If you’re looking to understand what your audience actually cares about – look at the comments. With the Lix Get Comments API, you can pull comment data from any public LinkedIn post, revealing the voices, questions, and reactions that matter most.
Whether you’re in demand generation, community building, influencer marketing, or social listening, the ability to extract and analyse LinkedIn comments at scale opens the door to next-level audience intelligence.
What is the Get Comments Endpoint?
The Get Comments endpoint retrieves the full comment thread from any publicly available LinkedIn post using its URN. It includes:
Comment text
Author name and profile ID
Timestamps
Replies and thread structure
Paging for longer threads
Endpoint:
GET https://api.lix-it.com/v1/enrich/post/comments
Required Parameter:
- post_urn – The LinkedIn URN of the post (URI-encoded).
Example Request (Python)
pythonCopyEditimport requests
url = "https://api.lix-it.com/v1/enrich/post/comments?post_urn=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7019605025920286720"
headers = {
'Authorization': "YOUR_LIX_API_KEY_HERE"
}
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
print(response.json())
How Can LinkedIn Comments Be Used?
1. Demand Generation & Content Strategy
See what real people are asking or reacting to in your market. Pull comment threads from trending posts, competitor announcements, or industry influencers, then:
- Identify recurring pain points or objections
- Extract content ideas from FAQs and debates
- Use user language to shape your messaging
Pro Tip: Pull comments from your top-performing posts to spot the topics that spark conversation—and build campaigns around them.
2. Community & Influencer Engagement
Use the Get Comments API to track who is engaging:
- Identify repeat commenters or high-value audience members
- Analyse comment tone to segment advocates vs critics
- Discover new influencers or micro-communities forming around topics
Pro Tip: Use Lix’s Profile Enrichment API alongside Get Comments to build a list of active commenters with full profile data.
3. Competitor Listening & Market Research
Your competitors’ LinkedIn posts are goldmines of insight. Use the Get Comments endpoint to:
- Monitor how the market responds to their messaging
- Spot dissatisfaction, feature requests, or market gaps
- Fuel your product marketing and positioning with first-party insights
4. Social Proof & Engagement Loops
Export comments from your own posts to:
- Identify testimonials worth amplifying
- Reply in bulk or build personalised follow-ups
- Create engagement summaries for internal reporting
Lix Makes LinkedIn Comments Actionable
While LinkedIn lets you view comments, Lix lets you extract, enrich, and act on them at scale.
Export full threads from any public post
Enrich commenter profiles for outreach or segmentation
Analyse patterns across multiple posts or authors- Automate feedback loops into your CRM, demand gen workflows, or reporting tools
Start Listening at Scale
The conversation is happening in the comments. With the Lix Get Comments API, you can finally listen—and act—at scale.
Whether you’re refining your content strategy, generating leads through community engagement, or gathering honest product feedback, comment data gives you a direct line to your audience’s thoughts.
