LinkedIn Profile Posts Scraper

Extract only public LinkedIn posts that LinkedIn itself exposes through supplied public profile or post URLs. This actor does not use a login, cookies, private endpoints, residential proxies, contact enrichment, profile search, or data behind a sign-in wall.

Pricing

$0.90 per 1,000 posts ($0.0009 each), plus $0.001 each time a run starts. Flat rate — no volume tiers, no plan gates — and you are charged only for posts actually returned.

A post event is charged only after a validated genuine row has been written to the dataset. Samples, diagnostics, duplicates, blocked look-ups and no-result runs never incur the per-result fee — a run that returns nothing costs only the $0.001 start fee.

Input

{
  "profileUrls": ["https://www.linkedin.com/in/reidhoffman/"],
  "postUrls": [],
  "maxPostsPerProfile": 10,
  "maxPosts": 25,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 20
}

Field	Type	Default	Range / limit
profileUrls	string list	[]	up to 20 public /in/ profile URLs per run
postUrls	string list	[]	up to 100 direct public /posts/...activity-... URLs
maxPostsPerProfile	integer	10	1–25 post pages fetched per supplied profile
maxPosts	integer	25	1–100, overall cap across both inputs
requestTimeoutSecs	integer	20	5–60 seconds per page request

profileUrls must be public https://www.linkedin.com/in/<identifier>/ pages. The actor only follows matching public /posts/...activity-... links present in each returned profile page. postUrls is optional, for exact public post pages. The two inputs can be combined in a single run: direct URLs and profile-discovered URLs are de-duplicated by activity id before anything is fetched, so the same post is never fetched — or charged — twice.

Output

Each genuine row is verified against a matching canonical public post page before it is written or charged.

Field	What it holds
postUrl	canonical public post URL
activityId	numeric LinkedIn activity id parsed from that URL
sourceProfileUrl	the profile the post was discovered from, or null for direct post URLs
authorPublicIdentifier	author slug taken from the canonical URL
authorName	author name as published in the page title
title	public og:title of the post page
content	public post body as exposed to logged-out readers
imageUrl	public post image, or null
publishedAt	publication timestamp, when the page exposes one
transport	direct_http
retrievedAt	ISO timestamp of the fetch
ok, sourceType, _sample	row-type markers, so genuine rows can be filtered in one pass

A row is emitted only when the canonical URL matches the requested activity id and the page exposes public title or body text. Pages that redirect, block, rate-limit, omit public post links, or expose no matching canonical metadata return an uncharged diagnostic row carrying a machine-readable errorCode — BAD_INPUT, BLOCKED, RATE_LIMITED, SERVER_ERROR, NETWORK or NO_RESULTS — plus the URL that failed and a short reason. The actor does not infer missing content or author data. Reaction and comment counts are not returned: LinkedIn does not expose them to logged-out requests, so they are not promised here.

Proxy policy

The actor uses direct HTTP only. It never starts residential or SERP proxy traffic, so there is no bandwidth surcharge sitting behind the per-post price. Public profile discovery can be blocked by LinkedIn's cloud IP controls; when that happens, supply exact public postUrls instead, or take the free diagnostic row. No proxy fallback is attempted.

Empty input

Empty input returns exactly one clearly labelled _sample: true row without making any LinkedIn request. It is always uncharged, so you can inspect the exact output shape before spending anything.