LinkedIn Posts Search API — Bulk Search, Hiring & Comments

Search LinkedIn posts by keyword, country, hiring intent, and engagement. Run multiple keyword queries in one batch, search inside collected comments, and export matching posts with text, author details, engagement metrics, and direct LinkedIn URLs.

Discover hiring announcements from recruiters, founders, and hiring managers. Combine the hiring filter with role keywords, country filters, and publication dates to find relevant opportunities or recruitment leads.

Monitor niche topics, research trending content, and find recent discussions with fewer competing comments. Use Boolean search and engagement filters to focus on conversations relevant to your business.

This Actor searches an indexed LinkedIn posts dataset. Each matching post is saved as one Apify dataset item, ready to export as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

LinkedIn Post Search Use Cases

Hiring Post Discovery

Find LinkedIn posts that appear to announce job openings or active hiring. Set isHiring to "true", add role or skill keywords, and narrow results with country and date filters. Hiring intent is inferred from post content; results are hiring-related posts rather than verified job listings.

Boolean Keyword Search

Find relevant LinkedIn posts with precise keyword combinations. Use AND, OR, NOT, exact phrases in quotes, and parentheses to combine topics and exclude unwanted matches. Submit multiple queries in one run to retrieve posts matching any query.

See LinkedIn Boolean search syntax.

Use AND / OR / NOT, quotes, and parentheses inside each query string (same idea as LinkedIn boolean search).

{
  "query": [
    "\"strategy and operations\" AND hiring AND (Chennai OR Kolkata OR Jaipur OR India)"
  ],
  "sortBy": "newest",
  "limit": 25
}

Bulk OR Queries

Multiple query entries are OR'd. Each entry may itself use boolean syntax.

{
  "query": ["machine learning", "deep learning", "ai OR ml"],
  "sortBy": "newest"
}

Hiring Post Discovery

Find posts that look like job openings or active hiring announcements.

{
  "query": ["software engineer"],
  "isHiring": "true",
  "country": ["us", "gb", "de"],
  "sortBy": "newest"
}

Fresh Low-Competition Posts

Find recent posts with few comments so you can engage early.

{
  "query": ["product strategy"],
  "maxComments": 5,
  "postedWithinHours": 24,
  "sortBy": "newest"
}

Recently Parsed Posts

Filter by when the post HTML was ingested/parsed (parseTimestamp), not only when it was published.

{
  "query": ["hiring"],
  "parsedWithinHours": 24,
  "sortBy": "newest"
}

Custom parse window:

{
  "parsedAfter": "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
  "parsedBefore": "2026-09-02T00:00:00Z",
  "sortBy": "newest",
  "limit": 25
}

Hashtag And Comment Monitoring

Search by hashtags and parsed comments.

{
  "hashtags": ["hiring", "ai"],
  "commentQuery": "interested",
  "hasComments": "true",
  "sortBy": "hot"
}

High-Engagement Research

Find top-performing posts in a niche.

{
  "query": ["startup fundraising"],
  "minLikes": 50,
  "sortBy": "top"
}

Dataset Export

Use limit and offset to export filtered pages into your own workflows.

{
  "query": ["product manager"],
  "limit": 100,
  "offset": 100
}

Input Filters

Empty fields are ignored. The API combines provided filters with AND logic, except query list items and hashtags / country lists, which are OR'd within that field.

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
query	string | string[]	-	Keyword / LinkedIn boolean search. A list ORs sub-queries; each string supports AND, OR, NOT, quotes, and parentheses.
excludeWords	string	-	Exclude posts containing any of these indexed word tokens.
country	string | string[]	-	ISO-2 LinkedIn country/subdomain code(s), OR'd.
hashtags	string[]	-	Match posts containing any listed hashtag. #ai and ai both work.
contentType	string	-	Stored LinkedIn content type, for example POST.
commentQuery	string	-	Case-insensitive text search inside parsed comments.
commentAuthor	string	-	Case-insensitive search by parsed comment author name.
hasComments	"", "true", "false"	""	Any, only posts with parsed comments, or only posts without parsed comments.
isHiring	"", "true", "false"	""	Any, hiring posts, or non-hiring posts.
hasLink	"", "true", "false"	""	Any, posts with external links, or posts without external links.
minLikes / maxLikes	integer	-	Minimum or maximum likes.
minComments / maxComments	integer	-	Minimum or maximum comment count.
minLikesPerHour / maxLikesPerHour	number	-	Minimum or maximum likes/hour velocity.
minCommentsPerHour / maxCommentsPerHour	number	-	Minimum or maximum comments/hour velocity.
postedWithinHours	integer	-	Only posts from the last N hours, max 8760. API default is 216 h when query/excludeWords is set; pass 0 to disable. Ignored when postedAfter/postedBefore is set.
timeRelevance	any, lastHour, last24h, lastWeek, lastMonth	-	Relative publication recency. Overridden by postedWithinHours / custom posted range.
postedAfter / postedBefore	string (ISO 8601)	-	Custom publication timestamp range. Disables the default recency window.
parsedWithinHours	integer	-	Only posts parsed in the last N hours. Also derives a publication window; skips implicit posted defaults.
parsedAfter / parsedBefore	string (ISO 8601)	-	Custom parseTimestamp range. Disables parsedWithinHours.
authorType	any, person, company	any	Filter by inferred author type.
sortBy	newest, top, hot	newest	Sort by publication time, likes, or engagement velocity.
limit	integer	25	Number of posts to return, from 1 to 100.
offset	integer	0	Pagination offset, max 10000.

Boolean filters are strings in the Actor input schema so users can keep the filter unset with "" / Any. The Actor converts "true" and "false" to booleans before sending the API request. Legacy inputs that pass query or country as a single string still work.

Output Dataset Format

Each dataset item is one post returned from the API.

Field	Type	Description
postKey	string	Unique LinkedIn post identifier.
text	string | null	Full post text.
hashtags	string[]	Hashtags parsed from the post text.
contentType	string	Stored LinkedIn content type, usually POST.
author	string | null	Author display name.
authorUrl	string | null	LinkedIn profile, company, or showcase URL.
authorType	person | company	Inferred from authorUrl.
createdAt	string | null	ISO 8601 publication timestamp.
geo	string | null	Stored geo code or label.
likes	integer | null	Number of likes/reactions.
commentsCount	integer | null	Number of comments.
comments	object[]	Parsed comments, if available.
hasLink	boolean	Whether the post contains an external link.
isHiring	boolean	Whether the post appears to be a hiring/job post.
postUrl	string | null	Direct LinkedIn post URL.
likesPerHour	number	Likes divided by post age in hours.
commentsPerHour	number	Comments divided by post age in hours.

Parsed comment objects can contain:

Field	Type	Description
urn	string | null	LinkedIn comment URN.
author	string | null	Comment author display name.
authorUrl	string | null	LinkedIn URL of the comment author.
text	string | null	Comment text.
timeText	string | null	Original relative time text.
datePublished	string | null	Published date if available.
likes	integer	Number of likes on the comment.

Example Input

{
  "query": [
    "\"strategy and operations\" AND hiring AND (Chennai OR Kolkata OR India)"
  ],
  "excludeWords": "course webinar",
  "country": ["us", "in"],
  "hashtags": ["hiring", "productmanagement"],
  "isHiring": "true",
  "hasLink": "true",
  "hasComments": "true",
  "minLikes": 3,
  "maxComments": 10,
  "parsedWithinHours": 48,
  "authorType": "company",
  "sortBy": "newest",
  "limit": 50
}

Example Output Item

{
  "postKey": "7180000000000000000",
  "text": "We're hiring a Senior Product Manager to join our platform team...",
  "hashtags": ["hiring", "productmanagement"],
  "contentType": "POST",
  "author": "Acme Corp",
  "authorUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/acme-corp",
  "authorType": "company",
  "createdAt": "2026-03-30T14:22:00+00:00",
  "geo": "us",
  "likes": 47,
  "commentsCount": 6,
  "comments": [
    {
      "urn": "urn:li:comment:(activity:7180000000000000000,7190000000000000000)",
      "author": "Jane Doe",
      "authorUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jane-doe",
      "text": "Interested, thanks for sharing.",
      "timeText": "2h",
      "datePublished": "2026-03-30T16:10:00Z",
      "likes": 1
    }
  ],
  "hasLink": true,
  "isHiring": true,
  "postUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7180000000000000000",
  "likesPerHour": 2.35,
  "commentsPerHour": 0.3
}