LinkedIn Auto Connect

What does LinkedIn Auto Connect do?

LinkedIn Auto Connect automates LinkedIn connection requests from structured input. It is designed for outreach workflows where you want to trigger a connection action programmatically.

Built on the Apify platform, this Actor supports scheduling, webhooks, and dataset exports.

Why use LinkedIn Auto Connect?

• Outreach automation - Send connection requests at scale from a structured process
• Sales ops - Connect LinkedIn actions with internal prospecting workflows
• Process consistency - Standardise how connection jobs are triggered and tracked

How to use LinkedIn Auto Connect

1. Open the Actor on Apify
2. Enter the required LinkedIn action inputs
3. Start the run
4. Review the output dataset for success or error details

Input

This Actor accepts the fields required to send a LinkedIn connection request through an authenticated session.

Proxy object

Use the proxy object to define how requests should be routed. Common fields are:

• ip - Proxy host or endpoint URL
• port - Proxy port
• username - Proxy username
• password - Proxy password

Example input:

{
  "liProfileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/example-profile/",
  "messageContent": {
    "text": "Would love to connect and learn more about your work.",
    "file": null,
    "checkForCharCount": true,
    "isPremium": false
  },
  },
  "li_at": "AQEDAR_EXAMPLE_SESSION_TOKEN",
  "JSESSIONID": "ajax:1234567890123456789",
  "bcookie": "v=2&example-browser-cookie",
  "liap": "true",
  "li_theme_set": "app",
  "li_theme": "light",
  "timezone": "Asia/Calcutta",
  "bscookie": "v=1&example-secure-browser-cookie",
  "user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/145.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
  "timezoneOffset": "5.5",
  "csrf-token": "ajax:1234567890123456789",
  "profileId": "example-profile-123456",
  "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/145.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
  "x-li-track": "{\"clientVersion\":\"1.13.455\",\"mpVersion\":\"1.13.455\",\"osName\":\"web\",\"timezoneOffset\":5.5,\"timezone\":\"Asia/Calcutta\",\"deviceFormFactor\":\"DESKTOP\",\"mpName\":\"voyager-web\",\"displayDensity\":1,\"displayWidth\":1920,\"displayHeight\":1080}",
  "x-li-lang": "en_US",
  "X-Restli-Protocol-Version": "2.0.0",
  "txSmSelfProfileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/example-self-profile/",
  "proxy": {
    "ip": "http://proxy.example.com",
    "port": "1080",
    "username": "user_example|session_demo|type_mobile|lon_73.8502|lat_18.5211",
    "password": "example_proxy_password"
  }
}

Output

The Actor writes the action result to the default dataset.

Example output:

{
  "success": true,
  "response": [
    {
      "inputLiProfileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/example-target-profile/",
      "invitationMessage": "Would love to connect and learn more about your work.",
      "firstName": "Avery",
      "lastName": "Stone",
      "headline": "Software Engineer | Go | Python | AWS | Microservices",
      "jobTitle": "Software Engineer | Go | Python | AWS | Microservices",
      "liProfilePublicId": "avery-stone-demo",
      "liPublicProfileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/avery-stone-demo",
      "liProfileId": "ACoAAC8EXAMPLEPROFILEID",
      "liProfileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAC8EXAMPLEPROFILEID",
      "snProfileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/sales/lead/ACoAAC8EXAMPLEPROFILEID",
      "liProfileImageUrl": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/example-profile-image",
      "liProfileImageId": "C5103AQExampleImage",
      "isEmailRequired": false,
      "invitationType": "SENT",
      "liInvitationId": "7472190679264285000",
      "liInvitationUrn": "urn:li:fsd_invitation:7472190679264284672",
      "sharedSecretKey": "",
      "timestamp": "2026-06-16T05:00:00.000Z"
    }
  ]
}

Pricing / Cost estimation

$0.0065 per successful API call on Apify.

Support

If you need adjustments for your workflow, use the Actor Issues tab or your internal support channel.