Linkedin-RSS

Post the latest post from your RSS Feed to your LinkedIn Profile

How to use

1. Create a folder named .github and create a workflows folder inside it, if it doesn't exist.

2. Create a new .yml file with the following contents inside the workflows folder:

name: Linkedin blog post workflow

permissions:
  contents: write

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: "0 * * * *"
  workflow_dispatch: {}

jobs:
  linkedin_rss_job:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'
    steps:
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          persist-credentials: true
      - name: Post latest blog post to LinkedIn
        uses: mrmcmuffinz/Linkedin-RSS/@main
        with:
          feed_list: "https://mrmcmuffinz.github.io/posts/index.xml"
          ln_access_token: "${{ secrets.LINKEDIN_ACCESS_TOKEN }}"
          embed_image: "https://mrmcmuffinz.github.io/images/social-card.png"
          last_post_path: ".github/.lastPost.txt"
          commit_user: "linkedin-bot"
          commit_email: "...@users.noreply.github.com"
          commit_message: "Update last LinkedIn post marker"

Parameter	Required	Description	Default
feed_list	✓	Your own RSS feed URL	(No Default URL)
ln_access_token	✓	Your LinkedIn Access Token	(No Default Access Token)
embed_image	X	The URL of the image you want to use in the embed.	(No Default URL)
last_post_path	X	The path to the file you want to use to store the last post.	.github/.lastPost.txt
commit_user	X	The username of the commiter.	Linkedin-Post-Action
commit_email	X	The email of the commiter.	linkedin-post-action@example.com
commit_message	X	The commit message.	Update Last Post File

How to get your LinkedIn Access Token

Register the app in LinkedIn Developer Network

• Go to LinkedIn Developer Network and create an app;
• Select Test University or PersonalDev can be used as the company associated with the app without verification;

• Once you made your Application go to your App and go to "Products"
• From there Select "Share on LinkedIn" and "Sign In with LinkedIn using OpenID Connect" and "Request Access" For both of them

• Once you have added your Products go to https://www.linkedin.com/developers/tools/oauth/
• Select "Create a new access token" and click "Create Token" Select your app and make sure you have the openid, profile and w_member_social scopes selected.
• Press "Request Access Token" and you will be asked to login. After Successfully logging in you will be given your Access Token.

Notices

I suggest for your ln_access_token you use a Github Secret. (Whats a Github Secret check here https://docs.github.com/en/actions/security-guides/encrypted-secrets)

Thanks to https://github.com/gfiocco/linkedin-node-api as the LinkedIn Docs are wierd..

Code and bug reporting

You can open a issue at https://github.com/mrmcmuffinz/Linkedin-RSS