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LinkedIn MCP server

Post to LinkedIn from Claude

Claude cannot reach LinkedIn by itself. Connect Blotato's MCP server once and it can publish text posts, image posts, documents, video to LinkedIn from a plain prompt. One hosted endpoint, no developer app, no copy-paste.

This one publishes. Search "LinkedIn MCP server" and you get two different kinds of tool: scrapers that read public LinkedIn data, and publishers that put a post live on your own account. Blotato is the second kind, on LinkedIn's official API, not browser automation.

MCP endpoint https://mcp.blotato.com/mcp

Updated July 2026

How to post to LinkedIn with Claude

  1. Connect your LinkedIn account. Sign in to Blotato and connect LinkedIn through the normal login flow. Blotato holds the tokens and refreshes them, so this is the last time you think about auth.
  2. Add the MCP server to Claude. In Claude, open Settings, then Connectors, then add a custom connector pointing at https://mcp.blotato.com/mcp. Claude Code and Cowork take the same URL.
  3. Ask Claude to post. Write it the way you would say it out loud: "Turn this blog post into a LinkedIn post in my voice and publish it now." Claude calls the publish tool and Blotato puts the post live.

What Claude can do on LinkedIn through Blotato

Publish to LinkedIn

Post text posts, image posts, documents, video directly, with the fields each format requires.

Schedule for later

Queue a LinkedIn post for a future time and let Blotato publish it on the clock.

Upload or generate media

Hand Claude a local file or a URL, or have it generate the image or video first.

List connected accounts

See which LinkedIn accounts are connected and pick the right one to post from.

Check post status

Confirm a post actually went live, and read back the error if a platform rejected it.

On LinkedIn, Blotato covers publishing and scheduling. It does not yet cover analytics, comments and direct messages on this platform, so if that is what you need, this is the wrong tool and it is better you know now.

Tools your agent can call on LinkedIn

These are the exact MCP tool names exposed on this platform, so you can reference them directly in a prompt or check them against your client's tool list.

  • blotato_list_accounts
  • blotato_create_post
  • blotato_get_post_status
  • blotato_create_presigned_upload_url
  • blotato_get_schedule
  • blotato_list_schedules
  • blotato_update_schedule
  • blotato_delete_schedule
  • blotato_create_visual
  • blotato_get_visual_status

What it looks like in practice

Screenshots from the full LinkedIn walkthrough, showing the connection and a real published post.

The Blotato MCP server connected in Claude Code
The /mcp panel confirms Claude can reach your LinkedIn account.
Connecting a LinkedIn account inside Blotato settings
You authorize once through LinkedIn's normal sign-in, not a developer app.
The published post live on the LinkedIn feed with an attached image
The finished post on LinkedIn, image and text exactly as prompted.

Watch the workflow end to end

Sabrina Ramonov runs her own posting through this server. In this walkthrough she drives the whole thing from Claude Code: cross-posting, carousels and slideshows, and the content calendar.

Why not just build it against the LinkedIn API?

LinkedIn gates most publishing behind partner program approval, and its document and video uploads use a separate register-then-upload flow from plain text posts.

You can absolutely build it yourself, and if LinkedIn is the only network you will ever post to, that is a reasonable call. The trade shows up at the second platform: every network has its own auth model, its own upload flow, and its own review process, and they change on their own schedules. Blotato is one endpoint across nine of them, at a flat price that does not move when you post more.

If you would rather own that layer yourself, we wrote up the honest tradeoff between open-source and managed posting APIs, and our roundup of social media MCP servers covers the alternatives, including the ones that only draft rather than publish.

Who is already running this

These are Blotato customers describing their own agent and API setups, in their own words.

Once I connected Blotato into my n8n workflow, everything changed. I now have an automated pipeline that generates, formats, and publishes content directly to LinkedIn. It takes me from idea to draft to optimized post to live, without friction. Since setting this up, I've gone from zero consistency to having a repeatable content engine.
Daniel
Founder, TheBag.KE, Nairobi
Now I create posts with a few prompts in Claude. Claude writes directly to my Notion workspace, where I review and approve the content and add an image. Claude then writes to Blotato, and Blotato handles the scheduling and publishing across platforms. Once a post goes live, I receive a notification, click a confirmation button, and Blotato instructs Claude to update my Notion page with the published URL.
Louise Pienaar
Head of OutSec Medical, UK
FAQ

LinkedIn MCP server FAQs

01 Can Claude post to LinkedIn?
Yes. Claude cannot reach LinkedIn on its own, but connecting an MCP server gives it the tools to publish. Add Blotato's server at https://mcp.blotato.com/mcp, connect your LinkedIn account once, then ask Claude to post in plain language.
02 What is a LinkedIn MCP server?
It is a Model Context Protocol server that exposes LinkedIn actions as tools an AI assistant can call. Instead of you describing the LinkedIn API to Claude, the server hands Claude a publish action it can invoke directly.
03 Do I need LinkedIn API access or a developer app?
No. Blotato holds the platform integration and the OAuth tokens, so you connect your account through a normal login flow instead of registering a developer app. LinkedIn gates most publishing behind partner program approval, and its document and video uploads use a separate register-then-upload flow from plain text posts.
04 Can Claude schedule LinkedIn posts for later?
Yes. Ask for a time and Blotato queues the post and publishes it then. You do not need Claude open at the scheduled moment.
05 What else can Blotato's MCP server do on LinkedIn?
On LinkedIn, Blotato covers publishing and scheduling. It does not yet cover analytics, comments and direct messages on this platform, so if that is what you need, this is the wrong tool and it is better you know now.
06 Does this LinkedIn MCP server publish, or only read LinkedIn data?
It publishes. This matters because "LinkedIn MCP server" returns two different kinds of tool: scrapers that read public LinkedIn data for analysis, and publishers that put a post live on your own account. Blotato is the second kind, built on LinkedIn's official API rather than scraping, so your agent finishes the job instead of handing you a draft.
07 Does this work with Claude Code and Cowork too?
Yes. It is one hosted endpoint, so anything that speaks MCP can use it: Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cowork, and other MCP clients. The same server also covers the other eight platforms, so one connection handles your whole posting surface.
08 How much does it cost?
Blotato starts at $29/mo flat for 20 connected accounts, and the price does not move with your posting volume. Note that API and MCP access is not part of the 7-day trial: generating a key starts the paid Starter plan, so plan on subscribing rather than trialing it.

The same connection covers eight more platforms

LinkedIn is one target on the same endpoint. Once Claude is connected, it can publish to the rest without any further setup.