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Extract comments and reactions from public LinkedIn posts — commenter names, text, and reaction counts.

What you get

Extract comments and reactions from public LinkedIn posts — commenter names, text, and reaction counts.

Why use this LinkedIn Comments & Reactions scraper

• Comment fields — author, text, and engagement per comment where publicly visible.
• Repost context — who reshared and the original post reference.
• No login — reads public post surfaces only.

Scrape LinkedIn Comments & Reactions data in minutes

{
  "postUrls": [
    "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/openai"
  ]
}

Input parameters

Parameter	Required	Description
postUrls	Yes	LinkedIn post URLs, feed update URNs, or bare activity IDs.
maxPosts	No	Maximum number of posts to process. Default: 10.
maxComments	No	Maximum visible public comments to return per post when comments are present in public HTML. Default: 50.

Output fields

• input
• url
• urn
• post_id
• post_title
• post_text_preview
• reactions_count
• comments_count
• reaction_types
• comments
• comments_extracted
• comments_available
• data_source

Example result

{
  "input": "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/williamhgates_ill-never-forget-typing-this-letter-to-my-activity-7288306552338362369-ZEgW",
  "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/embed/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7288306552338362369",
  "urn": "urn:li:activity:7288306552338362369",
  "post_id": "7288306552338362369",
  "post_title": "I’ll never forget typing this letter to my senior tutor at Harvard. I… | Bill Gates | 1,717 comments",
  "post_text_preview": "I’ll never forget typing this letter to my senior tutor at Harvard. I didn’t plan to drop out permanently—but once I left, I never quite found the time to return:\nhttps://lnkd.in/gX9NAuCk",
  "reactions_count": 47872,
  "comments_count": 1717,
  "reaction_types": [],
  "comments": [
    {
      "author_name": "",
      "text": "I’ll never forget typing this letter to my senior tutor at Harvard. I didn’t plan to drop out permanently—but once I left, I never quite found the time to return: https://lnkd.in/gX9NAuCk"
    },
    {
      "author_name": "",
      "text": "1,717 Comments"
    },
    {
      "author_name": "",
      "text": "Bill Gates Bill Gates is an Influencer Chair, Gates Foundation and Founder, Breakthrough Energy 1y LinkedIn I’ll never forget typing this letter to my senior tutor at Harvard. I didn’t plan to drop out permanently—but once I left, I never quite found the time to return: https://lnkd.in/gX9NAuCk 47,872 1,717 Comments  Comment Share Share this post"
    }
  ],
  "comments_extracted": 3,
  "comments_available": true,
  "data_source": "linkedin_public_embed"
}

Common use cases

• Sample engagement on public LinkedIn posts
• Research discussion around announcements
• Monitor comment sentiment on tracked posts

Compared to alternatives

• vs other LinkedIn Comments & Reactions scrapers on the Store — pay-per-result billing means empty or failed searches cost nothing; you are not charged for a run that returns zero rows.
• vs building your own — no proxy management, markup-change maintenance, or infrastructure to run; paste inputs and consume the dataset.

Limitations

• Many posts render limited data for anonymous viewers — sparse rows are a platform limit, not a bug.
• Private or restricted posts are out of scope.
• Comment threading depth is what the public page exposes.

FAQ

Do I need an account or cookies?

No — the Actor reads public data only. There is no login to configure and no account to risk.

What happens when a search returns nothing?

The run completes with zero (or an explicit error) rows. Per-result billing means you are not charged for empty output.

Can I run it on a schedule?

Yes — attach an Apify schedule or use the saved tasks to re-run the same inputs daily or weekly.

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Last verified: 2026-09

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