ingest-linkedin

name	ingest-linkedin
description	Ingest LinkedIn posts into the wiki. Supports pasted text or cookie-based auth for URL fetching.
user-invocable	false
allowed-tools	Bash(curl *) Read Write Edit Glob Grep
content-pipeline	["pipeline:scan","platform:linkedin","role:scanner"]

Ingest LinkedIn Post

Extract LinkedIn post content and create wiki pages.

Detect Input Type

• Input starts with http → URL approach (cookie auth)
• Otherwise → Pasted text (always works)

Approach 1: Pasted Text

Parse the pasted content to extract:

• Author name — first line or clearly identifiable name
• Post text — main body
• Date — if visible, otherwise use today
• Hashtags — extract any #hashtags for tags

Approach 2: Cookie-Based Auth (URL)

1. Use the firefox-cookies skill to get cookies for linkedin.com
2. Fetch the post:

curl -sL -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36" \
  -H "$COOKIE_HEADER" "<linkedin-url>"

3. Parse HTML — try in order:
   • JSON-LD (<script type="application/ld+json">)
   • Post content in feed-shared-update-v2__description divs
   • Author from feed-shared-actor__name spans
4. If auth fails (403, empty, no cookies): tell user to paste the post text and re-run. Stop.

Save Raw Content

Save to $VAULT/raw/linkedin-<author-slug>-<date>.md:

---
source-url: "<linkedin-url or 'pasted'>"
title: "<post summary>"
author: "<author-name>"
date-fetched: <today>
source-type: social
platform: linkedin
---

Create Wiki Source Note

Create $VAULT/wiki/sources/linkedin-<title-slug>.md:

---
title: "<Post Summary>"
date-created: <today>
date-modified: <today>
page-type: source-note
domain: <vault-default-domain>
tags: [linkedin, <hashtags>, <topic-tags>]
sources: ["<linkedin-url>"]
related: []
source-type: social
author: "<Author Name>"
date-accessed: <today>
raw-file: "raw/linkedin-<author-slug>-<date>.md"
---

Sections: Author (name + headline), Post (full text), Key Takeaways (3-5 bullets), Sources (link).

Notes

• Pasted text is the most reliable method — LinkedIn HTML changes frequently
• Never store cookies or auth tokens in wiki pages or raw files

Dependencies

• curl — HTTP requests
• firefox-cookies skill — optional, for URL-based fetching

See also

• ronan-skills/linkedin-scan — generic sibling for reading LinkedIn posts (URL with cookie auth, pasted text, or profile feed) without vault persistence. Use this skill when you want to keep the content.