How to Export LinkedIn Post Reactions to a CSV (Without Sales Navigator)

LinkedIn has no export button for reactions — by design, like every social platform. To get the list into a spreadsheet you need a tool that fetches it for you. The good ones also filter it by job title, so you export a prospect list, not a wall of 600 names. No Sales Navigator required.

So you found a post with 600 reactions and your buyers are obviously in there. Problem: LinkedIn won’t let you export that list. No download button, nothing. Here’s how to get those names into a spreadsheet in a couple of minutes — instead of copy-pasting until you rage-quit around name #80.

Why there’s no export button (and why that’s normal)

LinkedIn is a social platform, and like every social platform it’s built to keep engagement happening inside the app — so it doesn’t hand you an “export everyone who reacted” button. The reactions list is read-only and scroll-only: you can see every name, but you can’t select, sort, filter, or download.

This isn’t a LinkedIn conspiracy, either. Facebook, X, Instagram — none of them give you a one-click export of who engaged with a post. It’s just how these platforms work. So if you want that list as data, you need a tool that does the fetching. That’s the whole job.

What the manual workaround gets you (not much)

The free version is copy-paste: open the reactions list, paste each name and headline into a sheet, repeat. It technically works and costs nothing.

It also falls apart fast. A 600-reaction post is roughly two hours of mechanical copy-paste, and people quit around row 80 — so rows 81–600 never make it into your sheet. And you stillhaven’t filtered: you’ve just rebuilt the same unsorted wall of names in Excel. You did a bunch of work to get a worse version of the problem. (We cover the native view in depth in how to see who liked a LinkedIn post.)

The fast way: paste a URL, get a CSV

The tool-based version takes a few minutes:

1. Define your ICP once. Target titles, an optional seniority range, titles to exclude. Reuse it forever.
2. Paste the post URL. The tool fetches everyone who reacted and commented, and dedupes anyone who did both.
3. It classifies each person by job title against your ICP — relevant vs not.
4. Download the CSV. Name, LinkedIn URL, headline/title, a category label, a confidence score, and whether they liked, commented, or both.

The difference from the manual version isn’t just speed — it’s that you export a filteredlist. The 600 names become “the ~40 worth a message,” already sorted. It’s the same engine behind ICP-filtered engagement prospecting if you want the strategy side.

Do you need Sales Navigator for this?

No. This is one of the most common questions and the answer’s a clean no — you don’t need Sales Navigator (or even Premium) to export reactions. Sales Nav is a search-and-filter product; it doesn’t export a post’s reaction list either. A purpose-built tool like ReactedTo works straight from the post URL, no Sales Nav subscription attached. If you’ve been holding off because you thought you needed the expensive tier, you don’t.

Is it safe? Will I get my account banned?

Fair question — a lot of “LinkedIn tools” are browser extensions that log into your account and scrape from your session, which is exactly the kind of thing that gets accounts flagged. ReactedTo works differently: it runs in the cloud, doesn’t ask for your LinkedIn password, and doesn’t install an extension or use your cookies. You paste a public post URL; it fetches public engagement data. You’re not automating your own account, so you’re not poking the bear.

One honest scope note while we’re being straight with you: this exports job titles / headlines, not company size, industry, location, or email. And you can’t export post views — LinkedIn doesn’t expose those to anyone, so any tool claiming otherwise is fibbing. What you get is a clean, filtered list of people and their titles.

Export your first post free — 150 engagers on the trial, no card. Try ReactedTo free · See pricing (free trial, then $29/mo for 4,000 engagers).