Do I need a LinkedIn developer account?

No. There is no LinkedIn app, OAuth flow or app review. One InsightSocial API key works for this endpoint and every other platform, and your first 10 calls priced at 100 credits or less are free.

How do I get every result, not just the first page?

This endpoint pages. Each response carries pagination.next_cursor and pagination.has_more. Send next_cursor back unchanged as the cursor parameter and stop when has_more is false. Every page is a separate call and is charged as one.

What happens if the account is private or nothing is found?

You get an error or an empty result, and it costs 0 credits. The API reads public LinkedIn data only, so private accounts and deleted content come back as not found rather than as partial data.

Can I call the LinkedIn Search Posts API from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor?

Yes. Add the hosted MCP server at https://api.insightsocial.app/mcp to your AI app and sign in. The assistant finds this endpoint by name, shows its price and calls it with your credits.

GET /v1/linkedin/search/posts

LinkedIn Search Posts API

Returns public LinkedIn posts and Pulse articles matching a keyword, with each result's text, author, media, like and comment counts, and date.

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10–480 credits, metered · cursor pagination · failed calls free · 10 free calls to start

curl "https://api.insightsocial.app/v1/linkedin/search/posts?query=ai+agents" \
-H "x-api-key: $INSIGHTSOCIAL_API_KEY"

200 OKJSON

{
"success": true,
"platform": "linkedin",
"endpoint": "/v1/linkedin/search/posts",
"schema_version": "2",
"data": {
"items": [
{
"post": {
"id": "<string>",
"url": "<string | null>",
"kind": "<string | null>",
"content": {
"text": "<string | null>",
"media_urls": "<array | null>",
"thumbnail_url": "<string | null>",
"duration_seconds": "<number | null>"
},
"author": {
"id": "<string | null>",
"username": "<string | null>",
"display_name": "<string | null>",
"avatar_url": "<string | null>",
"verified": "<boolean | null>"
},
"engagement": {
"views": "<integer | null>",
"likes": "<integer | null>",
"comments": "<integer | null>",
"shares": "<integer | null>",
"saves": "<integer | null>"
},
"flags": {
"nsfw": "<boolean | null>",
"spoiler": "<boolean | null>",
"pinned": "<boolean | null>",
"deleted": "<boolean>",
"likes_hidden": "<boolean | null>",
"comments_hidden": "<boolean | null>",
"shares_hidden": "<boolean | null>",
"views_hidden": "<boolean | null>",
"saves_hidden": "<boolean | null>"
},
"published_at": "<string | null>",
"language": "<string | null>",
"ext": "<object | null>"
}
}
]
},
"pagination": {
"next_cursor": "<string | null>",
"has_more": "<boolean>"
},
"unavailable": [],
"credits_used": "<integer>"
}

When to use it

Use it for broad keyword monitoring; it reads public search results, so treat coverage as best effort rather than complete.

Parameters

Query parameters for GET /v1/linkedin/search/posts. Send your key in the x-api-key header.

Name	Required	Description
query	One of query, from_member, from_company	Keyword or phrase to search for. Optional when from_member or from_company is set: omit it to get that subject's posts unfiltered, and note that supplying a real content word narrows the results to posts matching it.
from_member	One of from_member, query, from_company	Filter to posts from one member, by their LinkedIn member urn — the bare ACoAA… value published as author.ext.urn by /v1/linkedin/profile. A profile URL, a public slug (williamhgates) or a urn:li:fsd_profile:-prefixed value is rejected, because the source cannot use any of them. Pass this on its own, with no query, to walk one member's back catalogue.
from_company	One of from_company, query, from_member	Filter to posts from a company, by numeric LinkedIn company id (for example 1035). A company slug or URL is rejected; read the id from author.id on /v1/linkedin/company.
page	No	1-based page number of Google results. Defaults to 1.
sort_by	No	Result ordering: relevance (default) or date_posted. On a subject-only call (from_member or from_company with no query) the results are ordered by date and relevance is rejected, because there is no query for them to be relevant to.
date_posted	No	Date filter based on Google-indexed results. One of past_24h, past_week, past_month (underscores, not hyphens). Note the JOB lanes use past_24_hours for the same concept; the two vocabularies are not interchangeable.
content_type	No	Narrow to one kind of post.
limit	No	Return up to this many posts in one call, 1 to 200. Repeating the identical call inside the 2-minute cache window is free. Requires query. Cannot be combined with page or cursor: the result always starts at the top and pagination.next_cursor is null. pagination.has_more says whether more posts were available when the call stopped, and walk.stopped says why it stopped (limit, exhausted, deadline or sources_unavailable).
cursor	No	The pagination.next_cursor from the previous page, sent back unchanged. Omit it for the first page.

Response fields

The same unified schema every platform returns, so code written for LinkedIn works on the other eight. A field the platform did not provide is null and listed in unavailable.

Field	Type	Notes
id	string	An identifier, always a string. Never parse it as a number: several platforms use ids above 2^53.
url	string \| null
kind	string \| null	The format of the post. Format words only, never a platform name. short = short-form vertical video (a reel, a TikTok, a YouTube Short).
content.text	string \| null
content.media_urls	array \| null
content.thumbnail_url	string \| null
content.duration_seconds	number \| null
author.id	string \| null
author.username	string \| null
author.display_name	string \| null
author.avatar_url	string \| null
author.verified	boolean \| null
engagement.views	integer \| null	A count. null when the platform does not expose it; 0 only when it is really zero.
engagement.likes	integer \| null	A count. null when the platform does not expose it; 0 only when it is really zero.
engagement.comments	integer \| null	A count. null when the platform does not expose it; 0 only when it is really zero.
engagement.shares	integer \| null	A count. null when the platform does not expose it; 0 only when it is really zero.
engagement.saves	integer \| null	A count. null when the platform does not expose it; 0 only when it is really zero.
flags.nsfw	boolean \| null
flags.spoiler	boolean \| null
flags.pinned	boolean \| null
flags.deleted	boolean
flags.likes_hidden	boolean \| null
flags.comments_hidden	boolean \| null
flags.shares_hidden	boolean \| null
flags.views_hidden	boolean \| null
flags.saves_hidden	boolean \| null
published_at	string \| null	ISO-8601 timestamp in UTC, ending in Z.
language	string \| null	The content's language as the platform states it, e.g. en, pt-BR. Detected languages come later (§7.1).
ext	object \| null	Platform-specific fields, snake_case.

Every field, error and example is in the LinkedIn Search Posts API reference.

How much does the LinkedIn Search Posts API cost?

Metered: 10–480 credits a call. The ceiling is reserved when the call starts and you are charged what it actually read.

Failed calls are free
A call that errors or finds nothing costs 0 credits.
Know the price first
Add dry_run=1 and the response quotes the call without making it. Nothing is charged.
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