkedin url in your x bio you're probably boring, with the hot take highlighted](https://d37gzvgyugjozl.cloudfront.net/linkedin_url_example_embed_x_hottake_3e05e74148.png "width=1786;height=628")

Boring works. A bio link is free, permanent traffic to your profile; if outreach is the goal, our [LinkedIn outreach](https://www.lobstr.io/blog/linkedin-outreach) playbook goes deeper.

Bonus for conferences: the app [generates a QR code](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a525286/using-a-linkedin-qr-code-to-connect-with-members?lang=en) of your profile URL — tap the QR icon in the search bar, then *My Code*.

![Two iPhone screenshots: the QR icon circled in the LinkedIn app search bar, then the My Code tab showing the profile QR code](https://d37gzvgyugjozl.cloudfront.net/linkedin_url_example_qr_mycode_71a79ed880.png "width=2376;height=2532")

Sharing your own URL is the easy half. The interesting half is what a URL unlocks when you point a tool at it.

## From a URL to full data: profiles and emails at scale

**A LinkedIn URL is not just an address. It's a key.** Hand it to the right tool and the whole profile opens: name, headline, company, location, and often a verified email.

Recruiters already treat it that way: they require a URL on job applications to vet candidates — and applicants who'd rather dodge the check now paste fake ones.

![Reddit post on r/recruiting: recruiters require a LinkedIn URL to verify candidates, and around 50% of submissions now use fake URLs like linkedin.com/in/not-on-linkedin](https://d37gzvgyugjozl.cloudfront.net/linkedin_url_example_embed_reddit_recruiter_4df5816a41.png "width=2220;height=1096")

So I tested how far that key goes. I fed 100 random profile URLs from our own database to lobstr.io's [LinkedIn Profile & Email Scraper (No Login)](https://www.lobstr.io/store/linkedin-profile-email-scraper-no-login) — no account, no cookies, just URLs:

![Chart: 100 LinkedIn URLs fed in, 100 profiles returned, 73 emails found, 71 verified valid](https://d37gzvgyugjozl.cloudfront.net/linkedin_url_example_url_to_data_funnel_1053756cb8.png "width=1380;height=741")

100 for 100. An email came back for 73, and 71 verified valid. Here's what it looks like, row by row:

![The 100-profile sheet with the linkedin_url and email columns framed in red: names, companies, locations and verified emails extracted from bare URLs](https://d37gzvgyugjozl.cloudfront.net/linkedin_url_example_url_to_data_sheet_ece0cedf58.png "width=2494;height=1464")

The ten gallery examples got the same treatment, and the hits were real: `bill.gates@gatesfoundation.org`, `lfink@blackrock.com`, `snadella@microsoft.com`.

The full 100-row sheet, emails included, is public here: [LinkedIn URL to data — sample sheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qrmMIFcUaDlpXFIU0XEuRtLzpLmZUXkblQ5khbYTyMc/edit?usp=sharing).

[Turn LinkedIn URLs into Profiles + Emails](https://www.lobstr.io/store/linkedin-profile-email-scraper-no-login)

One URL is a copy-paste. A list is a job for automation — three ways to run it.

From your terminal, install the CLI and point it at a URL or a file of them:

```bash
pip install lobstrio
lobstr go linkedin-profile-email-scraper-no-login \
  "https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates" \
  -k linkedin_url -p max_unique_results_per_run=1 -o profiles.csv
```

Swap in `-f urls.txt` and raise the cap to run a whole list. I ran that exact command: 13 seconds, one row in `profiles.csv`, email included.

![Terminal running the lobstr CLI on Bill Gates's LinkedIn URL: 1 task, 100%, one result downloaded to profiles.csv in 9 seconds](https://d37gzvgyugjozl.cloudfront.net/linkedin_url_example_cli_run_eed2a3a850.png "width=1384;height=994")

From an AI agent, add the [lobstr.io MCP server](https://www.lobstr.io/mcp) and let Claude call the scraper directly:

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http lobstr https://mcp.lobstr.io/mcp
```

![Claude Code connected to the lobstr.io MCP server, prompted to run the No-Login scraper on Bill Gates's LinkedIn URL and loading the scraper tools](https://d37gzvgyugjozl.cloudfront.net/linkedin_url_example_mcp_run_dbd44e207a.png "width=1384;height=994")

Paste any of these URLs into a prompt with the [LinkedIn MCP](https://www.lobstr.io/blog/linkedin-mcp) and Claude runs the matching scraper.

Or drive it from the [REST API](https://www.lobstr.io/api) inside your own stack. For a wider comparison, see our roundup of the [best LinkedIn profile scrapers](https://www.lobstr.io/blog/best-linkedin-profile-scrapers), our [LinkedIn search guide](https://www.lobstr.io/blog/linkedin-search-ultimate-guide), or the [Python how-to](https://www.lobstr.io/blog/scrape-linkedin-profiles-python) if you'd rather build it yourself.

> Working with public profile data is generally fine when you stay logged out and off private pages; we cover the nuance in [is LinkedIn scraping legal](https://www.lobstr.io/blog/is-linkedin-scraping-legal). For search-based lists, the [LinkedIn Leads Scraper](https://www.lobstr.io/store/linkedin-leads-scraper) takes a search URL instead of one profile.

[Scrape Profiles + Emails, No Login](https://www.lobstr.io/store/linkedin-profile-email-scraper-no-login)

## FAQ

### How do I find my LinkedIn URL?

Open your profile on desktop and **read the address bar**, or click *Edit public profile & URL* to see and copy it. On the app, tap your photo, then *View Profile*, then the three-dot menu.

### What is my LinkedIn URL?

It's **`linkedin.com/in/` followed by your slug** — by default your name plus a random string, for example `linkedin.com/in/sasha-bouloudnine-51908286`.

### How do I copy my LinkedIn URL on the app?

Tap your profile photo, then *View Profile*, then the three-dot menu: **Share via…, then Copy**. It works the same on iPhone and Android.

### How many times can I change my LinkedIn URL?

**Five times within six months.** After the fifth change, LinkedIn locks it for another six months, so choose deliberately.

### What is a good LinkedIn URL?

**Your first and last name, with no random digits.** If the name is taken, add a role word, a middle initial, or your company rather than a birth year.

### What's the difference between /in/ and /pub/?

**/in/ is the current format** for individual profiles. `/pub/` was the older [public-directory](https://www.lobstr.io/blog/linkedin-people-directory) format, retired around 2014, and those links now redirect to the modern `/in/` page.

### What does a LinkedIn company page URL look like?

**`linkedin.com/company/`** — the `/company/` path is what separates an organization page from a personal `/in/` profile.

### Why does my LinkedIn URL start with a country code?

**It's the same profile.** Some countries add a [two-letter prefix](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a522735), like `ca.linkedin.com` or `fr.linkedin.com` — the slug, and the profile behind it, never changes.

### Can I get a custom LinkedIn URL for free?

**Yes — it costs nothing.** Every account, free or premium, can set a custom vanity URL from *Edit public profile & URL* on desktop.

### Can you get someone's email from their LinkedIn URL?

**Often — in our 100-profile test, 73 came back with an email, 71 verified.** A scraper with email enrichment, like the [No-Login scraper](https://www.lobstr.io/store/linkedin-profile-email-scraper-no-login), turns a profile URL into a verified email when a public one exists.

## Final thoughts

A LinkedIn URL is a small thing that does three jobs: it finds you, it brands you, and it keys you to your data. Find it, clean the random tail off it, and put it where people look.

And remember the last part: the URL a recruiter uses to verify you is the same one a scraper uses to pull your details. It cuts both ways.

Here's mine, still guilty of the default: [linkedin.com/in/sasha-bouloudnine-51908286](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sasha-bouloudnine-51908286). Run it through the scraper and you'll get my email too. Then use it — ping me on LinkedIn.

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## Scrapers in this article

- [Sales Navigator Leads Scraper](https://www.lobstr.io/store/sales-navigator-leads-scraper): Extract emails and phones from LinkedIn Sales Navigator at scale — no code, no hassle, easy. (1 credit per result)
- [LinkedIn Leads Scraper](https://www.lobstr.io/store/linkedin-leads-scraper): Scrape all leads from LinkedIn People Search with 98 data points — verified emails included (1 credit per result)
- [LinkedIn Profile & Email Scraper (No Login)](https://www.lobstr.io/store/linkedin-profile-email-scraper-no-login): Extract all data from any LinkedIn profile, no login needed — 200+ data points & verified emails. (3 credits per result)

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