How to use LinkedIn from Claude Code, Codex or Cursor

LinkedIn has no public API for prospecting: no people search, no post engagers, no messaging. Browsing tools built into agents get blocked or logged out quickly, and handing an agent your password is a bad idea.

Wannalead solves this by routing calls through your own logged-in Chrome session, via an extension. The agent talks to a documented HTTPS API, gets structured JSON back, and never sees your credentials.

• Paste the setup line into your agent. It installs the wannalead CLI, the MCP server and the skills.
• Sign in at wannalead.co, create your workspace and connect the Chrome extension to your LinkedIn account.
• Give the agent your API key when it asks. Its first call is "wannalead me", which checks who you are on LinkedIn.

Once connected, you describe the job and the agent picks the endpoints. A few prompts that work as written:

• Find heads of sales who started a new role in the last 30 days at SaaS companies in Paris, and save them as a list.
• Take my 10 best customers, find lookalike companies, and pull the decision-makers at each.
• Pull everyone who engaged with this post and keep the CTOs and VPs matching my ICP.

The Wannalead skills tell the agent to show you every invitation and message and wait for your go-ahead before sending. On top of that, each LinkedIn account is capped at 50 invitations a day and 200 a week. When a cap is hit the API says so, rather than slowing down silently.

Does it work with ChatGPT or other MCP clients?

Any client that supports MCP servers can connect, and anything that can make HTTPS requests can call the API with an API key.

Does Chrome need to stay open?

Yes. Calls go through your logged-in LinkedIn session in Chrome, so Chrome has to be open for them to run.