LinkedIn Profile Auto Follow

LinkedIn Profile Auto Follow performs an authenticated follow action on a target LinkedIn profile. It is designed for workflow automation where a profile follow is one step in a larger outbound, engagement, or account-management sequence, and it returns a structured success or failure result that can be tracked in Apify datasets.

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

Use cases

• Follow target profiles as part of LinkedIn automation workflows
• Standardize account actions across repeated operational runs
• Record follow outcomes in structured datasets for auditing and tracking
• Trigger downstream steps only after a successful follow action

How to use LinkedIn Profile Auto Follow

1. Open the Actor on Apify
2. Enter the target LinkedIn profile URL and authenticated session fields
3. Start the run
4. Review the dataset output for the follow result

Input

This Actor accepts the fields required to perform the follow action through an authenticated LinkedIn 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/",
  "connectedAccountId": "example_connected_account_id",
  "li_at": "example_li_at",
  "JSESSIONID": "ajax:example",
  "bcookie": "example_bcookie",
  "liap": "true",
  "li_theme_set": "app",
  "li_theme": "light",
  "timezone": "Asia/Kolkata",
  "bscookie": "example_bscookie",
  "user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 ...",
  "timezoneOffset": "5.5",
  "csrf-token": "example_csrf-token",
  "profileId": "example-profile-id",
  "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 ...",
  "x-li-track": "{\"clientVersion\":\"1.13.455\"}",
  "x-li-lang": "en_US",
  "X-Restli-Protocol-Version": "2.0.0",
  "txSmSelfProfileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/example-self/",
  "proxy": {
    "ip": "http://proxy.example.com",
    "port": "1080",
    "username": "example_username",
    "password": "example_password"
  }
}

Output

The Actor writes the action result to the default dataset.

Example output

{
  "success": true,
  "response": {
    "inputLiProfileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/example-profile/",
    "success": true,
    "successMessage": "Successfully followed the profile",
    "timestamp": "2026-06-30T07:12:27.526Z"
  }
}

Pricing / Cost estimation

$0.0033 per successful API call.

Support

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