🚀 Transform LinkedIn Post Reactions into Content Ideas with Airtable

📝 Description

This workflow helps you to turn your LinkedIn activity into a powerful content ideation engine. It captures your most recent post reactions on LinkedIn automatically, filters them based on recency, and structures the content into Airtable—ready for brainstorming, inspiration, or publication planning.

⚙️ What It Does

• Fetches the latest liked posts from LinkedIn via a public API (rapidapi.com/Real-Time Linkedin Scraper).
• Filters posts to include only those marked as your decided reaction and posted in the last 7 days.
• Extracts the post text, author, links and more.
• Formats the data into a database-friendly structure.
• Saves the output in Airtable for easy tracking, tagging, or team collaboration.

💡 Use Cases

• Build a content idea vault from posts you admire.
• Capture inspiration from thought leaders.
• Identify trends based on what you find insightful.
• Supercharge your personal brand or newsletter by turning likes into learning.

🛠 Prerequisites

Before using this template, make sure you have:

1. ✅ A RapidAPI account and access to the linkedin-api8 endpoint.
2. ✅ Your RapidAPI key and the target LinkedIn username.
3. ✅ An Airtable account with a base/table set up.

🧰 Setup Instructions

1. Clone this template into your n8n instance.
2. Open the Fetch LinkedIn Likes node and enter:
   • Your LinkedIn username.
   • Your RapidAPI key in the headers.
3. Open the Save to Airtable node and:
   • Connect your Airtable account.
   • Link the correct base (Content Hub) and table (Ideas).
4. Set your desired schedule in the Trigger node.
5. Activate the workflow and you're done!

📋 Airtable Setup

Create a base called Content Hub and a table named Ideas with the following columns:

| Column Name | Type | Required | Notes | |-------------|------------|----------|----------------------------| | Title | Single line text | ✅ | Generated from author info | | Description | Long text | ✅ | Contains post content | | Source | URL | ✅ | Link to the original post | | Type | Single select | ✅ | Value: Linkedin