Give your AI agents access to LinkedIn through your own browser session. Read profiles, research companies, find jobs, and manage conversations and connection requests.
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| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
get_person_profile |
Read profile sections: experience, education, skills, projects, volunteering, posts. |
get_my_profile |
Read your own profile, with the same section selection as other profiles. |
connect_with_person |
Send a connection request with an optional note, or accept an incoming one. |
get_sidebar_profiles |
Find recommended profile links, including people you may know. |
get_inbox |
List recent inbox conversations, with links to open individual threads. |
get_conversation |
Read a conversation's messages using a LinkedIn username or thread ID. |
search_conversations |
Search messages by keyword and return links to matching conversation threads. |
archive_conversation |
Archive a conversation by thread ID; a repeat call reports it already archived. |
send_message |
Send after confirmation; profile targets may open a new DM (#483). |
reply_to_conversation |
Reply inside an existing thread or InMail by thread ID. Sends after confirmation. |
get_company_profile |
Read company information, with optional sections for posts and open jobs. |
get_company_posts |
Read recent posts from a company's feed, with links to the original posts. |
search_companies |
Find companies by keyword and return links to their LinkedIn profiles. |
get_company_employees |
Find company employees, optionally filtered by name, title, or skill. |
search_jobs |
Find job postings by keyword and location, with job IDs for reading details. |
get_saved_jobs |
List your saved job postings, with job IDs for looking up their details. |
dismiss_job |
Dismiss a job from job search so later searches no longer show it. Irreversible. |
search_people |
Find people by keyword, location, connection degree, and current company. |
get_job_details |
Read a job posting's description, requirements, and company details. |
get_job_apply_url |
Check whether a job uses Easy Apply or links to an employer's application. |
get_easy_apply_form |
Read an Easy Apply form's fields, options and prefilled values. Never submits. |
get_feed |
Read recent posts from your home feed, with links to the original posts. |
search_posts |
Search posts by keyword, optionally filtered by recency or content type. |
get_session_status |
Check your saved login and browser state without opening a browser. |
close_session |
Close the shared browser session without deleting your saved login. |
Prerequisites: Install uv.
Add to your MCP client's mcpServers configuration
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-server-linkedin": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["mcp-server-linkedin@latest"],
"env": { "UV_HTTP_TIMEOUT": "300" }
}
}
}The @latest tag turns on automatic updates, which keep the server working with LinkedIn's current page structure. The server starts quickly and prepares the shared Patchright Chromium browser cache in the background under ~/.linkedin-mcp/patchright-browsers. On the first tool call that needs authentication, it reuses a LinkedIn session from a signed-in local browser if it finds one, and otherwise opens a LinkedIn login browser window.
AI agent? Get a quick confirmation from the user before enabling automatic updates.
Note
Early tool calls may return a setup/authentication-in-progress error until browser setup or login finishes. If you prefer to create a session explicitly, run uvx mcp-server-linkedin@latest --login.
🔧 Configuration
Transport modes
- Default (stdio): Standard communication for local MCP servers
- Streamable HTTP: For a web-based MCP server
- If no transport is specified, the server defaults to
stdio - An interactive terminal without explicit transport shows a chooser prompt
CLI options
Session:
--login- Open a browser to sign in and save the session--import-from-browser [BROWSER]- Reuse a session from a locally signed-in Chromium browser (chrome,chromium,brave,edge,arc,vivaldi,helium,yandex,whale,coccoc,opera,opera_gx,auto). Bare flag picksauto, the most recently used browser with a live LinkedIn session.--auto-import/--no-auto-import- Import a session from a signed-in local browser on the first tool call that needs one, before falling back to manual login (default: on). Skipped in Docker, behind a proxy, and on a non-loopback HTTP bind. On macOS the keychain may prompt once.--logout- Clear the stored session--login-viewer- Docker only: show the--loginbrowser at a token-protected URL on port 6080 (see Authentication)--user-data-dir PATH- Browser profile directory (default: ~/.linkedin-mcp/profile). Rotating or clearing a session deletes this directory and its parent, which holds the stored cookies and derived profiles.--claim-profile-root- Take over a profile directory the server will not claim on its own, such as one whose parent already holds other files. Needed once per directory.
Transport:
--transport {stdio,streamable-http}- Force the transport mode (default: stdio)--host HOST/--port PORT/--path PATH- HTTP server address (defaults: 127.0.0.1, 8000, /mcp)
Timeouts:
--timeout MS- Timeout for a single page operation (default: 5000)--tool-timeout SECONDS- Timeout for a whole tool call (default: 180). Raise it for calls that read many pages, slow networks, or a cold-start browser.--login-timeout SECONDS- How long the login browser waits for you to finish signing in (default: 1800; 0 = no limit).--login-viewerends the session after 30 minutes either way.--login-inline-wait SECONDS- How long a tool call waits for a login to finish before telling the model to retry (default: 25, max 45; 0 = return at once)
Shared browser:
--browser-wait SECONDS- How long to wait for another server process to hand over the shared browser (default: 25, max 45; 0 = report busy at once). Only matters with several MCP clients running at once.--browser-min-hold SECONDS- Shortest time this process keeps the shared browser before handing it over (default: 20). Clamped to 3 seconds below--browser-wait, so raise that one along with it. Higher means fewer browser restarts but longer waits for other clients.--browser-idle-timeout SECONDS- Close an idle browser and release the profile after this long without a tool call (default: 600; 0 = keep it open)
Browser:
--no-headless- Show the browser window (useful for debugging)--chrome-path PATH- Path to a Chrome/Chromium executable--proxy-server URL- Route browser traffic through a proxy, asscheme://host:port. Set it up before--login; see Using a proxy.
Other:
--log-level {DEBUG,INFO,WARNING,ERROR}- Logging level (default: WARNING)
Import a session from your everyday browser
If you are already signed into LinkedIn in Chrome, Chromium, Brave, Edge, Arc, Vivaldi, Helium, Yandex, Naver Whale, Cốc Cốc, Opera, or Opera GX, you can skip the manual --login step and reuse that session:
# Auto-pick the most recently used browser with a live LinkedIn session
uvx mcp-server-linkedin@latest --import-from-browser
# Or target a specific browser
uvx mcp-server-linkedin@latest --import-from-browser braveThis reads the browser's LinkedIn cookies, validates them against your feed, and saves them to ~/.linkedin-mcp/profile/, the same place --login writes to. Notes:
- With several signed-in browsers, the most recently used live LinkedIn session is tried first. If LinkedIn rejects it (revoked or remote-logged-out), the next most recent is tried automatically; the first the server accepts is imported. There is no prompt to pick. Pass a browser name to target one specifically.
- On macOS the OS keychain may prompt to allow access to the browser's Safe Storage. Close the source browser first for the most reliable read.
- Cookies protected by Chrome 127+ app-bound encryption (
v20) cannot be decrypted without OS elevation; in that case use--logininstead. - Imported cookies match a real login's on-disk set. The local server reads them back in full from the saved profile; the Docker bridge narrows to the same minimal auth subset it uses for a normal session.
HTTP mode and debugging
Basic Usage Examples:
# Run with debug logging
uvx mcp-server-linkedin@latest --log-level DEBUGHTTP Mode Example (for web-based MCP clients):
uvx mcp-server-linkedin@latest --transport streamable-http --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8080 --path /mcpRuntime server logs are emitted by FastMCP/Uvicorn.
Tool calls are serialized to protect the shared LinkedIn browser session, both
within one server process and across separate ones. If you run several MCP
clients at once, each starts its own server process, and only one of them uses
the browser at a time; the others wait briefly and take over as soon as it
finishes a call. A client that waits too long gets a "browser is busy" message
and can simply retry. Use --log-level DEBUG to see the wait/acquire/release
logs.
This covers processes on the same machine and in the same runtime. It does not
extend between the host and a Docker container sharing the same
~/.linkedin-mcp directory, so do not run --login or --logout on the host
while a container is running.
Test with mcp inspector:
- Install and run mcp inspector
bunx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector - Click pre-filled token url to open the inspector in your browser
- Select
Streamable HTTPasTransport Type - Set
URLtohttp://localhost:8080/mcp - Connect
- Test tools
❗ Troubleshooting
Installation issues
- Ensure you have uv installed:
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh - Check uv version:
uv --version(should be 0.4.0 or higher) - On first run,
uvxdownloads all Python dependencies. On slow connections, uv's default 30s HTTP timeout may be too short. The recommended config above already setsUV_HTTP_TIMEOUT=300(seconds) to avoid this. - Windows,
DLL load failed while importing _greenlet: move to greenlet 3.5.5 or newer, whose published Windows wheels carry the C++ runtime inside the extension again. A freshuvxrun resolves that on its own; an environment that pins its dependencies needsuv lock --upgrade-package greenlet. Only greenlet 3.3.1 through 3.5.4 needMSVCP140.dll, which neither the python.org installer nor theuv-managed builds carry, and a greenlet built from source can need it at any version. Where the version cannot be moved, the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable supplies that DLL. Reported as greenlet#525, fixed in greenlet#526.
Session issues
- Browser profile is stored at
~/.linkedin-mcp/profile/ - Managed browser downloads are cached at
~/.linkedin-mcp/patchright-browsers/ - The browser cache keeps growing: a server upgrade can bring a new Chromium revision, and Patchright keeps the old one for as long as any installed version still references it.
uvxkeeps one archive per version you have ever run, so every one of them holds such a reference and the old revisions stay. The server logs a warning naming the revisions it is holding and how much space they take. To reclaim it, stop every LinkedIn MCP Server instance, delete~/.linkedin-mcp/patchright-browsers/, and let the next launch download the current browser.
Login issues
- Make sure you have only one active LinkedIn session at a time
- LinkedIn may require a login confirmation in the LinkedIn mobile app for
--login - LinkedIn may show a captcha challenge during login. Run
uvx mcp-server-linkedin@latest --loginwhich opens a browser where you can solve it manually.
Timeout issues
- Page operations failing (elements not found, navigation hangs): increase the browser page-op timeout:
--timeout 10000orTIMEOUT=10000(milliseconds, default 5000). - Entire tool calls timing out (e.g. multi-section profiles, cold-start Chromium, slow containers): increase the per-tool execution timeout:
--tool-timeout 300orTOOL_TIMEOUT=300(seconds, default 180). - First tool call with no session: if a locally logged-in browser has a live LinkedIn session, the server auto-imports it (see
AUTO_IMPORT_FROM_BROWSER/--auto-import) instead of forcing a manual login. On macOS the keychain may prompt once for Safe Storage access. If no importable browser session exists, it falls back to opening a login window and waits up toLOGIN_INLINE_WAITseconds (default 25, max 45;--login-inline-wait) so a quick sign-in resolves in one call. If the wait elapses, the tool returns a pending signal and the model retries in about 30 seconds. Neither the auto-import nor the inline wait applies under Docker or when the server is bound to a non-loopback HTTP host. Create the session on the host with--login, or use the explicit Docker--login --login-viewercommand. - Users on slow connections may need higher values for either.
Told to run --login on the host when you already did
- If tool calls answer "No valid LinkedIn session is available in Docker" on a machine that is not a container, the runtime was misdetected. This happened on Linux hosts running a Docker daemon for unrelated services. Set
LINKEDIN_MCP_CONTAINER=falseto override the detection;trueforces the opposite.
Custom Chrome path
- If Chrome is installed in a non-standard location, use
--chrome-path /path/to/chrome - Can also set via environment variable:
CHROME_PATH=/path/to/chrome - On macOS and Linux the browser must be at least as new as the one that last opened your profile, and the server refuses the launch otherwise. (Not on Windows: a browser there cannot be asked its version without starting one, so the check is off.) An older browser can silently drop stores a newer one wrote, the saved session among them, and the failure then looks exactly like an expired login. The message names both versions. Going back to the bundled Chromium after running a newer Chrome once is the usual way to meet this; either run the newer browser again, whichever one that was, or run
--login, which moves the stored session aside and signs in fresh with the browser you have.--logoutalso clears it but discards the old session instead of keeping it recoverable, and it asks for confirmation on the terminal, so it is not usable from a server an MCP client started. - Only Chrome, Chromium and Chrome for Testing are compared this way. Forks number themselves differently (Vivaldi is on 7.x, Edge's build number sits far below Chrome's under the same major), so pointing
CHROME_PATHat one turns the check off rather than producing a refusal nothing could satisfy.
Prerequisites: Claude Desktop.
- Download the latest
.mcpbartifact from releases - Click the downloaded
.mcpbfile to install it into Claude Desktop - Call any LinkedIn tool
On startup, the MCP Bundle prepares the shared Patchright Chromium browser cache in the background. On the first tool call that needs authentication, the server reuses a LinkedIn session from a signed-in local browser if it finds one, and otherwise opens a LinkedIn login browser window.
Note
Early tool calls may return a setup/authentication-in-progress error until browser setup or login finishes. Retry the tool call once the browser download or sign-in completes.
❗ Troubleshooting
First-time setup behavior
- Claude Desktop starts the bundle immediately; browser setup continues in the background
- If the Patchright Chromium browser is still downloading, retry the tool after a short wait
- Managed browser downloads are shared under
~/.linkedin-mcp/patchright-browsers/ - The browser cache keeps growing: Patchright keeps an old Chromium revision for as long as any installed version still references it, so an upgrade can leave both on disk. The server logs a warning naming what it holds. To reclaim the space, stop every LinkedIn MCP Server instance, delete
~/.linkedin-mcp/patchright-browsers/, and let the next launch download the current browser. - Windows, the bundle exits with
DLL load failed while importing _greenlet: install the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable, or reinstall a bundle pinning greenlet 3.5.5 or newer, whose published Windows wheels carry the C++ runtime inside the extension again. A bundle pinning greenlet 3.3.1 through 3.5.4 needsMSVCP140.dllfrom that redistributable, which neither the python.org installer nor theuv-managed builds carry, and a greenlet built from source can need it at any version. The server names this itself on startup, and only after checking that the loader cannot produce that DLL. Reported as greenlet#525, fixed in greenlet#526.
Login issues
- Make sure you have only one active LinkedIn session at a time
- LinkedIn may require a login confirmation in the LinkedIn mobile app for
--login - LinkedIn may show a captcha challenge during login. Run
uvx mcp-server-linkedin@latest --loginwhich opens a browser where you can solve captchas manually. See the uvx setup for prerequisites.
Timeout issues
- Page operations failing (elements not found, navigation hangs): increase the browser page-op timeout:
--timeout 10000orTIMEOUT=10000(milliseconds, default 5000). - Entire tool calls timing out (e.g. multi-section profiles, cold-start Chromium, slow containers): increase the per-tool execution timeout:
--tool-timeout 300orTOOL_TIMEOUT=300(seconds, default 180). - First tool call with no session: if a locally logged-in browser has a live LinkedIn session, the server auto-imports it (see
AUTO_IMPORT_FROM_BROWSER/--auto-import) instead of forcing a manual login. On macOS the keychain may prompt once for Safe Storage access. If no importable browser session exists, it falls back to opening a login window and waits up toLOGIN_INLINE_WAITseconds (default 25, max 45;--login-inline-wait) so a quick sign-in resolves in one call. If the wait elapses, the tool returns a pending signal and the model retries in about 30 seconds. Neither the auto-import nor the inline wait applies under Docker or when the server is bound to a non-loopback HTTP host. Create the session on the host with--login, or use the explicit Docker--login --login-viewercommand. - Users on slow connections may need higher values for either.
Use your own Chrome
- Set Chrome executable in the extension's settings to a Chrome, Chromium or Chrome for Testing binary, such as
/usr/bin/google-chrome. Leave it blank to keep the bundled Chromium. It setsCHROME_PATH, described under Custom Chrome path in the uvx setup help. - This is the fix when tool calls refuse to open the profile because a newer browser last opened it: point the setting at that newer browser instead of signing in again.
Told to run --login on the host when you already did
- If tool calls answer "No valid LinkedIn session is available in Docker" on a machine that is not a container, the runtime was misdetected. This happened on Linux hosts running a Docker daemon for unrelated services. Set
LINKEDIN_MCP_CONTAINER=falseto override the detection;trueforces the opposite.
Run in a terminal
codex plugin marketplace add stickerdaniel/linkedin-mcp-server
codex plugin add linkedin-mcp-server@linkedin-mcp-serverThe plugin runs the latest server release. On the first tool call that needs authentication, the server reuses a LinkedIn session from a signed-in local browser or opens a login window.
Note
Early tool calls may return a setup/authentication-in-progress error until browser setup or login finishes. Retry the tool call once the browser download or sign-in completes.
Prerequisites: Claude Code and uv.
Run in a terminal
claude plugin marketplace add stickerdaniel/linkedin-mcp-server
claude plugin install linkedin-mcp-server@linkedin-mcp-serverThe plugin runs the latest server release. On the first tool call that needs authentication, the server reuses a LinkedIn session from a signed-in local browser or opens a login window.
Note
Early tool calls may return a setup/authentication-in-progress error until browser setup or login finishes. Retry the tool call once the browser download or sign-in completes.
Prerequisites: Cursor and uv on your PATH.
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