LinkedIn was founded in 2002 in Reid Hoffman's living room and opened the following May, when it signed up a few thousand people in its first month. It was built on a modest idea that turned out to be durable: that professional contacts are worth keeping track of even when you do not currently need them.
It stayed unfashionable for a long time and prospered anyway, because a CV that updates itself is genuinely useful. Microsoft bought it in 2016 for twenty-six billion dollars, by which point it had become the default place recruiters look and the default place people announce that they are leaving a job.
Native video arrived in 2017 and changed the texture of the feed considerably. Conference talks, training material, product demonstrations and industry explainers now circulate there in volume, and a good deal of it is genuinely instructive — which is exactly why people want to keep a copy rather than hope to find it again in a feed with no usable search.
Saving video from a LinkedIn post
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Copy the LinkedIn post address
Use the three dots on the post and choose Copy link to post, or take the linkedin.com/posts address from your browser. It needs to be the individual post rather than a profile or a company page.
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Drop it into the field above
Paste the address into the box at the top of this page. Reading starts immediately.
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Pick the resolution you need
LinkedIn usually keeps a couple of encodes, listed with their file sizes. Talks and demonstrations are often long, so the size is worth a look.
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Save it for offline viewing
Tap the row when it turns blue. It lands in Downloads on Android or the Files app on an iPhone.
Why people save LinkedIn video
Training material is the biggest reason. A well-made twelve-minute explanation of something technical is worth keeping, and the feed is a hopeless place to store anything — there is no meaningful search and no reliable way back to a post you scrolled past last month.
Professionals also save their own material. Anyone who posts talks, demos or case studies wants those files for a portfolio, a proposal or a website, and re-exporting from a social platform is a poor substitute for having the original to hand.
The third case is the ordinary one. People download a conference session or a long-form explainer to watch on a commute, which is both a better use of the time and cheaper than streaming it over mobile data.
Public posts and everything behind the login
LinkedIn shows a great deal more to a logged-in member than to a visitor, and only the visitor's view is available here.
| Where the video sits | Can it be saved? | Worth knowing |
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| Public post on a profile or page | Yes | Anything visible when you are signed out |
| Company page post, public | Yes | Product demos and announcements usually are |
| Connections-only post | No | Visibility depends on who you are |
| Private group discussion | No | Membership is what grants access |
| LinkedIn Learning course | No | Those are a paid product, not a feed post |
If a post plays for you but will not save here, that is nearly always the reason: you are seeing it because you are logged in and connected, not because it is public. Opening the same link in a private browsing window shows you what a visitor sees.
LinkedIn download questions
Can I save video from a connections-only post?
No. That post is visible because of who you are, and nothing here signs in to LinkedIn.
Does it work with company page video?
Yes, where the post is public, which product announcements and demonstrations usually are.
Can I download a LinkedIn Learning course?
No. Those are a paid product rather than feed posts, and buying access is how the instructors are paid.
Which address should I paste?
The one for the individual post, usually containing /posts/ or /feed/update/. A profile or company page on its own is not a single video.
Will the poster see that I saved it?
No. LinkedIn reports nothing of the kind, and no account is used on this side.
Why will a video that plays for me not download?
Almost always because it is not public. Try the link in a private window — if it does not play there, a visitor cannot see it.
What quality can I expect?
Whatever was uploaded. LinkedIn re-encodes on upload like everywhere else, and 1080p is a common ceiling.
Where does the file save to?
Downloads on Android, the Files app on an iPhone.
My post link has stopped working.
The post may have been deleted or its visibility changed. A prepared link also expires if the page sits open a long time before you choose a version.
Is downloading from LinkedIn appropriate?
For your own material and for public professional content you want to study offline, this is ordinary. Re-uploading someone's talk under your own name in a professional setting is a reputational problem as much as a legal one, and the audience there is precisely the one that would notice.