Accept incoming invitations

Answer received LinkedIn invitations; flagged ones are skipped.

Accept incoming invitations

Answer the LinkedIn invitations other people sent you with blowhorn accept. It walks your received list accepting one invitation at a time, with a pause between each.

blowhorn accept --profile marcus --dry-run     # preview: accepts nobody
blowhorn accept --profile marcus               # accept up to 20
blowhorn accept --profile marcus --limit 5     # cap a single run
blowhorn accept --profile all --headless       # every eligible profile, unattended

What --limit counts

Confirmed acceptances: only an invitation confirmed gone from the received list counts. A click is not an acceptance, and an invitation skipped because LinkedIn warned about it never consumes the budget. --limit 0 means accept nobody.

Flagged invitations are skipped, never accepted

An invitation LinkedIn flags with its "Take care when connecting" warning is left alone, never accepted, and the run carries on. Skips are reported by name, apart from acceptances. Ignoring or declining an invitation is out of scope: this command only accepts.

What a preview can and cannot tell you

--dry-run walks the same received list a real run would and stops where clicking would start. What it cannot tell you is which people a real run would skip: LinkedIn raises its warning only once Accept is clicked. The preview says so rather than implying it lists only acceptable invitations. It is bounded like the run it previews: it lists at most --limit people, and says so with numbers when it stopped short.

Three invitations in a row that could not be accepted halt the run with the halt reported: repeated non-confirmation means the page changed underneath the run, and continuing would click blindly down a list.

Related

• Withdraw stale invitations - the sent list, the opposite direction.
• Why flagged invitations are skipped - the rule behind the skip.
• Sign a profile in to each platform - the LinkedIn session the walk runs with.