LinkedIn Post Search Scraper · No Cookies · $1.50/1k

Search LinkedIn posts by keyword. Track competitor messaging, viral content, industry conversations — without logging in, without managing cookies, without browser sessions.

Pay-per-result pricing: $1.50 per 1,000 posts. No subscription, no monthly minimum, no charge for empty queries.

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What you get — 27 fields per post

Every post returned is a searchPost record with this shape:

{
  "type": "searchPost",
  "sourceQuery": "AI launch",
  "postId": "7204318726155931648",
  "postUrn": "urn:li:activity:7204318726155931648",
  "postUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/...",
  "authorName": "Jane Founder",
  "authorHeadline": "Building autonomous agents @ Acme",
  "authorUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jane-founder/",
  "authorUrn": "urn:li:fsd_profile:ABC123",
  "authorType": "person",
  "text": "Just shipped our biggest AI release of 2026...",
  "textLength": 412,
  "postedAt": "2026-05-18T14:32:00+00:00",
  "language": "en",
  "reactionCount": 487,
  "likeCount": 312,
  "empathyCount": 24,
  "praiseCount": 95,
  "interestCount": 42,
  "funnyCount": 3,
  "appreciationCount": 11,
  "maybeCount": 0,
  "commentCount": 38,
  "shareCount": 6,
  "repostCount": 14,
  "mediaType": "image",
  "mediaUrl": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/...",
  "isRepost": false,
  "originalAuthorName": null,
  "hashtagsFound": ["ai", "agents", "shipit"],
  "mentions": ["acmecorp", "openai"],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-19T08:12:44+00:00"
}

Each run also emits one summary record at the end with per-query counts, and a diagnostic record per query if zero posts come back.

Top use cases

1. Track competitor messaging in real time

Search "YourCompetitor launch", "acme AI assistant", "<competitor> raises" — every time a customer, employee, partner, or analyst posts about them, you see the post, the engagement, and the context.

2. Find viral content in your category

Sort by top, filter by date, get the LinkedIn posts that actually won attention this quarter on your topic. Tear them down. Reverse-engineer the hook.

3. Industry pulse & market research

Monthly snapshot of "generative AI launch", "climate tech series A", "developer productivity" — count posts, top authors, dominant themes, reaction patterns.

4. Lead-gen signal mining

Search "hiring head of marketing", "looking for vendor", "recommend a tool for" and pipe the raw posts to your CRM as warm intent signals.

5. PR & brand monitoring

Watch "<yourbrand>", "<yourCEO>", "<yourproduct>" weekly — find the posts you don't want to miss, the customer-generated content you can amplify, and the criticism you want to address.

6. Sales prospecting by topic

Search "shopify migration", "databricks pricing", "hubspot alternative" — get the people actively posting about those decisions, with their headline + profile URL. Better than a cold list.

7. Conference & event tracking

Free-form queries like "SaaStr 2026 keynote", "AWS reInvent", "web summit takeaways" pull the actual posts from speakers, sponsors, and attendees.

Difference from our hashtag scraper

We ship two related actors. Pick by use case:

Use case	Use this actor (Post Search)	Use Hashtag Scraper
Free-form keyword like "AI launch" or "series A"	YES	no (would only match #ailaunch)
Hashtag like #aiagents, #blackfriday	works, but use Hashtag Scraper	YES (purpose-built)
Multi-word competitor mentions	YES	no
Author bio search ("head of marketing")	YES	no
Tracking a clean campaign hashtag	works	YES (per-tag dedup)

You can run both — they share dedup keys (postId), so unifying datasets is trivial.

Pricing — why $1.50 / 1,000 posts wins

Tool	Pricing	Monthly minimum	LinkedIn-specific
Brand24	$99 / mo (Personal) → $499 / mo	Yes — fixed	Multi-channel; LinkedIn is one of many
Mention	$41 / mo → $179 / mo	Yes — fixed	Multi-channel
Sprinklr	Enterprise — "contact sales"	Yes — typically $1k+ / mo	Multi-channel
harvestapi linkedin-post-search	$4 / 1,000 (search page) + $4 / 1,000 (full post) = $8 effective	None	LinkedIn-only
Our a20 LinkedIn Search (Posts entity)	$1.50 / 1,000 posts	None	LinkedIn-only
This actor	$1.50 / 1,000 posts	None	LinkedIn-only, post-search-purpose-built

Apify gives every user $5 of free platform credit per month — that's ~3,300 posts/month free before you ever pay a cent.

Example recipes

Track a competitor launch — last 7 days

{
  "searchQueries": ["YourAICompetitor launch", "YourAICompetitor pricing"],
  "sortBy": "recent",
  "dateFrom": "2026-05-12",
  "maxPostsPerQuery": 200
}

Top-performing AI launch posts of 2026

{
  "searchQueries": ["AI launch", "generative AI startup", "LLM product"],
  "sortBy": "top",
  "dateFrom": "2026-01-01",
  "maxPostsPerQuery": 500
}

Only-company-authored fundraising announcements

{
  "searchQueries": ["Series A announcement", "we raised"],
  "authorTypeFilter": "company",
  "sortBy": "recent",
  "maxPostsPerQuery": 300
}

English-only Black Friday chatter

{
  "searchQueries": ["black friday deal", "cyber monday launch"],
  "languagesFilter": ["en"],
  "sortBy": "top",
  "maxPostsPerQuery": 300
}

Pulse-check around CES week

{
  "searchQueries": ["CES 2026 keynote", "CES 2026 announcement"],
  "dateFrom": "2026-01-06",
  "dateTo": "2026-01-12",
  "maxPostsPerQuery": 1000
}

How it works

1. You provide one or more free-form keyword queries (multi-word OK — "head of marketing AI" is one query).
2. The actor sends each query to LinkedIn's public post-search endpoint via a managed cookieless data partnership.
3. For each query, it paginates results until it hits maxPostsPerQuery (or the data runs out).
4. Posts are deduplicated across queries by post ID — if "AI launch" and "generative AI" both surface the same post, you're billed once.
5. Date, language, and author-type filters are applied client-side.
6. The final dataset is a flat list of searchPost records plus a single summary row.

No login. No cookies. No browser sessions. No account ban risk. The actor uses a managed data partnership for cookieless LinkedIn access — your LinkedIn account never touches this.

FAQ

Q: How is this different from a generic web-search actor? We hit LinkedIn's public post-search endpoint directly, return structured 27-field records with engagement breakdowns, and dedup across queries. A generic search actor would give you HTML you'd have to parse.

Q: How fresh is the data? Posts surface within minutes of being published on LinkedIn, just like they would for any logged-out visitor browsing search results.

Q: Does sortBy: top always work? LinkedIn supports top for most queries. For long-tail / low-volume keywords it may auto-fall-back to relevance. Either way, you get posts.

Q: What's the max posts per query? 1,000, capped at the vendor level. To go deeper, schedule the actor (daily, hourly) and append.

Q: Why are some reaction breakdown fields missing? LinkedIn returns reaction breakdown only when a post has enough engagement to split it. Posts with single-digit reactions usually only get reactionCount populated, not per-type counts.

Q: Can I run multiple post-search scrapes in parallel? Yes — kick off as many runs as you want on the Apify platform. Each one is billed independently per-record.

Q: Will this scrape comments under a post? No — for that, run our LinkedIn Post Comments Scraper ($1/1k) on the post URLs this actor returns.

Compliance & disclaimer

This actor scrapes publicly accessible LinkedIn post-search results — the same content any logged-out visitor sees by browsing linkedin.com/search/results/content/?keywords=....

• No private profile data, no gated content, no DMs, no anything-behind-login.
• LinkedIn user content is subject to LinkedIn's Terms of Use and applicable copyright laws.
• Customers are responsible for compliance with applicable data protection laws (GDPR, CCPA, etc.) when processing scraped data — particularly when post text contains personal information.
• Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by LinkedIn Corporation or Microsoft Corporation. "LinkedIn" is a trademark of LinkedIn Corporation, used here solely for descriptive purposes.