Linked APILinked API

st.createRepost

This action allows you to repost someone else's post or your own. You can repost it as is, or add your own commentary with optional mentions of people and companies.

Constraints

⏺️ Root Start: allowed, when postUrl or postUrn parameter is provided.

⬆️ Parent Actions: st.openPost, st.doForPosts.

⬇️ Child Actions: N/A.

Parameters

json
{
  "actionType": "st.createRepost",
  "label": "repost1",
  "postUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/post1",
  "text": "Worth reading, especially the part on onboarding. Great work @[author]!",
  "mentions": [
    {
      "key": "author",
      "name": "Example Person",
      "personHashedUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACwAAAxxxxxxxxx"
    }
  ]
}
  • label (optional) – custom label for tracking this action in workflow completion.
  • postUrl (required for root start unless postUrn is provided, forbidden for parent start) – LinkedIn URL of the post to repost.
  • postUrn (optional) – URN of the post, accepted instead of postUrl. When both are provided, the URL must contain that same URN.
  • text (optional) – your own commentary, up to 3000 characters. Without it the post is reposted as is.
  • mentions (optional) – people and companies to mention in text. See mentions.

Result options

  1. Successful repost:
json
{
  "actionType": "st.createRepost",
  "label": "repost1",
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "postUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:1234567890123456789",
    "postUrn": "urn:li:activity:1234567890123456789"
  }
}
  • label – included only if specified in the action parameters.
  • data.postUrl – URL of the repost. A repost is a post of your own account, so this is not the URL of the post you reposted.
  • data.postUrn – URN of the repost.

postUrl and postUrn are null when the repost was published but LinkedIn did not return its address. Do not retry: the repost is already live.

  1. Failed repost:
json
{
  "actionType": "st.createRepost",
  "label": "repost1",
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "type": "alreadyReposted",
    "message": "LinkedIn declined this repost because the account has already reposted this post."
  }
}
  • label – included only if specified in the action parameters.
  • error.type – enum with the following possible values:
    • postNotFound – provided URL is not an existing LinkedIn post.
    • repostNotAllowed – LinkedIn offers no repost control for this post.
    • alreadyReposted – the account has already reposted this post and LinkedIn declined to repost it again.
    • mentionNotResolved – a person or company the text mentions was not among the options LinkedIn offered for that name.
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