LinkedIn Posts Scraper

This Apify actor allows you to scrape posts from LinkedIn profiles, company pages, content search results, and individual posts without any login required. Extract detailed post information including text content, engagement metrics, author details, and media attachments.

Why use this actor?

This LinkedIn Posts Scraper offers several advantages over other similar actors:

• All-in-one solution: With just one actor, scrape unlimited posts from personal profiles, company pages, search result links, and individual post URLs. No need to use different actors for different LinkedIn content types.

• Automatic pagination: Simply specify the maximum number of posts you want to scrape per URL, and the actor handles all pagination automatically until it reaches your desired limit or exhausts all available posts. No manual re-running or managing pagination tokens.

• No LinkedIn credentials required: Scrape LinkedIn data without providing your LinkedIn cookies or risking your personal LinkedIn account.

• Built-in error handling: The actor automatically retries failed requests up to 5 times before moving on, ensuring maximum data collection with minimal supervision.

Features

• Scrape posts from four different LinkedIn sources:

  • Personal profiles (e.g., https://www.linkedin.com/in/username/)
  • Company pages (e.g., https://www.linkedin.com/company/companyname/)
  • Content search results (e.g., https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/content/?keywords=search%20term)
  • Individual post URLs (e.g., https://www.linkedin.com/posts/username_post-id or https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/post-id)

• Extract comprehensive post data:

  • Post text content and URLs
  • Publication timestamps
  • Detailed author information
  • Complete engagement metrics (likes, comments, reactions by type)
  • Media attachments (images, videos, article links)

• Filter posts by date range to get exactly the content you need

Input parameters

Field	Type	Description
urls	Array	Required. List of LinkedIn URLs to scrape posts from. All URLs must begin with 'https://'. Supports personal profiles, company pages, content search results, and individual post URLs.
limit	Integer	Optional. Maximum number of posts to scrape per URL. Default: 100
published_before	String	Optional. Only scrape posts published on or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD format).
published_after	String	Optional. Only scrape posts published on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD format).

Output format

For each post, the actor extracts the following fields:

Field	Description
urn	Unique identifier for the post (LinkedIn's internal ID)
posted_at	ISO timestamp when the post was published
text	Full text content of the post
url	Direct URL to the post
post_type	Type of post (e.g., article, image, video)
author_name	Full name of the post author
author_first_name	First name of the author (for personal profiles)
author_last_name	Last name of the author (for personal profiles)
author_headline	Author's headline or description (for personal profiles)
author_username	LinkedIn username of the author
author_profile_url	URL to the author's LinkedIn profile
author_profile_picture	URL to the author's profile picture
total_reactions_count	Total number of reactions on the post
like_count	Number of "Like" reactions
celebrate_count	Number of "Celebrate" reactions
support_count	Number of "Support" reactions
love_count	Number of "Love" reactions
insightful_count	Number of "Insightful" reactions
funny_count	Number of "Funny" reactions
comments_count	Total number of comments on the post
reposts_count	Total number of reposts/shares
media_type	Type of media attached (image, video, article)
media_url	URL to the media attachment (for videos and articles)
media_images	Array of image URLs (for posts with images)

Usage examples

Scrape posts from a LinkedIn company page

{
    "limit": 20,
    "published_before": "2025-05-01",
    "urls": [
        "https://www.linkedin.com/company/linkedin/",
        "https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft/",
        "https://www.linkedin.com/company/amazon/"
    ]
}

Scrape posts from a personal profile

{
    "limit": 50,
    "urls": [
        "https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates/"
    ]
}

Scrape posts from a search query

{
    "limit": 100,
    "published_after": "2024-01-01",
    "urls": [
        "https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/content/?keywords=artificial%20intelligence"
    ]
}

Scrape a specific post

{
    "urls": [
        "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/satyanadella_i-am-inspired-by-the-ways-people-are-using-activity-7168624777101824000-aH-g"
    ]
}

Error handling and limitations

• The actor will make up to 5 retry attempts for each URL in case of failed requests
• For each URL type, the actor implements specific error handling to ensure maximum data collection
• Date filtering works on posts with valid timestamps
• Some posts may have incomplete data depending on their visibility settings