Publication

Publication is the LinkedIn component that posts to your personal LinkedIn profile. It can share a text, a link with its title and description, an image or a video, and you choose whether only your connections or anyone can see it. It can also look up your profile’s basic details.

It is useful to keep your LinkedIn presence up to date without opening the platform, for example by sharing every new blog article or the posts an AI agent writes.

When to use it

• You want to share every new blog article on LinkedIn with a text an agent writes.
• You want to post a picture of an event or a launch together with a text.
• You prepare the week’s content in a spreadsheet and want a flow to publish it.
• You need the name and email of the connected account to use them in another step of the flow.

Configuration

You need a LinkedIn API credential, which connects by signing in with your LinkedIn account. Before you sign in, the credential asks for the Client Id and Client Secret of an app created in the LinkedIn developer portal; in LinkedIn Share access choose All functionality so you can post. See Credentials.

Field	What it does
Credential (required)	The LinkedIn API credential of the account you post with.
Operation	What the component does. See Operations. Default: Share Content.
Type of publicacion	Only in Share Content. The type of post: Text, Url, Image or Video. Default: Text.
Visibility	Only in Share Content. Who can see the post: Only Friends (only your connections) or Anyone. Default: Only Friends.
Text of the post	Only in Share Content. The text of the post. Required.
Url	Only with Url. The link you want to share. Required.
Title	Only with Url, Image and Video. The title that goes with the link, image or video. Required.
Description	Only with Url, Image and Video. The description that goes with the link, image or video. Required.
Binary	Only with Image and Video. The image or video to post. Connect it from another component that delivers the file, or use the file’s public address. Required.

Operations

Operation	What it does
Share Content	Posts to your LinkedIn profile. If you connect several files to Binary, one post is created for each.
Get User Info	Returns the basic profile details of the connected account, such as name, email and photo.

Output

The Data output depends on the operation:

• Share Content: one item per post created, with its ID.
• Get User Info: the account’s ID and its profile details.

You can connect the result to a spreadsheet to keep a log of what was posted, or to a messaging component to tell the team. The component can also be connected to an Agent as a tool. See Tool Mode.

Example

A consultancy shares every new blog article on LinkedIn.

1. The flow receives the article’s title, summary and link.
2. An agent writes a short text to introduce it.
3. Add Publication with the Share Content operation and the director’s LinkedIn API credential.
4. In Type of publicacion choose Url and in Visibility Anyone.
5. Connect the agent’s text to Text of the post, the link to Url, the title to Title and the summary to Description.

Good practices

• Posts go to the personal profile of the account that signed in with the credential, not to a company page.
• Try the post with Only Friends the first few times and switch to Anyone once the flow works as you expect.