Create LinkedIn Scenarios with Make and Unipile

Most LinkedIn automation tools offer predefined workflows: fixed invite sequences, generic follow-ups, limited flexibility. Unlike these rigid systems, Make.com paired with Unipile’s LinkedIn API lets you build your own LinkedIn workflows, fully custom, fully yours.

Build Your Own Make.com LinkedIn Workflows

Make.com, as a no-code platform, lets you visually build workflows between apps and APIs. With make.com LinkedIn integration using Unipile’s API, you gain full control over LinkedIn actions: sending messages, invites, comments and more. Unlike pre-built SaaS tools, this setup allows you to create your own make.com LinkedIn workflows, fully custom and multi-channel (email, WhatsApp, calendar).

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Make.com automation flow with LinkedIn webhook and two Unipile HTTP modules to send invites and messages

A basic LinkedIn automation in Make.com: trigger on profile interaction, send an invite, follow up with a message, all powered by Unipile’s LinkedIn API.

Build Your Own Make.com LinkedIn Workflows

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Make.com automation flow with LinkedIn webhook and two Unipile HTTP modules to send invites and messages

Make.com, as a no-code platform, lets you visually build workflows between apps and APIs.
Paired with Unipile’s LinkedIn API, it gives you the power to send messages, invites, comments and much more. Unlike pre-built SaaS tools, this setup allows you to create your own LinkedIn workflows, fully custom and multi-channel (email, WhatsApp, calendar…).

Why No-Code Builders Are Automating LinkedIn with Make.com

Manual LinkedIn tasks eat up time and don’t scale, especially for solopreneurs. With make.com LinkedIn workflows, you can visually automate every step of your outreach, from sending invites to managing follow-ups. By connecting Unipile’s LinkedIn API, you unlock real LinkedIn actions like messaging, commenting, or syncing inbox data, fully integrated into your custom make.com LinkedIn scenarios.

What You Can Do with LinkedIn + Make.com

With Unipile’s LinkedIn API connected to Make.com, LinkedIn automation with make.com goes far beyond basic templates. From sending connection requests to triggering DMs based on post reactions, you can design powerful, multi-step workflows that match your exact process. Here are some of the most useful actions you can build in a make.com LinkedIn scenario, without writing a single line of code.

Auto-Like, Auto-Comment, Auto-DM

Automatically engage with posts by liking and commenting as soon as they publish. Send DMs to people who reacted to posts. With Unipile’s API, you can trigger these actions with precision and keep your engagement high, without lifting a finger.

Send Connection Requests with Follow-Up

Trigger a connection request based on a form submission, a new Airtable record, or a Calendly booking. Once accepted, automatically send a personalized welcome message. You define the logic, Make.com executes it.

Triggered Actions Based on Post Reactions

Let’s say someone likes a LinkedIn post. Why not start a flow that pulls their profile, logs the lead in a Notion CRM, and sends a follow-up message on WhatsApp or LinkedIn? With Unipile’s webhook triggers and Make.com’s visual builder, you can turn every interaction into a conversion opportunity.

LinkedIn Workflow: Like + Comment + Connect + Lead Magnet

This example scenario is used to maximize visibility and lead capture after posting on LinkedIn. The logic is simple: when someone reacts to a LinkedIn post, the flow will automatically:
1. Like and comment back on their most recent post to engage

2. Send a connection request (if not already connected)

3. Follow up with a message that includes a lead magnet (PDF, link, or resource)

Everything runs in real time and feels personal, even though it’s fully automated.

Build Multi-Channel Workflows (LinkedIn + Email + WhatsApp)

With Unipile’s unified API, you can handle multiple channels: LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Gmail, in a single Make.com scenario.
For example: when a new connection is made on LinkedIn, you can trigger a message, wait 24 hours, then follow up on WhatsApp, and finally send an email via Gmail. Everything runs in sync, without switching tools.

This means your leads move through the funnel across platforms, while you stay in control of the entire journey, all from one automation board.

Enrich Leads via Profile and Inbox Data

Before messaging, use Unipile’s API in your make.com LinkedIn workflow to pull the contact’s LinkedIn profile (headline, company, title) and cross-check past email or message history. You can enrich each lead with actionable insights, store the data in Airtable or Notion, and adjust your message tone accordingly. This boosts your reply rate, especially when combining make.com LinkedIn automation with WhatsApp or email for second-touch communication.

Trigger Calendar Events or CRM Updates

After a LinkedIn exchange or WhatsApp reply, you might want to schedule a meeting or update your CRM.
With Make.com, you can trigger a Google Calendar or Outlook event creation automatically, or send structured data to tools like HubSpot, Pipedrive or Airtable. Every interaction becomes traceable, actionable, and multi-channel without manual steps.

Expand LinkedIn Automation with Meta Channels: WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger

Unipile exposes the full power of LinkedIn’s messaging and engagement capabilities and thanks to Make.com’s visual editor, you can orchestrate them in your own custom scenarios, without code.

Here’s what you can automate today using Unipile + Make.com:

LinkedIn Features

Account connection

Messages

Users/Profiles

Posts/Comments

Specific

Webhooks

Inboxes

Hosted Auth: White label to connect your end users ✓
Custom auth: connect user with credentials, cookies, your chrome extension ✓
Send & Reply Messages ✓
Send an InMail ✓
List Messages, Chats & Attendees ✓
List Reactions ✓
Read Receipts ✓
Send Files attachments ✓
Receive Files attachments ✓
Send Voice Notes ✓
Send Embed Video ✓
Retrieve a Profile ✓
Retrieve & Edit own profile ✓
List all relations & Followers ✓
List all Invitations Sent & Received ✓
Handle & Cancel a received Invitation ✓
Send an Invitation ✓
Cancel an Invitation ✓
List all posts, comments, reactions ✓
Retrieve & Create a post ✓
List all comments from a post ✓
List all posts, comments, reactions ✓
Comment a post ✓
List all reactions from a post ✓
Add a reaction to a post, comment ✓
Retrieve Recruiter hiring projects ✓
Perform an action with a user profile ✓
Retrieve a company profile ✓
Get raw data from any endpoint ✓
Get inmail credit balance ✓
Retrieve LinkedIn search parameters ✓
Perform LinkedIn search ✓
List all job postings ✓
Create a job posting ✓
Get job posting ✓
Publish a job posting ✓
Solve a job publishing checkpoint ✓
Close a job posting ✓
List all applicants to a job posting ✓
Get a specific applicant to a job posting ✓
Download the resume of a job applicant ✓
Endorse a user profile specific skill ✓
Account status ✓
New Message ✓
New Reaction / Read / Event ✓
LinkedIn Classic Inbox ✓
Sales Navigator Inbox ✓
LinkedIn Recruiter Inbox ✓
LinkedIn Company Page ✓
Account Connection
✓
Hosted Auth: White label to connect your end users
✓
Custom auth: connect user with credentials, cookies, your chrome extension
Messages
✓
Send & Reply Messages
✓
Send an InMail
✓
List Messages, Chats & Attendees
✓
List Reactions
✓
Read Receipts
✓
Send Files attachments
✓
Receive Files attachments API
✓
Send Voice Notes
✓
Send Embed Video
Users/Profiles
✓
Retrieve a Profile
✓
Retrieve & Edit own profile
✓
List all relations & Followers
✓
List all Invitations Sent & Received
✓
Handle & Cancel a received Invitation
✓
Send an Invitation
✓
Cancel an Invitation
✓
List all posts, comments, reactions
Posts
✓
Retrieve & Create a post
✓
List all comments from a post
✓
List all posts, comments, reactions
✓
Comment a post
✓
List all reactions from a post
✓
Add a reaction to a post, comment
Webhooks
✓
Account status
✓
New Message
✓
New Reaction / Read / Event
Specific
✓
Retrieve Recruiter hiring projects
✓
Perform an action with a user profile
✓
Retrieve a company profile
✓
Get raw data from any endpoint (Inbox Search, Following someone, Get own profile viewers, Social Selling Index, Retrieve posts from Feed)
✓
Get inmail credit balance
✓
Retrieve LinkedIn search parameters
✓
Perform Linkedin search
✓
List all job postings
✓
Create a job posting
✓
Get job posting
✓
Publish a job posting
✓
Solve a job publishing checkpoint
✓
Close a job posting
✓
List all applicants to a job posting
✓
Get a specific applicant to a job posting
✓
Download the resume of a job applicant
✓
Endorse a user profile specific skill
Inboxes
✓
LinkedIn Classic Inbox
✓
Sales Navigator Inbox
✓
LinkedIn Recruiter Inbox
✓
LinkedIn Company Page

Expand LinkedIn Automation with Meta Channels: WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger

Sync Conversations Across Meta Channels

Using Unipile’s unified API, you can access and automate messaging across the full Meta ecosystem, not just LinkedIn, but also WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger. With make.com LinkedIn workflows, your scenarios can monitor and act on new messages, reactions, and replies across platforms, with real-time synchronization.

For example, you can trigger a make.com LinkedIn DM and seamlessly continue the conversation on WhatsApp, all inside the same Make board.

Centralize Messaging for Personal Branding

If you’re building a strong presence across social platforms, your messaging should follow you, not be scattered. With Unipile, you can route all conversations (LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Messenger) into a single system, log them in your CRM, and manage them in one place.
It’s the ideal setup for personal brands, creators, and solo founders who communicate across multiple touchpoints.

How to Start Using Make.com LinkedIn Workflows with the Unipile API

LinkedIn

Features

LinkedIn

LinkedIn
Account connection
Hosted Auth: White label to connect your end users Check
Custom auth: connect user with credentials, cookies, your chrome extension Check
Messages
Send & Reply Messages Check
Send an InMail Check
List Messages, Chats & Attendees Check
List Reactions Check
Read Receipts Check
Send Files attachments Check
Receive Files attachments API Check
Send Voice Notes Check
Send Embed Video Check
Users/Profiles
Retrieve a Profile Check
Retrieve & Edit own profile Check
List all relations & Followers Check
List all Invitations Sent & Received Check
Handle & Cancel a received Invitation
Check
Send an Invitation
Check
Cancel an Invitation
Check
List all posts, comments, reactions
Check
Posts
Retrieve & Create a post
Check
List all comments from a post
Check
List all posts, comments, reactions
Check
Comment a post
Check
List all reactions from a post
Check
Add a reaction to a post, comment
Check
Webhooks
Account status Check
New Message Check
New Reaction / Read / Event Check
Specific
Retrieve Recruiter hiring projects Check
Perform an action with a user profile Check
Retrieve a company profile
Check
Get raw data from any endpoint (Inbox Search, Following someone, Get own profile viewers, Social Selling Index, Retrieve posts from Feed) Check
Get inmail credit balance Check
Retrieve LinkedIn search parameters
Check
Perform Linkedin search Check
List all job postings Check
Create a job posting
Check
Get job posting Check
Publish a job posting Check
Solve a job publishing checkpoint Check
Close a job posting Check
List all applicants to a job posting
Check
Get a specific applicant to a job posting
Check
Download the resume of a job applicant
Check
Endorse a user profile specific skill
Check
Webhooks
Account status Check
New Message Check
New Reaction / Read / Event Check
Inboxes
LinkedIn Classic Inbox Check
Sales Navigator Inbox Check
LinkedIn Recruiter Inbox Check
LinkedIn Company Page Check

Getting started with Make.com and Unipile is fast, visual, and 100% no-code friendly. You don’t need a backend or custom integration to connect LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Gmail, or your calendar. Just grab your API credentials, drop a few HTTP modules in Make, and start building powerful workflows that react in real time.

Here’s how to set it up in 3 steps:

1 – Set Up Your Unipile API Dashboard

Log into the Unipile dashboard and generate your API key.
From there, you can:

  • Connect test or production accounts (LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Gmail, etc.)

  • Monitor your webhooks and real-time activity

  • Track usage across all messaging and calendar endpoints

Everything is centralized and ready to plug into Make.com.

2 – Connect Unipile to Make.com with HTTP Modules

In Make.com, use the HTTP module to call any LinkedIn, Email, or Calendar endpoint provided by Unipile.
Authenticate with your token, copy the API route from the Unipile docs, and map the dynamic fields from previous modules.

Need real-time triggers? Just add webhooks from Unipile to Make’s webhook module to react instantly to new messages, reactions, or accepted invites.

3 – Activate Multi-Channel Automations

Once connected, you can build smart workflows across LinkedIn and other apps. Here are a few ideas:

  • LinkedIn → WhatsApp → Gmail

  • Connection request accepted → auto-DM + log in Notion

  • New reaction on your post → send invite + trigger Google Calendar meeting

Everything runs inside Make’s visual builder, no scraping, no browser tricks, full transparency and control at every step.

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FAQs

Can I send LinkedIn messages automatically with Make.com?

Yes. By using Unipile’s LinkedIn API with Make’s HTTP module, you can send and reply to LinkedIn messages, including attachments, voice notes, and even InMails, all without using scraping or browser hacks.

Is it possible to trigger a LinkedIn workflow in real time?

Absolutely. Unipile provides webhook support for events like new messages, post reactions, and invite acceptances. You can use Make’s webhook module to instantly respond to those events inside your custom scenarios.

Can I combine LinkedIn with WhatsApp or Gmail in a single scenario?

Yes. Unipile’s unified API lets you automate messaging across LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Gmail, and more — all within one Make.com workflow. You can build complete sequences that span multiple platforms in a few clicks.

What kind of LinkedIn features are supported by the API?

You can send invites, follow up with DMs, like and comment posts, retrieve profiles, detect read receipts, send files or videos, and even manage your own account data. Everything is done through Unipile’s secure API.

Is this an official LinkedIn integration?

No. This integration is not officially endorsed by LinkedIn.

That said, this approach is widely adopted across the ecosystem. Most established LinkedIn outreach, CRM, and ATS tools rely on similar techniques to provide messaging and inbox synchronization features that are otherwise impossible with official APIs.

Does LinkedIn provide an official API for messaging and data sync?

LinkedIn does not offer a public or official API for messaging, inbox synchronization, or advanced data extraction features. To enable these capabilities, Unipile uses a technical approach that mirrors real user actions on LinkedIn.com.

Every request executed through the API follows the same sequence, pacing, and context as a human user interacting with LinkedIn. There is no bulk scraping, no abnormal traffic patterns, and no burst behavior. Actions are performed gradually and context aware, aligned with normal user activity.

Do I need to code to use Unipile with Make.com?

Not at all. Make.com is a no-code platform. As long as you can copy/paste an endpoint and map some values visually, you can automate your LinkedIn workflows without writing a single line of code.

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