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title: "Scrape Creators API / Search Posts"
description: "ScrapeCreators tool scrapecreators-linkedin-search-posts on looot: input fields, $0.00188 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python."
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Finds public LinkedIn posts, feed updates, and Pulse articles by keyword using Google Search, then returns post details such as description, author, media, images, like count, comment count, and published date when LinkedIn exposes them publicly. Results depend on what Google has indexed, so this is best-effort and not a complete LinkedIn-native search. Use date_posted for recent posts and pass the returned cursor to fetch the next page. Cursors are limited to pages 1 through 11; cursor 12 or greater returns a 400 response.

- **Tool id:** `scrapecreators-linkedin-search-posts`
- **Provider:** [ScrapeCreators](/providers/scrapecreators)
- **Job:** [Posts linkedin search](/reference/jobs/linkedin-search-posts) (`linkedin.search.posts`)
- **Price:** $0.00188 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `cursor` | string | no |   |
| `date_posted` | string | no |   |
| `query` | string | yes |   |

## Output

Shape of the run's `result`, checked against 3 real answers:

```txt
{ posts: { url, name, image, media, author: { url, name, image, followers }, images: string[], comments: { text, author, linkedinUrl }[], likeCount, uploadDate, description, commentCount, thumbnailUrl, datePublished }[], query, cursor, success, credits_charged, credits_remaining }
```

## Run it

Every call needs your API token in `LOOOT_TOKEN`; [Sign in](/get-started/sign-in#use-the-token-in-scripts-and-agents) shows how to get one. Each run also needs a new idempotency key, so a retry never pays twice. With `wait: 30` the answer comes back inline when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise you get the running run back: poll `GET /v1/runs/<runId>`.

Example input with placeholder values:

<CodeGroup>

```bash curl
curl -X POST "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"scrapecreators-linkedin-search-posts","input":{"query":"<query>"},"wait":30}'
```

```js JavaScript
const response = await fetch("https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.LOOOT_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    endpointId: "scrapecreators-linkedin-search-posts",
    input: {
      query: "<query>",
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);
```

```python Python
import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LOOOT_TOKEN']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "endpointId": "scrapecreators-linkedin-search-posts",
        "input": {
            "query": "<query>",
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))
```

</CodeGroup>

To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send `job:linkedin.search.posts` as `endpointId`; see [the job page](/reference/jobs/linkedin-search-posts).