📊 Extract LinkedIn post engagement data with Airtop

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💡 Pro Tip — If you’re pulling LinkedIn data through HTTP requests or dealing with API restrictions, there’s a community node called ScraperNode that handles this natively. It has dedicated scrapers for profiles, companies, jobs, and people search — you just pass a URL and get structured data back.

Description

LinkedIn Post Engagement Data Extractor

Use Case

This automation is designed to extract key engagement metrics and audience data from a LinkedIn post. It’s useful for analyzing the impact of content and identifying engaged users for lead generation, marketing, or research purposes.

What It Does

Given a LinkedIn post URL and an Airtop profile, this automation extracts:

Total number of reactions
Total number of comments
Total number of reposts
A list of users who reacted or commented, including:
- Their full name
- Their job title
- A link to their LinkedIn profile

Input Parameters

Name	Description	Required
airtop_profile	The name of an Airtop Profile that’s logged into LinkedIn	Yes
linkedin_post_url	The full URL of the LinkedIn post you want to analyze	Yes

How It Works

The workflow starts when triggered manually or from another workflow/form.
It maps input fields for Airtop profile and post URL.
Airtop opens a browser session and loads the LinkedIn post.
An AI agent is instructed to extract engagement data via prompt-based analysis.
The response is parsed and output in a structured format.

Output Format

The output will be a structured JSON object with the following fields:

{
  "interactors": [
    {
      "name": "Jane Doe",
      "job_title": "Marketing Director at ExampleCorp",
      "profile_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/janedoe"
    }
    // ... more interactors
  ],
  "reactions_count": 153,
  "comments_count": 21,
  "reposts_count": 8
}

Read more about how to [extract Linkedin post comments and reactions](https://www.airtop.ai/automations/linkedin-post-engagement-data-extractor-n8n).

## 🔗 Nodes Used

Execute Workflow Trigger, n8n Form Trigger, Airtop

## 📥 Import

Download [`workflow.json`](workflow.json) and import into n8n:
**Workflow menu → Import from File**

[📖 Importing guide](../../../docs/importing-templates.md) · [🔑 Credential setup](../../../docs/credential-setup.md)