How to export your network connections, on a computer or an iPhone
Download your network connections as a CSV from your network's own settings, on Mac, Windows or iPhone, what the file contains and what it leaves out, and how to see the people in it as a map with tiers.
2 min readBy Blake Burford
You can export your network connections from your network's own settings, on a computer or a phone, in about ten minutes. You get a file called Connections.csv with each connection's name, company, position and the date you connected. It's your network's official export, so it carries no risk to your account.
On a computer (Mac or Windows)
Open the platform's website, click your photo, then Settings & Privacy.
Open Data privacy, then Get a copy of your data.
Choose Want something in particular? and tick Connections only. That's the quick one.
Click Request archive and confirm with your password.
The platform emails you a download link, usually within about ten minutes. Download the zip and open it: Connections.csv is inside.
On an iPhone
In the platform's app, tap your photo, then Settings.
Tap Data privacy, then Get a copy of your data.
Pick Connections only and tap Request archive.
When the email arrives, open the link in Safari and download the zip. The Files app opens it; Connections.csv is inside.
If the app sends you to a web page for any step, finish there: it's the same setting.
What the file has, and what it doesn't
The CSV lists your first-degree connections: first and last name, profile link, company, position, the date you connected, and an email address only when that person allows it (most don't). It does not include who they know. Your 2nd and 3rd degree, the bridges between people and the shortest way in to someone, aren't in any export from the platform.
Turning the file into a map
Sixgree reads a Connections.csv on your own computer and shows every person in the Galaxy, ranked in tiers S to D, with nothing uploaded. That covers your first degree straight away. To see who your connections can introduce you to, Sixgree's scanner reads their circles too, slowly and within a daily limit; see Scanning slowly and safely and your network connection degrees explained.
A version that reads your CSV right here on sixgree.com, in your browser and on your phone, is on the roadmap.
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