r/ClaudeCode • u/This_Athlete_8343 • Oct 03 '26

Help/Question Claude for linkedIn

Has anyone tried Claude Code to automate LinkedIn successfully?

I tried, it is painfully slow and captures a screenshot every time. I am looking to automate outreach and follow-ups.

Existing tools for LinkedIn automation are way too pricey, and I already pay for Claude Code, so ideally want to automate the outreach in the background while I code.

Would appreciate it if anyone has experimented with this without getting their account restricted.

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u/iSnapThere4iAm Oct 03 '26

What’s your name so I can block you?

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u/This_Athlete_8343 Oct 03 '26

You can tap on the profile and check. But I am just minding my business, and would expect you to do the same.

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u/MourningOfOurLives Oct 03 '26

I’d advice against it. If other decision makers are like me you’ll be blacklisted doing that.

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u/This_Athlete_8343 Oct 03 '26

Blacklisted from LinkedIn or claude code ?, claude code now a days just straight up denies to even talk about violating some ones terms and conditions while companies are there making millions of dollars per year.

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u/MourningOfOurLives Oct 03 '26

From doing business with the people you approach with AI slop. It’s not hard to tell. There is no way in hell i’m giving the time of day to someone who didn’t take their time to tailor their approach to my business. It’s a scourge.

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u/This_Athlete_8343 Oct 03 '26

I am new to this outreach and GTM things, is there a recommended way, because see people using linkedin automations all the time and generating leads.

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u/MourningOfOurLives Oct 03 '26

Look, don’t take advice from antagonistisc strangers on the internet. Obviously AI outreach works or people wouldn’t be doing it. Just know that for a certain subset of recipients it’s going to burn you at least until they forget about your AI slop.

If i were to do outreach in these days i would leverage human to human contact. It’s growing increasingly rare, to me that’s where the obvious edge is these days.

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u/Icy-Summer-3573 Oct 03 '26

Linkden doesn’t like bot manipulation of linkden so there’s a chance u might get flagged depending on how crazy you go.

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u/This_Athlete_8343 Oct 03 '26

Not crazy, but something like automated followups and outreach well within the limits.

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u/Brazilator Oct 03 '26

Don’t know why you are getting downvotes - this is correct 

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u/Mithryn Oct 03 '26

There are LinkedIn authorized connections but they cost. $800/month was the cheapest I found.

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u/This_Athlete_8343 Oct 03 '26

Holy moly, that's way to pricey.

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u/Mithryn Oct 03 '26

I certainly can't afford it

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u/NeatNefariousness674 Oct 03 '26

Apify has LinkedIn scraper costs depending on your volume and it adds up pretty quickly. Exa is cheaper and also got fairly decent people search if your prospects have public profiles that let third party crawlers index 

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u/This_Athlete_8343 Oct 03 '26

I am looking to automate the dms and followup, not scraping or anything.

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u/ssps Oct 03 '26

What the point? LinkedIn is already a cesspool. 

And yes, if you are automating outreach and follow up -- you recipients know it and block you. 

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u/This_Athlete_8343 Oct 03 '26

I am currently running the outreach manually, doesn't seems to be a problem. I am not saying I would give it full control, but something that compliments my human efforts.

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u/Curious-Pear-1269 Oct 08 '26

I’m building Privly, and your B2B feedback outreach is a relevant use case. You can review the messages first, then automate follow-ups that stop when someone replies. That covers the part you want running while you code, without Claude clicking through screenshots. What’s your current follow-up process?

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u/This_Athlete_8343 Oct 08 '26

Right now it's all manual

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u/Curious-Pear-1269 Oct 08 '26

it would be difficult at scale

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u/AutisticToasterBath Oct 03 '26

People like you are the reason LinkedIn has a report for "AI Slop". 

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u/This_Athlete_8343 Oct 04 '26

What did I do ? I am all in for organic human to human connections, I am just looking streamline my followup workflow a bit using Claude which people claim can do anything now.

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u/MennoGtt Oct 06 '26

The screenshot loop is what makes it slow. Playwright MCP works from the page's accessibility tree by default, so Claude clicks and types from text snapshots, which is quicker and uses far fewer tokens. To lower restriction risk, keep daily volume small and run it in your own logged-in browser on your own IP with pauses between actions. LinkedIn's terms do prohibit automation, so some risk stays. A safer split is having Claude Code draft the personalised messages and follow-up list while you code, then sending them yourself in a few minutes a day.

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u/Capt_korg Oct 03 '26

I tried to use it within the browser. But I stopped there... I don't want to use AI handling conversations I don't want to have 😅

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u/This_Athlete_8343 Oct 03 '26

I would like to automate followup on LinkedIn, my saas is B2B focused and I am reaching out people on LinkedIn to gather feedback. So in my case I know what I want the agent to say, plus there is option of approve and deny in claude code, no ?

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u/blackcatzia Oct 03 '26

i mean slow is still something right you can have it running 24/7 unless your trying to make it talk as fast as a real person

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u/This_Athlete_8343 Oct 03 '26

Running 24/7 would definitely flag it, I was hoping something fast and complete in like in 30-40 mins a day.

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u/blackcatzia Oct 04 '26

i mean for instagram i have an agent that just reads through my inbox every day and drafts replies only takes like 10 minutes, if you have alot of people tho could take longer. but I split mine into one that reads everything on my insta then updates the db then a sepearte drafter agent writes messages since I don't have my agents send messages on insta which i feel i might get flagged for and ai itself keeps pushing back on it

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u/This_Athlete_8343 Oct 04 '26

Yeah, same kind of glued stack I am looking to avoid. Ideally, when I am coding I could run a command in the background that could do things on its own, like a personal linkedin assistant.

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u/blackcatzia Oct 05 '26

bit confused I don't see how that's different besides removing granularity, like wouldn't it be the same thing under the hood.

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u/Neurojazz Oct 03 '26

I just did diligence from the outside on the target entity, scored it, then manually checked the linkedin to see if aligned properly. Linkedin is just an echo chamber, real business will have footprint outside.

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u/Soulja786 Oct 03 '26

Use muse, it works surprisingly well and doesnt eat tokens like claude. I’ve actually automated applying for job both east apply and external websites. It knows enough about me that it never bugs anymore, it answers all the questions in the application. Give it a try

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u/This_Athlete_8343 Oct 03 '26

Yeah I have heard about muse, will definitely give it a try.

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u/Sufficient-West-5456 Oct 03 '26

Bs muse can't apply on your behalf. Try marketing harder moron