LinkedIn Auto Connect

PhantomBuster’s LinkedIn Auto Connect Automation helps you automatically send connection requests to selected LinkedIn profiles. This tutorial shows how to set up and launch the Automation efficiently while staying within LinkedIn’s safety limits.

• LinkedIn safety limits: Max 100 connection requests per week (approx. 20 per working day). Halve this volume if email discovery is enabled.

• Input requirements: Must be LinkedIn profile URLs (people). Search results, Company pages, and Sales Navigator profiles are not supported.

• Spreadsheet access: Google Sheets must be shared with “Anyone with the link.” CSV uploads are available only on paid plans.

• Email discovery credits: Using email discovery costs 1 PhantomBuster credit per attempt and resets monthly.

• Free plan limitations: Free users are limited to exporting the first 10 rows and cannot use CSV uploads or JSON exports.

1. Choose which LinkedIn profiles to invite: Select profiles via a saved LinkedIn Leads list, a single profile URL, a Google Sheet, or a CSV file. If your URL column is not column A, specify the correct header name.

2. Connect your LinkedIn account: Install the PhantomBuster browser extension and connect your LinkedIn session in one click. If you are not using Chrome or Firefox, follow the cookie guide to connect manually.

3. Write and customize your connection request message: Enter your message (up to 8,000 characters) and insert placeholder tags. Enable “Scrape all available profile data” if you need advanced placeholders or plan to use email discovery later.

   Expanded placeholders count toward the 8,000-character limit; unsupported placeholders render blank. Emojis and hyperlinks are not supported.

4. Enrich leads with professional emails (optional): Choose an email discovery service using PhantomBuster credits or a third-party API key. This step increases processing time per profile and does not guarantee a verified email for every contact.

5. Configure connection limits and behavior: Set the number of invitations to send per launch (maximum 10). You can also enable advanced options like simulating dwell time or restricting invites to 2nd-degree connections only.

   The maximum invitations per launch is 10. Enabling “Simulate dwell time” adds approximately 1 minute per profile to reduce risk.

6. Select launch frequency: Choose how the Phantom runs: manually, once at a specific time, repeatedly on a schedule, or chained after another Phantom.

7. Adjust Advanced settings (optional): Leave these at their default values unless a specific guide recommends changes. Options include execution limits, retries, proxies, and webhooks.

8. Launch and review results: Click Launch to begin. Once finished, check the Results tab to view invited profiles and export data to CSV or JSON based on your plan’s allowances.

For a detailed walkthrough and troubleshooting tips, see the tutorial on the help center.