LinkedIn Accept Invitations

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Don't waste your time accepting incoming connection requests!

Instead of spending time each day going through the boring process of accepting requests individually, let our API take care of it for you. By doing so, you will be able to spend your time on more important tasks.

Our solution: Automatically accept requests and receive summary emails

Get your agent accepting as many connections as you want at the speed you want. Every time your agent is launched, receive a summary email including information of each LinkedIn profile that has been added. This way you can:

Stay focused.
Continue growing your network.
Gain better visibility with each new connection you want to interact with.

What will you need? ⚙️

Session cookie: Your session cookie from LinkedIn.
Number of connections to accept: The number of profiles you want to add per launch of the API.

(You already have all that? Click straight away on "Use this API")

Which steps to follow?

1. Create an account on Phantombuster.com 💻

If you haven't already, create a FREE account on Phantombuster. Our service will browse the web for you. It’s a website automator which runs in the cloud. Once done we'll follow up.

2. Use this API on your account.👌

Now that you're connected to Phantombuster, Click on the following button (it will open a new tab).

3. Click on Configure me!

You'll now see the 3 configuration dots blinking. Click on them.

4. Linkedin authentication 🔑

(You already know how to get your sessionCookie? skip this part)
Because the script will manipulate LinkedIn for you, it needs to be logged on your LinkedIn account. For that you just need to copy paste your session cookie in the script argument:

Using Chrome, go to your LinkedIn homepage and open the inspector
→ Right click anywhere on the page and select “Inspect”
→ CMD+OPT+i on macOS
or
→ F12 or CTRL+MAJ+i on Windows
Locate the “Application” tab

Select “Cookies” > “http://www.linkedin.com” on the left menu.

Locate the “li_at” cookie.

Copy what’s under “Value” (Double click on it then Ctrl+C) and paste it into your script Argument)

// How to access your cookies with Firefox and Safari//

5. How many connections per iteration?

The 2nd and last parameter you'll need to set is the number of connections to accept which means: how many connections do you want the API to add everytime it runs?

Enter a number between 1 and 50 (by default it's 5).

Receive email notifications

To receive summaries of your agent work, go in your API settings and expand "email notifications" field.

Make sure you have checked at least the 2 boxes next to "Finished successfully"

Click on Launch to try it out!

It’s done! All that is left to do is to click on "launch" to try your script!

⚙️️ Repetition setup ⚙️

Now that your bot is ready, you just have to customize it to make it work repetitively.
Every time the bot is launched, it will accept invitations.
To do so, simply hit the “Settings” button to define when your bot is launched.

Then, select a frequency:

Now that this is set, click 💾 Save at the bottom of the page.

Developers

Like all APIs on Phantombuster, this API comes with an HTTP endpoint. Launch it from your computer, app or server with a simple HTTP request and get its result as JSON. Click Use this API above to create your new endpoint.

Clone this API

The script below is all that's required to make the API work. If you're a developer, click the button to clone the code into a new Custom API Agent in your Phantombuster account. This operation will allow you to customize the API to your exact needs. This will also create a custom HTTP endpoint.

// Phantombuster configuration { "phantombuster command: nodejs" "phantombuster package: 4" "phantombuster dependencies: lib-StoreUtilities.js, lib-LinkedIn.js" const Buster = require("phantombuster") const buster = new Buster() const Nick = require("nickjs") const nick = new Nick({ loadImages: true, userAgent: "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:54.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/54.0", printPageErrors: false, printResourceErrors: false, printNavigation: false, printAborts: false, }) const StoreUtilities = require("./lib-StoreUtilities") const utils = new StoreUtilities(nick, buster) const LinkedIn = require("./lib-LinkedIn") const linkedIn = new LinkedIn(nick, buster, utils) /* global jQuery */ // } /** * * @async * @description Accept all profiles visible on the page and returns an Array of added profiles. */ const acceptInvites = (tab, nbProfiles, hasNote, hasMutualConn) => { return tab.evaluate(function (arg, done) { jQuery.noConflict() let invites = jQuery("ul.mn-invitation-list > li") /** * Will only get invitations which have 1 or more mutual connections */ if (arg.hasMutualConn) { invites = invites.filter(function filterMutual() { if (jQuery(this).find(".member-insights").length > 0) { return this } }) } /** * Will only get invitations with a message */ if (arg.hasNote) { invites = invites.filter(function filterNote() { if (jQuery(this).find(".invitation-card__custom-message-container").length > 0) { return this } }) } invites = invites.map(function accept(i) { if (i < arg.nbProfiles) { jQuery(this).find("input[type=\"checkbox\"]").click() return this.querySelector("a[data-control-name=\"profile\"]").href } }) done(null, jQuery.makeArray(invites)) // Success }, { nbProfiles, hasNote, hasMutualConn }) } const loadProfilesUsingScrollDown = async (tab) => { utils.log("Scrolling down...", "loading") await tab.scrollToBottom() await tab.wait(1000) await tab.scrollToBottom() await tab.wait(1000) await tab.scrollToBottom() await tab.wait(1000) await tab.scrollToBottom() await tab.wait(1000) await tab.scrollToBottom() await tab.wait(1000) await tab.scrollToBottom() await tab.wait(1000) await tab.scrollToBottom() await tab.wait(1000) await tab.scrollToBottom() await tab.wait(1000) await tab.scrollToBottom() await tab.wait(1000) await tab.scrollToBottom() await tab.wait(1000) } nick.newTab().then(async (tab) => { let {sessionCookie, numberOfProfilesToAdd, hasNoteSent, hasMutualConnections } = utils.validateArguments() if (typeof hasNoteSent !== "boolean") { hasNoteSent = false } if (typeof hasMutualConnections !== "boolean") { hasMutualConnections = false } const selectors = [ ".js-invitation-card__invite-details-container", "section.mn-invitation-manager__no-invites" ] await linkedIn.login(tab, sessionCookie, "https://www.linkedin.com/mynetwork/invitation-manager/?filterCriteria=null") await tab.inject("../injectables/jquery-3.0.0.min.js") const selector = await tab.waitUntilVisible(selectors, 10000, "or") if (selector === selectors[1]) { utils.log("No invite to accept.", "done") nick.exit() } await loadProfilesUsingScrollDown(tab) let invites = await acceptInvites(tab, numberOfProfilesToAdd, hasNoteSent, hasMutualConnections) if (invites.length > 0) { await tab.click("button[data-control-name=\"accept_all\"]") await tab.wait(2000) // Verbose utils.log(`A total of ${invites.length} profile${invites.length !== 1 ? "s have" : " has"} been added`, "done") for (const invite of invites) console.log(`\t${invite}`) } else { utils.log("No invites found with given criterias", "done") } await linkedIn.saveCookie() }) .then(() => { utils.log("Job done!", "done") nick.exit(0) }) .catch((err) => { utils.log(err, "error") nick.exit(1) })

Contribute on GitHub

Feeling adventurous? Unsatisfied with the current state of this API? Send us pull requests on GitHub to improve the API store! The script is here and you might be interested in reading our documentation here