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LinkedIn MCP Server

LinkedIn MCP Server is an MCP server that adds web browsing tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Open-source MCP server for LinkedIn. Give Claude and any MCP-compatible AI agent access to profiles, companies, jobs, and… It has 4,016 GitHub stars, is released under the Apache-2.0 license and runs locally with uvx mcp-server-linkedin.

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Install LinkedIn MCP Server

Generated from the server's published package. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "linkedin-mcp-server": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-server-linkedin"
      ],
      "env": {
        "UV_HTTP_TIMEOUT": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env UV_HTTP_TIMEOUT=your-value --transport stdio linkedin-mcp-server -- uvx mcp-server-linkedin

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "linkedin-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-server-linkedin"
      ],
      "env": {
        "UV_HTTP_TIMEOUT": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "linkedin-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-server-linkedin"
      ],
      "env": {
        "UV_HTTP_TIMEOUT": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

Environment variables

Variables the server reads at startup.

NameRequiredDescription
UV_HTTP_TIMEOUTNoShown in the README's example configuration.

About LinkedIn MCP Server

Give your AI agents access to LinkedIn through your own browser session. Read profiles, research companies, find jobs, and manage conversations and connection requests.

  • linkedin
  • linkedin-scraper
  • mcp
  • mcp-server
  • linkedin-mcp
  • claude-desktop
  • desktop-extension
  • dxt
  • linkedin-profile-scraper
  • anthropic

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How do I install the LinkedIn MCP Server MCP server?

Add the command uvx mcp-server-linkedin to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is LinkedIn MCP Server free?

The server is open source under the Apache-2.0 license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is LinkedIn MCP Server actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 26, 2026. The latest release is v4.28.0, published Oct 23, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.