LinkedIn Profile Posts Archive API
Scrape LinkedIn Profile Posts Archive data with one API call. Returns a LinkedIn member's posts read from their own feed rather than from a public search index, and it is **the only route that reaches a member's complete history**. Measured on one prolific member 07/09/2026: this endpoint walked about 1,800 posts back to June 2017 and then stopped because there was nothing older, while /v1/linkedin/profile/posts caps at 100 and walking /v1/linkedin/search/posts with `from_member` exhausts at about 395. How far back it reaches is a property of the member, not of this endpoint: when a page comes back with no `next_cursor`, you have everything. Each post carries the text, media, the exact publish timestamp and the full engagement breakdown including share counts. **It is not the cheapest lane.** /v1/linkedin/profile/posts returns up to 50 posts for a flat 5 credits, or up to 100 at 2 credits a post, and is the whole history for most members, so start there and come here when it is not enough, or when you need what it cannot give you: an exact publish timestamp on every row instead of an approximation that shifts between calls, the share count, and a guarantee that every row was written by the member rather than reshared by them. **To walk the archive, pass `limit=100` and follow `next_cursor` until it stops coming back.** A `limit` below 100 returns that many of the newest posts and no cursor, because a partial page cannot be continued without silently skipping the rest of it. **Pricing is metered at 5 credits per post RETURNED**, so a member who has posted fewer than your `limit` costs less than you asked for, and a member with no posts costs nothing. Reposts are excluded, so every row you are charged for is one the member wrote. A profile we cannot find comes back as an empty list and costs nothing.
Last updated October 2026Maintained by the SocialCrawl team
Returns a LinkedIn member's deep post archive, read from their own feed rather than a search index, with the exact publish timestamp, media and the full engagement breakdown including share counts.
Use it only when profile/posts (up to 100 posts; 5 credits to 50, then 2 per post) and search/posts with from_member run out of depth. Metered at 5 credits per post returned.
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What can you do with the Profile Posts Archive API?
The Profile Posts Archive endpoint gives you structured LinkedIn data with computed fields in a single request. No scraping infrastructure to build or maintain.
Example Request
curl -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
"https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/linkedin/profile/posts/archive?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fwilliamhgates%2F&limit=100"import requests
response = requests.get(
"https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/linkedin/profile/posts/archive",
params={
'url': 'https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates/',
'limit': '100',
},
headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
)
data = response.json()const response = await fetch(
"https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/linkedin/profile/posts/archive?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fwilliamhgates%2F&limit=100",
{
headers: { "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY" },
},
);
const data = await response.json();Parameters
| Parameter | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| url | Yes | The member's LinkedIn profile URL, for example https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates/. |
| limit | No | How many posts to return, 1 to 100 (default 20). Pass 100 to walk the full archive: only a full page returns a `next_cursor`. You are charged 5 credits for each post actually returned, not for the limit you asked for. |
| pagination_token | No | The `next_cursor` from the previous page. Omit it for the newest posts. |
| since | No | Only rows published on or after this date: YYYY-MM-DD (midnight UTC) or an ISO 8601 timestamp. Rows older than it are left off each page. This list is not in date order, so the walk does not stop at the date: keep following `next_cursor`, and each page costs what a page costs even when every row on it is filtered out. A row with no date is kept. `published_after`, `start_date`, `from_date`, `publish_time` (`yesterday`, `this-week`, `this-month`, `last-3-months`, `last-6-months`) and `max_age_days` are accepted and applied as `since`. |
| until | No | Only rows published on or before this date: YYYY-MM-DD (that whole UTC day is included) or an ISO 8601 timestamp. Newer rows are left off each page and the walk does not stop, so older pages follow. A row with no date is kept. `published_before`, `end_date` and `to_date` are accepted and applied as `until`. |
What does the LinkedIn Profile Posts Archive API return?
Every response follows one unified schema. Here is a real, unmodified response body, so you can see the exact fields you get back before spending a credit.
Example response
{
"success": true,
"platform": "linkedin",
"endpoint": "/v1/linkedin/profile/posts/archive",
"data": {
"items": [
{
"post": {
"id": "7511544945862926336",
"url": "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/williamhgates_results-report-2026-activity-7511544945862926336-2Ger?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=member_desktop_web&rcm=user_ff6894",
"content": {
"text": "The Global Fund has helped save 72 million lives since 2002. What an achievement. It’s exceedingly rare for an organization to work this well, this consistently, for this long.\n\nBut we can’t get complacent. Donor funding cuts last year forced low-and middle-income countries to make impossible choices about how they address national health issues, including HIV, TB and malaria. Their resilience in spite of that has been remarkable, but there’s still so much work to do. Supporting the Global Fund is one of the best investments we can make in the health and well-being of future generations.",
"media_urls": null,
"thumbnail_url": null,
"duration_seconds": null
},
"author": {
"username": "williamhgates",
"display_name": "user_d666ea",
"avatar_url": null,
"verified": null
},
"engagement": {
"views": null,
"likes": 400,
"comments": 81,
"shares": 29,
"saves": null
},
"flags": {
"nsfw": null,
"spoiler": null,
"pinned": null,
"deleted": false
},
"published_at": "2026-10-01T21:57:52.850Z",
"ext": {
"published_at_epoch": 1790891872850,
"post_type": "regular"
}
},
"computed": {
"engagement_rate": null,
"language": "en",
"content_category": "other",
"estimated_reach": null
}
},
{
"post": {
"id": "7511520890451296256",
"url": "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/williamhgates_carnegie-mellon-university-announces-historic-activity-7511520890451296256-tv-D?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=member_desktop_web&rcm=user_ff6894",
"content": {
"text": "Ken’s incredible generosity will make a huge, lasting impact.",
"media_urls": null,
"thumbnail_url": null,
"duration_seconds": null
},
"author": {
"username": "williamhgates",
"display_name": "user_d666ea",
"avatar_url": null,
"verified": null
},
"engagement": {
"views": null,
"likes": 387,
"comments": 49,
"shares": 27,
"saves": null
},
"flags": {
"nsfw": null,
"spoiler": null,
"pinned": null,
"deleted": false
},
"published_at": "2026-10-01T20:22:17.593Z",
"ext": {
"published_at_epoch": 1790886137593,
"post_type": "regular"
}
},
"computed": {
"engagement_rate": null,
"language": "en",
"content_category": "other",
"estimated_reach": null
}
}
],
"total": null,
"dropped": 0
},
"credits_used": 10,
"request_id": "req_example000000",
"cached": false,
"pagination": {
"next_cursor": null,
"has_more": false,
"page_size": 2
},
"credits_remaining": 9999,
"source": "captured",
"captured_at": "2026-10-02T07:31:43.280Z",
"redacted": true
}Live sample illustrating the unified response shape. Field values reflect the record you query.
How does the LinkedIn Profile Posts Archive API work?
Send a GET request with your API key and get back clean, structured JSON in our unified schema. Supported computed fields are populated when the source provides the required inputs.
Method
GET
Response
JSON
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import requests
response = requests.get(
'https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/tiktok/profile',
params={'handle': 'charlidamelio'},
headers={'x-api-key': 'sc_YOUR_API_KEY'}
)
data = response.json(){
"success": true,
"platform": "tiktok",
"data": {
"author": {
"username": "charlidamelio",
"followers": 152400000
},
"engagement": {
"likes": 12400000000,
"engagement_rate": 0.087
},
"metadata": {
"language": "en",
"content_category": "lifestyle"
}
}
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