How to Export Your LinkedIn Saved Items in 2026 (Download Your Data, Step by Step)

LinkedIn has one official export for saves: Settings & Privacy → Data Privacy → Download your data, with a dedicated Saved Items category. It is exactly what the name suggests — for every article or post you tapped the bookmark on, you receive the saved date and the URL, never the content. Here is the verified path, what the archive does and does not include (newsletters: mostly nothing), and how to turn a two-column table into a research library.

What “saved” actually means on LinkedIn

LinkedIn’s Save button quietly became one of the more useful exports to request, because the Saved Items category includes a timestamp. The catch is scope:

• Links, not copies. A saved post is another member’s data; LinkedIn says plainly that it will only provide your own personal data and not that of other members (as of Oct 5, 2026, per https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1339364). Deleted posts rot in the archive the same as they do in your Saves screen.
• Jobs are separate. Saved jobs, saved job alerts, and applications each have their own categories — Saves is articles/posts, not the whole “saved” concept.
• Newsletters are the hole. Followed newsletters are not an exportable category, and issues you saved-as-read are not itemized either. More on that below.

If your Saves have outgrown the in-app view — same failure mode as X bookmarks — this is how you get them out.

Your export routes at a glance

Route	What you get	File format	Limits	Gotcha
Data Privacy → Download your data → Saved Items	Saved date + URL per item	Per-category data files in the archive	Email within minutes (specific) to 48 hours; link valid 72 hours	Desktop only; no content, just links
Same tool → Saved Jobs / Saved Job Alerts / Job Applications	Date saved, title, company, posting URL	Per-category data files	Fast category (10-minute batch)	LinkedIn-hosted job URLs expire when postings close
Same tool → Company Follows / Member Follows	Who and what you follow, with dates	Per-category data files	Follows only, not their content	Not a newsletter archive; no issues exported
Manual: open a saved article, save it with your browser	The real page, title and all	Whatever your manager stores	One item at a time	Mostly external articles, so it fetches cleanly — the highest-fidelity route for keepers
EU/EEA/Switzerland members: Member Portability APIs	Programmatic access to your LinkedIn data	API output	Regional eligibility	Developer route; documented in LinkedIn's help article on Member Portability APIs

Step-by-step: request the Saved Items export

LinkedIn’s help article “Download your data” lays out the current path (as of Oct 5, 2026, per https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1339364):

1. On linkedin.com, click the Me icon at the top of your homepage.
2. Select Settings & Privacy (this is also reachable directly at https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/data-privacy/).
3. Click Data Privacy on the left rail.
4. Under the How LinkedIn uses your data section, click Download your data.
5. Choose Select the data that you’re looking for, tick Saved Items — add Saved Jobs, Company Follows, or Connections if you want them in the same run.
6. Click Request archive, then open the email and download within 72 hours.

Three rules the article states, worth repeating because they surprise people: the download must be run from a personal computer — the feature is not available on mobile; a specific-category request is emailed within minutes while a large all-category download takes up to 24 hours; and categories arrive on different clocks, with Saved Items in the 48-hour batch. You only receive categories that apply to your account — no certifications file if you never listed certifications, and no saved-items file if the Saves are empty.

What the file actually contains

Per LinkedIn’s own category descriptions:

• Saved Items — “the saved date and URL of a post, article, or other content.”
• Saved Jobs — date saved, job title, company name, and the LinkedIn posting URL.
• Saved Job Alerts — the search phrase and date.
• Articles — URLs of articles you published (not the ones you saved).
• Company Follows / Member Follows — names and follow/unfollow dates.
• Reactions, Comments, Shares — dates and URLs of your engagement, if you tick them.

So the Saves export is a two-column truth: when you saved it, and where it pointed. Two practical consequences:

1. LinkedIn post URLs have a paywall of login. A saved linkedin.com/posts/... link will not resolve for anyone not signed in, and third-party fetchers get a stub — your own archive will hold links you cannot reopen in ten years. External-article saves (the ones that redirect to publishers) are the durable ones.
2. Job links are perishable. LinkedIn posting URLs expire when the job closes; export your Saved Jobs into your records the day you still need them, not at reference-check time.

And the honest gap: newsletters. You can follow newsletters and save their posts, but LinkedIn’s published export-category list has no newsletters row. Company Follows and Member Follows cover who you follow; the issues themselves are not an exportable dataset. For anything beyond the listed categories, LinkedIn directs you to its Data Access Request form (as of Oct 5, 2026, per https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/TS-DCR) — slow, and no promise of structure. EU/EEA/Swiss members additionally have the programmatic route it documents at https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a6214075.

Turn the table into a library

The export is a datestamped URL list — raw material, not a knowledge base.

Fastest good result: triage and re-save. Work the newest half of the saved-items list. Anything that is really an external article — the industry post, the hiring benchmark, the essay — open it and save it properly with the bookmark manager in your browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari are all covered, plus iOS and Android). You get the title, the full page, and your own tag, in the place where you will actually search for it later.

Bulk route: convert and import. Feed the saved-items file to a script or an AI assistant and have it write a simple CSV with a URL column (keep the date column for your own records — see why below). Marqly imports generic CSV, browser bookmark HTML, Raindrop HTML, Pocket’s list.csv, as .html, .htm, or .csv, up to 10 MB free / 30 MB Pro, 10,000 bookmarks per file; imported links are fetched and indexed, which means external-article saves return as titled, readable entries — while linkedin.com/posts links will import thin, for the login-wall reason above. State the limits plainly: your LinkedIn save dates do not survive the import — every item takes the date you import it — and auto-tagging imported items is a Pro feature; the free plan preserves the tags you put in the file yourself. Preview a converted file with the bookmark file viewer before a full run.

Why the rebuild beats the archive: the point of rescuing professional saves is finding them again cold. “That supply-chain piece from Q3” should surface from a description, not from your memory of when you saved it — that is what searching bookmarks with AI is for, and it applies doubly for researchers sitting on saved-items lists of several hundred links (see the researchers page). For the reading-queue half of your saves, the Pocket alternative route covers the same conversion question from the other side.

When NOT to use Marqly

• Compliance copies. If the export is for a records request or GDPR portability (LinkedIn’s Privacy Policy covers the rights: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy), keep the untouched LinkedIn archive — a curated library is not the same artifact.
• Networking data. Connections, messages, and invitations are person-shaped data with their own tools and ethics; a bookmark manager is the wrong home for them.
• Job-hunt pipeline. If you are managing saved jobs actively, LinkedIn’s own Jobs experience beats any re-save; use the export for closing out old searches, not running current ones.

FAQ

How do I export my saved items on LinkedIn? Me icon → Settings & Privacy → Data Privacy → Download your data → tick Saved Items → Request archive. Specific-category requests email within minutes; the download link is good for 72 hours. Desktop only (as of Oct 5, 2026, per https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1339364).

Does the export include the content of what I saved? No — the saved date and URL of a post, article, or other content. LinkedIn explicitly does not export other members’ data, so saved posts arrive as links.

Can I export the newsletters I follow? There is no newsletters category in the published list. Follows (companies, members) are exportable; newsletter issues are not. Beyond the list, it is Data Access Request form territory, with slow and unspecified output.

Why did my archive come in pieces? Categories ship on two clocks — a 10-minute batch and a 48-hour batch — and a full-account download only emails within 24 hours of filing. Saved Items is in the slower batch.

Can I import the saved-items file into Marqly? Convert it to a CSV with a URL column first — Marqly accepts generic CSV, bookmark HTML, Pocket, and Raindrop HTML. Save dates are not preserved (items take the import date), and auto-tagging imports is Pro. For the how-to-import walkthrough, the mechanics are the same.

Quick recap

1. Settings & Privacy → Data Privacy → Download your data, tick Saved Items, request from a personal computer.
2. Expect a date + URL table, minutes-to-email for a narrow request, 72 hours to download.
3. No content, no newsletters export; LinkedIn-post links rot behind login, so triage early.
4. Convert keepers to a CSV, import into a searchable, cross-platform library — like Marqly — and know that import stamps today’s date, not your save dates.