LinkedIn Post Scraper

The Actor resolves one or more public LinkedIn posts to structured records containing the post text, author, reaction counts and breakdown, comments, and any attached media. Post, activity, and article URLs are all accepted. No LinkedIn account or session cookie is required.

Accepted input

Field	Type	Default	Description
post_url	array of strings	—	Required. LinkedIn post, activity, or article URLs.
maxItems	integer	100	Maximum posts fetched. 0 removes the limit.

{
  "post_url": [
    "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/williamhgates_activity-7445556013572734976-Ab1c",
    "https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7445556013572734976/"
  ],
  "maxItems": 100
}

URLs are trimmed and deduplicated before any request is issued, so the same post supplied twice is fetched and billed once.

Response fields

One record per post.

Field	Contents
post_url	The URL used to fetch the record
type	Record type reported by the page, distinguishing posts from articles and video
name	Title, where the content carries one
text	Post body text
headline	Headline text, on article-style content
description	Description text, on article-style content
author	Author name, headline, and profile URL
published_at	Publication timestamp
upload_date	Upload timestamp, on media content
duration	Duration, on video content
reactions	Total reaction count
reaction_types	Reaction count broken down by type
comment_count	Number of comments
comments	Comment records, where the page exposes them
shared_content	The original post, when this one is a reshare
content_url	Canonical content URL
url	Post URL
embed_url	Embeddable URL, on media content
video_urls	Video URLs attached to the post
image_urls	Image URLs attached to the post
thumbnail	Thumbnail image URL
keywords	Keywords published in the page's structured data
jsonld	The page's raw JSON-LD block

{
  "post_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/williamhgates_activity-7445556013572734976-Ab1c",
  "type": "SocialMediaPosting",
  "text": "Three things I learned this year...",
  "reactions": 18422,
  "comment_count": 611,
  "published_at": "2026-06-14T09:30:00.000Z"
}

Behaviour on partial results

Posts are fetched one request per URL. A URL that cannot be retrieved — because the post was deleted, the author restricted its visibility, or the request failed after the client's own retries — is logged as a warning and skipped. The run continues to the next URL and completes normally.

The number of records returned can therefore be lower than the number of URLs supplied, and the run log names every URL that was skipped.

comments reflects what the public page renders, which is a subset of the total for posts with large comment threads. comment_count reports the full number LinkedIn states, so the two are expected to disagree on popular posts: the count is authoritative, the array is a sample.

Frequently asked questions

Which post URL formats are accepted? The /posts/<slug> form shown on a member's profile, the /feed/update/urn:li:activity:<id> form the feed produces, and article URLs. Whichever form the browser address bar shows will work.

Why does comments hold fewer entries than comment_count? comment_count is the total LinkedIn reports for the post. comments contains those the public page renders without a logged-in session, which for a heavily commented post is a fraction of the total. Treat the count as the metric and the array as a sample rather than an export.

What does reaction_types contain that reactions does not? reactions is the single total. reaction_types splits it across LinkedIn's reaction set — like, celebrate, support, insightful, and so on — which distinguishes broad approval from a narrower, stronger response on posts with similar totals.

What is shared_content? When the fetched post is a reshare, the original post is nested under shared_content while the outer fields describe the reshare itself, including any comment the resharer added. The field is absent on original posts.

Is a LinkedIn account or session cookie required? No. Only publicly visible posts are read, and no credentials or logged-in session are supplied.

Are the members who reacted to a post returned? No. Reaction totals and their breakdown by type are returned, but not the identities behind them.

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