How do I download a video from LinkedIn?

The test that answers the question in ten seconds

LinkedIn is not like Instagram or Reddit, where nearly everything worth saving is openly readable. It is a network built around being logged in, and how much of it a signed-out visitor sees varies from post to post. That single fact decides whether a video can be saved, and it is easy to check before you install anything.

Open the post's link in a private or incognito browser window. You will be signed out there. If the post loads and the video plays, it is publicly reachable and an extractor can read the same page. If instead you get a sign-in wall, a truncated preview or a prompt to join, then the video is not publicly reachable — and no downloader changes that, because a downloader is just another signed-out visitor.

This is worth doing first because it turns a vague frustration into a clear answer. A great many complaints that an app could not download a LinkedIn video are really complaints that the post was never public, and the ten seconds spent in an incognito window makes the difference obvious.

It also tells you something useful about your own posts. If you publish a video and want a colleague outside your network to see it, the same test shows you what they will get.

• Plays in an incognito window — publicly reachable, and a link download has a good chance
• Sign-in wall or join prompt — not publicly reachable, and that is the end of it
• The test is about the *post*, not your account — being signed in yourself tells you nothing about what a downloader can see
• Company-page posts and public thought-leadership posts are the ones most often open; personal posts vary by the poster's settings

Getting the right link across

LinkedIn buries its share control slightly, which is why people end up copying the wrong thing.

On the post itself, open the three-dot menu in its top corner and choose Copy link to post. That gives you the post's own address — usually containing /posts/ or /feed/update/ — which is what identifies one piece of media. Then open Savvy, tap the Paste button beside the link field, and tap Download.

If LinkedIn's share sheet offers Savvy directly, take it: the link is handed over and the download starts on its own, with nothing for you to tap afterwards. Where it is offered varies by device and by LinkedIn version, so treat it as a bonus rather than the plan.

One thing to be precise about, since downloader apps are routinely vague here: Paste is an ordinary button. Savvy does not read your clipboard in the background and switching to the app does not start anything. Paste reads the clipboard once, checks the link is one it recognises, and fills the field. The download waits for you.

• Copy link to post from the three-dot menu — the address you actually want
• lnkd.in short links are recognised and followed
• Article links (containing /pulse/) may hold embedded video that is hosted elsewhere — what comes back depends on where the video really lives
• A profile link (/in/…) or a company page link (/company/…) will not work: those are pages full of things, not a single video
• A link pasted from an email, a message or a browser address bar behaves exactly like one copied in the app

Anything behind a login stays behind it

This is the part worth stating without hedging, because LinkedIn has more locked material than most platforms and people reasonably wonder which side of the line their case falls on.

A downloader reads a page the way a signed-out browser does. It has no account, no session and no privileged access, so whatever LinkedIn withholds from a signed-out visitor is withheld from it too. That covers posts visible only to connections, content inside private groups, videos sent in messages, event replays gated to registrants, and subscription learning material. None of that is reachable from a public link, and this guide has no workaround for any of it, because there is not one to have.

Two practical consequences follow. If the video is yours, you are not stuck: you posted it from a file, and going back to that file — or to whoever produced it — always beats extracting a re-encoded copy of it. If the video is someone else's and it is gated, the route is to ask them. In a professional context that is usually a short message and an entirely normal request, and it gets you a better file than any extraction would.

There is also a middle case worth naming. A post can be public today and restricted tomorrow, because the poster changed a setting or the post was deleted. A link that worked last month and fails now has usually moved, not broken.

Why people want their own LinkedIn video back

The reasons people land on this page are unusually consistent, and they are almost all archival rather than acquisitive.

The commonest is recovering your own work. A campaign clip was posted eighteen months ago; the agency that made it has moved on; the master file is on a laptop that was replaced. What remains is the post. Downloading it is a recovery route — worse than the original, but real.

Close behind: keeping a public talk, product demo or conference clip for internal reference, so a team can watch it without a live connection or a shared login. And a third, quieter one — building a portfolio or a case-study deck from work you published under a company account and no longer have raw files for.

None of that changes what is reachable, but it does change the advice. If the video matters to you professionally, the post is the worst copy of it that exists. Keep your masters somewhere durable, and treat a download as the fallback rather than the archive.

Quality, and what each tier costs

Once the link resolves, Savvy lists the resolutions that post genuinely exists in and you choose. Standard definition, up to 480p, is free — drawn from a daily allowance rather than from any balance.

LinkedIn re-encodes what is uploaded, as every platform does, and the ceiling you see in the picker is the ceiling for that post. Downloading cannot add detail that was never uploaded, so if the highest entry is 720p, spending on a larger file gets you the same picture in more megabytes. That caveat matters more on LinkedIn than elsewhere, because so much of what is posted there began as a screen recording, a webinar capture or an export from a slide deck — all of which are soft to begin with, whatever resolution they claim.

Where a video was genuinely produced and published at higher resolution, the tiers are:

• SD video, up to 480p — free, from the daily allowance
• HD and Full HD video — 10 coins, or one HD credit
• 2K video — 15 coins
• 4K video — 20 coins
• Images and audio — 5 coins

Watermarks, credit, and reusing what you save

Savvy adds no watermark, and LinkedIn does not stamp a mark of its own onto video the way some platforms brand their exports. What travels with a saved file is whatever was already burned into the picture: a company logo in the corner, a lower-third with a speaker's name, baked-in subtitles, or another platform's watermark on something cross-posted. Those are pixels in the frame. Removing one means cropping and re-encoding, which costs picture quality and is not something a download does differently.

Reuse deserves more care here than on a consumer platform, because the context is professional and the consequences are too. A video published on LinkedIn is usually someone's work product, often made under contract, and frequently carrying a client's brand. Saving it to watch, to reference internally, or because you commissioned it is ordinary. Re-uploading it under your own name, cutting it into your own marketing, or presenting it as your work is a different matter — and the fact that it downloaded easily is not a licence.

The professional norm is also the easy one: ask. A short message to the poster costs nothing, gets you a better file than any extraction, and settles the permission question in writing.

Where the file lands, and what a failure means

Finished downloads go to your device's Downloads folder, into a Savvy directory with a subfolder per platform — so a LinkedIn video arrives at Downloads / Savvy / LinkedIn. From there it is an ordinary MP4: it appears in your gallery, plays in any video app, and can be dropped into a deck or shared onward like any other file.

Library inside the app lists everything you have saved, with search and filters, which is considerably faster than scrolling a gallery. Storage shows what each file costs you in space and clears several at once.

If a link refuses, work through it in order rather than tapping Download again. First check the post in an incognito window — if it is gated, that is your answer and no retry will change it. If it is genuinely public, the failure is a page-shape problem: a LinkedIn link is tried against four extraction providers in priority order and falls through automatically, so an empty result means the whole chain came back empty. Waiting and retrying the same link later does work, because both LinkedIn's markup and the providers behind Savvy keep changing.