Automating the monitoring of peers' posts on LinkedIn

What are you trying to achieve?

My goal would be to have a workflow allowing me to get each LinkedIn post published by a list of peers I made, then get those posts analyzed by an AI. The AI’s outputs would then be added to a google sheet database. Ideally I would be able to do that as soon as a new post is published, but I am not sure it’s possible.

Steps taken so far

I am very new to this and I’ve tried experimenting, but I ended up being stuck by not being able to get LinkedIn user ID (or URN if I got this right) so being able to experiment further was impossible. My experience with APIs, JSON, and all those tools is nonexistant so it might not help.

Welcome to the Make community!

Make doesn’t have a module for fetching posts from user profiles (not organizations).

You can also suggest for it to be made in the Idea exchange. Don’t forget to search for it first, just in case someone already suggested it, so that you don’t end up creating a duplicate.

In the meantime, an advanced workaround is to use another web scraping service like RapidAPI that has LinkedIn scraping APIs to probably do what you want. However this is a polling (non-instant) method.

I would suggest completing the Make Academy before jumping into building a complete scenario. If you need specific assistance when you are building a scenario it’s easier to help you then. Otherwise, you can also hire a professional by posting a request in the Hire a Pro category.

Here are some useful links and guides you can use to learn more on how to use the Make platform, apps, and app modules. I found these useful when I was learning Make, and hope they might benefit you too —

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Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.

@samliew

P.S.: Investing some effort into the Make Academy will save you lots of time and frustration using Make.

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Hi Samliew,

Thanks for your answer and your advice, I will make sure I complete the Make Academy and use the resources you kindly linked to be able to better understand the scenario I am trying to build !

I can confirm to you that I am trying to fetch posts from organizations profiles, it it changes anything to your answer, please let me know !

Thanks again,

Rayan

I’ll still recommend using RapidAPI. It’s much less painful than scraping LinkedIn yourself.

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I’ll be using that then, many thanks for your help !

Hi @R4yan,

In case you are also looking to scrape the comments under a post you can consider using Browserflow for LinkedIn!

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