How to Find Your Old LinkedIn Content

This article explains one way to find old content that you have posted to the LinkedIn social network. Hint: the title is "Find your old LinkedIn content", not "find your old content on LinkedIn".

Originally posted to: https://deliverystack.net/2025/11/17/how-to-find-your-old-linkedin-content/

If you have posted to LinkedIn many times, it can be difficult to find your own old content on the site. Maybe the app provides a solution, or there is some other technique, but I occasionally pull an archive and search that.

Because it takes some hours to obtain an archive, it can be a good idea to obtain an archive in advance of needing it. In general, it’s a good idea to download this periodically, even if you don’t expect to need to find your old content. To do so, on the LinkedIn website:

1. Click the arrow under the icon that represents your profile.
2. Click Settings & Privacy.
3. Click Data privacy.
4. Click Get a copy of your data.
5. Select Download larger data archive, including connections, verifications, contacts, account history, and information we infer about you based on your profile and activity.
6. Click Reqeuest archive.
7. Wait for the email from LinkedIn.

You should retrieve one email relatively quickly with a "basic" export and another email after several hours with "complete" export. Keep the complete export handy for when you need it to find your old content.

The zip attachment to the "complete" export contains two relevant CSV (comma-separated values) files:

• Comment.csv: Contains comments that you have posted.
• Shares.csv: Contains posts that you have shared.

You can open these files in a Spreadsheed application, but it seems that either LinkedIn does not encode CSV files correctly or certain spreadsheet programs have defects parsing them. You can open them in a text editor instead. Then:

1. Search for keywordds that you believe appeared in your content. 2, Find the matching line.
2. Copy the URL from that line into your operating system's clipboard.
3. Paste that URL into the address bar of a browser.

If you did not create a post about an article that you published, or if you do not have many articles, it may be easier or necessary to scroll through your articles. To do so:

1. Click the arrow under the icon that represents your profile.
2. Click Posts & Activity
3. Click the More drop-down.
4. Click Articles.
5. Scroll down until you find the article.

I actually recommend keeping a git project and using VSCodium to draft before posting, so that if LinkedIn removes something of yours, you have a local archive. I use create a folder structure to represent years and months and use github to back it up.

Note that LinkedIn archives do not include media such as images and videos that you have uploaded. You may want to keep original files in the same project or elsewhere.

If you have other techniques to find your old content on LinkedIn, please comment on this article.