LeadOcean + HeyReach: qualify viral post commenters and funnel them to a campaign

You get a list of people who commented on a viral LinkedIn post, cut down to the ones who match your buyer, and loaded into a HeyReach campaign. A scraper supplies the commenter profile URLs. LeadOcean does not scrape LinkedIn comments. It enriches each URL, and a small script keeps the buyers and posts them to HeyReach. Clay publishes a template for the same job inside its table builder (September 2026).

How it works

1. Pick the post and scrape the commenters. Use any scraper that returns one LinkedIn profile URL per commenter. Save them as commenters.csv.
2. Enrich each URL. Call POST /v1/people/enrich with linkedin_url. LeadOcean takes exactly one identifier per call (LeadOcean docs, September 2026).
3. Qualify. Keep rows where contact_current_experiences[].job_title matches your buyer, or profile_is_decision_maker is true. A 404 means LeadOcean holds nothing and costs nothing.
4. Add to HeyReach. Post up to 100 leads per request to AddLeadsToCampaignV2 with your campaignId (HeyReach docs, September 2026).
5. Check the counts. The response returns addedLeadsCount, updatedLeadsCount and failedLeadsCount. Log them per batch.

Configuration

Enrich one commenter. Use a placeholder URL to test.

curl -X POST "https://api.leadocean.io/v1/people/enrich" \
  -H "x-api-key: $LEADOCEAN_API_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"linkedin_url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/jane-doe"}'

Then send the qualified rows to HeyReach. HeyReach authenticates with an X-API-KEY header (HeyReach docs, September 2026). The host is api.heyreach.io; the path answers 401 without a key (checked October 2026).

curl -X POST "https://api.heyreach.io/api/public/campaign/AddLeadsToCampaignV2" \
  -H "X-API-KEY: $HEYREACH_API_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "campaignId": 12345,
    "resumeFinishedCampaign": false,
    "resumePausedCampaign": false,
    "accountLeadPairs": [{
      "linkedInAccountId": 678,
      "lead": {
        "firstName": "Jane", "lastName": "Doe",
        "companyName": "Acme", "position": "VP Sales",
        "profileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jane-doe",
        "emailAddress": "", "location": "", "summary": "", "about": "",
        "customUserFields": [{"name": "source_post", "value": "viral_post_1"}]
      }
    }]
  }'

Custom field names may use letters, digits and underscores only (HeyReach docs, September 2026).

Field mapping

Cost at 10,000 rows

10,000 commenters cost LeadOcean at most 10,000 records. The first 1,000 are free for life, and a profile with no match costs nothing. At 50 requests a second on Solo, 10,000 calls take about 200 seconds.

LeadOcean. Free is $0, no card, 5 requests a second. Solo is $97 a month and Agency is $497 a month, with a fair-use pace and no per-record price (LeadOcean pricing).

HeyReach. Growth lists at $79 a month per sender on the monthly view, Agency at $999 and Unlimited at $2,999 (HeyReach pricing, October 2026). 10,000 leads is 100 AddLeads calls. The API allows 300 requests a minute (HeyReach docs, September 2026).

Troubleshooting

FAQ