/v1/actions/linkedin-connect-profile/run/liveConnect LinkedIn Profile sends a LinkedIn connection request to a target profile programmatically, with or without a personalized note. It runs on the LinkedIn level against the account you connect to Edges, so every invitation is issued from your authenticated session and counts against your own account's activity.
Use it to turn connection sending into a triggered step inside a larger outreach workflow rather than a manual click-through in the LinkedIn UI.
You provide the target profile URL (or LinkedIn member ID) and an optional note; Edges signs the request with your connected LinkedIn session and submits the invite through LinkedIn infrastructure. The action is synchronous, returns quickly, and surfaces typed errors when LinkedIn refuses — for example, when the profile is out of network without a valid email, already connected, or temporarily unreachable.
Edges paces server-side to stay within LinkedIn's invitation guardrails, which matters if you are chaining Connect LinkedIn Profile across hundreds of records in a campaign.
Use Connect LinkedIn Profile when growing your network is an automation step, not a daily chore. Typical patterns: connect to new leads pulled from a Sales Navigator search, connect to people who liked a competitor's post, connect to attendees of a LinkedIn event, connect to everyone in a CRM segment.
It is the backbone of the LinkedIn messaging & outreach API workflow — connect first, then message warm first-degree contacts.
One per call. For batch campaigns, fan out Connect LinkedIn Profile across your list with spacing between calls — Edges handles server-side pacing but respects LinkedIn's per-account weekly invitation ceiling.
Your LinkedIn account. Edges executes every invitation through the LinkedIn session you connected, so invitations appear in your own Sent Invitations list and count against your account's quota.
Yes. Common patterns include Search LinkedIn People to build the target list, Extract LinkedIn Profile to enrich and filter, Connect LinkedIn Profile to send the invite, and Message LinkedIn Profile once the invite is accepted.
Run Connect LinkedIn Profile from the Edges library, wire it into your CRM or workflow engine, or call it directly from the Edges API. Browse the full Actions library to compose it with search, extract, and messaging actions into a complete connection workflow.
curl -X POST "https://api.edges.run/v1/actions/linkedin-connect-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": {
"message": "Hello! I would like to connect with you."
}
}'{
"message": "example_value",
"sales_navigator_profile_id": "example-123",
"connected": true,
"pending": true,
"connection_sent_date": "1990-01-01",
"linkedin_profile_id": 42
}