Connect LinkedIn
Schedule & Chill posts to your personal LinkedIn profile. Posting to a LinkedIn company page is not available yet — see Platforms that are not available yet.
Connect your profile
- Make sure you are signed in to the right LinkedIn account in this browser.
- In the left menu, click Connected Accounts.
- Under Add a channel, find LinkedIn and click Connect.
- LinkedIn opens. Click Allow.
- You come back and see LinkedIn account connected successfully.
To add a second LinkedIn profile, first switch to that account on LinkedIn, then click Add another.
Reconnect about every 60 days
LinkedIn gives apps access for about 60 days, and it does not let us renew it for you. When the access runs out:
- the channel shows a red Reconnect badge
- you get a notification, and an email if posts are scheduled to it
- scheduled LinkedIn posts fail until you reconnect
Reconnecting takes a few seconds and keeps your history. See Reconnect or disconnect a channel.
What a LinkedIn post can include
- Up to 3,000 characters
- Up to 9 images, or 1 video, or 1 PDF — not a mix
- A PDF becomes a swipeable document post. It can be up to 300 pages and 100 MB.
- A first comment, posted right after the post
LinkedIn settings in the composer
Select your LinkedIn channel in Create Post to see these settings:
| Setting | What it does | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Who can see this post | Anyone (public) or Connections only | Anyone (public) |
| Show a link preview card | Builds a preview card from the first link in your caption. LinkedIn does not make one for posts sent by apps, so we make it for you. | On |
| Link card title | The card's title, up to 200 characters | The page's own title |
| Link card description | The card's text, up to 300 characters | The page's own description |
If you add an image or video, it shows instead of the link card.
Analytics
LinkedIn does not share post numbers (likes, comments, views) for personal profiles with apps. Your LinkedIn posts appear in Analytics without numbers. This is a LinkedIn rule and will not fill in later.
If something goes wrong
| You see | What to do |
|---|---|
| Failed to connect account: LinkedIn OAuth error: … | Try again and click Allow on LinkedIn's screen. |
| This LinkedIn account is missing its member id. Reconnect it. | Reconnect the channel. |
| LinkedIn video did not finish processing within the allowed time | LinkedIn was slow. Retry the post, or use a shorter video. |
| LinkedIn document error: file exceeds LinkedIn's 100MB limit for document posts. | Make the PDF smaller than 100 MB. |
| The wrong LinkedIn account was connected | Disconnect it, switch accounts on LinkedIn, then connect again. |