How To Find Profile Images from Email in Bulk

If you’re in a B2B business, especially in HR recruiting, or have hiring software, having access to images of candidates becomes crucial. For HR professionals, visuals like a Profile picture not only enhance engagement when reaching out to potential candidates but also help verify the authenticity of profiles, an essential feature when managing high volumes of applicants or integrating new contacts into an ATS (Applicant Tracking System).

Besides recruiting industry, profile images can assist sales professionals and digital marketers by putting a face to a name, and helping personalize communications.

In this blog, we will look at how you can retrieve Profile images with emails. There are some limitations involved in this process.

We will look at all the challenges that come up with this process in the next section.

An email address alone doesn't always provide enough information to identify the correct individual. Many people use different email addresses for personal and professional purposes, while others choose not to make their information publicly accessible. As a result, finding a matching profile image can be difficult, especially when the available data is incomplete or outdated.

Matching an email address to the right person requires more than a simple lookup. Similar names, outdated records, duplicate profiles, and missing information can all lead to incorrect matches.

Privacy regulations and platform-specific restrictions have made access to personal information more limited than ever. In addition, not every data provider has the same level of coverage or data freshness. To retrieve profile images accurately and at scale, it's important to use a reliable data enrichment solution that combines multiple verified sources, regularly updates its database, and returns only the information that is available in compliance with applicable privacy standards.

Using a third-party data enrichment API is one way to do this whole process. Further, this process becomes rapid & scalable with the use of API/s.

EnrichmentAPI provides a set of dedicated APIs that can be used to enrich your existing database. With the emails you have the whole process involves two main steps, each using a dedicated API. Using reverse email lookup API and further person enrichment API.

Let’s understand both the APIs in the context of this process.

Reverse Email Lookup API: This dedicated API is built to reverse lookup on emails. This API takes an email address as input and returns a Profile URL  with many other data points associated with this email.

The Profile URL obtained from this API will be used as input into the Person Enrichment API.

Read Related: How To Find Profile URL using Email Address via Reverse Lookup API

Person Enrichment API: This API will return the profile data (input Profile URL). Person API is made to enrich data on a particular person. The other data points you get as output with person API are:-

1. “location”: Gives the current location of the person.

2. “followers”: Number of followers on Platform.

3. “about”: The about section of the person, this data is taken from social platform.

4. “job history”: This data point gives you all the employee’s past job titles.

And many more data points.

Further, I will show you how you can do it in real time with our tool.

In this section, I will use my email address as an example. The image below divides the usage of both APIs into three parts to better understand the whole process.

Sign up for EnrichmentAPI the free account gives you 50 free credits to test out.

After signing up you will land on the dashboard of EnrichmentAPI.

Click on the Reverse Lookup tool in the left sidebar and enter the email address for which you want to find the Profile.

Using email address in the reverse lookup tool “darshan@scrapingdog.com”.

Below are the output data points from this API.

With all the data points, the one that will be used as an input in the next step is “profile_url“, which in this case is "https://www.lin***.com/in/darshan-khandelwal-6b405b228/" as you can see from the data above.

Now we will use our second API, ie. Person API.

Back onto the dashboard, we will now click “Person Enrichment API”.

We will input the same “profile_url” and then click Try Now. This API now gives a “profile_photo” as one of the data points.

Here is a part of the output data received from person API.

Below is the profile URL when pasted into the Chrome browser’s address bar.

For thousands or millions of emails for which you want “profile_url” can be done by using API_KEY. To understand more about the functioning of the APIs you can go through the documentation section.

This whole process can be done to enrich an existing database of emails. We discussed in the introduction section how HR and related software can use this to get visuals on the candidates.

Moreover, keeping the data fresh gives you an edge over your competitors. I hope this blog, made you understand the process with ease.

If you are a B2B company and are looking to update data on employees, companies, or a particular person, we can help! Our unique stack of APIs is built to enrich and update the old data with the current information.

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