LinkedIn MCP server

LinkedIn MCP server for social media publishing

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

Connect LinkedIn to Claude See pricing

Updated August 2026

How do I post to LinkedIn with an AI agent?

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.
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.
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 can your agent 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. LinkedIn's API gates member-level engagement and messaging behind partner programs that are not open to general applicants, which is why almost no tool offers them.

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_get_user
blotato_list_accounts
blotato_create_post
blotato_get_post_status
blotato_list_posts
blotato_create_presigned_upload_url
blotato_get_schedule
blotato_list_schedules
blotato_update_schedule
blotato_delete_schedule
blotato_list_visual_templates
blotato_create_visual
blotato_get_visual_status
blotato_create_source
blotato_get_source_status
blotato_get_credits
blotato_buy_credits

Which AI agents can post to LinkedIn?

Eight, and they all reach LinkedIn through the same endpoint. Claude authenticates over OAuth. The rest take your API key as a blotato-api-key header. Nothing here runs a local server.

Agent	Connects with
Claude Code	OAuth
Claude Desktop and Cowork	OAuth
Claude.ai on the web	OAuth
Cursor	API key header
OpenAI Codex	API key header
Antigravity and Replit Agent	API key header

The full setup for each client, including the copy-pasteable config, is on the social media MCP server page. Blotato does not document a direct ChatGPT connection, so use Codex if you are in the OpenAI ecosystem.

What does it look 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.

What does the full workflow look like?

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 publishing to LinkedIn this way?

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?

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 Which AI agents can post to LinkedIn?

Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Claude Cowork, Claude.ai on the web, Cursor, OpenAI Codex, Google Antigravity, and Replit Agent can all publish to LinkedIn through Blotato's MCP server at https://mcp.blotato.com/mcp. Claude connects over OAuth; Cursor, Codex, Antigravity, and Replit Agent connect with a blotato-api-key header. Blotato does not document a direct ChatGPT connection, so use Codex if you are in the OpenAI ecosystem. The same endpoint also covers the other eight platforms.

08 Which LinkedIn MCP server should I use?

Decide by whether you need to publish or to read. Search "LinkedIn MCP server" and most results are scrapers that read public LinkedIn data, plus open-source servers you host yourself and register your own LinkedIn developer app for. Blotato is the hosted publisher: your agent puts a post live on your own LinkedIn account through the official API, with 17 tools behind one endpoint at $29/mo flat. If you only need to read public LinkedIn data, a scraper is the cheaper answer and you should use one.

09 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.

Does the same connection cover other platforms?

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