Linkedin post scraper

Introduction

LinkedIn Post Scraper is a powerful Apify actor designed to extract valuable information from LinkedIn posts. Whether you're a data analyst, researcher, or recruiter, this tool can help you gather insights, monitor trends, and collect data for various purposes.

Features

LinkedIn Post Scraper offers a wide range of features to simplify your data extraction needs:

• Post Data Extraction: Scrape detailed information from LinkedIn posts, including text, images, links, and engagement metrics.
• Profile Data: Extract data of post authors, such as name, job title, and company.
• Scrape from post search: Scrape posts from Linkedin posts search using search URL which supports advanced filters such as date range, keywords, industry, company, etc
• Scrape posts from profiles: Provide list of profile URLs of Linkedin members or companies to collect posts
• Scrape posts from URLs: Provide list of post URLs and get complete details about the post such as author, content, engagement insights, attachments, etc
• Export Options: Export scraped data to various formats, including JSON, CSV, or Excel for further analysis.
• Proxy Support: Ensure reliable and anonymous scraping by using proxy rotation.

Use Cases

LinkedIn Post Scraper can be a valuable tool for a variety of use cases:

1. Market Research and Analysis:

   • Keyword Tracking: Keep an eye on posts mentioning specific keywords related to your industry or market segment. Understand market trends, customer sentiment, and emerging topics.
   • Competitor Benchmarking: Compare your company's LinkedIn engagement and content strategies with those of your competitors. Identify gaps and opportunities for improvement.

2. Recruitment and Talent Acquisition:

   • Candidate Sourcing: Search for potential job candidates by extracting data from posts that include job-seeking or industry-specific keywords. Compile a list of potential hires for your organization.

3. Content Strategy and Social Media Planning:

   • Content Performance Analysis: Analyze the engagement metrics of posts in your industry to gain insights into what type of content resonates with your target audience.

4. Lead Generation and Sales Prospecting:

   • Identify Potential Clients: Monitor posts related to industries or niches you target for potential clients. Reach out to companies or individuals who express interest in relevant products or services.
   • Networking Opportunities: Discover individuals who frequently engage with industry-related posts. Build connections with them to expand your network and explore business opportunities.

5. Competitor Analysis and Market Intelligence:

   • Competitor Content Analysis: Scrutinize your competitors' LinkedIn posts to understand their content strategy, the effectiveness of their messaging, and the engagement they receive.
   • Follower Insights: Gain insights into your competitors' followers by extracting data from user profiles who engage with their posts. Identify potential customers or collaborators.

6. Academic and Industry Research:

   • Academic Studies: Collect data for academic research or industry-specific studies related to LinkedIn behavior, engagement patterns, or content trends.
   • Data for Reports and Publications: Gather data for reports, publications, or whitepapers that require LinkedIn insights and statistics as part of their research.

By leveraging LinkedIn data scraping, you can optimize your strategies, enhance decision-making processes, and gain a competitive edge in various domains, whether it's in the business, recruitment, content creation, or academic research. This powerful tool empowers you with actionable data derived from LinkedIn's extensive network of professionals and content.

Getting Started

To use the LinkedIn Post Scraper Apify actor, you'll need an Apify account. Follow these steps to get started:

1. Click on "Try for free" button on top of this page
2. Go to Linkedin posts search page, search with required filters and once you are done, copy the full URL from address bar and add it to Source URLs field
3. If you want to scrape posts from a user or company, then input the profile URL
4. Configure your scraping settings, such as Cookies, Number of records required, etc.
5. Start the actor, and it will begin scraping LinkedIn posts according to your specifications.

Sample output

Here is the sample output of this actor:

1{
2	"urn": "urn:li:activity:7202146404788580353",
3	"text": "Carmix lovers\nMax Galante Manuela Galante Alberto Parodi De La Cuadra Victor Saldaña Blanco",
4	"url": "https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7202146404788580353?updateEntityUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_updateV2%3A%28urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7202146404788580353%2CFEED_DETAIL%2CEMPTY%2CDEFAULT%2Cfalse%29",
5	"postedAtTimestamp": 1717125512311,
6	"postedAtISO": "2024-05-31T03:18:32.311Z",
7	"timeSincePosted": "2w",
8	"isRepost": false,
9	"authorType": "Person",
10	"authorProfileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariela-garcia-de-fabbri?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_miniProfile%3AACoAACDe59sBx8ChxT_OJagid6rniBLlYctSmFg",
11	"authorProfileId": "ACoAACDe59sBx8ChxT_OJagid6rniBLlYctSmFg",
12	"authorHeadline": "Peruana. Economista. Líder empresarial. Amante de la familia",
13	"authorFullName": "Mariela Garcia de Fabbri",
14	"image": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D4E22AQFsIJ8c-Cf6tA/feedshare-shrink_2048_1536/0/1717125507406?e=1721865600&v=beta&t=f7inEZquD4375fxdLeWpwdpGEXpwWqD49Nzc2dNNuM4",
15	"type": "image",
16	"images": [
17		"https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D4E22AQFsIJ8c-Cf6tA/feedshare-shrink_2048_1536/0/1717125507406?e=1721865600&v=beta&t=f7inEZquD4375fxdLeWpwdpGEXpwWqD49Nzc2dNNuM4",
18		"https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D4E22AQHqIKRPxbH59w/feedshare-shrink_2048_1536/0/1717125507017?e=1721865600&v=beta&t=canzfX2pBBxsvi1pgq6sTmF4vJAtaOb8Mqzm-Wn4HPA"
19	],
20	"author": {
21		"firstName": "Mariela",
22		"lastName": "Garcia de Fabbri",
23		"occupation": "Peruana. Economista. Líder empresarial. Amante de la familia",
24		"id": "551479259",
25		"publicId": "mariela-garcia-de-fabbri",
26		"trackingId": "kHYlJEv0QwKONlozHO8QzQ==",
27		"profileId": "ACoAACDe59sBx8ChxT_OJagid6rniBLlYctSmFg",
28		"picture": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D4E03AQHGA2JeAKPGtA/profile-displayphoto-shrink_100_100/0/1691852952911?e=1724284800&v=beta&t=JXTlI4FJ2DbmPvpLFy681yQtoZKL41w2bMp8leZ2Ep0",
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30	},
31	"authorName": "Mariela Garcia de Fabbri",
32	"authorTitle": "Peruana. Economista. Líder empresarial. Amante de la familia",
33	"attributes": [
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35			"start": 14,
36			"length": 11,
37			"type": "PROFILE_MENTION",
38			"profile": {
39				"firstName": "Max",
40				"lastName": "Galante",
41				"occupation": "CEO at CARMIX: worldwide famous Off-Road Concrete Plants",
42				"id": "49164416",
43				"publicId": "massimilianogalante",
44				"trackingId": "nvMJBB64T3WYONUueMcdhA==",
45				"profileId": "ACoAAALuMIABvs-pFCUNAUbkrg0MQ9Q4OCrbH_o",
46				"picture": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/C4D03AQEW_Ss6AVybPg/profile-displayphoto-shrink_100_100/0/1607009189586?e=1724284800&v=beta&t=KSCcF8_7YIN-N3p5bEqGH3iGxPqCpAIUxSnMYNInwCw",
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48			}
49		},
50		{
51			"start": 26,
52			"length": 15,
53			"type": "PROFILE_MENTION",
54			"profile": {
55				"firstName": "Manuela",
56				"lastName": "Galante",
57				"occupation": "Co-owner of Carmix the small mobile off-road batching plants number one in the world",
58				"id": "112536066",
59				"publicId": "manuelagalante",
60				"trackingId": "c5VqWssXS7KizxarlnTBAg==",
61				"profileId": "ACoAAAa1KgIBa9Aofpbu0gpMR_Ta3UaO_7ZQZo8",
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64			}
65		},
66		{
67			"start": 42,
68			"length": 27,
69			"type": "PROFILE_MENTION",
70			"profile": {
71				"firstName": "Alberto",
72				"lastName": "Parodi De La Cuadra",
73				"occupation": "Gerente General - UNIMAQ S.A.",
74				"id": "82802108",
75				"publicId": "alberto-parodi-de-la-cuadra-a7889123",
76				"trackingId": "q2HAiPfLTi2E84usRyy4Mg==",
77				"profileId": "ACoAAATvdbwBNMeQbrQbv4T2QXuM0O4ZtTIP21w",
78				"backgroundImage": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/C4D16AQFUpVDSKlThiQ/profile-displaybackgroundimage-shrink_200_800/0/1623267692676?e=1724284800&v=beta&t=kleUJAq_KGGLMlOO6QbjJWTY2JmyXfjuhDjI-c9B3yM"
79			}
80		},
81		{
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83			"length": 21,
84			"type": "PROFILE_MENTION",
85			"profile": {
86				"firstName": "Victor",
87				"lastName": "Saldaña Blanco",
88				"occupation": "Gerente Comercial Latinoamérica at Carmix",
89				"id": "328145951",
90				"publicId": "victor-saldaña-blanco-33ba8b91",
91				"trackingId": "KskZOja5TfK1OB7Imiw3LQ==",
92				"profileId": "ACoAABOPHB8BM6lHzJz0RvYrdui87BIHsXfMBgM",
93				"picture": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D4D03AQFDZNTj4tCzrw/profile-displayphoto-shrink_100_100/0/1698708730876?e=1724284800&v=beta&t=9VicI_YfoGpRoiqI448s-YLGq0lmm1WW9PNHFiYdC_4",
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95			}
96		}
97	],
98	"comments": [
99		{
100			"time": 1717156262297,
101			"link": "https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:7202146403928657920?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28ugcPost%3A7202146403928657920%2C7202275379577864192%29&dashCommentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_comment%3A%287202275379577864192%2Curn%3Ali%3AugcPost%3A7202146403928657920%29",
102			"text": "gracias por atender nuestro evento ",
103			"entities": [],
104			"pinned": false,
105			"originalLanguage": "Spanish",
106			"author": {
107				"firstName": "Manuela",
108				"lastName": "Galante",
109				"occupation": "Co-owner of Carmix the small mobile off-road batching plants number one in the world",
110				"id": "112536066",
111				"publicId": "manuelagalante",
112				"trackingId": "c5VqWssXS7KizxarlnTBAg==",
113				"profileId": "ACoAAAa1KgIBa9Aofpbu0gpMR_Ta3UaO_7ZQZo8",
114				"picture": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D4D03AQE4CWywbEj9zA/profile-displayphoto-shrink_100_100/0/1709243003772?e=1724284800&v=beta&t=vER_htTZ7EfT6NzLRolwIbn-EZ-c-9itRkx0UldsQhQ",
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116				"distance": "OUT_OF_NETWORK"
117			}
118		}
119	],
120	"reactions": [
121		{
122			"type": "LIKE",
123			"profile": {
124				"firstName": "Laura Alessandra",
125				"lastName": "Suyón Rios",
126				"occupation": "Especialista de Compras Repuestos Agrícola y Aliados en Ferreyros S.A.",
127				"id": "724808675",
128				"publicId": "laura-alessandra-suyón-rios-56b8a1182",
129				"trackingId": "DSDfcsLITaCZxJHlJrYAUQ==",
130				"profileId": "ACoAACszs-MBV0eRooa9Fq9KYIGV5L672xGHXqs",
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134		},
135		{
136			"type": "LIKE",
137			"profile": {
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140				"occupation": "Génie mécanique",
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152				"lastName": "L.",
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242		{
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246				"lastName": "Acurio",
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257	"numLikes": 62,
258	"numComments": 1,
259	"canReact": true,
260	"canPostComments": true,
261	"canShare": true,
262	"commentingDisabled": false,
263	"allowedCommentersScope": "ALL",
264	"rootShare": true,
265	"shareAudience": "PUBLIC"
266}

Integrations

You can use Make to integrate linkedin post extractor to any other SaaS platform by designing your own automation flows.

Linkedin posts search API

The actor stores results in a dataset. You can export data in various formats such as CSV, JSON, XLS, etc. You can scrape and access data on demand using API. For more information, Go to Linkedin post scraper API documentation page

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• Linkedin comment scraper

How to extract posts from a Linkedin profile or company

To extract posts from a Linkedin profile, you need to pass the list of Linkedin profiles URLs to the API in urls field. Example for Company profile URL:

• https://www.linkedin.com/company/amazon Example for User profile URL:
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamarruda

How to scrape Linkedin posts from authors in specific niche ?

Go to Linkedin posts search page and click on Advanced filters Now configure all the filters related to author such as Author industry, Author keywords, etc and click 'Search' button. Now copy the URL from the address bar and pass it to the actor.

FAQs

Are there any limitations to the number of posts I can scrape?

If you are scraping posts from a posts search URL, then there is a limitation of 400 posts per search on Linkedin, but for other sources there are no known limitations theoritically. But the actual number of posts you can scrape may depend on your Apify subscription plan and LinkedIn's rate limits. Be mindful of these limitations to ensure uninterrupted scraping.

Can I schedule automatic scrapes with LinkedIn Post Scraper?

Yes, you can schedule automatic scrapes using Apify's scheduling features. This allows you to retrieve updated data at specified intervals.

Your feedback

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