---
id: 8208
title: "Collecting Contacts from LinkedIn Using linkedin_crawl"
source_domain: netspi.com
source_url: "https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/network-pentesting/collecting-contacts-linkedin-using-linkedin_crawl/"
published_at: "2015-06-01T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["osint", "reconnaissance", "phishing", "linkedin", "recon-ng", "employee-enumeration"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/8208"
lang: en
---

# Collecting Contacts from LinkedIn Using linkedin_crawl

## Summary

Introduces the linkedin_crawl recon-ng module that spiders the People also Viewed pane on LinkedIn to harvest employee names and titles for phishing lists and password attacks.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** netspi.com
- **Published:** 2015-06-01T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/network-pentesting/collecting-contacts-linkedin-using-linkedin_crawl/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/8208