Personalise outreach
Read what a prospect posted this month and open with something they actually said.
LinkedIn data API · Posts by a person
LinkedIn Posts API. Pay per record.
Get a person's recent LinkedIn posts with engagement: the text, the type, when it was posted, the permalink, the media and the like, comment and repost counts. Priced per post returned.
- Price
- $0.002 / post
- Billed
- Per record
- Free to start
- $0.10
- Endpoint
- POST /v1/linkedin
Updated 21 October 2026
What people build with the LinkedIn Posts API
Monitor thought leaders
Follow a list of voices in your market and see which posts got the most engagement.
Feed an agent's memory
Give your agent the last fifty posts from an account before it writes about that person or company.
Quote it, then run it
curl -X POST https://apiforagents.dev/v1/linkedin \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AFA_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"op":"posts","subject":"satyanadella","limit":10,"estimateOnly":true}'curl -X POST https://apiforagents.dev/v1/linkedin \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AFA_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"op":"posts","subject":"satyanadella","limit":10}'Inputs
Everything you can send in one posts call. Required inputs first.
| Input | Type | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| subject * | string | One /in/<slug> handle or profile URL. ≤400 chars |
| limit | integer | 1-50 |
What comes back
The fields of every row, always present. Nothing is guessed: a value that could not be measured is null, and the answer's coverage says why.
Show all 13 rowsHide
| Field | Type |
|---|---|
| urn | string |
| body | string |
| kind | string |
| postedAt | string |
| permalink | string |
| mediaUrl | string |
| mediaType | string |
| likes | integer |
| comments | integer |
| reposts | integer |
| author | object |
| mentions | list of object |
| details | object |
details is always the last field: everything else the source sent for that row, under our own field names. Its keys depend on the source that answered, so read them defensively; it is {} when there is nothing more.
A sample answer
Made-up names and values in the real field names, so you can see the shape before you spend anything.
| author | body | kind | postedAt | likes | comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| {"handle":"ananya-rao","type":"person"} | We cut onboarding from 14 days to 3. Here is what changed… | text | 2026-10-14T09:12:00Z | 1284 | 96 |
| {"handle":"ananya-rao","type":"person"} | We're hiring two product marketers in Bengaluru. DM me. | image | 2026-10-08T06:40:00Z | 412 | 58 |
| {"handle":"ananya-rao","type":"person"} | Our 2026 brand playbook, free to download (12 pages). | document | 2026-09-30T11:05:00Z | 2210 | 187 |
Pricing
Pay as you go, in US dollars, per record. No subscription, nothing expires, $5 first top-up, and every new agent starts with $0.10 free.
| Request | Records | At the list price |
|---|---|---|
| One post | 1 | $0.002 |
| 10 posts | 10 | $0.02 |
| A full page | 50 | $0.1 |
These are per-record list prices. Some calls also carry a minimum, such as a page of search results, so a small request can cost more than the table shows. The quote ("estimateOnly": true) is free, gives the most your exact request can cost, and the charge then settles to what came back. Records that do not come back are refunded.
Try it without writing code
Why this one, and not a scraper you run yourself
- No login, no LinkedIn account, no cookies, no proxies, no browser to babysit.
- When the site changes its pages, your request stays the same: keeping the reads working is our job, not yours.
- A fetch that fails costs nothing: it is named in the answer with a reason, and the quote says the most a call can cost before it runs.
Questions people ask.
What does the LinkedIn Posts API return?
One row per post: urn, body text, kind, postedAt, permalink, media URL, and counts of likes, comments and reposts.
How much does it cost?
$0.002 per post returned, up to fifty per call. You set the limit and you are charged only for the posts that come back.
Does it work for company pages?
Not yet. It reads a person's posts today. A company-page request is declined with a reason, never guessed at.
Can I search posts by keyword?
Yes, with the post search operation: find posts by keyword, mention, content type and date.
Try it in a minute. $0.10 free.
The playground runs any endpoint by hand: pick a platform and what you want from it, fill a short form named in plain words (or press Use sample input), see the free quote on the Run button, run it, then read the answer as a table or JSON and download it as CSV or JSON. The same call is written out as cURL, Python and Node while you type.
Why people pick API for Agents
- One key for 26 platforms: social, commerce, jobs, places, search and contacts, with one request shape and one response shape.
- A free quote before any spend: add "estimateOnly": true to any call and see the most it can cost.
- Pay per record in US dollars. No subscription, nothing expires, top-ups from $5.
- $0.10 free to try, no card. An AI agent can sign itself up in one request; a person claims it later.
- Measured, not estimated: every answer says when each row was measured, whether it was fresh or a recent capture, and how sure to be of each field.
- Partial success is success: anything that could not be fetched is named with a reason, and the charge settles to what came back, never above the quote.
- Typed fields that keep their names whichever source answered, and a details object last with everything else the source sent, under our own field names.
- Try any endpoint in the playground and download the answer as CSV or JSON.
API for Agents is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by LinkedIn or any company named here. LinkedIn is a trademark of LinkedIn Corporation; other names belong to their owners. Public data only: nothing behind a login.