linkedin mcp

linkedin mcp config

Saves your LinkedIn app and signs you in.

linkedin mcp config --web                 # everything in a local web page (recommended)
linkedin mcp config                       # asks for the Client ID and Secret here, then opens the sign-in
linkedin mcp config --client-id … --client-secret …   # no questions (scripts)

With --web it serves a page on http://localhost:3769 that lists the app setup steps, with the redirect URL to copy. You paste the Client ID and the Client Secret there, then press Save and sign in with LinkedIn. LinkedIn asks you to allow the app and sends you back to http://localhost:3769/callback. The page then saves the sign-in and says who you are and until when. The command waits up to 10 minutes.

Flag	Effect
--web	Do it in the web page
--client-id, --client-secret	Save these without asking (the secret stays in your shell history)
--redirect-port <port>	Listen there instead of 3769 ('' resets); the app must list the same URL
--api-version <YYYYMM>	The LinkedIn-Version to send ('' resets)
--no-login	Only save the settings
--no-open	Print the link instead of opening the browser
--config <file>	Another .env (env LINKEDIN_CONFIG)

A blank secret keeps the saved one. Running it again later, when the 60-day token expires, takes a single click.

The page is guarded like the token it saves. Every URL of ours carries a random token, the Host header is checked, and LinkedIn's redirect must carry a one-time state issued by that page.

linkedin mcp status

Who is signed in, until when, the app's Client ID and the redirect URL. It exits 3 when nobody is signed in or the sign-in expired.

linkedin mcp logout

Deletes credentials.json. The app settings stay. To also revoke the app's access on LinkedIn's side, remove it at linkedin.com/psettings/permitted-services.

linkedin mcp install

Registers linkedin-mcp (stdio) in Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode, as linkedin. It needs a sign-in. Without --client it shows a checklist of the clients found on the PATH.

Flag	Effect
--client claude,codex	Skip the checklist (claude, codex, opencode; …@windows from WSL)
--force	With --client: replace an existing linkedin entry
--dry-run	Print the commands instead of running them
--config <file>	Register with another .env (passed as LINKEDIN_CONFIG)

Restart the client, or reconnect its MCP servers, to load it.

linkedin mcp uninstall

Removes the linkedin entry from the clients picked (or --client), with --dry-run to preview. It runs without a sign-in, so a client can be cleaned up afterwards. OpenCode has no mcp remove, so its config file is edited in place, keeping its comments.