---
title: "LinkedIn Post Details API"
method: GET
path: "/v1/linkedin/post-details"
tags: ["LinkedIn"]
---

# LinkedIn Post Details API

`GET /v1/linkedin/post-details`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.captapi.com`
- URL: `https://api.captapi.com/v1/linkedin/post-details`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP bearer
  - API key in header `X-API-Key`

Get a LinkedIn post — text, author, reactions, and comments count as structured JSON.

The LinkedIn Post Details API lets you fetch full metadata and key stats for LinkedIn post details with a single REST call. No OAuth, no infrastructure to maintain, and no platform SDKs — send the request, get clean structured JSON back. Pass cache=true to serve from the 24h cache (0 credits on hit); default is always fresh. Selected profile endpoints also accept cacheMaxAge=1d|3d|7d|14d|30d.

Docs: https://captapi.com/apis/linkedin-post-details

## Query parameters

- `url` string, required
- `cache` boolean

## Response `200`

Success. The data object for this endpoint.

- object
  - `success` unknown, required
  - `data` object, required
    - `platform` string: Platform identifier for this response (matches the endpoint's platform).
    - `type` string: Content type of the item.
    - `url` string: Canonical URL of the item.
    - `text` string: Text content.
    - `publishedAt` string: Publish date (ISO 8601) when the platform exposes an absolute timestamp.
    - `author` object
      - `name` string: Name of this author item.
      - `headline` string: Profile headline.
      - `url` string: Canonical URL of the item.
    - `engagement` object
      - `likes` integer: Like count (number).
      - `comments` integer: Comment count.
      - `reposts` integer: Repost count.

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad request: wrong platform URL, unknown endpoint, or an invalid parameter value. Not billed.
- `401`: Missing, invalid or revoked API key. Not billed.
- `402`: Not enough credits for this request. Not billed.
- `404`: The resource does not exist or is not public. Not billed.
- `422`: A required parameter is missing or has the wrong type. Not billed.
- `429`: Rate limit reached. Wait for Retry-After seconds. Not billed.
- `502`: The platform could not be reached or returned nothing usable. Retryable, not billed. 503 and 504 use the same envelope.

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