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ProfessionalLinkedIn
Updated Sep 28, 2026
LinkedIn is the professional network, and its archive is unusually generous about other people. You get every connection with their current employer, every invitation you have sent or received, and the full history of your posts and messages. Profile views are the exception: they are a Premium feature, so the archive cannot tell you who looked at your profile.
What you'll get
ConnectionsMessagesInvitationsProfile DataSaved ItemsJob Applications
Before you start
- This is on the desktop site. The app does not have the request at all.
- Go to Me, then Settings & Privacy.
- Open Privacy, then Getting a copy of your LinkedIn information. Some accounts have it under Account Preferences instead, depending on the layout of the menu you are looking at.
- Tick Copy archive. The Download my information tab is a different thing and gives you a summary sheet rather than your actual data.
How to download
- Click Request archive. There is no way to narrow it down by date or by category, you get everything LinkedIn holds on you.
- Wait. Usually a few days, occasionally a couple of weeks, and you are emailed a link when it is ready.
- Download the ZIP. It is a set of CSV files plus a folder of message threads, not one document.
Pro tip
There is no viewer log in here unless you have Premium. Profile_Views.csv is a paid feature, and a lot of advice about this export quietly assumes you have one. If you do not, what you get is Connections.csv, the messages, and the invitations, which is still more than most people expect and considerably more than the other networks give you.
After the download
- Connections.csv is the file to read first. It has every connection with their current company, role and the date you connected, and a good number of people are surprised by both the count and how many of them have quietly changed jobs.
- Invitations.csv is a full log of who you invited, who invited you, and what happened to each. It is a surprisingly good record of your job hunting over the years.
- The messages arrive as a folder of HTML threads, one per conversation, which does open in a browser. A .msg export of the same thing, for a proper email archive, is a separate request.
- If you did have Premium, Profile_Views.csv covers the last 90 days only. Ninety days is a rolling window, not a history, so take it while the window is open to you.
- Inferred attributes are in the profile data rather than a file of their own. LinkedIn has worked out your seniority and your industry, and that guess is what recruiters filter on.