# LinkedIn Post Date Extractor

Canonical page: https://depost.ai/tools/linkedin-post-date-extractor

The LinkedIn feed labels a post by its age, as 2w or 3mo, not by the day it went up. The date is in the link anyway: every post and comment ID carries the moment it was created. Paste a link and see it to the second, in your time zone.

Free to use, with no account needed.

## How to find the date of a LinkedIn post

1. **Copy the link.** On the post, open the three-dot menu and choose Copy link to post. For a comment, open the comment’s own three-dot menu and copy the link to the comment.
2. **Paste it above.** Paste it into the box. Paste several at once if you want to compare them, one link per line.
3. **Read the date.** The exact date and time appear immediately, in your time zone and in UTC, with how long ago it was. Copy it as a sentence, or copy a batch as a table.

## Questions people ask

### How do I see the exact date of a LinkedIn post?

Copy the post’s link from its three-dot menu and paste it into the extractor above. The date and time appear straight away, to the second, in your own time zone and in UTC. The feed labels a post by its age, but the exact moment is encoded in the post’s ID, which is part of every post link.

### Why does LinkedIn show 2w or 3mo instead of a date?

That is how the feed labels age: short, and it keeps moving as the post gets older. The precise time still exists. Every post, comment, and reply gets a 19-digit ID when it is created, and the first part of that number is the creation time in milliseconds. Reading it from the link works on a phone, on a comment, and on a link someone sent you.

### Can I see when a LinkedIn comment was posted?

Yes. Open the comment’s three-dot menu, copy the link to the comment, and paste it here. Comment IDs carry their creation time the same way post IDs do, so you get the comment’s exact time, the post’s time, and how long after the post the comment arrived. A link to a reply shows the reply, the comment it answers, and the post.

### Does it work with lnkd.in short links?

Yes, with one extra step. The LinkedIn app copies short lnkd.in links, and those do not contain the post ID, so the extractor has to open the link once to find the post it points to. It only does that when you press the button, and it only works for posts that are public.

### Does it work if the post has been deleted?

For a full link, yes. The date is read from the link itself, so nothing needs to be fetched and it makes no difference whether the post still exists. A short lnkd.in link is different, because the post has to be reachable for the link to be followed.

### How accurate is the date?

To the second. We checked it against the publish time LinkedIn itself puts in the page for posts and comments, and the two agree, with comments matching to within a millisecond. What it cannot tell you is the author’s time zone, so the time is shown in yours, with UTC alongside for anyone you share it with.

### Can I check several posts at once?

Yes. Paste as many links as you like, one per line. You get every date in a list you can sort oldest first and copy as a table into a spreadsheet. With three or more posts from one account, it also tells you which day and hour most of them went out.

### Does it send my links anywhere?

Full links never leave your browser: the date is worked out from the number in the link, on this page. Only short lnkd.in links are sent, and only when you ask, to our server, which opens the link and returns the post it points to. Nothing is stored and nothing connects to your LinkedIn account.

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