Linkedin Hashtags

[Emil_Kos]

Hi,

Do anyone know how to get a list of all Linkedin hashtags with the number of people following it?

Propably there is some smart way of getting those values but I don't have a clue how to do it. 

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=analytics&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%...

[clmc9601 · Accepted solution]

Hi @Emil_Kos,

One way to do this with brute computer iteration is to generate the URLs in Alteryx (see the pattern in the screenshot) and run them through the download tool. The download tool will grab the HTML, and you can parse it for the specific attributes highlighted. Hopefully, there is a more sophisticated way than this!

Alternately, LinkedIn does have a developer portal for graceful API interactions. I skimmed the site and did not see anything about extracting content. It seemed more for marketing tracking than content like Twitter's API.

I hope this helps!

[Emil_Kos]

Hi @clmc9601,

This is very helpful. Thank you!

I was thinking about using the download tool but I don't have a clue how to get a list of hashtags that I want to check. Do you have any suggestions?

Regarding the API it seems you are right. I don't think we can the data about the hashtags with it. 

[clmc9601 · Accepted solution]

Hi @Emil_Kos,

You're welcome! As far as a list of hashtags, that just depends on what you want to follow. You could grab hashtags off a list like this (I googled "top LinkedIn hashtags"), look at what other people are tagging (image below), etc. Once you have them, you can save them to a Text Input tool or an Excel sheet, then dynamically create the urls from there. Does that help?

[Emil_Kos]

I think this is a good aproach.

Thank you!