Linkedin Profile Posts Scraper

Extract comprehensive post data from LinkedIn profiles and company pages. Gather engagement metrics, reactions, and comments for powerful social media analysis and outreach campaigns.

🚀 What does this actor do?

This scraper collects posts from LinkedIn profiles or companies using Playwright browser automation with Apify's residential proxy. Extract full post content, engagement metrics, reactions, and comments directly from LinkedIn.

⚙️ Configuration

This actor uses Playwright with Apify's residential proxy - no third-party API keys required!

Proxy Configuration:

• The actor automatically uses Apify's residential proxy if configured
• Go to your Apify actor's Settings → Proxy to enable residential proxy
• No additional API keys or tokens needed

✨ Key Benefits

• 🔒 No Third-Party APIs: Direct scraping using Playwright - no external API dependencies
• 🌐 Residential Proxy: Uses Apify's residential proxy for better success rates
• ⚡ Browser Automation: Real browser rendering ensures accurate data extraction
• 🔄 Fresh Data: Direct access to LinkedIn - always current information
• 🚀 High Concurrency: Scrapes 6 profiles/companies simultaneously

How It Works

Simply provide one of the following:

• targetUrls List of LinkedIn profile/company URLs who posted or re-posted the content.

Additional content:

• scrapeReactions - Enable to scrape reactions to posts. Default is false. Reactions will be charged as a separate post and pushed into the dataset. Each post will also contain a nested list of its own reactions.
• maxReactions - Maximum number of reactions to scrape per post. If you set this to 0, it will scrape all reactions.
• scrapeComments - Enable to scrape comments to posts. Default is false. Comments will be charged as a separate post and pushed into the dataset. Each post will also contain a nested list of its own comments.
• maxComments - Maximum number of comments to scrape per post. If you set this to 0, it will scrape all comments.

Other params (optionally):

• maxPosts - Maximum number of posts to scrape per each search query. This overrides scrapePages pagination. If you set this to 0, it will scrape all posts.
• includeQuotePosts - Toggle to filter out quote posts (shared posts with comments). By default, all posts are scraped.
• includeReposts - Toggle to filter out reposts (shared posts without comments). By default, all posts are scraped.

Data You'll Receive

• Post content
• Author information
• Social engagement metrics
• Media: images, videos, and links
• Content of Re-posts
• Comments and reactions (if enabled, each item will be charged as a separate post)

Sample output data

Here is the example post output of this actor:

{
  "type": "post",
  "id": "7329207003942125568",
  "linkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/williamhgates_how-better-data-helped-us-cut-child-mortality-activity-7329207003942125568-_gfJ",
  "content": "The leading causes of childhood death reveal a stark truth: Many could be prevented, and children in poor countries die from them far more often than those in wealthy ones. We have the tools to save lives—and by helping them reach the right children at the right time, the world has cut global child deaths by more than half—from 12 million in 1990 to 4.6 million in 2021. It’s extraordinary progress, but the work isn’t over: https://lnkd.in/gC4pEPsW",
  "author": {
    "universalName": null,
    "publicIdentifier": "williamhgates",
    "type": "profile",
    "name": "Bill Gates",
    "linkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_profile%3AACoAAA8BYqEBCGLg_vT_ca6mMEqkpp9nVffJ3hc",
    "info": "Chair, Gates Foundation and Founder, Breakthrough Energy",
    "website": "https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/gates-notes-6651495472181637121/",
    "websiteLabel": "View my newsletter",
    "avatar": {
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      "width": 800,
      "height": 800,
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    }
  },
  "postedAt": {
    "timestamp": 1747419119821,
    "date": "2025-05-16T18:11:59.821Z",
    "postedAgoShort": "6d",
    "postedAgoText": "6 days ago • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn"
  },
  "postImages": [],
  "document": {
    "title": " How better data helped us cut child mortality in half",
    "transcribedDocumentUrl": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/document/media/v2/D561FAQGPMwZUeWRF4w/feedshare-document-pdf-analyzed/B56ZbaStGgHgAY-/0/1747419060033?e=1748556000&v=beta&t=LpSrvoiBPULbHs8RDjwayRtdpkRT747P6kZjdHXqWLE",
    "coverPages": [
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          "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D561FAQGPMwZUeWRF4w/feedshare-document-cover-images_1920/B56ZbaStGgHgAw-/0/1747419061061?e=1748556000&v=beta&t=xwvy_C8x1NZoKqbC8oIZjo7k2xiZweHkQl0E96zZ_5c",
          "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D561FAQGPMwZUeWRF4w/feedshare-document-cover-images_1920/B56ZbaStGgHgAw-/1/1747419061061?e=1748556000&v=beta&t=vT0l9ej-cxGHJ03Fu49ONBjYlswLmpr0R7BUzbFRUu4"
        ],
        "height": 1243
      }
    ],
    "totalPageCount": 2
  },
  "socialContent": {
    "hideCommentsCount": false,
    "hideReactionsCount": false,
    "hideSocialActivityCounts": false,
    "hideShareAction": true,
    "hideSendAction": true,
    "hideRepostsCount": false,
    "hideViewsCount": false,
    "trustInterventionBanner": null,
    "hideReactAction": false,
    "hideCommentAction": false,
    "shareUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/williamhgates_how-better-data-helped-us-cut-child-mortality-activity-7329207003942125568-_gfJ?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=member_desktop_web&rcm=ACoAAExUClQBdCKsvo8NLfk3HZMfrSLtXnxHlNs",
    "showContributionExperience": false,
    "showSocialDetail": true
  },
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    "likes": 2916,
    "comments": 328,
    "shares": 153,
    "reactions": [
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        "type": "LIKE",
        "count": 2477
      },
      {
        "type": "APPRECIATION",
        "count": 178
      },
      {
        "type": "EMPATHY",
        "count": 158
      },
      {
        "type": "PRAISE",
        "count": 55
      },
      {
        "type": "INTEREST",
        "count": 45
      },
      {
        "type": "ENTERTAINMENT",
        "count": 3
      }
    ]
  },
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        "name": "Rami Sfaxi",
        "linkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAADOSyYUBKdykLMCIE5i4B9UDcVsoeXPbwlM",
        "position": "Surveillant du patrimoine chez Institut national du patrimoine",
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      "commentary": "I respect what you do and I am wondering what to do with someone that is like me and suffers daily from flash backs, nightmares etc.. from tragedy experienced at a young age and no one my whole life really understands or ever has...the tragedy I  experienced at a young age. As time goes on no healing has taken place instead I seem to get more haunted by what took place and how I've been told my whole life hush hush because of ones reputation",
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      "commentary": "Great",
      "createdAt": "2025-05-22T16:45:28.377Z",
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      "commentary": "Behind this number is the victory of vaccines, mosquito nets and oral rehydration salts! But the slowdown of the curve in 2022 shows that the last mile is the most difficult to break through: children with malaria in rural Congo still die 30 kilometers away from the clinic. Should we switch to a hybrid model of community health workers + drone delivery?",
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      "commentary": "How many children have died for the COVID-19 vaccine bill? Any idea?",
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