A quick guide to downloading your own LinkedIn data so it can be imported here — your profile, experience, connections, endorsements, and (with the larger export) your posts and activity records.
1. Request your archive
- On LinkedIn, click Me (top-right avatar) → Settings & Privacy.
- Open Data Privacy → Get a copy of your data.
- Choose one:
- Download larger data archive — everything LinkedIn holds: profile, connections, messages, and your posts / shares + engagement. Recommended.
- Or tick specific files (Profile, Connections, Shares, …) for a smaller, faster export.
- Click Request archive and confirm your password.
2. Wait for the email
| Archive | Contents | Ready in |
|---|---|---|
| Fast / basic | Profile, connections, skills, endorsements, messages | ~10 minutes |
| Complete | All of the above + posts, shares and impression/reaction analytics | up to 24 hours |
📌 Your posts and activity records (reactions, comments, shares you made) are only in the complete archive — the fast one does not include them. LinkedIn does not export per-post impressions or the engagement your posts received; the dashboard attributes activity to posts by time, as a proxy.
LinkedIn emails you a download link when the archive is ready.
3. Send it over
Download the .zip LinkedIn gives you and upload its CSV files into your space's content/archive/ collection (see How the LinkedIn types work). The plugin's types read them from there — experience, skills, connections, and (from the complete export) your posts and activity.
The analytics dashboard does not read the CSVs directly: it reads a precomputed AnalyticsData node beside the dashboard. Generate it from the export with scripts/linkedin-ingest.py <export-folder> out.json and import the result as that node; until then the dashboard stays empty while the archive grids already show your data.
Direct link to the settings page: linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/download-my-data