LinkedIn Comments Scraper - No Cookies

Extract public comments and optional replies from LinkedIn post URLs, activity IDs, or LinkedIn URNs. The Actor is designed for AI agents, social listening workflows, lead discovery, content research, and engagement analysis.

This Actor uses managed public-data providers. It does not ask users for LinkedIn cookies, account credentials, or browser sessions.

What it extracts

• Parent post URL, ID, text, author name, and publish time when available
• Top-level comments
• Optional nested replies
• Comment/reply author name, headline, profile URL, profile image, and author URN when available
• Comment text, timestamp, URL, reaction counts, reply counts, and reaction breakdowns when available
• Run summaries in OUTPUT and RUN_SUMMARY for automation and canary checks

Input

Paste LinkedIn post URLs into startUrls, or use postUrls for line-separated URLs, numeric activity IDs, or urn:li:activity values.

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7312345678901234567/"
    }
  ],
  "maxComments": 100,
  "includeReplies": true,
  "maxRepliesPerComment": 25,
  "metadataOnly": false
}

Output

Each saved comment or reply is one dataset row.

{
  "recordType": "comment",
  "postUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7312345678901234567/",
  "postId": "7312345678901234567",
  "text": "Great launch. Curious how you are measuring adoption.",
  "authorName": "Jane Smith",
  "authorHeadline": "Revenue Operations Lead",
  "authorProfileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jane-smith/",
  "reactionCount": 12,
  "replyCount": 2,
  "source": "scrapecreators",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-08T12:00:00.000Z"
}

When metadataOnly is enabled, the Actor saves one recordType: "post" row per input post and does not charge per comment.

Pricing

Pay per event:

• $0.01 per saved comment
• $0.01 per saved reply when includeReplies is enabled
• Metadata rows, summaries, and validation exits are free

This is premium-priced against current LinkedIn comments actors because it is no-cookie, provider-backed, MCP-friendly, returns normalized rows plus machine-readable run summaries, and preserves 70%+ gross margin against worst-case ScrapeCreators/SociaVault provider costs.

Configuration

The Actor owner should configure at least one provider key as an Apify secret:

• SCRAPECREATORS_API_KEY
• SOCIAVAULT_API_KEY

ScrapeCreators is tried first by default. SociaVault is used as fallback when configured.

Notes and boundaries

• Public LinkedIn data only.
• No LinkedIn credentials or cookies are required.
• Private/login-only comments are not promised.
• Provider payloads can change; the normalizer scans common comment envelopes and records provider status codes in RUN_SUMMARY.
• This Actor is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by LinkedIn Corporation.