1. Access the Social Search Tab
On the left-hand menu, click on Social Search.
2. Start a New Search
Click Add a New Search and select "LI Post Search" from the dropdown menu.
Following Screen Appears:
3. Download the Blaze Chrome Extension
If you haven’t already, download and install the Blaze Chrome extension.
4. Load a LinkedIn Post Search
Head to LinkedIn and search for relevant posts.
Contains Keyword: Enter keywords to match linkedIn content. To search for an exact word, put it in quotations (""). Without quotes, the search will return postss with the keyword embedded in other words.
In the LI Post Search section, you can use the following filters:
Contains keyword: Add keywords here to be matched to post content. Posts containing either of these keywords will be collected in the next step.
Posted by (author keyword): Add keywords here to be matched to the headline of the author of a post. Posts whose author headline contains either of these keywords will be collected in the next step.
Advanced filters:
Does not contain: This will return posts that do not contain the specified keywords.
Mentions account: This will return posts that mention the entered account in the post content. Enter the LinkedIn url of the accounts in the text field.
Author has keyword title: Add keywords here to be matched to the headline of the author of a post.
Is posted by: Add accounts here who you would like to filter by. Posts that have been posted by either of these accounts will be collected. Enter the LinkedIn URL of the accounts in the text field.
You can follow this example to get the kind of posts you want to scrape.
5. Open the Blaze Extension
Once the LinkedIn posts are loaded, open the Blaze extension and navigate to the Social Search tab.
7. Title Your Segment
Give a name to the segment where you'll store the scraped post authors. This will help you easily find and manage them later.
Then, click on "Start Scraping".
Scraping will start and the posts will appear on the LinkedIn post search tab in Social Search.
One post search gets first 100 leads/authors from the LinkedIn Search.
Don't close the browser tab until the search is complete.