> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.getmesa.com/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.getmesa.com/connect/linkedin.md).

# LinkedIn

## Configure

To configure a LinkedIn action, you simply need to copy and paste the LinkedIn URL that you would like to extract the content from into the URL field of the step.

<figure><img src="https://3425906282-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F1H6u1HQc3Iew7ATmmiCi%2Fuploads%2FIgBep6iLJNiETtK4WB1N%2Fimage.png?alt=media&amp;token=f0edbc95-df2d-453a-a474-8e80e9cf456d" alt="Screenshot of the LinkedIn action step in the MESA workflow builder. Spotlight the URL field."><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

The content of the webpage will be available as [variables](https://docs.getmesa.com/workflow-builder/fields/variables) via the variable selector in future steps.

<figure><img src="https://3425906282-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F1H6u1HQc3Iew7ATmmiCi%2Fuploads%2FxDmG0o2maWWP5uKQGqAS%2Fimage.png?alt=media&amp;token=171c3e7b-5590-416e-bdda-c30afcb7c2e2" alt="Screenshot of the MESA workflow builder variable selector. Spotlight the LinkedIn content variables available for future steps."><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

## Technical Notes

* We retrieve the webpage data through scraping, which means we make multiple attempts to extract the information. If we’re unable to get the data, we return the following error message: "Data not found. Please try again with a different URL."\
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  This error may appear if the data couldn’t be located or if the URL is invalid.