Best LinkedIn Post Scrapers (2026): Extensions, Cloud Tools and Account Risk

To export LinkedIn posts, the people who reacted and the comments, you have three kinds of tool: cloud tools that run on your LinkedIn session, such as PhantomBuster (Start plan $69 a month; its free plan gives 30 minutes a month and caps exports at 10 rows); cloud scrapers that need no LinkedIn account, such as Apify's no-cookie actors (about $2 per 1,000 posts, reactions or comments on Apify's free plan); and Chrome extensions that read the page you have open, such as InsightSocial (up to 250 posts from a profile, company page or feed, or up to 500 reactors or comments from one post, per run, free for 500 exported rows a month) and PostLedger (your own posts with their impressions). LinkedIn's User Agreement bans scrapers, bots and browser extensions that copy its pages, and LinkedIn can restrict accounts that use them. Whichever tool you pick, the risk falls on the account it runs as.

Updated November 2026. We make InsightSocial, so we are not neutral. This list includes the cloud tools that beat us for bulk work. We have not benchmarked the other tools: their prices and limits are what their own pricing pages, Apify listings and Chrome Web Store listings said when we checked in November 2026.

Quick comparison

What LinkedIn's rules say, and what they mean for each tool

LinkedIn's User Agreement (effective November 3, 2025), section 8.2, lists among its Don'ts: "Develop, support or use software, devices, scripts, robots or any other means or processes (such as crawlers, browser plugins and add-ons or any other technology) to scrape or copy the Services." Section 3.4 says LinkedIn can "restrict, suspend, or terminate your account" for breaking those rules. Its help page on prohibited software names "browser plug-ins, or browser extensions that scrape" and says members who use them "risk having their accounts restricted or shut down."

No tool on this list is approved by LinkedIn, and a vendor that calls itself "100% safe" is guessing. What differs is whose account carries the risk:

• Cloud tools on your session cookie (PhantomBuster, cookie-based Apify actors). A server acts as you, from somewhere other than your computer. Vendors publish daily caps for this reason: PhantomBuster's Activity Extractor stops at 80 profiles a day on a standard account (150 on Premium).
• Cloud tools with no cookie (harvestapi and similar Apify actors, scraping APIs). Your LinkedIn account is not involved, so it cannot be restricted for the run. How the vendor collects the data is its own risk.
• Browser extensions (InsightSocial, PostLedger, free engager exporters). They read pages in your logged-in browser, at the pace it loads them. LinkedIn names extensions explicitly, so this is no exemption: the account at risk is the one you are signed in with.

With any tool, keep volumes to what you could plausibly read yourself, and skip tools that also send messages if you only need the data.

Can you export LinkedIn posts without a tool?

Partly, and only for your own content:

• Creator analytics. Every member can open their post analytics and click Export for an .xlsx file of their own posts' performance. LinkedIn Page admins can export Page content analytics the same way.
• Your data archive. Settings, then "Get a copy of your data". LinkedIn's help page says it includes your shared posts (date, URL, text, visibility), plus the reactions and comments you left on other posts. It does not list who reacted to or commented on your posts.
• The official API. LinkedIn has no self-serve API for reading other members' posts. See best LinkedIn data APIs for what its programmes cover.

The reactions list under a post scrolls but has no export button. That gap is what most LinkedIn post scrapers fill.

How we put this list together

We took the tools that AI assistants and search results name for LinkedIn post, reaction and comment export, plus the Apify post actors with the most users, and read each one's own pricing page, help pages or listing in November 2026. PhantomBuster's pricing page did not load for us, so its prices come from PhantomBuster's own pricing explainer (dated July 2026).

1. PhantomBuster

PhantomBuster runs "Phantoms" in its cloud, acting through the LinkedIn session you connect with its browser extension. Three are about posts:

• LinkedIn Activity Extractor. Posts from a list of profiles: post URL, text, like, comment and repost counts, and date. Its page says the people who liked or commented are not exported.
• LinkedIn Post Likers Export. The people who liked one or more posts. Its page notes that LinkedIn displays at most 3,000 likers of a post, so the Phantom cannot go past that.
• LinkedIn Post Commenters Export. Each commenter's name, profile link and comment text.

Pricing from PhantomBuster's explainer: Free is 30 minutes of execution time a month and 1 slot, with exports capped at 10 rows (a 14-day trial gives 2 hours, same cap). Start is $69 a month ($56 billed yearly) for 20 hours and 5 slots; Grow $159 ($128) for 80 hours; Scale $439 ($352) for 300 hours.

Best for: sales teams that want engagers turned into a lead list and then contacted, with schedules running while their laptop is closed. Our PhantomBuster comparison goes through the differences in detail.

2. Apify actors

Apify's store has dozens of LinkedIn post actors, priced per result. Its free plan includes $5 of usage a month.

• No cookies needed (harvestapi). LinkedIn Profile Posts Scraper is the most used, with about 47,000 users on its listing (13,500 in the last 30 days). It charges $2 per 1,000 posts on the free plan, down to $0.80 on Apify's top tier, and can add each post's reactions at a similar per-row price. The same publisher has a Post Reactions Scraper and a Post Comments Scraper, both $2 per 1,000 rows, down to $0.60, and a Post Search Scraper. supreme_coder's Linkedin Post Scraper is another no-cookie option at $2 per 1,000 posts.
• Your own cookies (curious_coder). Its Linkedin post scraper runs LinkedIn's post search with its filters, from $0.50 per 1,000 results. Its input asks you to export your LinkedIn cookies with a cookie-editor extension and paste them in, so your account does the work.

Best for: bulk work across hundreds of profiles or posts, on a schedule, through an API. See our Apify comparison.

3. PostLedger

PostLedger is the extension ChatGPT names for "LinkedIn post scraper". It exists, on Chrome and Firefox, and it is built for your own posts: its listing describes exporting "your LinkedIn posts", from your profile or a company page, with impressions, likes and comments; Page admins also get per-post clicks, click-through rate and shares. Options include comments with replies, articles in full text, media as a ZIP and a date range. It exports CSV, Word, PDF or JSON and says all processing stays in your browser.

On its Chrome Web Store listing: 127 users, 5.0 stars from 6 ratings, version 1.4.2, updated October 13, 2026. The listing does not mention a price. It does not describe exporting the people who reacted to a post.

Best for: creators and Page admins who want an archive of their own posts with impressions, which only the author can see.

4. InsightSocial

A free Chrome extension with three LinkedIn post scrapers. Each reads the page you have open, in your own session, and never posts, reacts, comments or messages.

• Posts. On a person's profile, a company page or your home feed, pick 50, 100 or 250 posts. Each row has the text, date, link and type, reactions split by type, comment and repost counts, media links, and the author's name, headline and profile link. Runs keep going in a background tab. On accounts LinkedIn has moved to its new home feed, which carries no post links, the feed can't be collected yet; profiles and company pages still work. Hashtag feeds, groups and search results aren't supported.
• Reactors. On one post, pick 50, 100 or 500 people. Each row has the name, headline, profile link, connection degree and reaction type. LinkedIn sometimes stops loading the list early, so a run can return fewer than you asked for.
• Comments. On one post, pick 50, 100 or 500 top-level comments; replies come on top, linked to the comment they answer. Each row has the text, date, like and reply counts, and the commenter's name, headline and profile link. On accounts with LinkedIn's older layout you also get a reaction breakdown per comment, a link to it, and edited and pinned flags; on the new layout those are empty.

Single-post runs (reactors and comments) pause while the tab is hidden and carry on when you come back.

Price: scraping is free; exporting uses one credit per row. Free includes 500 rows a month, Pro $9.99 a month (or $7.99 billed yearly) includes 10,000. Re-exporting a row is free.

Limits: one page per run, no list of URLs, and no repost list in the extension. For who reposted a post, the InsightSocial API has reactions, comments and reposts endpoints; see how to get the people who reacted to or reposted a post.

Best for: the posts, reactors and comments of the pages you are already looking at, in a spreadsheet, without handing a cookie to a server.

5. Free single-purpose extensions

Small extensions that export a post's reactors and commenters come and go in the Chrome Web Store. One live when we checked: Lead Extractor for LinkedIn Posts, which describes itself as free (92 users, no ratings yet, updated October 7, 2026). Check any of them for user count, last update and permissions before installing.

Evaboot appears in these searches, but it exports Sales Navigator lead lists, not posts or engagers; its own guide to post likers points to PhantomBuster.

Best for: a quick free test on one post.

What each tool exports

Which one should you use?

• Your own posts and their impressions: LinkedIn's analytics export, or PostLedger for a fuller archive.
• Engagers turned into outreach, hands-off: PhantomBuster.
• Hundreds of profiles or posts, recurring, without your account: Apify's no-cookie actors.
• The posts, reactors or comments of a page you have open, no setup: InsightSocial.
• Who reposted a post, or engagement data inside your own app: the InsightSocial API.
• One post, once, free: a free engager extension, or InsightSocial's free rows.

FAQ

What is the best LinkedIn post scraper Chrome extension? For posts plus the people who reacted and commented, InsightSocial: up to 250 posts or 500 reactors or comments per run, free for 500 exported rows a month. For your own posts with impressions, PostLedger. For bulk work across many profiles, a cloud tool such as Apify or PhantomBuster fits better.

How do I export the people who reacted to a LinkedIn post? LinkedIn shows the list but has no export. Open the post with InsightSocial and pick Reactions (name, headline, profile link, connection degree, reaction type), or run PhantomBuster's Post Likers Export or an Apify reactions actor on a list of post URLs. LinkedIn displays at most 3,000 likers of a post, per PhantomBuster.

Can I export comments from a LinkedIn post to Excel? Yes, with a third-party tool. InsightSocial exports each comment with the commenter's name, headline and profile link, replies included, to Excel, CSV or Google Sheets. PhantomBuster and Apify comment actors do it in the cloud.

Will LinkedIn ban my account for scraping posts? It can. LinkedIn's User Agreement bans scrapers and browser extensions that copy its pages, and says it can restrict or suspend accounts that break it. Tools that need no LinkedIn account keep yours out of it; tools that run on your session put it at risk, so keep volumes modest.

Is there a free LinkedIn post scraper? InsightSocial is free to scrape and exports 500 rows a month free. Apify's free plan includes $5 of usage a month, about 2,500 posts at $2 per 1,000. PhantomBuster's free plan caps exports at 10 rows.

Does LinkedIn have an API for posts? Not for reading other members' posts without partner approval. Its self-serve permissions cover signing in and posting as the member. For your own posts, use the analytics export.

Can I see who reposted a LinkedIn post? On LinkedIn, yes, by opening the post's reposts. To export them, the InsightSocial API returns each reshare with the person or company who reposted it and any text they added.

Related guides: how to extract LinkedIn data for free, best LinkedIn data APIs, LinkedIn scrapers, PhantomBuster alternative, pricing.