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The Hog pricing and alternatives: LinkedIn post search API

43% complete: 3 of the 7 key fields we checkSee the 7 fields

$0.00per 1,000 postsThe cheapest of the 70 plans we rank by price is Fetchin, $475 monthly, at $0.019 per 1,000 posts.Fetchin, HarvestAPI and AnyAPI are the best LinkedIn post search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: 500 free calls every month one of The Hog's 2 plans
Call: POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/linkedin/keyword-posts The Hog's only call for this API
API: LinkedIn post search API one of The Hog's 12 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 3 of the 7 key fields we check. Text, Engagement, Author.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 500 requests a month, enough for 500 pages.
  • One call. You send keyword to POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/linkedin/keyword-posts. You can also send config.limit, config.matchMode, config.sortBy and config.dateFilter. The call returns the matching posts.
  • Who can get it: anyone the waitlist invites. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

The Hog: LinkedIn post search API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 posts.

This planThe Hog, freeFetchin, freeHarvestAPI, freeAnyAPI, free, trial key, POST /v1/run/linkedin.search_posts_full, LinkedIn Post Search (full)Anysite, freeSociaVault, free
$ per 1,000 posts$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness43%100%86%57%86%71%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0$0
Enough for500 pages a month1,000 pages, once250 pages, onceabout 12 pages, once1,000 pages50 pages, once
Freshnessunknownliveliveunknownunknownunknown
Who can get itanyone the waitlist invitesanyone 18 or over with the legal capacity to enter into the termsanyoneanyone 18 or over, with no account, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party listanyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority in their jurisdiction, who has not had a credit plan before, starting the trial takes a cardanyone

Every LinkedIn post search API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-26.

  1. docs.thehog.ai/api/scrapers/linkedin-keyword-posts.md
  2. docs.thehog.ai/api/scrapers/linkedin-profile.md
  3. docs.thehog.ai/concepts/credits
  4. docs.thehog.ai/concepts/sync-vs-async
  5. docs.thehog.ai/llms.txt
  6. docs.thehog.ai/reference/rate-limits
  7. thehog.ai/pricing
  8. thehog.ai/privacy
  9. thehog.ai/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Text
  • Media, not in the answer
  • Links and tags, not in the answer
  • Reshared post, not in the answer
  • Engagement
  • Author
  • Audience, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 posts$0.00
Perpage of 500
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Most per search500
Also pays forfrom the same budget: POST /api/v1/companies/search · POST /api/deep-research · POST /api/enrichments · POST /api/v1/people/search · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/image/deepfake-detection · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/linkedin/finder · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/linkedin/profile · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/linkedin/company · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/linkedin/company-posts · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/linkedin/profile-posts · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/linkedin/post-reactions · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/linkedin/post-comments · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/linkedin/profile-reactions · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/linkedin/profile-comments · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/instagram/followers · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/instagram/following · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/instagram/post-comments · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/instagram/post-details · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/instagram/posts · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/instagram/profile · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/tiktok/profile · POST /api/v1/platform/scrapers/web/scrape · POST /api/v1/search
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch LinkedIn posts by keyword.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou agree not to: Use the Services in violation of any law or third-party right. Attempt to access, probe, or disrupt our systems or other users’ data. Reverse engineer, scrape, or resell the Services except as permitted. Upload malicious code or use the Services to send spam or abusive content.
Plan
Pay$0
You get500 requests a month
Enough for500 pages a month
Rate limit
Per second10
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendkeyword. Optional: config.limit, config.matchMode, config.sortBy, config.dateFilter
MethodPOST
Path/api/v1/platform/scrapers/linkedin/keyword-posts
About the plan
Plan500 free calls every month
Who can get itanyone the waitlist invites
The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, post URL, text, date, author name, author headline, author URL, author username, reactions, comments, reposts, is repost, reposted by, post type, content data, hashtags

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