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Follow LinkedIn profile

Follow a LinkedIn member by profile URL. Works whether Follow is the profile's main button or sits inside the overflow menu, and whatever language the account's interface is set to. Safe to repeat: it returns already_following if you already follow them, and no_follow_cta when the profile offers no Follow option. Also returns the member id it acted on and confirms the resulting state on the page.

Input

profileUrl required

LinkedIn profile URL, e.g. https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmanuelmacron/

Output

status required

followed = just followed; already_following = you already followed them; no_follow_cta = the profile offers no Follow option.

publicId required

vanity id parsed from the URL (decoded)

profileUrl required
name optional
memberId optional

LinkedIn member id of the profile that was acted on, read from the follow control itself — the join key proving which member the follow applied to. Null only when no Follow option exists.

verifiedOnPage optional

True when the follow state was read back from the page after the action (or read directly for already_following), rather than assumed from the click.

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