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CRMown Capture — Save Contacts from LinkedIn, X, Facebook & Instagram

The CRMown Capture Chrome extension saves the person whose profile you are looking at as a CRMown contact in one click — name, photo, job title, company, profile link, bio and (on LinkedIn) work history — then enriches them automatically. It only reads the profile on your screen, only when you click.

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Steps

  1. Install CRMown Capture and paste your CRMown API key in its settings (one time).
  2. Open a profile: LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/…), X, Facebook (a person or a business Page) or Instagram.
  3. Click the CRMown Capture icon. Check the details it read — you can edit name, email, job title and company, and add a note.
  4. The profile photo shows as a small thumbnail with "Profile photo will be saved". Click "Don't save" if you don't want it.
  5. Click Save to CRMown (or Save & open). The contact is created — or, if they already exist, only empty fields are filled — and enrichment starts in the background.

Good to know

  • Photos are copied into your own CRMown storage, because LinkedIn and Meta photo links expire after a while. Re-capturing never replaces a photo someone already set.
  • LinkedIn work history and education are read from the profile page. The extension briefly scrolls the page to load them, then puts it back.
  • A Facebook business Page is saved as a company contact with its listed phone, email and website.
  • Instagram captures the display name, photo, bio and the link in bio. Instagram rarely shows job titles, so enrichment has less to go on.
  • Reddit threads are saved to Social Listening instead of becoming contacts.
Example: A recruiter opens a candidate's LinkedIn profile, clicks CRMown Capture, sees name, title, company, photo and "Work history — 4 roles · 1 school", and saves. Thirty seconds later the contact in CRMown has the photo and a work email found by enrichment.

Troubleshooting

"No API key set" in the extension
The extension has no CRMown API key yet — this also happens after reinstalling or loading a new copy, which starts with empty settings.
Fix: Click Open settings in the extension and paste your API key.
"No work history — the Experience section was not on the page"
LinkedIn had not loaded the Experience section yet, or LinkedIn hides Experience from you for this person (common for 2nd/3rd-degree connections).
Fix: Scroll down to the Experience section on the profile, then open CRMown Capture again.
No photo thumbnail appears
The person has no profile photo, or the site did not show it on the page.
Fix: Nothing to fix — the contact is saved without a photo. You can upload one on the contact later.
Facebook or Instagram capture came back empty
The page is not a profile (e.g. a feed, a group, a post) or was still loading.
Fix: Open the person's or Page's main profile, wait for it to load, then click the extension again.

Related

  • Contact Enrichment — runs after every capture
  • Social Listening — where Reddit threads go

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