In this short lecture I would like to show you how can you find someone's member ID on LinkedIn?
Now, the reason why this is important is because we are going to use this member ID to search within
a leaked database that we are going to talk about in the next section.
All right.
So to find the member ID of any LinkedIn profile, all we have to do is just to search for a person.
In this case I'm going to search for Rishi Kabra.
And then I'm going to click on his profile.
And after this right mouse click and then click on view page source.
Now you are going to hold the Ctrl F keys to search within the page.
And you want to search for the word member.
And then colon and you will be able to find 213 matches.
Now only one match has the member ID, so let me hit enter and here we will find the member ID.
Which is this one.
And this is not Rishi Kabra member ID this is actually my member ID so if I hit enter again to see the
next match, you are going to find the same member ID as you can see here.
So what I'm going to do is to copy the source code by holding Ctrl A and then Ctrl C, and then I'm
going to open my notepad and say Ctrl V to paste.
And now I'm going to hold the Ctrl and F keys to search within the page.
And then I'm going to click on this arrow.
And I'm going to search for member.
And then colon hit enter.
And this is my member ID.
So what I'm going to do is to copy this member ID.
And then I'm going to say Ctrl f again.
And then I'm going to replace this text with nothing.
So this will remove or exclude all my member IDs from this page or from this source code.
So I'm going to say replace all.
And now when we search for member without the member ID and hit enter, we will get the member ID of
Rishi Kabra which is this one.
So I'm going to copy it and then go to my notes and add the member ID in here.
So this is how you can extract the member ID of any LinkedIn profile.
All you have to do is just to go to the page source of the target profile, and then exclude your member
ID by copying the source code and pasting it in the notepad, and then replacing your member ID with
nothing.
And then search for the word member again, and you will be able to find the target member ID.