Build an Event-Based Account List

An attendee list tells you who registered. Public posts show who spoke, sponsored, attended, and what they cared about.

This event monitoring workflow turns that activity into a sourced account list for useful follow-up.

SocialListeningAPI searches public posts on LinkedIn, X, and YouTube and Google results for the phrases you choose. It returns normalized records with source URLs.

Step 1: Create your event search list

Create a SocialListeningAPI account and claim the 100 free credits. Write down the exact event name, hashtag, speaker names, and two or three topic phrases.

For a SaaS conference, you could search:

• SaaS Connect 2026
• #SaaSConnect
• speaking at SaaS Connect
• attending SaaS Connect
• SaaS Connect recap

Keep each query separate. This makes it easier to see which phrase found each account.

Step 2: Run the event monitoring searches

Search LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Google:

for endpoint in \
  linkedin/search-posts \
  x/search-posts \
  youtube/search-posts \
  google/search
do
  curl --get "https://api.sociallisteningapi.com/api/v1/$endpoint" \
    --data-urlencode 'query=SaaS Connect 2026' \
    --header 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY'
done

One query across four sources costs 5 credits. Use the LinkedIn endpoint docs, X endpoint docs, YouTube endpoint docs, and Google endpoint docs for source details.

You can also connect the MCP to Claude or ChatGPT and ask it to run the same searches.

Step 3: Build the account list

Store the person, company, role, event link, source URL, topic, and event date in an external sheet or database. Group duplicate authors and companies outside SocialListeningAPI.

Label each record as speaker, sponsor, attendee, organizer, or commentator. Do not infer attendance from a generic event mention.

Step 4: Research the follow-up

Open the source before contacting anyone. Refer to the talk, question, booth, or recap that created the match. Skip people whose post gives you no useful reason to follow up.

SocialListeningAPI performs the public searches. Storage, deduplication, enrichment, scoring, and outreach happen in your external tools.

Conclusion

Run the first search during the event and another after recap videos appear. Four queries across four sources use up to 16 credits per run.

Keep accounts only when the source gives you a real event connection and a topic worth discussing.

Continue with How to Find B2B Leads From LinkedIn Posts.

Written by ShashFounder at sociallisteningapi, focused on product and growth