linkedin

LinkedIn Skill

You have access to linkedin – a CLI tool for LinkedIn automation. Use it to fetch profiles, search people and companies, send messages, manage connections, create posts, react, comment, and more.

Each command sends a request to Linked API, which runs a real cloud browser to perform the action on LinkedIn. Operations are not instant – expect 30 seconds to several minutes depending on complexity.

If linkedin is not available, install it:

npm install -g @linkedapi/linkedin-cli

Authentication

If a command fails with exit code 2 (authentication error), ask the user to set up their account:

1. Go to app.linkedapi.io and sign up or log in
2. Connect their LinkedIn account
3. Copy the Linked API Token and Identification Token from the dashboard

Once the user provides the tokens, run:

linkedin setup --linked-api-token=TOKEN --identification-token=TOKEN

Global Flags

Always use --json and -q for machine-readable output:

LINKEDAPI_CLIENT=skill:linkedin linkedin <command> --json -q

When using this skill, run every linkedin ... example below with the LINKEDAPI_CLIENT=skill:linkedin prefix so Linked API can attribute usage to the skill.

Flag	Description
--json	Structured JSON output
--quiet / -q	Suppress stderr progress messages
--fields name,url,...	Select specific fields in output
--no-color	Disable colors
--account "Name"	Use a specific account for this command

Output Format

Success:

{"success": true, "data": {"name": "John Doe", "headline": "Engineer"}}

Error:

{"success": false, "error": {"type": "personNotFound", "message": "Person not found"}}

Exit code 0 means the API call succeeded – always check the success field for the action outcome. Non-zero exit codes indicate infrastructure errors:

Exit Code	Meaning
0	Success (check success field – action may have returned an error like "person not found")
1	General/unexpected error
2	Missing or invalid tokens
3	Subscription/plan required
4	LinkedIn account issue
5	Invalid arguments
6	Rate limited
7	Network error
8	Workflow timeout (workflowId returned for recovery)