Prerequisite: Third-party connectors are available only on the Sana Enterprise tier, with one exception: the Workday connector is included for both Sana Core and Sana Enterprise.
Introduction
Connect LinkedIn to Sana to manage your professional presence. Create and publish posts as yourself or your organization, engage with comments and likes, look up member profiles and organizations, and manage your LinkedIn activity from one place.
In summary, the connector has the following key characteristics:
Category: Communication
Connector type: Real-time
Auth type: OAuth
Hosting type: Managed
Capabilities
This connector is able to do the following:
Capability |
Create posts |
Search organizations |
Delete posts |
View profiles |
Tools
While the capabilities above describe what the connector can do at a high level, the underlying tools show exactly which operations the agent can use when you ask Sana about LinkedIn. In practice, the agent may call one or more tools to achieve a single capability.
Tool |
Create comment |
List ad account id options |
List campaign id options |
List organization id options |
Create like on share |
Create text post organization |
Create text post user |
Delete post |
Fetch ad account |
Get current member profile |
Get member organization access control |
Get member profile |
Get multiple member profiles |
Get org member access |
Get organization access control |
Get organization administrators |
Get profile picture fields |
Retrieve comments on comments |
Retrieve comments shares |
Search organization |
Note: This article lists the connector's full set of tools. Your workspace owner can disable individual tools for your workspace, so some of those listed here may not be available to your agents. If a tool you expected is missing, reach out to your workspace owner.
Triggers
While tools are the actions an agent takes on your behalf, triggers are the events that can start an agent automatically. When you build an agent, you can choose one of the triggers below as its starting point. For example, having the agent run every time something new happens in LinkedIn.
Trigger |
New Organization Post Created |
Scope and permissions
This connector uses OAuth. When you connect your account, you will need to sign into your account and grant the required permissions:
Scope | Purpose |
r_1st_connections_size | Read the size of your 1st-degree LinkedIn network |
r_basicprofile | Read your basic profile (name, headline, photo, etc.) |
r_ads | Read LinkedIn Ads accounts, campaigns, and creatives |
rw_ads | Create and manage LinkedIn Ads campaigns and creatives |
r_ads_reporting | Read reporting and analytics for your LinkedIn Ads |
rw_organization_admin | Manage LinkedIn organization pages and their admin settings |
r_organization_social | Read posts and social activity from your organization pages |
w_organization_social | Create and manage posts on behalf of your organization pages |
r_organization_social_feed | Read your organization's social feed and related engagement data |
w_organization_social_feed | Publish and manage content in your organization's social feed |
w_member_social | Create posts, comments, and reactions on your personal LinkedIn account's behalf |
w_member_social_feed | Publish content and interact with your personal LinkedIn feed programmatically |
Set up instructions
Prerequisites:
You are a Sana Enterprise user – all third-party connectors except the Workday connector are available only for users on the Sana Enterprise tier.
Your Sana workspace owner has enabled this connector – if the workspace owner has disabled the connector it won't appear in the list of available connectors.
Step 1: Go to the connectors page in Sana
In Sana, click on your profile icon and name in the bottom left corner and select Connectors.
Step 2: Find LinkedIn in the list of available connectors
Scroll to the Available connectors section and locate LinkedIn.
Note: If you can't find a connector in this list, it means one of the following:
You've already connected it — check the ”Active connectors” section at the top of the connectors page, or
Your workspace owner has disabled this connector for your workspace — reach out to them for more information or to request that it be enabled.
Step 3: Hover the connector card and click the connect button
Hover the LinkedIn card and click the Connect button.
Tip: If you click the card itself instead of the Connect button, you'll open a connector detail page with more information about its capabilities.
Step 4: Initialize the Pipedream connection
When clicking Connect in the previous step, a pop-up will appear powered by Pipedream. Click the Continue button in the pop-up to initialize the set up.
Note: Sana uses Pipedream to connect your account. Pipedream is a Workday product, trusted by millions of people to keep their data secure.
Step 5: Sign in to LinkedIn and approve the requested scopes
You'll be redirected to LinkedIn to go through their OAuth flow. Sign in and approve the scopes Sana needs to operate the connector.
Step 6: Complete the set up
You've successfully connected your LinkedIn account. Click Continue to complete the setup and start using the connector.
Known limitations
People search: The connector cannot search for people — it can only fetch a profile by ID.