LinkedIn Top Content Scraper

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Scrape LinkedIn's trending and top-performing posts — including viral content, LinkedIn Top Voice posts, and trending articles — with full engagement metrics, author details, and media information.

What It Does

This actor fetches posts from LinkedIn's top content feeds using a multi-strategy cascade:

1. Top Content Feed (/voyager/api/feed/topContent) — LinkedIn's dedicated trending posts endpoint
2. Content Search (/voyager/api/search/blended) — search for top posts by category keyword
3. Flagship Feed (/voyager/api/feed/flagshipFeed) — feed filtered to TOP_CONTENT context
4. Public Trending Page (/feed/trending/) — cookieless fallback using public embedded data

The strategies are tried in order; results are deduplicated and capped at your maxPosts limit.

Input

Cookie

For best results, provide a LinkedIn session cookie. Without it, only the public trending page is scraped (fewer results).

Accepted formats:

• Plain li_at value: AQEDxxx...
• Full cookies JSON array from browser export: [{"name":"li_at","value":"AQEDxxx..."},...]

Category

Use category to focus on a specific topic. Examples:

• AI — artificial intelligence posts
• leadership — leadership content
• marketing — marketing insights
• data science — data science posts
• Leave empty for general trending content

Output

Each item in the dataset represents one LinkedIn post:

Example Output

{
"postId":"7234567890123456789",
"postUrl":"https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7234567890123456789/",
"authorName":"Satya Nadella",
"authorProfileUrl":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/satyanadella",
"authorHeadline":"Chairman and CEO at Microsoft",
"postedAt":"2025-05-15T14:30:00+00:00",
"content":"Excited to share our latest breakthroughs in AI...",
"mediaType":"text",
"reactionsCount":42500,
"commentsCount":1230,
"repostsCount":3400,
"reactionBreakdown":{
"like":30000,
"celebrate":8000,
"insightful":3500,
"love":1000
},
"scrapedAt":"2025-05-20T10:00:00+00:00"
}

Use Cases

• Trend analysis: Identify what topics and formats are performing best on LinkedIn
• Competitor research: See what content your industry peers are posting
• Content strategy: Find inspiration from viral posts in your niche
• Influencer discovery: Identify LinkedIn Top Voices in specific categories
• Market research: Track sentiment and trending topics over time

FAQs

Do I need a LinkedIn account? No, the actor can run without a cookie and will scrape the public trending feed. However, providing a cookie gives access to more posts and enables category-based filtering.

How many posts can I scrape? Up to 500 posts per run. The actual number depends on what LinkedIn surfaces in its trending feeds.

Why are some posts missing fields like postedAt or authorHeadline? LinkedIn omits some data for certain posts. Fields are only included when data is available — no null or empty values are pushed.

Will this get my LinkedIn account banned? The actor uses the same Voyager API endpoints that LinkedIn's own mobile app uses, with realistic delays between requests. Proxy configuration is recommended for high-volume usage.

What is the reactionBreakdown field? It shows how many reactions of each type the post received: like (thumbs up), celebrate (clapping), love (heart), insightful (lightbulb), support (hug), funny (laughing), and curious (curious face).

Explore the rest of the LinkedIn suite

Need a different LinkedIn surface? Pair this actor with any of the others in the LinkedIn Suite — all published under the same publisher and built to share the same cookie format and output conventions.

All actors share the same cookie input format (plain li_at OR full cookies JSON array) and the same omit-empty output convention.