st.acceptInvitation

This action accepts an incoming invitation from the LinkedIn invitation manager. It supports connection requests, company-follow invitations, and newsletter-subscription invitations.

Constraints

⏺️ Root Start: allowed when invitationType and its matching target URL are provided.

⬆️ Parent Actions: N/A.

⬇️ Child Actions: N/A.

Parameters

{
  "actionType": "st.acceptInvitation",
  "label": "invitation1",
  "invitationType": "connect",
  "personUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/person1"
}

const workflow = await linkedapi.acceptInvitation.execute({
  invitationType: "connect",
  personUrl: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/person1"
});

const { errors } = await linkedapi.acceptInvitation.result(workflow.workflowId);

from linkedapi import AcceptInvitationParams

workflow = linkedapi.accept_invitation.execute(
    AcceptInvitationParams(
        invitation_type="connect",
        person_url="https://www.linkedin.com/in/person1",
    )
)

result = linkedapi.accept_invitation.result(workflow.workflow_id)

linkedin connection accept connect https://www.linkedin.com/in/person1

In AI assistants, the MCP server runs this action as the accept_invitation tool.

linkedin connection accept <type> <url>

• label (optional) – custom label for tracking this action in workflow completion.
• invitationType (required) – one of:
  • connect – requires personUrl.
  • companyFollow – requires companyUrl.
  • newsletterSubscribe – requires newsletterUrl.
• personUrl – public or hashed LinkedIn person URL. Allowed only for connect.
• companyUrl – LinkedIn company page URL. Allowed only for companyFollow.
• newsletterUrl – LinkedIn newsletter URL. Allowed only for newsletterSubscribe.

Provide exactly one target URL: the one required by invitationType.

Result options

1. Successful invitation acceptance:

{
  "actionType": "st.acceptInvitation",
  "label": "invitation1",
  "success": true
}

• label – included only if specified in the action parameters.

2. No matching invitation:

{
  "actionType": "st.acceptInvitation",
  "label": "invitation1",
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "type": "noPendingRequest",
    "message": "There is no matching pending incoming invitation to accept."
  }
}

• error.type is noPendingRequest when no invitation matches the supplied type and target URL.