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How to export LinkedIn post commenters

Someone who comments on a LinkedIn post did more than tap a reaction. They read it, formed an opinion, and attached their name to it, and the comment itself often reveals their pain, their stack, or their company stage in one sentence. That makes commenters the highest-intent slice of any post's engagement and the first group worth exporting. LinkedIn gives you no way to download them, so this guide walks through the honest manual method first, then the automated version with Folkscope.

The manual way

  1. Open the post and click the comment count to expand the thread. Switch the sort from 'Most relevant' to 'Most recent' so the full thread loads instead of a featured subset.
  2. Click 'Load more comments' until the button stops appearing. Long threads take several clicks, and replies stay collapsed under each comment until you expand them separately.
  3. For each commenter, copy their name, headline, profile URL, and the comment text into a spreadsheet. Keep the comment text, since it's the qualification evidence you'll want when you write the follow-up.
  4. Expand the reply threads too. A reply is a comment with extra context, and disagreements in replies often surface the strongest opinions and the clearest pain.
  5. Flag the obvious noise as you go: the author's colleagues, 'Great post!' one-liners, and people tagging a friend.

The mechanics are manageable on one post. The cost shows up when you try to do it weekly across ten tracked accounts: expanding threads and chasing collapsed replies across every post eats an hour, and it produces a spreadsheet of headlines you still have to qualify one by one. Comment text also goes stale fast. A commenter you find twelve days later has moved on, and the warm opening the comment gave you has cooled.

The Folkscope way

  1. 1

    Track the post's author

    Add the profile or company page in Folkscope. Every comment on their posts gets captured, replies included, and the daily sync picks up late comments that arrive after your first look.

  2. 2

    Read the enriched commenters

    Each commenter arrives with role, company, and location attached, sitting next to the text of what they wrote, so qualification takes seconds instead of a profile visit.

  3. 3

    Score against your ICP

    The daily ICP scoring sorts the thread for you: a VP at a company your size rises to the top, and the cheerleaders sink.

  4. 4

    Route them while the comment is fresh

    A Flow can push qualified commenters to HubSpot, Salesforce, or a Slack channel the same day. Try it on one post with an active thread and compare it to your last manual pass.

What you end up with

You get every commenter as an enriched, scored lead with the comment preserved as context. The people worth a reply surface at the top instead of hiding in a collapsed thread, and a Flow can land them in your CRM or Slack the day they commented, which is when a topical follow-up still reads as natural.

Frequently asked questions

Will exporting commenters get my LinkedIn account restricted?

Doing it by hand won't, and neither will Folkscope, because Folkscope never touches your account. It reads public engagement through authorized APIs, with no browser extension and no LinkedIn login on your side. The tools that do put accounts at risk are scraping extensions that automate your own session, which LinkedIn's User Agreement prohibits and its detection systems actively look for.

Should I contact commenters differently from likers?

Yes. A commenter handed you context, so use it: reply in the thread first if the post is yours, then follow up in DMs about the point they raised. Anchor the message on the topic rather than on the act of commenting, because 'I saw your comment' reads as surveillance when the post belongs to someone else.

Do replies to comments count as engagement worth capturing?

They do, and they're easy to miss manually because LinkedIn collapses them. A reply often carries more signal than the parent comment, especially in a disagreement, where people explain what they actually believe. Folkscope captures replies along with top-level comments, so the thread's whole cast ends up in your lead list.

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