Accept pending LinkedIn invitations (bulk)

Accept many pending LinkedIn invitations in one automated run. Use async or scheduled execution to process your inbox at scale and grow your network faster. For a single invitation, use the live Accept LinkedIn invitation action.

Edges is not related to LinkedIn and is not an official LinkedIn product.

API Endpoint

POST/v1/actions/linkedin-accept-invitations/run/async

Parameters

Integration Parameters

Guide

What Accept pending LinkedIn invitations (bulk) does

Accept pending LinkedIn invitations (bulk) clears your pending-invite queue in one run, so dozens or hundreds of requests move from Pending to Accepted without you touching the LinkedIn inbox. It runs on the LinkedIn level against the account you connect to Edges, which means every accept is executed through your authenticated session and shows up in that account's activity log.

Use it when accept decisions are periodic rather than per-record — a scheduled sweep of the inbox, a post-event mop-up, or a weekly "accept everyone still pending from last month" routine.

How it works

You trigger one run and Edges paginates through your pending invitations list, accepting each one in sequence on LinkedIn infrastructure. The action ships as an async or scheduled job because volume-heavy inbox processing takes longer than a single API call and should respect LinkedIn pacing guidance. Edges handles rate limits, retries transient failures, and exposes a final status per invitation so you can reconcile which ones were accepted and which were skipped.

Because the action runs against your connected LinkedIn session, you do not need cookies, headless browsers, or proxy management on your side. You get a structured list of results back, ready to merge into your CRM or data warehouse.

When to use Accept pending LinkedIn invitations (bulk)

Reach for this action when you want a weekly or monthly catch-up on inbox hygiene, or when you have accumulated pending requests while building audience. It is the batch counterpart to the single-record Accept Invitation, and it plugs directly into the LinkedIn messaging & outreach API workflow — accept in bulk, enrich, then queue first-touch messages.

Do not use it as your primary accept logic if decisions are event-driven per lead; pair the single-record action with a CRM trigger instead.

Use cases

  • Founder-led growth. Run a scheduled sweep every Monday to accept every pending LinkedIn invitation from the past week, then feed new first-degree contacts into your enrichment pipeline.
  • Post-event cleanup. After a virtual event, accept pending invites in bulk from attendees who sent a request without a message.
  • Community manager inbox hygiene. Clear the backlog on a shared account so new requests do not sit stale for weeks.
  • Network compounding against an ICP. Filter by sender domain or company, then accept only invitations that match your account list.
  • Re-activation before a campaign. Accept everything pending, then trigger a warm-touch message sequence targeting the newly-accepted connections.

Best practices

  • Run async, not live. Bulk inbox processing crosses the threshold where synchronous calls are fragile. Schedule the job off-peak and let Edges pace it.
  • Filter before you accept. Bulk-accepting without any filter dilutes your network graph and weakens LinkedIn's recommendations. Use senderFilter or a pre-filter step.
  • Pair with enrichment. Chain into Extract LinkedIn Profile right after the accept so the new connections are ready for segmentation.
  • Stay within LinkedIn activity guardrails. Edges throttles server-side, but if the same account also accepts manually from the app, keep combined volume reasonable to avoid restrictions.

Common questions

How many invitations can I accept per run?

Edges does not impose a hard cap, but LinkedIn's per-account activity ceiling effectively limits throughput to low hundreds per day. Split very large backlogs across multiple scheduled runs to stay comfortably under the guardrails.

Does this use my LinkedIn account or a shared pool?

Your LinkedIn account. You connect LinkedIn to Edges once; every accept in the bulk run is executed through that authenticated session. There is no shared pool and no credential sharing.

Can I chain Accept pending LinkedIn invitations (bulk) with other Edges actions?

Yes. Common chains include Extract LinkedIn Profile right after the accept to enrich new connections, followed by Message LinkedIn Profile to send a first-touch message to the freshly-accepted cohort.

Get started

Schedule Accept pending LinkedIn invitations (bulk) from the Edges library, wire the output into your CRM or warehouse, or call it from the Edges API. Browse the full Actions library to see what you can chain before and after the sweep.

Code Examples

bash
curl -X POST "https://api.edges.run/v1/actions/linkedin-accept-invitations/run/async" \
  -H "X-API-KEY: <YOUR_API_KEY>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "identity_ids": [
    "your-identity-uuid"
  ],
  "identity_mode": "direct"
}'

Output Example

[
  {
    "linkedin_invitation_id": "example-123",
    "linkedin_invitation_urn": "example_value"
  }
]

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