# How to Find, Copy & Share Your LinkedIn URL

Source: https://www.flypost.io/learn/find-your-linkedin-url
Author: Sam Cassman, Founder, Flypost
Last verified: 2026-10-15

How do you get your LinkedIn URL? Open your own profile on desktop and it appears in two places: the "Public profile & URL" panel on the right, and under "Contact info" as "Your profile". Both read www.linkedin.com/in/your-name. We walked the current flow in October 2026 and screenshotted every step, including how to change the ending to something tidier.

Are you trying to find your LinkedIn URL? A job application, a CV template or a conference form has
asked for it, and LinkedIn does not exactly put it on a billboard. There is no "copy my profile
link" button in Settings, the app hides it behind a different set of taps, and the guides that rank
for this question contradict each other on the rules. It is a ten-second job dressed up as
a puzzle, so we walked the current flow ourselves and screenshotted it.

Most people start in Settings, which is the one place it is not. Your URL is sitting in plain view
in **two** places on your own profile: the panel on the right called "Public profile & URL", and the
"Contact info" link under your name. The second one is the better route, because it gives you the
URL as a link you can copy in one click.

In this article we'll cover what a LinkedIn URL actually looks like, where to find and copy yours on
desktop, how to share it without copying anything, where it hides in the mobile app, and how to
change the ugly ending to something you can say out loud. Read on to find out more.

## What does a LinkedIn URL look like?

Every personal LinkedIn URL has the same shape: `www.linkedin.com/in/` followed by an ending that
belongs to you. When you join, LinkedIn assigns that ending automatically, using your name plus a
string of letters and numbers, so it comes out looking like this:

```
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-cassman-a5837847/
```

That is our founder's real assigned URL. The characters on the end are not a mistake and nothing is
broken: LinkedIn adds them because plenty of people share a name. You can replace that ending with a
custom one, which is covered further down, and you can share either version. Both work.

Two things are worth knowing before you paste it anywhere. The `/in/` part is always there on a
personal profile, and a company page uses `/company/` instead. And the URL is not case sensitive, so
you do not need to worry about capital letters when you type it into a form.

## Where do you find your LinkedIn URL on desktop?

On the LinkedIn website, your URL is on your own profile page, in two places on the page itself.
Getting there takes two clicks: click **Me** in the top navigation bar, then **View profile**.

![LinkedIn's Me menu opened from the top navigation bar, with the View profile button highlighted](https://www.flypost.io/learn/find-your-linkedin-url/me-menu.webp)

_Click Me in the top bar, then View profile (highlighted). The Me menu is a dropdown, not a page._

Once you are on your profile, look at the right-hand column. The panel headed **Public profile &
URL** shows your URL in full:

![Top of a LinkedIn profile on desktop with the Public profile & URL panel highlighted on the right, showing www.linkedin.com/in/sam-cassman-a5837847](https://www.flypost.io/learn/find-your-linkedin-url/profile-url-card.webp)

_The Public profile & URL panel on the right of your profile (highlighted) shows the full address._

There is a third place, and it is the one most people miss: your browser's address bar. While you
are on your own profile, the address bar is showing your URL, so you can read or copy it straight
from there.

## How do you copy your LinkedIn URL?

The cleanest route is the **Contact info** link, which sits under your name, headline and location
on your profile:

![LinkedIn profile intro card with the Contact info link highlighted, next to the location under the headline](https://www.flypost.io/learn/find-your-linkedin-url/profile-contact-info-link.webp)

_Contact info (highlighted) opens a panel over your profile rather than taking you to a new page._

Clicking it opens a panel whose first entry is **Your profile**, with your URL as a clickable link.
Right-click that link and choose Copy link address, and you have it:

![LinkedIn Contact info panel with the Your profile entry and its linkedin.com/in/ link highlighted](https://www.flypost.io/learn/find-your-linkedin-url/contact-info-panel.webp)

_The Contact info panel. Your profile (highlighted) is the URL, ready to copy as a link._

One tidy-up before you paste it into a CV or an email signature: if what you copied has a question
mark in it, delete the question mark and everything after it. We saw `?isSelfProfile=true` appended
when arriving at the profile through `linkedin.com/in/me/`. Several guides recommend the same trim
and it matches what we saw, though the link works either way. It is cosmetic, not a fix.

Three places, then, in order of speed:

1. **Contact info** on your profile, under "Your profile". Best for copying, because it is a link.
2. The **Public profile & URL** panel on the right of your profile. Best for reading it off the
   screen.
3. Your browser's **address bar** while you are on your own profile. Fastest of all if you are
   already there.

## How do you share your LinkedIn profile without copying the link?

If the person you want to send it to is already on LinkedIn, you do not need the URL at all. The
**Resources** button on your profile has **Send profile in a message**, which puts your profile in a
LinkedIn message as a card:

![The Resources menu on a LinkedIn profile, open, with Send profile in a message highlighted above Save to PDF, Saved items, Activity and About this member](https://www.flypost.io/learn/find-your-linkedin-url/resources-send-profile.webp)

_Resources, then Send profile in a message (highlighted). The same menu holds Save to PDF, which is handy for applications that want a CV-style copy._

That menu is also where **Save to PDF** lives, which is the better answer when a form asks for your
LinkedIn profile as a document rather than a link.

## Where do you find your LinkedIn URL in the iPhone or Android app?

In the app, your URL lives in the same **Contact info** panel as on the web. Open your own profile
by tapping your photo, then look for Contact info on the profile itself, and your URL is the entry
called "Your profile".

We did not capture the app flow first hand, so we are not going to give you an exact sequence of tap
labels. LinkedIn's help centre, on a page last updated well before 2026, describes two routes to the
same panel, and app versions differ in what the buttons are called. Go by the destination instead:
you are looking for Contact info on your own profile, and the URL is the first thing in it. If you
cannot find it on the phone, open linkedin.com in a mobile browser and use the desktop route above,
which works on a phone screen.

## How do you find someone else's LinkedIn URL?

The same two ways, on their profile instead of yours. Open the person's profile and the address bar
is their URL; open their **Contact info** panel and the profile link is the first entry in it,
assuming they have not restricted it. You do not need to be connected to see a public profile URL, though what else the
Contact info panel shows you (email, phone, websites) depends entirely on what they chose to share
and how connected you are.

A word of caution if you are collecting these at any scale: the profile you are looking at is
someone's personal data, and LinkedIn's own rules on automated collection are strict. Copy a link by
hand, not with a scraper.

## Can you change your LinkedIn URL?

Yes, and it is the single best five-second improvement you can make to a profile you are about to
share. A custom ending is easier to read on a CV, easier to say in a conversation and easier to
remember.

On your profile, click the **pencil icon** next to "Public profile & URL". That opens the Public
profile settings page, where the **Edit your custom URL** panel sits in the right-hand column:

![LinkedIn Public profile settings page with the Edit your custom URL panel highlighted in the right-hand column](https://www.flypost.io/learn/find-your-linkedin-url/public-profile-settings.webp)

_The pencil next to Public profile & URL opens this settings page, not a popup. The custom URL panel is on the right (highlighted)._

Click the pencil next to your URL in that panel and the ending becomes an editable field. Type the
new ending after `www.linkedin.com/in/` and click **Save**:

![LinkedIn's Edit your custom URL box in edit mode, with the text field after www.linkedin.com/in/ highlighted, a note on the 3 to 100 character rule, and Cancel and Save buttons](https://www.flypost.io/learn/find-your-linkedin-url/custom-url-edit.webp)

_The editor. Only the ending is editable, and LinkedIn shows the character rule inline before you save._

So the whole job is four steps:

1. Click **Me**, then **View profile**.
2. Click the **pencil** next to "Public profile & URL".
3. Click the **pencil** next to your URL under "Edit your custom URL".
4. Type the ending you want and click **Save**.

Your first choice may be taken. Custom URLs are first come, first served, so a plain
`firstname-lastname` is often gone. Adding your role, your city or a middle initial usually finds
something clean.

## What are the rules for a custom LinkedIn URL?

LinkedIn's help centre sets out the rules, and the editor repeats the main one inline as you type
("must contain 3-100 letters or numbers. Please do not use spaces, symbols, or special
characters").

| Rule                                                   | What it means for you                                                                             |
| ------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 3 to 100 characters                                    | Letters and numbers only, no spaces or special characters, and you cannot use the word "LinkedIn" |
| Not case sensitive                                     | `Sam-Cassman` and `sam-cassman` are the same address                                              |
| First come, first served                               | If someone has yours, LinkedIn will not free it up on request                                     |
| One at a time                                          | You have a single custom URL, not a set of aliases                                                |
| Five changes in six months                             | After the fifth change you wait six months before the next one                                    |
| The old URL stays linked for six months                | Unless you unlink it, in which case it is hidden for seven days and then anyone can claim it      |
| A closed account's URL frees up after 180 days         | Worth knowing if you are waiting for one                                                          |
| Your assigned URL only changes if you change your name | The automatic ending follows your name, not your custom choice                                    |

One oddity: the official wording says no symbols, yet hyphens appear in virtually every LinkedIn URL,
including every automatically assigned one. Hyphens are plainly fine in practice. We are flagging it
because LinkedIn does not document it, so treat hyphens as safe and everything else (underscores,
full stops, plus signs) as not worth the risk. You will also see pages claiming a 39-character limit
with underscores and periods allowed. Nothing official supports that, and the editor itself says
3-100.

## Does changing your LinkedIn URL break old links?

Not immediately. LinkedIn's help centre says your previous URL stays linked to you for six months
after a change, unless you deliberately unlink it. Anyone who clicks the old address in that window
still lands on you.

Six months is a grace period, not a promise, so spend ten minutes updating the places you control:

1. Your email signature.
2. Your CV and any cover letter template.
3. Your website, portfolio and about page.
4. Your other social profiles that link out to LinkedIn.
5. Any QR code you have printed, which is the one that bites people.

## Where should you share your LinkedIn URL?

Anywhere someone might want to check you out and cannot: an email signature, a CV, a conference
badge, a podcast description, your website footer, an invoice. The URL costs nothing to add and
saves the other person a search.

One place to think twice about is inside a LinkedIn post. When we looked at 1,366 people's posts
with links against their own posts without, the posts with links got about
[13% fewer reactions](https://www.flypost.io/learn/linkedin-algorithm-study-data#does-linkedin-penalise-posts-with-links),
across 116,000+ posts from 2,400+ creators. That is a real cost but a small one, not the catastrophe
the folklore describes, and 4 in 10 people actually did better with links. Our data records whether
a post contained a link, not where that link pointed, so we cannot tell you whether a link to your
own LinkedIn profile behaves differently from a link off the platform. Treat the 13% as the price of
any link and decide if the click is worth it.

The more useful move is making the profile worth landing on once someone follows the link. Two
pages of ours cover the parts people get wrong: the exact
[LinkedIn banner dimensions and the mobile safe zone](https://www.flypost.io/learn/linkedin-banner-size), and
[every LinkedIn character limit](https://www.flypost.io/learn/linkedin-character-limits), which includes the 220-character
headline and the 2,600-character About section that a visitor reads first.

> **Make the headline worth the click**
>
> Your URL takes people to your headline. Our free LinkedIn headline generator drafts options that fit
> inside the 220-character limit and read well in search results. No signup.
>
> [Try it free](https://www.flypost.io/tools/linkedin-headline-generator)

## How we checked this on LinkedIn

Everything above was walked by hand on 12 October 2026, signed in to a real account on the LinkedIn
website in Chrome on Windows, and screenshotted step by step. The screenshots on this page are those
captures, cropped and with personal details such as an email address and third-party names removed.
We opened the custom URL editor and cancelled out of it rather than changing anything.

The rules in the custom-URL table come from LinkedIn's own help centre page on
[managing your public profile URL](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a542685/manage-your-public-profile-url),
cross-checked against the note the editor shows inline. That help page was last updated some time
before 2026, which is why we checked each rule against the live product rather than trusting it
alone.

Two honest gaps. We did not capture the iPhone or Android app, so the mobile section describes the
destination rather than a tap-by-tap path. And the engagement figure in the sharing section comes
from our own study of 116,000+ posts, which is explained in full in
[the LinkedIn algorithm study](https://www.flypost.io/learn/linkedin-algorithm-study-data), where it is one of ten tactics
we tested and found wanting.

## Frequently asked questions

### How do I find my LinkedIn URL?

Click Me in the top bar, then View profile. Your URL shows in the 'Public profile & URL' panel on the right of the page, and again under the 'Contact info' link beneath your name, as 'Your profile'. It looks like www.linkedin.com/in/your-name.

### How do I copy my LinkedIn URL?

Open your profile, click Contact info, then copy the link under 'Your profile' (right-click, Copy link address). Copying it from the browser address bar while you are on your profile works just as well.

### What does a LinkedIn URL look like?

It is www.linkedin.com/in/ followed by your custom ending. LinkedIn assigns one made of your name plus a string of characters, such as www.linkedin.com/in/sam-cassman-a5837847, and you can replace that ending with something tidier.

### Where is my LinkedIn URL in the mobile app?

In the same place as on desktop: the Contact info panel on your own profile, under 'Your profile'. Open your profile from your photo, then look for Contact info. The exact labels differ between app versions, so go by the Contact info panel rather than a fixed tap sequence.

### Can I change my LinkedIn URL?

Yes. On your profile, click the pencil next to 'Public profile & URL', then the pencil next to your URL under 'Edit your custom URL', type a new ending and save. You get five changes in any six-month period.

### Does changing my LinkedIn URL break the old links?

Not straight away. LinkedIn's help centre says the previous URL stays linked to you for six months unless you unlink it, which gives you time to update your CV, email signature and website.

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