Invite people from a LinkedIn search, after you approve

Opens a People search, narrows it to 2nd-degree people, and invites up to the number you set straight from the result cards. On a 2nd-degree card the button reads "Invite <name> to connect": one tap sends the request, with no note sheet, and the label turns to Pending in place, which is the check that it worked. It stops on the filtered results first so you can see whose page it is about to work.

For a personal note per person use linkedin-connect-with-note instead.

Inputs

Run it

URL-encode the query in the link (spaces as %20). Two phases: narrow to 2nd degree, then invite from the cards.

run_task({
  "allow_writes": true,
  "phases": [
    { "launch": "com.linkedin.android",
      "openUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?keywords=<query>",
      "goal": "In the row of filter chips near the top, tap the chip whose label is 'Filter by 2nd connections', once, so the results reload. Do nothing else: do not open All filters, do not tap any other chip, do not scroll, do not tap any card, do not tap any Invite button.",
      "require": { "label": "Filter by 2nd connections" },
      "steps": ["the 'Filter by 2nd connections' chip is selected and the results have reloaded"],
      "maxSteps": 6 },
    { "goal": "The LinkedIn People search results for '<query>' are on screen, filtered to 2nd-degree people. Invite up to <count> people from this list. To invite someone, tap the button on the right of their card whose label reads 'Invite <name> to connect'; after the tap that label changes to 'Pending'. Only cards with an 'Invite ... to connect' button can be invited: skip every card whose button reads 'Send a message', 'Pending' or 'Follow', and scroll down when no invitable card is left on screen. Do not open anyone's profile. Report the name of everyone you invited.",
      "allowWrites": true,
      "require": { "label": "^Invite .* to connect$" },
      "pauseWhen": "the 2nd-degree People search results for '<query>' are showing, with at least one 'Invite ... to connect' button",
      "repeat": <count>,
      "countLabel": "^Invite .* to connect$",
      "steps": ["up to <count> people on the list have been invited"],
      "maxSteps": <4 x count, at least 12> }
  ]
})

Poll get_task_status(task_id, wait_seconds: 30) until paused. The pause carries the labels on screen: the names and buttons on the first cards. Show the user the page and how many it will invite. On a yes:

resume_task({ "task_id": "<id>", "allowWrites": true, "repeat": <count>, "countLabel": "^Invite .* to connect$" })

Poll until done. resume_task({ task_id, abandon: true }) walks away with nothing sent.

What comes back

result.phases[1].sent lists the labels whose tap was verified, as Invite <name> to connect: the card flipped to Pending. Take the name from between "Invite" and "to connect".

Notes

• Confirm on the Sent tab afterwards (linkedin-sent-invitations). LinkedIn shows Pending even while it silently drops requests past its weekly limit of roughly 100, on every tier including Premium. Only a name on the Sent list was sent.
• `require` is the guard. On a page with nothing invitable — the filter did not apply, or every card is already Pending — the phase ends after one look as precondition_failed instead of scrolling through its whole step budget. Measured before the guard existed: 30 steps and 62 credits for nothing on such a page.
• 2nd degree only. On a Premium account a 3rd+ card offers "Send a message" (InMail to an open profile), not Connect; it is not a connection and cannot be invited from the results page.
• The chip is a phase of its own. Folded into the invite goal, the operator skipped the chips and went for the cards, then wandered for a hundred steps. One job per phase.
• An account carrying hundreds of pending invitations gets new ones dropped quietly. Withdraw old ones first (linkedin-withdraw-invitations).
• The card flow does not qualify anyone. It invites whoever the search found. If your audience has a rule a card cannot show (where someone did their first degree, say), check each person with linkedin-profile-detail first and invite them with linkedin-connect-with-note, or accept that some invitations will go to people outside it.
• Measured on 2026-09-29 (a Premium account, through the operator): the chip by its full label in 3 steps and 8 credits, then 5 of 5 invited in 24 credits, on a page that had cost 62 credits for nothing before the guard. On pages with nothing invitable, require ended each phase in 1 credit.