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In this short lecture I would like to show you how can you find someone's member ID on LinkedIn?

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Now, the reason why this is important is because we are going to use this member ID to search within

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a leaked database that we are going to talk about in the next section.

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All right.

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So to find the member ID of any LinkedIn profile, all we have to do is just to search for a person.

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In this case I'm going to search for Rishi Kabra.

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And then I'm going to click on his profile.

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And after this right mouse click and then click on view page source.

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Now you are going to hold the Ctrl F keys to search within the page.

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And you want to search for the word member.

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And then colon and you will be able to find 213 matches.

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Now only one match has the member ID, so let me hit enter and here we will find the member ID.

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Which is this one.

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And this is not Rishi Kabra member ID this is actually my member ID so if I hit enter again to see the

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next match, you are going to find the same member ID as you can see here.

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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

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going to open my notepad and say Ctrl V to paste.

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And now I'm going to hold the Ctrl and F keys to search within the page.

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And then I'm going to click on this arrow.

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And I'm going to search for member.

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And then colon hit enter.

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And this is my member ID.

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So what I'm going to do is to copy this member ID.

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And then I'm going to say Ctrl f again.

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And then I'm going to replace this text with nothing.

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So this will remove or exclude all my member IDs from this page or from this source code.

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So I'm going to say replace all.

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And now when we search for member without the member ID and hit enter, we will get the member ID of

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Rishi Kabra which is this one.

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So I'm going to copy it and then go to my notes and add the member ID in here.

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So this is how you can extract the member ID of any LinkedIn profile.

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All you have to do is just to go to the page source of the target profile, and then exclude your member

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ID by copying the source code and pasting it in the notepad, and then replacing your member ID with

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nothing.

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And then search for the word member again, and you will be able to find the target member ID.