Introduction
Connect LinkedIn to Sana to manage your professional presence. Create and publish posts as yourself or your organization, engage with comments and likes, look up member profiles and organizations, and manage your LinkedIn activity from one place. In summary, the connector has the following key characteristics:
Category: Communication
Connector type: Real-time
Auth type: OAuth
Hosting type: Managed
Capabilities
This connector is able to do the following:
Capability |
Create posts |
Search organizations |
Delete posts |
View profiles |
Tools
While the capabilities above describe what the connector can do at a high level, the underlying tools show exactly which operations the agent can use when you ask Sana about LinkedIn. In practice, the agent may call one or more tools to achieve a single capability.
Tool |
Create comment |
Create image post organization |
Create image post user |
Create like on share |
Create text post organization |
Create text post user |
Delete post |
Fetch ad account |
Get current member profile |
Get member organization access control |
Get member profile |
Get multiple member profiles |
Get org member access |
Get organization access control |
Get organization administrators |
Get profile picture fields |
Retrieve comments on comments |
Retrieve comments shares |
Search organization |
Scope and permissions
This connector uses OAuth. When you connect your account, you will need to sign into your account and grant the required permissions:
Scope | Purpose |
r_1st_connections_size | Read the size of your 1st-degree LinkedIn network |
r_basicprofile | Read your basic profile (name, headline, photo, etc.) |
r_ads | Read LinkedIn Ads accounts, campaigns, and creatives |
rw_ads | Create and manage LinkedIn Ads campaigns and creatives |
r_ads_reporting | Read reporting and analytics for your LinkedIn Ads |
rw_organization_admin | Manage LinkedIn organization pages and their admin settings |
r_organization_social | Read posts and social activity from your organization pages |
w_organization_social | Create and manage posts on behalf of your organization pages |
r_organization_social_feed | Read your organization's social feed and related engagement data |
w_organization_social_feed | Publish and manage content in your organization's social feed |
w_member_social | Create posts, comments, and reactions on your personal LinkedIn account's behalf |
w_member_social_feed | Publish content and interact with your personal LinkedIn feed programmatically |
Set up instructions
Prerequisites:
Your Sana workspace admin has enabled this integration – if the workspace admin has disabled the integration it won't appear in the list of available integrations.
Step 1: Go to the integrations page in Sana
In Sana, click on ... More in the sidebar, then select Integrations
Step 2: Find LinkedIn in the list of available integrations
Scroll to the Available integrations section and locate LinkedIn.
Step 3: Connect the integration
Click the integration card and select "Connect just for me", this will open a pop-up powered by Pipedream. Follow the steps in the pop-up to complete the set-up.
Step 4: Sign in to LinkedIn and approve the requested scopes
You'll be redirected to LinkedIn to go through their OAuth flow. Sign in and approve the scopes Sana needs to operate the connector.
Step 5: Complete the set up
You've successfully connected your LinkedIn account. Click Continue to complete the setup and start using the connector.
Known limitations
People search: The connector cannot search for people — it can only fetch a profile by ID.