LinkedIn Post Search — Find Posts by Keyword (No Login)

Search LinkedIn posts by keyword or phrase and extract post URLs, author names, headlines, profile URLs, and post text snippets — without a LinkedIn account or cookies.

How it works

LinkedIn posts are indexed by Google. This actor queries Google for site:linkedin.com/posts "your keyword" and parses the SERP. Every byte comes from Google's public index — LinkedIn is never contacted directly. This avoids LinkedIn's aggressive anti-bot measures and account bans entirely.

What you get per post

Field	Description
post_url	Canonical LinkedIn post URL
author_name	Poster's name
author_headline	Their job title / headline (when available)
author_profile_url	Their LinkedIn profile URL (best-effort from post slug)
post_snippet	Text excerpt from the post (from Google's SERP description)
scraped_at	ISO 8601 timestamp

Input

• query (required) — keyword or phrase to search for, e.g. "lab grown diamond", "SaaS pricing strategy", "AI startup funding"
• maxResults — how many posts to return (default: 25, max: 200)
• proxy — proxy configuration; GOOGLE_SERP strongly recommended

Pricing

First 25 posts per account are free (lifetime). After that, $0.005 per post via Pay-Per-Event.

Proxy

Uses Apify's GOOGLE_SERP proxy group by default, which is purpose-built to return rendered Google SERP HTML. Falls back to RESIDENTIAL automatically if GOOGLE_SERP misses. A valid Apify proxy subscription is required for production use.

Limitations

• Post snippets are excerpts from Google's index, not the full post text
• Author profile URLs are extracted from the post slug (best-effort) and may not always resolve
• Google's index covers public posts only; private/login-gated posts are not indexed
• Query saturation: a single keyword typically yields 50–150 unique posts before Google exhausts its index for that phrase; try varied phrasings to go deeper

Use cases

• Lead generation: find people discussing topics relevant to your product
• Market research: see what thought leaders are saying about a subject
• Content intelligence: discover trending post angles in your niche
• Competitor monitoring: track mentions of a brand or product name

Use in Claude, ChatGPT & any MCP agent

This actor is also a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server tool — call it directly from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Windsurf, or any MCP-compatible AI agent. The agent only pays for results delivered (same pay-per-result model).

• Per-actor MCP endpoint: https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=themineworks/linkedin-post-search
• Full Mine Works MCP server (all tools): https://the-mine-works-mcp.hatchable.site/api/mcp

// Call this actor as a tool via apify-client (Node)
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('themineworks/linkedin-post-search').call({ /* input from the table above */ });
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);