# LinkedIn Profile Posts Scraper ⚡ No Login Required (`vulnv/linkedin-profile-posts`) Actor

Collect all posts published by any public LinkedIn profile — post text, engagement metrics, media, and author details. Just provide usernames or profile URLs. No login or cookies required.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/vulnv/linkedin-profile-posts.md
- **Developed by:** [VulnV](https://apify.com/vulnv) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Social media
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 4 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$4.00 / 1,000 posts

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## LinkedIn Profile Posts Scraper ⚡ No Login Required

Collect every **post published by any public LinkedIn profile** — no login, no cookies.
Just provide one or more usernames (or profile URLs) and get clean, structured post data
including text, engagement metrics, media, and author details.

### ✨ Features

- **Posts by profile** — pull a profile's recent activity in one call.
- **Bulk friendly** — pass multiple profiles at once.
- **Control volume** — cap the number of posts per profile with `maxPosts`.
- **No authentication** — usernames or profile URLs are all you need.
- **Rich output** — post text, reactions, comments, shares, media, timestamps, and author info.

### 📥 Input

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|-------|------|----------|-------------|
| `usernames` | array of strings | ✅ | Profile usernames (`williamhgates`) or full profile URLs. |
| `maxPosts` | integer | — | Max posts to collect per profile (1–1000). Default `50`. |

```json
{
    "usernames": ["williamhgates"],
    "maxPosts": 50
}
```

### 📤 Output

One record per post, for example:

```json
{
    "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/williamhgates_...",
    "user_id": "williamhgates",
    "post_text": "Reliable clean energy for industry is a hard challenge…",
    "date_posted": "2026-06-01T15:35:17.704Z",
    "num_likes": 12453,
    "num_comments": 173
}
```

### 💡 Use Cases

- Track thought-leaders' content and engagement.
- Build datasets for social-listening and content research.
- Monitor competitors' and prospects' activity.

### 💰 Pricing

Pay-per-event: charged **per post returned**. No monthly fees.

### 🛠️ Our Other Scrapers

Explore our full LinkedIn suite and more:

- **[LinkedIn Company Posts Scraper](https://apify.com/vulnv/linkedin-company-posts)** — all posts from a company page.
- **[LinkedIn Profile Detail Scraper + Email](https://apify.com/vulnv/linkedin-profile-detail)** — full profile data with optional email.
- **[LinkedIn Profile Batch Scraper + Email](https://apify.com/vulnv/linkedin-profile-batch)** — up to 1,000 profiles per run.
- **[LinkedIn Company Detail Scraper](https://apify.com/vulnv/linkedin-company-detail)** — full company profiles by URL.
- **[Email Validator](https://apify.com/vulnv/email-validator)** — verify deliverability of any email address.

📬 **Need help or have a feature request?** Contact us at <support@vulnv.com> or visit our [Apify profile](https://apify.com/vulnv).

# Actor input Schema

## `usernames` (type: `array`):

Profile usernames (e.g. `williamhgates`) or full profile URLs whose posts you want to collect.

## `maxPosts` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of posts to collect for each profile (1–1000).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "usernames": [
    "williamhgates"
  ],
  "maxPosts": 50
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "usernames": [
        "williamhgates"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("vulnv/linkedin-profile-posts").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "usernames": ["williamhgates"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("vulnv/linkedin-profile-posts").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "usernames": [
    "williamhgates"
  ]
}' |
apify call vulnv/linkedin-profile-posts --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,vulnv/linkedin-profile-posts"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/BzHW3rIINoZUYgxJq/builds/e7qDge69GTDUuR0co/openapi.json