How-to
How to find people who engage with a competitor's LinkedIn posts
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By the Bingle team · Published 24 October 2026 · Researched from the sources listed below, drafted with AI help and checked against those sources
Short answer
How do you find people who engage with a competitor's LinkedIn posts?
Open the competitor's company page or its executives' profiles, go to their recent posts, and click the reaction count and the comments to see who engaged; LinkedIn has no export, and some people appear only as "LinkedIn Member". To do it every week without the clicking, Bingle watches the accounts you name, ranks the engagers by fit with your buyer and drafts the message, while PhantomBuster, Clay and Crustdata pull one post's engagers into a table. Either way, remove the competitor's own staff, its partners and other vendors before you write to anyone.
Tools that find competitor engagers for you
They come in two kinds: tools that watch the accounts you name and bring you new engagers as they appear, and tools that pull the engagers off a post you hand them. Trigify was the default for this until its app closed on 22 October 2026 (what to use instead). If you'd rather start free, the manual way is further down the page.
How we compared
We read each tool's own pricing, product and help pages on 24 October 2026 and kept only what those pages say, with links under Sources. We didn't run paid trials, so check anything that matters to you on a free trial before you buy.
We make Bingle, so weigh its entry and our pick with that in mind. The order isn't a ranking: each tool says who it suits and where it falls short.
| Best for | Starting price |
|---|---|
| Valley | |
| Sales teams that want engagers qualified, researched and messaged | From $199/seat/mo, or $149/mo billed quarterly |
| Gojiberry | |
| A one-off import from a post URL plus ongoing tracking | $99/mo (Pro); 7-day trial with a card |
| Bingle | |
| Watching named competitors and writing the LinkedIn message | 7 days free, no card; then from US$49/mo |
| PhantomBuster | |
| Exporting one post's engagers to a spreadsheet | From $69/mo ($56 billed yearly), per a July 2026 review |
| Clay | |
| Teams already building prospect lists in Clay | Free plan; Launch from $185/mo |
| Crustdata | |
| Developers putting engager data into their own product | $20 in free credits; live post endpoints on enterprise plans |
| Deepline | |
| GTM engineers working from Claude Code or a terminal | $0/mo plus usage at $0.10 a credit; Growth $395/mo |
| Letterdrop | |
| Funded sales teams up against competitors with big sales teams | From about $24,000/yr; $2,000 for a 30-day pilot |
1. Valley
Sales teams that want engagers qualified, researched and messaged · From $199/seat/mo, or $149/mo billed quarterly
Valley's competitor post engagers play watches the profiles you pick, captures new engagers continuously, checks them against your ICP and researches each one before writing in your voice. Its page quotes five monitored profiles at the entry price, and it never names the competitor in the message, which we agree with.
LinkedIn sending is included; email is an add-on on Starter and included on Plus ($299 a seat).
Watch out for: Five profiles goes quickly if you track a competitor's company page plus its CEO, head of marketing and two busy sellers. Per-seat pricing adds up for a team, and the 7-day trial needs a payment method.
2. Gojiberry
A one-off import from a post URL plus ongoing tracking · $99/mo (Pro); 7-day trial with a card
Gojiberry does both jobs. Its Competitors Engagement signal tracks people interacting with your competitors' LinkedIn pages, and its manual import takes a post URL and pulls in the likes, the comments or both, at 1 credit per 30 leads.
People then pass an ICP filter with toggles to leave out service providers, freelancers and consultants, and a list of excluded keywords; Open to Work profiles are excluded by default. Pro is $99 a month for 2 agents.
Watch out for: The agent contacts leads on LinkedIn and email itself. Review Mode holds leads for your approval first, but it's a checkbox in each campaign's settings, so make sure it's ticked before the agent starts writing.
3. Bingle
Watching named competitors and writing the LinkedIn message · 7 days free, no card; then from US$49/mo
You add the competitors and influencers to watch in Brain > Market, and Bingle reads who likes and comments on their posts, every 6 hours by default or straight away with Run now. People who don't fit your ideal customer are left out; the rest are ranked by fit and timing, with the post and its date shown.
Rejecting a lead for a company reason leaves out everyone at that company, which clears a competitor's staff in one go. Bingle then drafts the LinkedIn message for your OK and sends it from your own account. Starter is US$49/mo, Growth US$79/mo.
Watch out for: It's built to watch accounts over time; for every engager on one old post in a spreadsheet today, a scraper is more direct. LinkedIn only, with no email finding.
4. PhantomBuster
Exporting one post's engagers to a spreadsheet · From $69/mo ($56 billed yearly), per a July 2026 review
PhantomBuster's library includes a LinkedIn Post Commenter and Liker Scraper and a Post Engagers to Lead Outreach flow: give it a post URL, get back the people who liked and commented.
Its pricing page wouldn't load for us, so these figures come from ZoomInfo's review of 16 July 2026 (ZoomInfo competes with it): Start at $69 a month with 20 execution hours, Grow $159, Scale $439, and a 14-day trial with no card that caps downloads at 10 rows per file.
Watch out for: The same review says it works from your captured LinkedIn session, the kind of automation LinkedIn says it doesn't permit, and quotes PhantomBuster: there are no guaranteed safe numbers. You get raw engagers to sort yourself.
5. Clay
Teams already building prospect lists in Clay · Free plan; Launch from $185/mo
Clay is a spreadsheet for prospecting data with 150+ data providers. One of its templates scrapes the commenters on popular posts into a Clay table, qualifies them against your criteria and adds the keepers to a HeyReach campaign.
The free plan has 100 data credits, 500 actions a month and 200 rows per table. Launch starts at $185 a month with 2,500 data credits and 15,000 actions.
Watch out for: You build and maintain the table, and each enrichment spends credits. A lot of machinery for a weekly list from three competitors.
6. Crustdata
Developers putting engager data into their own product · $20 in free credits; live post endpoints on enterprise plans
Crustdata is a data API. Its Posts API returns recent posts by a person or company, or posts mentioning a keyword, with data on the people who engaged. The live post endpoints cost 1 credit per post plus 5 credits per 100 reactors and 5 per 100 comments.
New accounts get $20 of free credits on self-serve endpoints, but those live post endpoints are on enterprise plans, which start at four figures a month.
Watch out for: There's no screen for a sales rep; someone has to write code.
7. Deepline
GTM engineers working from Claude Code or a terminal · $0/mo plus usage at $0.10 a credit; Growth $395/mo
Deepline gives a coding agent such as Claude Code a CLI and SDK over 113+ data sources, saving the logic as TypeScript you own. Its homepage example has the agent pull competitor executives' LinkedIn engagers through Crustdata, verify emails and launch campaigns; Deepline labels it illustrative.
Pay as you go has no platform fee, with usage at $0.10 a credit. Growth is $395 a month plus usage, with $200 of monthly credits.
Watch out for: You build the system yourself, so it suits people who are happy reading and changing code.
8. Letterdrop
Funded sales teams up against competitors with big sales teams · From about $24,000/yr; $2,000 for a 30-day pilot
Letterdrop calls itself a competitive intent platform, looking for accounts in an active evaluation with a named competitor. Its workflow builder has a Competitor & Influencers trigger for leads who liked or commented on a tracked post, and actions that send a connection request, a DM or an InMail.
It says it fits best when each competitor has roughly 30 or more sellers. Annual contracts start around $24,000, and a 30-day pilot costs $2,000.
Watch out for: It's priced for funded sales teams, and its own reference page calls likes and comments a soft signal, weakly correlated with buying.
Our pick
For a one-off pull of every engager on an old post, a scraper into a spreadsheet is quickest. For doing this every week, Bingle is our pick: it watches the competitors you name, ranks the people who engage by fit with your ideal customer, and gives you a message about what they engaged with, ready for your OK.
What LinkedIn shows you on a post
A competitor's company page has a Posts tab. For a person, open their profile, go to Activity, press Show all activity and filter to posts. Under each post, two things matter.
The reaction count. Click the number and LinkedIn opens the list of people who reacted, split into tabs by reaction type, with each person's name and headline. It loads in batches, so keep scrolling inside the list until it stops.
The comments. LinkedIn sorts them by Most relevant, and its help centre says some comments only show under Most recent, so switch every time. One thoughtful comment is worth more than a dozen likes.
Two quirks catch people out. Reactions on a repost stay on the repost, so a popular competitor post can have its engagers spread across several URLs. And the count won't match the people you can see: members with restrictive privacy settings, or outside your network, can appear as "LinkedIn Member" with no name. Nothing on your side reveals them, and a tool that claims it can should make you suspicious.
How far back you can look
LinkedIn doesn't publish a cutoff for how long a post's reactions stay visible, and older posts still show theirs. What fades is how much the list tells you. People who have since deactivated or been restricted drop out of the visible list, more so on older posts, and the headline you see is today's, so someone who reacted a year ago as Head of Ops may have moved on.
On profiles, LinkedIn's help centre says members can view and delete their own content up to two years old from their Activity page, and that an Activity section is hidden after 360 days with no activity. Members who set activity to private show little or nothing.
In practice, work the last four weeks. A like from last week is a reason to write; a like from last spring is trivia. For a first list, going back two or three months shows who keeps turning up, but date every row.
The limits you hit doing it by hand
- No export. LinkedIn has no download for a post's reactions or comments, so the manual route is copy and paste into a sheet.
- Monthly search limits. On a free account, searching for profiles, browsing People Also Viewed and viewing a Page's People tab count towards LinkedIn's commercial use limit, which resets at midnight PST on the 1st of each month.
- A daily cap on profile views. Past LinkedIn's daily limit you temporarily can't open profiles of people outside your connections, and it won't lift the block on request. Clicking through every engager on several posts in one sitting can get you there.
- Closed comments. A poster can turn comments off or limit them to 1st-degree connections.
- Time. Valley, which sells the automated version, says manual comment mining works as long as somebody has an hour a day for it. Treat that as a vendor's estimate.
Which accounts to watch
A competitor's company page is the obvious place and often the weakest; its engagers lean towards staff, friends of staff and job hunters. Buyers tend to read individuals: the founder or CEO, the head of marketing, a product lead who writes about the problem, and the sellers who post every week. Check each one's Activity, not only their latest post.
Add the influencers your buyers follow and events your competitor sponsors or speaks at. Event posts pull in people who went, who are often closer to buying than someone liking a product announcement.
Put each person in your sheet once, with a column for every post they turn up on. Someone on two competitors' posts in the same month is probably comparing options, so look at them first.
Who to take off the list
A raw engager list is mostly people you shouldn't message. Strip these out before anyone writes a line.
| How to spot them | What to do |
|---|---|
| The competitor's own staff | |
| Their current company is the competitor. Check the experience section, since headlines lag. | Remove. In Bingle, rejecting one for a company reason leaves out everyone at that company. |
| Its agencies, partners and resellers | |
| Agency, partner, consultant or reseller in the headline; often the first "Congrats team" comments. | Remove, unless partners are a market for you. |
| People at other vendors | |
| They work at another competitor, or at a company selling to the same buyer. | Remove, and keep a list of those companies so you only check them once. |
| Recruiters and job seekers | |
| An Open to Work badge, or talent and recruiting titles, mostly on hiring posts. | Remove. |
| Your own customers | |
| Already a customer in your CRM. | Don't prospect them. Tell their account owner, because they may be looking around. |
| People already in your pipeline | |
| An open deal or a recent conversation. | Pass it to whoever owns the deal. It's context, not a new lead. |
| The competitor's customers | |
| Their company is in the competitor's case studies, or they say "we use this" in a comment. | Keep, but treat it as a switching conversation and wait for a reason, like a complaint or a renewal. |
What's left is worth working. For what to say, and why you shouldn't mention the post they liked, read LinkedIn outreach to competitor engagers. For how long this signal stays useful, see LinkedIn buying signals.
Manual, scraper, or a tool that watches
| Approach | Cost | Account risk | How fresh | Best when |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| By hand | Free on a basic account | Low; you're only up against LinkedIn's search and profile-view limits | As often as you look | You follow 2 or 3 competitors and want to see who engages before paying for anything |
| Scraper or data API (PhantomBuster, Clay, Crustdata, Deepline) | From $0 plus credits, to enterprise API contracts | Highest for scrapers that run on your LinkedIn session; data APIs work from an API key | Each run, or on a schedule you set | You need a large one-off list or you're building your own system |
| Watching tool (Bingle, Valley, Gojiberry, Letterdrop) | From US$49 a month to about $24,000 a year | Varies; ask each vendor how it reads LinkedIn | Every few hours to daily | You want new engagers every week without the clicking |
LinkedIn's help centre says it doesn't permit third-party software that scrapes or automates activity on its site, and that accounts using it risk restriction. Every tool above reads LinkedIn from outside in some way, Bingle included, so ask how much load each puts on your own account. To compare the watching tools on other signals and team costs, see our roundup of LinkedIn buying signal tools.
Questions
Can you see who liked a competitor's post on LinkedIn?
Yes, if you can see the post. Click the reaction count to see who reacted and open the comments; people with restrictive privacy settings or outside your network may appear only as LinkedIn Member.
Can you export the people who liked a LinkedIn post?
Not from LinkedIn itself. PhantomBuster, Gojiberry's post import and Clay templates pull a post's engagers into a table, but they read LinkedIn from outside, which its rules discourage.
Why can't I see everyone who reacted to a post?
The list loads in batches, so scroll to the end inside it. Beyond that, private members show as LinkedIn Member, deactivated accounts drop off while still counting, and reactions on a repost sit on the repost rather than the original.
Can I see who follows a competitor's LinkedIn page?
No. LinkedIn's help centre puts a Page's follower list in that Page's admin analytics, so you can see how many people follow a competitor but not who they are.
Is it OK to message people who engaged with a competitor's post?
Yes, if they fit who you sell to. Write about the post's topic, not the fact they liked it ([our outreach guide](/linkedin-outreach-to-competitor-engagers)).
Sources
- LinkedIn Help, View your activity or a member's activity. read 24 Oct 2026
- LinkedIn Help, Manage shared content and profile activity. read 24 Oct 2026
- LinkedIn Help, Comment on posts and reply to a comment. read 24 Oct 2026
- LinkedIn Help, Your network and degrees of connection. read 24 Oct 2026
- LinkedIn Help, Commercial use limit. read 24 Oct 2026
- LinkedIn Help, Data security limits on profile views. read 24 Oct 2026
- LinkedIn Help, Follower analytics for your LinkedIn Page. read 24 Oct 2026
- LinkedIn Help, Prohibited software and extensions. read 24 Oct 2026
- Linked Panda, Why LinkedIn doesn't show all reactions on a post. published 2 Jul 2026; Linked Panda sells an engagement tracker
- Trigify, The Trigify team is joining HubSpot. read 24 Oct 2026
- Valley, Competitor post engagers. read 24 Oct 2026
- Valley, Plans and pricing. read 24 Oct 2026
- Gojiberry Help, How to import leads from LinkedIn manually. read 24 Oct 2026
- Gojiberry Help, How your AI agent finds leads automatically. read 24 Oct 2026
- Gojiberry Help, What is Review Mode. read 24 Oct 2026
- Gojiberry, home page and pricing. read 24 Oct 2026
- PhantomBuster, sitemap listing its LinkedIn post automations. read 24 Oct 2026
- ZoomInfo, PhantomBuster review. published 16 Jul 2026; ZoomInfo competes with PhantomBuster
- Clay, Pricing. read 24 Oct 2026
- Clay, Scrape viral posts' comments template. read 24 Oct 2026
- Crustdata, Social Posts API. read 24 Oct 2026
- Crustdata Docs, Pricing. read 24 Oct 2026
- Crustdata, Pricing. read 24 Oct 2026
- Deepline, home page. read 24 Oct 2026
- Deepline, Pricing. read 24 Oct 2026
- Letterdrop, AI reference summary. updated Aug 2026, read 24 Oct 2026
- Letterdrop Help, Understanding nodes in workflows. read 24 Oct 2026
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