LinkedIn Post Like Scraper

An Apify actor that extracts detailed information about users who have liked a specific LinkedIn post. It uses your authenticated session (via cookies) to securely scrape data without requiring coding.

Overview

This actor navigates to a provided LinkedIn post URL and collects a list of users who have liked it. It returns structured data for each profile, including connection degree and profile photo. The tool is designed for automation, lead generation, and social media analysis.

Key Features

• Extracts Like Details: Fetches all members who liked a given LinkedIn post.
• Structured Data Output: Returns JSON objects for each user with the following fields:
  • totalLikes: The total number of likes on the post.
  • name: The member's profile name.
  • profileUrl: The URL to the member's LinkedIn profile.
  • connection_status: Your connection degree to the member (e.g., "3rd+").
  • profilePhoto: URL to the member's profile photo.
• Cookie-Based Authentication: Uses your LinkedIn session cookies for secure, logged-in access, helping to avoid blocks.
• High-Speed Scraping: Capable of extracting approximately 500 data points per second.
• Export Formats: Results can be downloaded in Excel, CSV, or JSON format via the Apify platform.

Input/Output

Input (Required via Apify actor input configuration):

• linkedinCookie: Your LinkedIn session cookies in JSON format (see instructions below).
• linkedinPostUrl: The full URL of the LinkedIn post you want to scrape likes from.

Output:

The actor outputs a dataset of items, where each item represents a user who liked the post. Example:

[
  {
    "totalLikes": 38,
    "name": "Venu Samala",
    "profileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAADQFDxwBR2Y0MwfUohWi3QWjy_g2TEzplaI",
    "connection_status": "3rd+",
    "profilePhoto": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/..."
  }
]

How to Use

1. Get Your LinkedIn Cookies

The actor requires your authenticated LinkedIn session cookies.

1. Install the Chrome extension "Export cookie JSON file for Puppeteer".
2. Log into your LinkedIn account in Chrome.
3. Open the extension and click "Export cookies as JSON". A .json file will download.
4. Open the file, copy the entire JSON content.

Demo video for getting cookies: https://youtu.be/yYJ6l2jm83Q

2. Configure and Run the Actor

1. In the Apify actor input interface, paste the copied JSON cookie string into the linkedinCookie field.
2. Paste the URL of the target LinkedIn post into the linkedinPostUrl field.
3. Click Save and then Start to run the scraper.

Product demo video: https://youtu.be/-l1lOM54f0U

Support

For issues, contact: bhansalisoft781986@gmail.com