LinkedIn Search URL Generator
Build a LinkedIn people search or company employee link that opens straight into results. Encoding, company slugs, and network filters handled, with the Sales Navigator version alongside.
What are you searching for
Two different jobs, two different URL shapes.
People search
These fields go into one keywords string, but only while that keeps the query simple enough for basic search.
Filters that survive a URL
Network degree is the only sidebar filter that takes a value you can type.
People search
Basic LinkedIn people search. One keyword group, plus the network filter.
All results
Same query across people, companies, posts, and jobs. Useful when you are not sure the role title is right.
Sales Navigator equivalent
Opens only with a Navigator seat. This one carries the full boolean query and the real filters.
What a LinkedIn search URL will not do
How this works
Why build the URL at all
Because a LinkedIn search URL is a saved search you can put in a doc, a Slack message, or an onboarding checklist. Hand a new SDR a link and they land on the exact result set you meant. Describe the search in words and they will build something different. The other reason is repeatability: the same link opened weekly surfaces the people who newly match, which is the closest thing free LinkedIn gives you to a saved search alert.
Which parameters LinkedIn accepts, and how simple the query has to stay
Only some parameters take values you can type. The keywords parameter takes a query string. The network parameter takes letter codes: F for first degree, S for second, O for third and beyond. But geoUrn (location) and currentCompany expect LinkedIn internal numeric IDs, not names, so a location typed into a generator can only ride inside the keywords string and gets matched as profile text rather than as a real filter. The second constraint matters more. Basic people search and Sales Navigator do not parse boolean the same way: Navigator handles a full nested query, basic search does not. A query built as two bracketed groups joined with AND, for example ("VP Sales" OR "Head of Sales") AND ("SaaS" OR "software"), frequently returns zero results in basic search even though each group alone returns thousands, and there is no error, just an empty page. So the rule is one group in the URL, quotes and a single OR are fine, everything else goes on as a sidebar filter after the results load. This tool enforces that: it holds a location back rather than appending it to a boolean keyword string, and offers the full query on the Sales Navigator link instead.
Finding a company’s employees properly
Searching a company name in people search matches the text anywhere on a profile, so you get current staff, ex-staff, agency partners, and anyone who mentioned the brand once. The cleaner route is the company page people tab at linkedin.com/company/<slug>/people/, which lists people LinkedIn believes currently work there and lets you break them down by function, location, and school. The catch is the slug: it is whatever the company registered, not a predictable version of its name, so guessing it from a typed name usually lands on a 404. Paste the company page URL and the slug is exact. That is why the tool only offers the employees link once you have pasted a URL, and offers a company lookup instead when you have not. Use the keyword search as the wide net and the people tab as the accurate one.
The limits nobody tells you about
Free LinkedIn enforces a commercial use limit: search too many profiles in a month and search is throttled until it resets at the start of the next month. LinkedIn does not publish the threshold, so you find it by hitting it. Free search also caps out around 1000 results (100 pages of 10) regardless of how many people match, so a broad query is not more useful than a narrow one, it is just less precise inside the same ceiling. Sales Navigator lifts both, which is the actual reason teams doing volume prospecting buy it. Either way, narrower searches run more often beat one giant search run once.