/v1/actions/linkedin-follow-profile/run/liveFollow LinkedIn Profile follows — or unfollows — a LinkedIn member so their posts enter your feed without requiring a connection request. You get a single-record primitive you can drop into scoring, nurture, or monitoring workflows when a pending connection would be premature.
It runs on the LinkedIn level and acts through your connected LinkedIn session, so every follow is attributable to your account.
You pass a profile URL or member ID and a follow or unfollow directive. Edges signs the request with your authenticated LinkedIn session, hits LinkedIn's follow endpoint, and returns a typed status payload. The action runs on Edges infrastructure with safe pacing, so you do not need to handle cookies, retries, or throttling yourself.
The operation is synchronous: by the time the run completes, the follow state has flipped and LinkedIn will start (or stop) surfacing that member's activity in your feed.
Reach for Follow LinkedIn Profile when you want visibility into someone's activity without the commitment of a connection request. Following is the lighter touch: no inbox, no invitation quota, and it feeds the LinkedIn messaging & outreach API workflow by making their posts available for you to react to later.
It is especially useful for top-of-funnel warmup, where you want to signal interest and build familiarity before the first direct outreach.
One per run. Follow LinkedIn Profile is a per-record primitive, meant to sit inside triggered or per-row flows. For larger sweeps, loop over a list source like Extract LinkedIn Post Likers.
Your LinkedIn account. You connect LinkedIn to Edges once, and every follow executes through that authenticated session with full activity attribution.
Yes. Typical chains pair the follow with Like LinkedIn Post or Connect LinkedIn Profile to build a multi-touch warmup sequence.
Add Follow LinkedIn Profile to any triggered warmup flow in Edges, or call it directly from the Edges API. Browse the full Actions library for the engagement primitives you can chain next.
curl -X POST "https://api.edges.run/v1/actions/linkedin-follow-profile/run/live" \
-H "X-API-KEY: <YOUR_API_KEY>" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"identity_ids": [
"your-identity-uuid"
],
"identity_mode": "direct",
"input": {
"custom_data": "example_value",
"linkedin_profile_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/example-profile",
"sales_navigator_profile_id": "example_value"
},
"parameters": {
"unfollow": true
}
}'{
"sales_navigator_profile_id": "example-123",
"linkedin_profile_id": 42,
"followed": true
}