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How to Search for an Old Comment You Made on LinkedIn
Want to search for an old comment you made on LinkedIn, especially by the original post's author? LinkedIn has no such search. Here are the workarounds that work.
By Animesh Kudake, Co-founder, Apna Project
The short version
- LinkedIn has no keyword search and no author filter for your own comments, so you cannot search for an old comment by the post's original author.
- Your Activity section lists every comment you have left in reverse chronological order, which is the only native record you get.
- The fastest recovery is often the other person's profile: open their posts and scan for your reply where you left it.
- Browser find (Ctrl or Cmd plus F) and a Google site search can jump you to a specific comment far quicker than scrolling.
- A full data export gives you a permanent, searchable file of every comment with dates, which the app itself will not.
Find it through the other person's profile
Here is the trick that solves the "by original author" version of this question. If you remember whose post you commented on, you do not need your own history at all. Go to that person's profile, open their Activity, and look at their recent posts. Your comment is still sitting in the thread where you left it.
This is often faster than scrolling your own feed, because one person posts far less often than you comment across everyone. Scan their last few posts, expand the comments, and yours will be there with your name on it. If they post constantly, sort to their most recent activity and work backward from the date you think you replied.
The same logic helps when you want to continue a conversation rather than just find it. Rereading the thread in context also makes your follow-up better, which is the whole point of good commenting strategy on LinkedIn: the reply that lands is the one that answers the actual sentence, not a generic nod.
Use your browser and Google to jump faster
Two outside tools beat scrolling.
The first is your browser's own find function. Load your Comments activity, scroll a few times to pull a chunk of history into the page, then press Ctrl and F on Windows or Cmd and F on a Mac and type a word you remember writing. The browser highlights it instantly. You still have to load the page far enough back, but find turns a needle-in-a-haystack scroll into a single keystroke once the content is on screen.
The second is a Google site search. In Google, type your search terms followed by the site filter for LinkedIn. Public posts and their comment threads are sometimes indexed, so a distinctive phrase you wrote can surface the original post directly. This is hit or miss because much of LinkedIn sits behind a login, but when it works it is the fastest route of all, and it costs you nothing to try.
Export your data when you need the receipts
If you regularly need to find old comments, stop fighting the interface and get the file. LinkedIn lets you request a full copy of your data from your settings, and the archive includes a spreadsheet of your comments with the text and the date. That file is searchable in a way the app never will be: open it, use find, and you have your answer in seconds.
The export takes a little time to generate and it is a snapshot, not live, so you request a fresh one when you need current data. But for anyone who treats commenting as real work, keeping a recent export is the closest thing to the search box LinkedIn refuses to build. It is also the only method that survives deletion decisions and profile changes on the other person's end.
When it is worth the hunt
Most of the time you do not need any of this. You get a notification, you tap it, you are in the thread. The hunt only matters for older comments with no live notification, and for those, match the method to what you remember: the author sends you to their profile, a phrase sends you to browser find or Google, and a date sends you to your export.
We built Commenti to help people comment more consistently, and the honest lesson from that work is that retrieval is a symptom. If you find yourself constantly digging for what you said, the real fix is keeping a light note of the threads worth returning to, so the follow-up is scheduled rather than excavated. Commenti will not un-bury a comment LinkedIn has hidden three thousand scroll-lengths down, and no tool can, because the search simply is not there to call. What a workflow can do is stop you needing to.
Until LinkedIn ships a real comment search, these workarounds are the whole toolkit. Start with the person, fall back to your browser, and keep an export for the comments you cannot afford to lose.
Frequently asked questions
Can you search your LinkedIn comments by keyword?
No. LinkedIn does not offer a keyword search for the comments you have written. Your Activity section lists them in date order only, so the practical fix is to load that list and use your browser's find function to jump to a word you remember.
Can I find a comment by the person whose post I commented on?
Not through any built-in filter. The reliable route is to visit that person's profile, open their posts or their own activity, and scan the threads where you replied. If you remember roughly when you commented, this is usually faster than scrolling your own history.
How far back does my LinkedIn comment history go?
Your Activity section can surface comments from years back, but it loads in batches as you scroll, so old entries take patience to reach. For anything you truly need to keep, request a full data export, which returns a dated file of every comment you have posted.
Does deleting a comment remove it from my activity?
Yes. Once you delete a comment it disappears from your Activity feed and from the original thread, and it will not appear in a future data export either. There is no trash or recovery bin for deleted LinkedIn comments, so treat deletion as permanent.
Written by the team building Commenti on real LinkedIn growth data. Found an error? Tell us and we’ll fix it. Accuracy beats winning.
Co-founder, Apna Project
Co-founder at Apna Project, where he helps founders and agencies turn ideas into products. Writes here on LinkedIn growth and what actually earns attention in a comment section. Commenti is the LinkedIn comment automation tool by Ampliflow.
Someone replied to a comment you left weeks ago, and now you want to reread the whole thread. Or you remember making a sharp point on a founder's post and you want to link back to it. So you go looking, and you hit the wall almost everyone hits: LinkedIn will not let you search for an old comment you made on LinkedIn the way you would search your own email.
There is no keyword box for your comments. There is no filter by the person whose post you replied to. That specific request, finding a comment by the original post's author, is one of the most searched LinkedIn questions with the least satisfying official answer. The good news is that the workarounds are reliable once you know them. We leave and reread a lot of comments building Commenti, so this is the exact process we use.
LinkedIn has no search box for your own comments
Let us be clear about the limitation first, because half the frustration is not knowing it is a dead end. LinkedIn gives you a chronological list of your activity, and that is it. You cannot type a phrase and jump to the matching comment, and you cannot say "show me everything I said on Priya's posts." Those features simply do not exist inside the product today.
That means every method below is really a way to get around a missing search feature. Some lean on the platform, some lean on your browser, and one leans on LinkedIn's data export. Pick based on how much you remember: the word you wrote, the person who posted, or the rough date.
Start in your Activity section
Your Activity section is the native record. Open your own profile, find the Activity block, and choose the Comments tab. Everything you have posted appears newest first. We cover the full path, including the mobile version, in our guide on how to find your comments on LinkedIn, so bookmark that if you get stuck on the navigation.
The catch is that this list is infinite scroll, not search. To reach a comment from six months ago you keep scrolling until LinkedIn loads that far back. It works, but it is slow, and it is the reason the next two methods exist.