linkedin

Scrollhound reads LinkedIn the way a visitor who isn’t signed in sees it, plus LinkedIn’s public Ad Library. It never signs in to LinkedIn, and it never collects emails or contact details. li works as a short name for linkedin.

To read one post, article, profile, company page or ad, pass its link to read. For the words of a post’s video, use transcript.

What logged-out visitors can’t see

LinkedIn shows logged-out visitors only a few comments on a post (for example 9 of 126), and some people hide their profile from them. Scrollhound says when a list of comments is a sample, and when a profile isn’t public.

linkedin search

scrollhound linkedin search <query> [--within day|week|month|year] [--cursor <cursor>]

Posts matching a keyword, with the author, date, likes, comment count and text, about 10 a page and up to 11 pages. --within keeps only posts from the last day, week, month or year.

Best-effort

This finds public LinkedIn posts on the topic but not every one: it can miss new posts and small accounts. Every result says so.

scrollhound linkedin search "content marketing" --within month

linkedin post

scrollhound linkedin post <post>

The same as read with a LinkedIn post link: the full text, the date, likes, the comment count, images or video, and the comments LinkedIn shows to logged-out visitors. Takes /posts/…, /feed/update/… and /pulse/… (article) links.

scrollhound linkedin post https://www.linkedin.com/posts/timsoulo_the-only-competitive-advantage-left-in-content-activity-7514016542649413632-y1rz

linkedin user

scrollhound linkedin user <profile>

A person’s public profile: followers, location, about, the companies in their experience, their latest posts and their articles. Takes a profile URL or the name in it (satyanadella).

scrollhound linkedin user satyanadella

linkedin company

scrollhound linkedin company <company>

A company page: followers, industry, size, people on LinkedIn, founding year, headquarters, website, about, specialties and the latest 10 posts. Takes a page URL or the name in it (hubspot).

scrollhound linkedin company hubspot

linkedin posts

scrollhound linkedin posts <owner> [--stats] [--limit <n>] [--cursor <cursor>]

A person’s or company’s recent posts with dates and text (default 10, max 10). A company’s posts continue over up to 7 pages; a person’s profile lists their latest few. Name the owner with a URL, in/<name> or company/<name>.

The lists don’t carry likes or comment counts. --stats reads each post for them, which is one more read per post.

scrollhound linkedin posts company/hubspot
scrollhound linkedin posts in/satyanadella --stats

linkedin ads

scrollhound linkedin ads [--company <name>] [--keyword <word>] [--countries <codes>] [--since <when>] [--cursor <cursor>]

Ads from LinkedIn’s public Ad Library, about 24 a page. Each one has the advertiser, ad copy, format, button and landing page. Give --company, --keyword or both. --countries takes 2-letter codes (US,GB). --since takes 30d or a date, and the library keeps one year of ads.

LinkedIn shows dates, impressions and targeting only for ads that ran in the EU.

scrollhound linkedin ads --company hubspot
scrollhound linkedin ads --keyword "crm" --countries US --since 90d

linkedin ad

scrollhound linkedin ad <ad>

One ad in full: copy, landing page, and the dates, impressions by country and targeting where LinkedIn shows them. Takes an Ad Library URL or the ad’s id.

scrollhound linkedin ad 1605998684

Over MCP the tools are linkedin_search_posts, linkedin_get_posts and linkedin_search_ads. Single posts, profiles, company pages and ads are read with read_url, and video transcripts with get_transcript.