LinkedIn Post Scraper — scrape LinkedIn posts with engagement, author and comments

This LinkedIn post scraper turns public LinkedIn posts into structured data. Paste the links of the LinkedIn posts you care about and get back the full post text, the author with their follower count, LinkedIn post engagement (reactions and comment count), the post image or video, and the top comments with each commenter's profile link. People use it to track how company and creator content performs, to collect posts for research and AI datasets, and to find who is commenting on a topic.

Give it a list of post URLs and get one record per post as JSON, CSV or Excel. It needs no LinkedIn account, no cookies and no API key.

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🚀 Key Features

• 🔎 Every post link format — linkedin.com/posts/... share links, feed/update/urn:li:activity:... and urn:li:ugcPost:... links, and country subdomains such as uk.linkedin.com
• 🧾 Post and author data — text, headline, publish date, image or video, and the author's name, type (person or company), profile URL, photo and follower count
• 📈 LinkedIn post engagement — reactions count and comments count for every post
• 💬 Top comments — commenter name and profile URL, comment text, date and likes
• 🛡️ No login — works on public posts without a LinkedIn account or cookies, over Apify datacenter proxies by default
• 🧹 Clean runs — duplicate links are scraped once, non-post links are skipped with a warning, and deleted posts are reported instead of retried
• 📤 Multiple export formats — JSON, CSV, Excel, XML via the Apify dataset
• 🔁 Schedulable runs — re-scrape the same posts daily to track how engagement grows

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👥 Who Is This Actor For?

• Social media and content marketers — measure how your own and competitors' LinkedIn posts perform
• B2B sales and growth teams — find the people commenting on posts in your market, with profile links
• Researchers and analysts — collect LinkedIn posts and their reactions for studies of professional discourse
• Agencies — report on client and influencer post engagement without logging in to LinkedIn
• 🤖 AI builders — feed post text and comments into RAG pipelines, classifiers or sentiment models

💡 Common Use Cases

• Scrape LinkedIn posts from a company page and compare their reactions and comment counts
• Track LinkedIn post engagement for a campaign by scheduling the same URLs every day
• Export the comments on a viral LinkedIn post, with each commenter's profile URL
• Collect the text of thought-leadership posts for content analysis
• Save LinkedIn video posts with their thumbnail and video file URL

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🔗 Supported URL Types

URL Type	Example
Post share link	https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nvidia_ai-is-technology-that-is-built-and-improved-activity-7508569677040893954-sffp
Short post link (as company pages link them)	https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7509223583018115072-n-xQ
Feed update link	https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7508560408543199232/
ugcPost link	https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:7507922903468998656
Country subdomain	https://uk.linkedin.com/posts/...

Tracking parameters such as ?utm_source=share are fine. Profile, company and search URLs are not posts and are skipped.

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📥 Input

Field	Type	Description	Default
urls	Array	Public LinkedIn post URLs, one per line, in any of the formats above. Each URL returns one post.	Required
proxyConfiguration	Object	Proxy used to reach LinkedIn. Apify datacenter proxies work for public posts; switch to residential if many posts come back blocked.	{ "useApifyProxy": true }

There is no maxItems field: each post URL returns exactly one record, so the number of results is the number of URLs.

Example Input

{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nvidia_ai-is-technology-that-is-built-and-improved-activity-7508569677040893954-sffp",
    "https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:7507922903468998656"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}

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📤 Output

Each dataset item includes:

Field	Type	Description
post_id	String	LinkedIn activity ID of the post
post_url	String	Canonical URL of the post
date_published	String	When the post was published (ISO 8601)
headline	String	First line of the post as LinkedIn summarises it
content	String	Full text of the post
image_url	String	Post image, shared-article cover or video thumbnail; empty for text-only posts
video_url	String	Video file URL for video posts; empty otherwise
reactions_count	Number	Reactions on the post (likes, celebrates, and the other reaction types together)
comments_count	Number	Total comments on the post
author.name	String	Name of the person or company that posted
author.type	String	Person or Organization
author.profile_url	String	Author's LinkedIn profile or company page
author.image_url	String	Author's photo or company logo
author.followers_count	Number	Author's LinkedIn followers
comments	Array	The comments LinkedIn shows logged-out visitors, each with author, author_profile_url, date_published, text and likes
url	String	The URL as you gave it in the input

The dataset has two views in the Console: Overview (one row per post) and Comments (one row per comment).

Example Output

A real item from a run on 2026-09-26, with one of its nine comments shown and image URL signatures trimmed:

{
  "post_id": "7508569677040893954",
  "post_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nvidia_ai-is-technology-that-is-built-and-improved-activity-7508569677040893954-sffp",
  "date_published": "2026-09-23T16:55:13.484Z",
  "headline": "AI is technology that is built and improved by people, who have a responsibility to develop and deploy it thoughtfully.",
  "content": "AI is technology that is built and improved by people, who have a responsibility to develop and deploy it thoughtfully.\n\nAnd helping people benefit from AI means taking its challenges seriously.\n\nThe technology industry needs to do that work.",
  "image_url": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D4E05AQFwIFX--b2JDA/videocover-high/B4EaDPMQY7G4BQ-/0/1790182498192",
  "video_url": "https://dms.licdn.com/playlist/vid/v2/D4E05AQFwIFX--b2JDA/mp4-720p-30fp-crf28/B4EaDPMQY7G4CA-/0/1790182506183",
  "reactions_count": 1524,
  "comments_count": 150,
  "author": {
    "name": "NVIDIA",
    "type": "Organization",
    "profile_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/nvidia",
    "image_url": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D560BAQGV36q2EowSyw/company-logo_100_100/company-logo_100_100/0/1724881581208/nvidia_logo",
    "followers_count": 6630390
  },
  "comments": [
    {
      "author": "NVIDIA",
      "author_profile_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/nvidia",
      "date_published": "2026-09-23T16:56:18.446Z",
      "text": "Watch Jensen's full conversation on The Ezra Klein Show: https://youtu.be/HjurAWAr_nY ",
      "likes": 16
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nvidia_ai-is-technology-that-is-built-and-improved-activity-7508569677040893954-sffp"
}

You can export the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS, or HTML from the Apify Console or via the Apify API.

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💰 Pricing

This Actor is pay per event (you pay per result): each post saved costs $0.00499 on the free plan, so 1,000 posts cost $4.99, falling to $0.00399 per post ($3.99 per 1,000) on Gold and higher Apify plans. Each run also has a $0.002 start fee. Deleted, private or blocked posts are not saved, so they cost nothing. A free Apify account is enough to try it.

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❓ FAQ

What is the LinkedIn Post Scraper?

It is a LinkedIn post scraper that takes post URLs and returns each post's text, author, reactions, comment count, media and top comments as structured data. Use it to scrape LinkedIn posts without logging in.

Do I need a LinkedIn account, cookies or an API key?

No. The Actor reads only what LinkedIn shows logged-out visitors of a public post. You never share your LinkedIn session.

Do I need a proxy?

Apify Proxy is on by default, using datacenter IPs: in a test run on 2026-09-26 they returned 124 of 124 posts with no blocks. LinkedIn limits how many pages one IP can open without logging in, so the Actor switches to a fresh IP for each batch and retries blocked posts up to three times. If a run reports many blocked posts, select the residential proxy group.

How many results can I get per run?

One record per post URL, and there is no limit on the number of URLs. Duplicate URLs, including different link formats for the same post, are scraped once.

Does it return all comments on a post?

No. It returns the comments LinkedIn shows logged-out visitors of the post page, which was up to 10 per post in our tests on 2026-09-26. comments_count always gives the full total.

Can it scrape all posts from a profile or company page?

Not by itself: it scrapes the posts whose URLs you give it. Copy the post links from the profile or company page (each post's Copy link to post menu item) into the input.

What happens with deleted or private posts?

They are skipped and named in the run log as deleted or not public, and the run's status message counts them. You are not charged for them.

Can I schedule it or integrate it with my app?

Yes — every Apify Actor exposes a REST API, webhooks, and integrations with Zapier, Make, Google Sheets and Slack, and can be called from an AI agent via the Apify MCP server.

Is it legal to scrape LinkedIn?

This Actor accesses only publicly available pages. You are responsible for making sure your use complies with LinkedIn's terms of service and the laws in your jurisdiction, including data protection law when you store commenters' names.

What if LinkedIn changes and the Actor breaks?

Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab with the post URL that failed.

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🧩 Part of the LinkedIn Scraper Suite

Posts, profiles, companies, jobs and ads from LinkedIn. Also try:

• LinkedIn Profile Scraper No Cookies — public profiles without logging in
• LinkedIn Profile Scraper — full profile details: headline, experience, education and skills
• LinkedIn People Search Scraper — people search results as leads
• LinkedIn Company Scraper — company pages: about, size, headquarters, followers
• LinkedIn Company Scraper Bulk (No Cookies) — company profiles in bulk without logging in
• LinkedIn Company Detail Scraper — detailed data from a single company page
• LinkedIn Jobs Scraper — job postings with title, company, location and description
• LinkedIn Ads Scraper — ads from the LinkedIn Ad Library by keyword or advertiser
• LinkedIn Company Posts Scraper — recent posts of LinkedIn company pages with reactions, comments and media, without logging in

See every Goldmine Actor at apify.com/logical_scrapers.

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📷 Image Credit

Image credit: linkedin.com

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📬 Contact & Support

• Issues & feature requests: use the Issues tab on this Actor's page — that is the most direct route to a fix.
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