There is no export button, and the official data archive doesn't contain them. That surprises people who assume "download your data" means all of it. Here is what actually works and what each option costs you.
LinkedIn does let you request a copy of your data, and plenty of guides point you there. It returns your profile, connections, messages, and your own activity. Items you saved from other people are not in it.
So the archive route ends with an email, a zip file, and no saved posts. Worth knowing before you spend a day waiting for it.
The My Items screen itself has no export either. It's a list you can scroll and nothing more — no search box, no bulk select, no download. If you haven't found it yet, it lives under My Items on desktop.
Open the post on desktop, print it, and choose Save as PDF as the destination. That's the whole method, and it's genuinely fine for two or three posts you need as a record.
It doesn't scale. A few hundred saves at ten seconds each is an afternoon, and what you end up with is a folder of PDFs that is, if anything, harder to search than the list you started with.
Since there's no API path for saved posts, every working exporter does the same thing underneath: it reads the list through your own logged-in browser session, exactly as the page does when you scroll it. That's not a loophole, it's the only door.
Which means the extension is not the interesting part — what happens next is. Before installing one, the questions worth asking:
Worth being honest about the goal. Almost nobody wants a file of LinkedIn posts. What they want is to find things again — and a downloaded blob you never open has solved nothing that the unsearchable list hadn't already failed at.
So the useful version of "export" is: get them out, and land them somewhere they're searchable and stay put when the original post is deleted.
Zihin is a Chrome extension plus a library. The extension reads your saved posts through your own logged-in session — your LinkedIn credentials never leave the browser and are never sent to a server — and syncs them into a library where they're searchable by meaning rather than exact wording, auto-tagged, and kept after the original post comes down.
From there you can download the whole library, or any selection of it, as JSON — the full text, author, link and metadata for every save, in a plain file you own. Your X bookmarks and Chrome bookmarks land in the same library, so one export covers all three.
The extension works on Chrome, Edge, Brave and Arc — any Chromium browser.
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