st.doForSkills

This action allows you to endorse each skill provided by the parent action, or only the skills whose names match the patterns you specify.

Skill names are shown as the profile owner entered them, in the owner's language, whatever your own LinkedIn language. A German profile lists Projektmanagement, not Project Management. Write patterns in the language of the profiles you target, or cover several languages in one pattern, such as "proje[ck]t\\s*management".

Constraints

⏺️ Root Start: not allowed.

⬆️ Parent Actions: st.retrievePersonSkills.

⬇️ Child Actions: st.endorsePersonSkill.

Parameters

{
  "actionType": "st.doForSkills",
  "skillNamePatterns": ["business", "project\\s*manage", "^(agile|scrum)$"],
  "then": {
    "actionType": "st.endorsePersonSkill"
  }
}

• skillNamePatterns (optional) – array of regular expressions that select skills by name. A skill is selected when any of the patterns matches its name. If omitted, every skill is selected.
  • The syntax is RE2, the dialect of Go regexp and Google Sheets REGEXMATCH. Ordinary patterns read like JavaScript regular expressions, but lookaround ((?=…), (?!…), (?<=…), (?<!…)) and backreferences (\1) are not supported.
  • Matching is case-insensitive and searches anywhere in the name: manage matches Project Management. To require the whole name to match, anchor the pattern with ^…$: ^scrum$ matches Scrum but not Scrum Master.
  • Patterns are JSON strings, so each backslash is written twice: "project\\s*manage" is the regular expression project\s*manage.
  • The array holds 1 to 20 patterns, each 1 to 200 characters long. An empty array, more than 20 patterns, an empty pattern, a pattern longer than 200 characters, or a pattern that is not valid RE2 (including lookaround, backreferences and repetition counts above 1000) is rejected with invalidWorkflow before the workflow starts.
  • The patterns together must also stay within a matching-cost budget: their compiled RE2 programs may hold at most 5000 instructions in total. Ordinary patterns are far below it – 20 alternations of 200 characters each come to about 3700. Large repetition counts are what spend it: .{0,1000} alone costs about 2000, so three of them across the array exceed the budget and the workflow is rejected with invalidWorkflow.
• then (required) – exactly one st.endorsePersonSkill action without skillName, as an object or a one-element array. The skill to endorse comes from the iteration.

Result options

This action doesn't produce its own distinct result. Its effects are visible in the skills returned by st.retrievePersonSkills:

• The parent's data still lists every skill of the person.
• A selected skill carries a then field: an array with the result of its st.endorsePersonSkill, successful or failed.
• A skill the patterns did not select has no then field.

Selected skills are endorsed one at a time, in the order they appear on the profile. A failed endorsement is reported in that skill's then, and the next selected skill is still processed. Each successful endorsement counts toward the stEndorsements limit: once the limit is reached, the remaining selected skills get limitExceeded in their then and are not endorsed. If the person is not your 1st-degree connection, every selected skill gets connectionNotFound and nothing is endorsed.

Usage examples

1. Endorsing only skills related to business and project management:

Workflow:

{
  "actionType": "st.openPersonPage",
  "personUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/person1",
  "basicInfo": false,
  "then": {
    "actionType": "st.retrievePersonSkills",
    "then": {
      "actionType": "st.doForSkills",
      "skillNamePatterns": ["business", "project\\s*manage", "^(agile|scrum)$"],
      "then": {
        "actionType": "st.endorsePersonSkill"
      }
    }
  }
}

Completion:

{
  "actionType": "st.openPersonPage",
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "then": {
      "actionType": "st.retrievePersonSkills",
      "success": true,
      "data": [
        {
          "name": "Business Strategy",
          "then": [
            {
              "actionType": "st.endorsePersonSkill",
              "success": true
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name": "Python"
        },
        {
          "name": "Project Management",
          "then": [
            {
              "actionType": "st.endorsePersonSkill",
              "success": true
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name": "Agile Coaching"
        },
        {
          "name": "Scrum",
          "then": [
            {
              "actionType": "st.endorsePersonSkill",
              "success": false,
              "error": {
                "type": "limitExceeded",
                "message": "The configured limit for this action category has been exceeded."
              }
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Python matches none of the patterns. Agile Coaching is not selected either, because ^(agile|scrum)$ must match the whole name. Scrum was selected, but the account had reached its endorsement limit by then, so it was not endorsed.

2. Endorsing every skill of a person:

Workflow:

{
  "actionType": "st.openPersonPage",
  "personUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/person1",
  "basicInfo": false,
  "then": {
    "actionType": "st.retrievePersonSkills",
    "then": {
      "actionType": "st.doForSkills",
      "then": {
        "actionType": "st.endorsePersonSkill"
      }
    }
  }
}

Completion:

{
  "actionType": "st.openPersonPage",
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "then": {
      "actionType": "st.retrievePersonSkills",
      "success": true,
      "data": [
        {
          "name": "Business Strategy",
          "then": [
            {
              "actionType": "st.endorsePersonSkill",
              "success": true
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name": "Python",
          "then": [
            {
              "actionType": "st.endorsePersonSkill",
              "success": true
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}