Exporting engagement data
How to export LinkedIn post likers
A post takes off and 400 people react to it. Somewhere in that list are buyers, and right now the list lives inside a modal that disappears when you close it. Marketers running campaigns, founders whose posts get traction, and SDRs mining a competitor's viral post all end up wanting the same thing: those names in a spreadsheet or a CRM. LinkedIn has no export button for reactions, so you either copy names by hand or capture them with a tool that reads public data. This guide covers both, honestly.
The manual way
- Open the post and click the reaction count under the text, the small number next to the like and heart icons. A Reactions modal opens with everyone who reacted.
- Scroll the modal to load more names. LinkedIn loads them in small batches, so a big post means a lot of scrolling, and on very popular posts the list can stop loading before you reach the end.
- Record each person by hand: open their profile in a new tab (middle-click so the modal keeps your place), then copy their name, headline, and profile URL into a spreadsheet.
- Use the reaction-type tabs at the top of the modal to prioritize. Someone who picked 'Insightful' or 'Love' over the default thumbs-up made a slightly more deliberate choice.
- Look up company and role for anyone whose headline is vague, since a headline like 'Building things' tells you nothing about fit.
Copying a reactions modal by hand is fine for a post with 30 likes and painful past 100. There's no select-all and no CSV option anywhere in the UI, the modal loses your place if you close it, and on heavily-reacted posts the list can stop loading before you've seen everyone. The bigger problem is repeatability: the export you did today says nothing about who reacts tomorrow, so you're back in the modal every time the post picks up new likes.
The Folkscope way
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Add the account that published the post
Track the LinkedIn profile or company page in Folkscope. It picks up the post and every reaction on it, and the daily sync keeps catching new likers as the post continues to travel.
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Let enrichment run
Each liker becomes a lead with role, company, and location attached, so the vague headlines resolve into something you can qualify.
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Filter with your ICP score
Folkscope scores every liker against your ICP daily. Sort by score and the 400-name pile shrinks to the couple dozen who actually match who you sell to.
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Export or route them
Send the list to Google Sheets through a Flow, or push qualified likers straight into HubSpot, Salesforce, or Slack. Start with one real post that got traction and see what the list looks like.
What you end up with
You end up with every liker on the post as an enriched lead: name, role, company, location, and an ICP score that updates daily. New reactions keep flowing in through the daily sync, so the list stays current without another manual pass. The qualified slice lands wherever your team works, whether that's a sheet, a Slack channel, or the CRM.
Frequently asked questions
Is it against LinkedIn's terms to export post likers?
Reading who reacted to a public post is something LinkedIn shows to any member. Browser extensions that scrape the reactions modal do violate LinkedIn's User Agreement, and LinkedIn restricts accounts it catches running them. Folkscope takes a different route: it pulls public engagement data through authorized APIs and never logs into or automates your LinkedIn account, so there's nothing on your account for LinkedIn to flag.
Can I see everyone who liked a very large post?
Manually, you often can't. The reactions modal loads names in batches as you scroll and can stop well short of the full count on posts with thousands of reactions. Folkscope captures reactions through its daily sync and retains history, which gets you a far more complete picture than scrolling ever will.
Are likers even worth exporting? A like is such a weak signal.
One like is weak, agreed. Volume is what makes likers interesting: a like takes one second, so likers outnumber commenters ten to one, and inside that volume sit people who fit your ICP exactly. Score the list instead of reading it. A liker who matches your ICP and works at a target account deserves a follow-up even if the signal that surfaced them was small.
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