Import your LinkedIn analytics export
No scheduler? Export the last 90 days from LinkedIn's own creator analytics and upload the spreadsheet. It works immediately and needs no third-party account.
Why this works
The identifier is the whole story.
LinkedIn's analytics API can measure any post you name, but it cannot list your posts. Its own creator analytics export can.
Every post URL in the Top posts sheet carries the URN type and id in the slug, which is enough to build the SHARE or ugcPost URN the analytics API resolves. That is what makes this export usable where the full data archive often is not.
LinkIntel reads the sheet, registers the posts, and then measures them properly. The per-post numbers in the file itself are deliberately not imported: they cover only the exported window, and writing a 7-day figure into a lifetime column would quietly corrupt it.
Setting it up
Connecting LinkedIn analytics export
- 01
Open your creator analytics
Go to linkedin.com/analytics/creator/content and set the date range to the past 90 days.
- 02
Export
Click Export. The .xlsx downloads straight away, unlike the full data archive, which takes days to arrive.
- 03
Upload it
Drop the file into LinkIntel's setup page. No need to open it first.
What you get
- Available immediately, with no third-party account and no API key
- Every URL in the file carries a usable URN, so nothing is wasted
- Registered posts are then measured against LinkedIn's official lifetime figures
What it will not do
- LinkedIn caps the sheet at 50 posts per ranking, so this is a snapshot of your best posts in the window rather than your whole history.
- It is a one-off. There is nothing stored to replay, so picking up posts you publish later means exporting and uploading again. A scheduler connection does that part for you.
- The older Shares.csv from the full data archive still works, but its URLs often carry only an activity id, which LinkedIn's analytics API cannot measure. LinkIntel counts those and tells you.
Questions
LinkedIn analytics export, specifically
- Which file do I upload?
- The .xlsx from creator analytics. If you already have the Shares.csv from a full data archive, that works too, though its URLs are often unmeasurable.
- Why not import the engagement numbers already in the file?
- Because they cover only the exported window. LinkIntel stores LinkedIn's official lifetime figures, and writing a 90-day number into that column would silently corrupt it. The posts are registered and then measured properly.
- Do I have to do this every month?
- Only if you want newer posts and have no scheduler connected. Typefully or Postiz keep working on their own, which is why they are the recommended routes.