LinkedIn video downloader: native posts, Learning courses and event replays

LinkedIn is the narrowest platform on this site - three tools, and all three are yt-dlp underneath. That is not an oversight; it is what happens when most of the interesting video sits behind a paid seat.

  • Data checked September 2026
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Two things to know before you start

1. Native video and LinkedIn Learning are not the same job

LinkedIn has two very different kinds of video on it. A native post or an event replay is public, or at least visible to anyone with the link, and a downloader can read it the same way it reads any other feed video. LinkedIn Learning sits behind a paid seat, so a tool has to carry your session to see anything at all, and the course player hands out separate audio and video tracks that have to be muxed back together.

That split is why the short list here is short: the three tools below are all yt-dlp or something built on top of it, and yt-dlp is the only project that maintains dedicated LinkedIn extractors.

2. Anything behind a login needs cookies, and cookies expire

For a Learning course or a members-only post you have to hand the tool your browser cookies. Two practical consequences: it stops working the moment you sign out of that browser profile, and a cookie file is a live credential - treat it like a password, not like a config file.

If a grab suddenly fails and nothing else changed, re-export the cookies before you start debugging anything else. That's the cause most of the time.

One more thing: your seat is not a licence

Paying for LinkedIn Learning buys you access, not redistribution rights. Saving a lesson to watch on a flight is a very different thing from posting it in a team drive. Same for native posts: the person who uploaded the clip owns it. See our Terms of use.

Every tool that handles LinkedIn

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    Seal

    A yt-dlp front end for Android, open source. Supported sites: whatever yt-dlp handles, 1,800+.

    Bulk downloadAudio onlySubtitlesOpen sourceMobile app

LinkedIn downloads: common questions

Can I download a LinkedIn Learning course?

Yes, if you have a paid seat and you pass your browser cookies to the tool. yt-dlp ships a linkedin:learning extractor that handles single lessons and whole courses.

Without a valid session you get nothing - there is no free route into Learning content, and any site claiming otherwise is worth being suspicious of.

Why does a public LinkedIn post fail to download?

Usually the post is not as public as it looks. LinkedIn shows plenty of content to signed-in members only, and the page renders fine for you because you are signed in.

Pass cookies from the browser profile where you can see the post. If it still fails, the video may be an external embed (YouTube, Vimeo) rather than a native upload - in that case grab it from the original platform instead.

Is there a browser extension or an online tool for LinkedIn?

Not in our list, no. LinkedIn is a small enough target that the general-purpose extensions have not bothered, and the online tools tend to skip anything that needs a login because their servers cannot hold your session.

So the practical options are yt-dlp on the command line, Stacher if you want a window instead of a terminal, or Seal on Android.

Can I grab a whole event replay including the audio?

Yes. Event replays are served as regular adaptive streams, so yt-dlp and the two front ends pull the video and audio tracks and mux them into one file. Nothing special is needed beyond being able to view the replay.

Long replays are large - a two-hour session at 1080p is comfortably over a gigabyte - so check your disk before you start.

Does any of this break LinkedIn's terms?

LinkedIn's user agreement prohibits scraping and copying content off the service, so assume that automated downloading is against it regardless of how you do it.

We list what the tools can do; deciding whether to do it is on you. Keep it to your own lawful use, don't redistribute, and read our terms and LinkedIn's.