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How to Track What Anyone Posts on LinkedIn

What someone posts on LinkedIn, and how it performs, is public. Here is how to pull a profile's posts into a table for sales and content research.

6 August 20265 min read
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LinkedIn has quietly become one of the best content platforms for B2B, and what a person or company posts there, and how it performs, is public. Watching a prospect's or a competitor's posts to understand what they care about and what resonates with their audience is genuinely useful, and genuinely painful to do by scrolling a profile every few days.

Pulling a profile's posts as data makes it easy. You give the tool a profile, and its posts come back as rows with the text, the reactions, the comments and the date. You can read what someone is putting out and see what lands, all in a table. Here is how, and why it is worth it.

What you can pull

  • Posts from any public LinkedIn profile
  • The full text of each post
  • Reaction and comment counts
  • The post date
  • A link to each original post

Why track LinkedIn posts

What someone posts on LinkedIn tells you what is on their mind, and what performs tells you what their audience rewards. For a prospect, their recent posts are the perfect way in: reference something they wrote and your outreach stops looking like a template. For a competitor, their post history shows the topics, formats and hooks winning attention in your space, so you can learn from the ones that landed and skip the ones that flopped. It is content research and sales research in the same pull.

How to track posts with Tooltap

The LinkedIn Profile Posts Scraper takes the profile and returns its posts.

  1. Add the profiles. Paste the LinkedIn profile URLs you want to track, one per line.
  2. Set how many posts you want back per profile.
  3. Run it. Posts come back as a table with the text, reactions, comments and date.
  4. Sort or read. Order by reactions to see what resonated, or read the latest to catch what someone is focused on now.
  5. Export. Send it to CSV or push it onward for analysis or outreach prep.
Warm up your outreach. Before you message a prospect, pull their recent posts and read the top few. Opening with a genuine reference to something they said turns a cold message into a warm one, and this is the fastest way to gather that context at scale.

What people use this for

Doing this properly

The tool reads the public posts on a LinkedIn profile, the same ones visible to anyone viewing it, and returns them as data on your instruction. It works with public posts. You are charged only for the results that come back, and how you use the data, especially in outreach, is your responsibility under LinkedIn's terms and the privacy rules that apply to you.

The tool

LinkedIn Profile Posts Scraper

Pull posts from any LinkedIn profile, content, reactions and comments.

AuthorPost contentReactions & commentsReposts / quotesPost URL & date
Open the LinkedIn Profile Posts Scraper
2 credits per result. Your first 100 credits are free, no card needed.

Frequently asked questions

What does it pull from a profile's posts?

Each post with its full text, reaction and comment counts, the date, and a link to the original.

Can I track several people at once?

Yes. Add multiple profile URLs, one per line, and the tool pulls each profile's posts in the same run.

Is this useful for sales outreach?

Very. Reading a prospect's recent posts before you message them lets you reference what they actually care about, which makes cold outreach land far better.

Does it work for company pages too?

It is built for profile posts. Point it at the profiles whose content you want to follow.

What does it cost?

Two credits per post returned, and you get 100 free credits to start. A run that finds nothing costs nothing.