What can't MagicPost do on LinkedIn? The limits of LinkedIn's API
|Today, MagicPost cannot publish LinkedIn articles or newsletters, create collaborative posts, show who viewed your profile, send connection requests, read or send LinkedIn messages, post in LinkedIn Groups, or list and follow your connections. MagicPost connects to your LinkedIn account only through LinkedIn's official sign-in (OAuth), and acts on LinkedIn only through LinkedIn's API. LinkedIn does not open these features to MagicPost through its API today. This list reflects what LinkedIn's API allows today: LinkedIn opens new data to its API over time, and this article is updated when it does.
The LinkedIn limits in this article are the same on every MagicPost plan and during the free trial: a higher MagicPost plan does not change them.
MagicPost does not work around these LinkedIn limits by acting in your LinkedIn browser session. MagicPost has no browser extension, and MagicPost does not click, scroll or type on linkedin.com for you. See do I need a browser extension to use MagicPost?
What MagicPost does on LinkedIn through the API
Through LinkedIn's API, MagicPost does the following on the LinkedIn profile or company page connected to a seat:
Publishes and schedules posts: text, images, one video, one PDF document, a poll, or a link. See adding media to a post, how to add a poll to a LinkedIn post and how to publish on a company page.
Edits the text of a published post, deletes a published post, and reposts a post. LinkedIn's API only lets MagicPost change the text of a published post, not its media or its poll. See how to manage your posts.
Publishes comments and reactions, under your own posts and on the posts of other people.
Reads the comments and reactions your posts receive.
Reads the statistics of your posts. See which LinkedIn metrics MagicPost tracks.
Publishing from MagicPost is included in Growth, Creator, Agency en Team, and in the free trial. For how MagicPost connects to LinkedIn and what it publishes, see is it safe to publish from MagicPost?
What LinkedIn's API does not allow MagicPost to do
Each limit in this article comes from LinkedIn's API, not from a MagicPost setting or plan.
Publish LinkedIn articles and newsletters
MagicPost cannot publish a LinkedIn article, the long-form format with its own page on LinkedIn. MagicPost cannot publish an edition of a LinkedIn newsletter either. LinkedIn does not open articles and newsletters to MagicPost through its API today: you write and publish them on LinkedIn itself.
Create a collaborative post
MagicPost cannot create a collaborative post, a post co-authored with another LinkedIn member. LinkedIn does not open collaborative posts to MagicPost through its API today. A post published from MagicPost has one author: the LinkedIn profile or company page connected to the seat.
See who viewed your profile
MagicPost cannot show who viewed your LinkedIn profile. LinkedIn does not give MagicPost the list of the people who visited your profile through its API today.
Send connection requests
MagicPost cannot send a LinkedIn connection request (invitation) for you. LinkedIn does not open invitations to MagicPost through its API today: you send invitations yourself, on LinkedIn.
Read and send LinkedIn messages
MagicPost cannot read your LinkedIn inbox, and MagicPost cannot send a LinkedIn message for you. LinkedIn does not open your messages to MagicPost through its API today.
Post in LinkedIn Groups
MagicPost cannot publish a post in a LinkedIn group. LinkedIn does not open groups to MagicPost through its API today. MagicPost publishes every post as a public post, in the feed of the connected profile or company page. MagicPost cannot comment on, react to or repost a post published in a LinkedIn group either, and group posts do not appear in the MagicPost engagement feed.
MagicPost metrics do not count posts published in LinkedIn groups. See why MagicPost numbers differ from LinkedIn's.
List your connections or follow people
MagicPost cannot list or export your LinkedIn connections, and MagicPost cannot follow a person or a company page on LinkedIn for you. LinkedIn does not open your network to MagicPost through its API today.
Will LinkedIn open these features one day?
MagicPost cannot say when, or whether, LinkedIn will open more of its features to third-party tools. MagicPost makes no promise and gives no date for the features in this article.
LinkedIn's API moves, and it has been opening post data step by step. In summer 2025, LinkedIn opened the impressions of members' posts to its API. More recently, LinkedIn added advanced post metrics: saves, link clicks, profile clicks and premium CTA clicks. MagicPost reads all of them today on a personal profile. For a company page, LinkedIn's API does not provide saves, profile clicks and premium CTA clicks. See which LinkedIn metrics MagicPost tracks.
The LinkedIn limits about posts are the ones most likely to move next. More of what revolves around posts, such as collaborative posts, articles or newsletters, could open to tools like MagicPost later. That is possible, not announced.
The limits about people are very unlikely to move: who viewed your profile, connection requests, LinkedIn messages and, by extension, your list of connections. LinkedIn keeps these features out of its API for third-party tools like MagicPost today.
FAQ
Is there a tool that can send LinkedIn invitations or messages for me?
Not through LinkedIn's API for third-party apps like MagicPost. MagicPost does not act in your LinkedIn session. See do I need a browser extension to use MagicPost? and is it safe to publish from MagicPost?
Does a higher MagicPost plan give access to these features?
No. The limits in this article come from LinkedIn's API, so they are the same on every MagicPost plan and during the free trial. No MagicPost plan or add-on sends LinkedIn messages, sends invitations or publishes LinkedIn articles.
Does adding someone to a MagicPost engagement list follow them on LinkedIn?
No. A MagicPost engagement list only decides whose posts appear in your engagement feed. MagicPost does not follow anyone on LinkedIn for you. See how to use the engagement feed.
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