Connect Sales Navigator Profile

Sales Navigator Auto Connect connects with Sales Navigator profiles and grows your network.

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

API Endpoint

POST/v1/actions/salesnavigator-connect-profile/run/live

Parameters

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Guide

What Connect Sales Navigator Profile does

Connect Sales Navigator Profile sends a connection request to a lead directly from a Sales Navigator profile URL, with or without a personalized note. It runs on the Sales Navigator level against the account you connect to Edges, so the invitation is issued from your authenticated Sales Navigator session and counts against your own account's activity.

Use it to turn connection sending into a scripted step inside an outbound workflow that originates from a Sales Navigator search, saved list, or lead list.

How it works

You provide the Sales Navigator lead URL (or the underlying member ID) and an optional note; Edges resolves the Sales Navigator identifier to a connectable LinkedIn profile and submits the invite through your authenticated session. The action is synchronous and surfaces typed errors when LinkedIn or Sales Navigator refuses — already connected, out of network, or temporarily rate-limited.

Edges handles pacing server-side to stay within LinkedIn's weekly invitation guardrails, which is especially important when firing Connect Sales Navigator Profile across a prospecting list of hundreds of leads.

When to use Connect Sales Navigator Profile

Reach for this action when your prospecting universe lives in Sales Navigator — saved searches, account lists, lead lists — and you want to convert searches into first-degree relationships without copy-pasting URLs. It is the Sales Navigator counterpart to Connect LinkedIn Profile and plays the same role inside the LinkedIn messaging & outreach API use case.

Use it after a Sales Navigator search and before a messaging or InMail step.

Use cases

  • Outbound sales from saved searches. Run Search Sales Navigator People, then fire Connect Sales Navigator Profile across the output to build a first-degree prospecting audience.
  • Account-based outreach. Identify decision-makers at target accounts via Search Sales Navigator Company Employees, then connect.
  • Lead-list activation. Convert an existing Sales Navigator lead list into active connection requests in a single scheduled job.
  • Competitive displacement. Connect to users of a competitor's product discovered via custom Sales Navigator filters.
  • Recruiting pipelines. Build a candidate pipeline by connecting to profiles surfaced by seniority, skill, and geography filters inside Sales Navigator.

Best practices

  • Stay under the weekly invitation cap. LinkedIn enforces an invitation ceiling per account; Sales Navigator does not change that. Plan cadence accordingly.
  • Save notes for high-value leads. Invitation notes consume a monthly quota; send noteless invites for broad audiences and reserve notes for ICP-fit targets.
  • Deduplicate before sending. Run Extract LinkedIn Profile or a CRM check first to avoid inviting existing connections.
  • Pair with an accept-side follow-up. When the lead accepts, chain a first-touch message within a short window so the conversation starts while the context is fresh.

Common questions

How many profiles can I connect per run?

One per call. Fan out Connect Sales Navigator Profile across your list with sensible spacing — Edges paces server-side, but LinkedIn's weekly per-account invitation ceiling still applies regardless of Sales Navigator seat.

Does Connect Sales Navigator Profile use my Sales Navigator account or a shared pool?

Your Sales Navigator account. Every invitation runs through the Sales Navigator session you connect to Edges; there is no shared pool, and invitations show up in your own Sent Invitations list.

Can I chain Connect Sales Navigator Profile with other Edges actions?

Yes. Common sequences include Search Sales Navigator People to build the list, Connect Sales Navigator Profile to send invites, and Send Sales Navigator InMail as a fallback for leads who do not accept.

Get started

Run Connect Sales Navigator Profile from the Edges library, wire it into your prospecting engine, or call it directly from the Edges API. Browse the full Actions library to compose it with search, enrichment, and messaging actions into a complete Sales Navigator outreach workflow.

Code Examples

bash
curl -X POST "https://api.edges.run/v1/actions/salesnavigator-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",
    "sales_navigator_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."
  }
}'

Output Example

{
  "sales_navigator_profile_id": "example-123",
  "linkedin_profile_id": 42,
  "connected": true,
  "pending": true,
  "message": "example_value",
  "connection_sent_date": "1990-01-01"
}

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