LinkedIn Post Scraper - Text, Reactions, Comments

Scrape public LinkedIn posts and get clean, structured data: the full post text, reaction count, comment count, top comments, the author's name, profile URL, and follower count. No LinkedIn login or cookie required.

Works two ways: paste specific post URLs, or give a profile URL and the actor discovers and scrapes that person's recent public posts.

Why this actor

Many LinkedIn post scrapers break whenever LinkedIn rewrites its page layout, because they read the visible timeline HTML. This actor reads LinkedIn's structured SocialMediaPosting data, which is served for SEO and stays stable across layout changes. That makes it far more resilient.

Input

Field	Type	Description
mode	String (required)	posts to scrape specific post URLs, or profile to scrape a profile's recent posts.
postUrls	Array	Post URLs (mode = posts). Example: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/USERNAME_slug-activity-1234567890-abcd
profileUrls	Array	Profile URLs (mode = profile). Example: https://www.linkedin.com/in/username/
maxPosts	Integer	In profile mode, recent posts to scrape per profile. Default 20.
maxComments	Integer	Top comments to include per post. Default 10. Set 0 to skip.
maxRetries	Integer	Retries per request. Default 3.

Example input (post URLs)

{
    "mode": "posts",
    "postUrls": [
        "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/williamhgates_the-road-ahead-reaches-a-turning-point-in-activity-7142740845631365120-Mx61"
    ],
    "maxComments": 10
}

Example input (profile)

{
    "mode": "profile",
    "profileUrls": ["https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates/"],
    "maxPosts": 20
}

Output

Each post is one dataset record:

{
    "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/williamhgates_...-activity-7142740845631365120-Mx61",
    "postId": "7142740845631365120",
    "headline": "The road ahead reaches a turning point in 2024",
    "text": "As 2023 comes to a close, I find myself thinking more than ever about...",
    "datePublished": "2023-12-19T05:02:03.268Z",
    "authorName": "Bill Gates",
    "authorUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates",
    "authorFollowers": 40385125,
    "reactions": 4447,
    "commentCount": 368,
    "shares": null,
    "postImage": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/...",
    "comments": [
        { "text": "Great read.", "authorName": "Jane Doe", "datePublished": "2023-12-19T05:31:28.875Z", "likes": 9 }
    ],
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-04T12:00:00.000Z"
}

How to get a post URL

Open any LinkedIn post, click the three dots in the top-right of the post, and choose Copy link to post. Paste that into postUrls.

Pricing

Pay per result. You are charged for each post record returned.

Free Apify users

Free users receive one mock sample record so they can preview the output shape. Real scraping requires a paid Apify plan, because the actor uses a paid unblocking proxy upstream.

Notes and limits

• Only public posts are accessible. Private posts, or posts from accounts that hide activity, cannot be scraped.
• Comment extraction returns the top comments LinkedIn renders publicly (typically up to 10), not the entire comment thread.
• This actor does not require, ask for, or store your LinkedIn credentials.

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