Connect LinkedIn
A post with the article link, on your profile or your company page.
What this key lets us do. It lets us post on your behalf. It cannot read your connections or send messages.
Step by step
- Go to linkedin.com/developers and press Create app. LinkedIn asks you to attach a LinkedIn Page and verify it — if you have no company page, making one takes a minute and is free.
- Open the Products tab and request Share on LinkedIn and Sign In with LinkedIn using OpenID Connect.
- In the Auth tab, generate a token with the scopes w_member_social and openid profile.
- You also need your author URN, which is not your profile URL. Call
https://api.linkedin.com/v2/userinfowith your token; the value of sub in the answer is your id. - Write it as
urn:li:person:followed by that id. To post as a company instead, useurn:li:organization:followed by the page's numeric id.
Bold words are the exact buttons and menu names to look for. These are screens of other companies and they move them — if the layout does not match, searching that bold name in their own help usually finds where it went.
What to paste here
| Field | What it looks like |
|---|---|
| Author URN | urn:li:person:AbC123dEf or urn:li:organization:12345678 |
| Access token | A long string from the Auth tab |
What usually goes wrong
- Your profile URL — linkedin.com/in/yourname — is not the URN, and LinkedIn rejects it. The URN is the id from
userinfo. - LinkedIn tokens usually last about 60 days. We tell you when reconnecting is needed instead of failing in silence.
Whatever you paste is encrypted the moment it arrives. It is never shown back to you and nobody here can read it — support sees a fingerprint like “ending 7f3a2c”, never the value.
Stuck? The help desk answers this exact question, and it is a real answer rather than a form. Open the help desk → If you would rather go to the source, read the official documentation: LinkedIn: Share API