ACTION_ID: person_linkedin_followers_and_connections
NAME: LinkedIn: Followers & Connections Count
CATEGORY: Person Enrichment
CREDITS: 0.2

Return just the follower and connection counts for a person's LinkedIn
profile — the cheap way to score reach without scraping the whole
profile.

1. INPUTS

linkedin_url (type: url, required)
  LinkedIn URL. The LinkedIn URL of the person whose followers and
  connections count you want to fetch

2. OUTPUTS

followers (number) — Number of LinkedIn followers the person has

connections (number) — Number of LinkedIn connections the person has

3. HOW TO CONFIGURE

Configure Action body:

{
  "inputs": {
    "linkedin_url": "{{input.linkedin_url}}"
  }
}

Field-by-field:
  - linkedin_url  Required. A person profile URL (`/in/<handle>`).

4. KEY NOTES

- This returns two numbers and nothing else. If you also need title,
  company or experience, `enrich_person_linkedin_profile` returns both
  counts alongside the full profile for the same 0.2 credits.
- Connection counts above 500 are capped by LinkedIn itself and
  typically surface as 500 — treat the follower count as the real reach
  signal.
- Company page URLs are not accepted; this is a person-profile action.

5. WHERE IT FITS IN A WORKFLOW

Pattern: get_linkedin_post_reactors -> push_data_to_sheet ->
person_linkedin_followers_and_connections -> filter (followers greater
than 5000) to isolate the influential reactors.

6. WHEN TO USE

Use person_linkedin_followers_and_connections to rank or filter a large
list of profiles by reach before spending real enrichment credits on
them.

7. WHEN NOT TO USE

Also need title, company and experience
  -> action-detail/enrich_person_linkedin_profile.txt

Need the company's follower count instead
  -> action-detail/enrich_company_linkedin_profile.txt

Last updated: 2026-08-03.