Why groups need Advanced Mode
Unlike company pages and public posts, a LinkedIn group's feed is members-only — LinkedIn won't return it to a logged-out request. So the group exporter runs in Advanced Mode: you paste your own li_at session cookie, and the export reads the feed as you, read-only, at a human-like pace. Your credentials are never stored, and the export leaves no trace in the group. You must already be a member of the group you're exporting.
What you can do with it
- Community research — pull a niche professional group's feed to see which topics and authors get the most engagement.
- Content benchmarking — measure likes, shares and reactions across a group to find the formats that land with that audience before you post there yourself.
- Author mapping — export the feed to build a list of the most active contributors and the companies they represent.
- Trend tracking — re-export on a schedule to watch how a group's conversation shifts over weeks.
How the export pages the feed
The exporter starts at the newest post and pages backwards through the group feed, following LinkedIn's own pagination token. Each page adds a batch of posts until the group's history is exhausted or your plan's result limit is reached. If you apply a date range, posts older than the window are dropped as it pages.
Plan limits
Per-post size scales with your plan. Free (no signup): up to 100 results per post. Personal: 5,000. Premium: 50,000. Business: 250,000 — see pricing for the full feature comparison and API tiers for the API-specific limits.