# ScraperSocial, free: LinkedIn post search API

> Search public LinkedIn posts by keyword and get the matches back as JSON.

ScraperSocial's LinkedIn post search API on its Free trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 posts. It returns 3 of the 7 key fields we check: Text, Engagement, Author.
We haven't run ScraperSocial through [our LinkedIn post search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-post-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 126 plans for LinkedIn post search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.116 per 1,000 posts or less.
[Coresignal's $49 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/coresignal/49-monthly-mini-post-v2-employee-post-search-es-dsl/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 posts: as little as $0.0000038. Coresignal's $49 monthly plan covers up to 12,960,000 pages a month at no extra cost. Each page holds 1,000 posts.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/scrappa/10-pack/llms.txt), [Up2Data](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/up2data/25-pack-10k-post-v1-search-posts/llms.txt) and [DataForB2B](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/dataforb2b/499-monthly/llms.txt) are the best LinkedIn post search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/scrapersocial/free
- [LinkedIn post search API: 18 providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-post-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrapersocial.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.scrapersocial.com/v1/linkedin/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scrapersocial.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://scrapersocial.com/linkedin/search-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: ScraperSocial (https://scrapersocial.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 43%
- Text: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 posts: $0.00
- Per: result
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 230 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search public LinkedIn posts by keyword and get the matches back as JSON.

## Data

- Freshness: 7 days
- Searches in: LinkedIn's search
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to use the API to: access private, login-gated or paywalled content, or attempt to, harass, stalk, dox or surveil individuals, or build profiles of specific private individuals across platforms, send spam or unsolicited outreach at scale, violate applicable law, including data-protection law that applies to your use of the data in your jurisdiction, resell raw API access wholesale under your own brand without written permission (building products on top of the API is what it's for, that's fine and encouraged), probe, overload or interfere with the service, or evade rate limits and metering. You are responsible for how you use the data you retrieve, including compliance with the target platforms' terms as they apply to you and with intellectual-property and privacy rights in downloaded media.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 25 credits
- Enough for: 25 results

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.33
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: limit, cursor, fresh
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/linkedin/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free trial
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, post URL, text, reactions, comments, reposts, date, author name, next cursor, has more

## ScraperSocial's plans (6)

- [ScraperSocial, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 43% complete, 7 days
- [ScraperSocial, top-up from $4.50](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/scrapersocial/top-up-from-4-50/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 43% complete, 7 days
- [ScraperSocial, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/scrapersocial/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 43% complete, 7 days
- [ScraperSocial, $5 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/scrapersocial/5-monthly/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 43% complete, 7 days
- [ScraperSocial, $54 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/scrapersocial/54-yearly/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 43% complete, 7 days
- [ScraperSocial, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/scrapersocial/contact-us/llms.txt): 43% complete, 7 days

## ScraperSocial's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1/linkedin/search`: [ScraperSocial, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)

## ScraperSocial's APIs (17)

- [ScraperSocial: Facebook page API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-page-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: Facebook post API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-post-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: Instagram post API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: Instagram profile API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: LinkedIn post comment API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-comment-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: LinkedIn post details API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-details-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: Threads post API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/threads-post-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: Threads profile API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/threads-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: TikTok profile API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: TikTok video API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: X post API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: X profile API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/scrapersocial/top-up-from-4-50/llms.txt)

## ScraperSocial: LinkedIn post search API alternatives

- [Buska, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/buska/99-monthly/llms.txt): $3.96 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [lobstr.io, $20 monthly, Starter, POST /v1/runs, LinkedIn Search Scraper, full](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/lobstr-io/20-monthly-starter-post-v1-runs-linkedin-search-scraper-full/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [Edges, $54,780 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/edges/54780-monthly/llms.txt): $4.11 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [Captapi, $275 pack](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/captapi/275-pack/llms.txt): $4.40 per 1,000, 43% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

- https://scrapersocial.com/api/linkedin?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/linkedin/profile-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/linkedin/search-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing