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Connect LinkedIn to SerpApi

Posting on LinkedIn regularly is easier when you have something fresh to say, and SerpApi finds it. Connect them and a topic turns into a post backed by current facts and news, so your profile stays active without hours of reading first.
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Ideas

What you can do with LinkedIn and SerpApi

LinkedIn posts researched from live Google results, on demand, from the news, or from your topic list. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
The moment it happensAI

Turn a topic into a researched LinkedIn post

Send a topic to your trigger link and a LinkedIn post built from fresh Google results is published on your profile, with the link emailed to you.

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On a scheduleAI

Post about the day's news in your niche on LinkedIn

Each day the best new article on your topic becomes a LinkedIn post with your take and the link, and the same article is never posted twice.

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On a scheduleAI

Post one researched LinkedIn post a day from your topic list

Keep a list of topics and each weekday the next one is researched and published as a LinkedIn post, working down the list in order.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

Your own rules, schedule and AI steps with LinkedIn and SerpApi, plus any other app. Describe it and your assistant builds it.

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Build your own

Build any LinkedIn and SerpApi automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what should happen between LinkedIn and SerpApi in your own words, with your conditions, other apps or an AI step, and your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

For example, ask your assistant

Only use news from the last 3 days and include one link to the best source.

Post at most twice a week on Tuesday and Thursday at 9am.

Use cases

Why people connect LinkedIn and SerpApi

How the two apps work together

  • A schedule picks a topic from your list.
  • The script calls SerpApi for news or search results and writes a post with AI.
  • It posts to LinkedIn or sends a draft for approval.

  • Consultants posting on industry news

    Fresh search results on a topic are turned into a LinkedIn post. Posts stay current.

  • Founders sharing market insights

    Search results are summarised into a weekly post. Thought leadership is regular.

  • Recruiters sharing hiring trends

    Job search data becomes a short post. Content is relevant.

  • Marketers curating news

    Top news items become a curated post. Followers get value.

More apps

LinkedIn, SerpApi and other apps in one automation

An automation isn't limited to two apps. Add the next step in another app and it runs as part of the same automation.

Topic queue

Take the next topic from my Google Sheet, research it with SerpApi and post to LinkedIn.

Approve by email

Email me the LinkedIn draft and post it when I reply "ok".

Team review

Post the draft to #marketing and publish to LinkedIn after a checkmark.

Setup

Connect LinkedIn and SerpApi once

Every idea on this page uses the same two connections, so you set them up once. If one is missing, your assistant tells you and links to the right place.

LinkedIn

Social

  1. Create an app at linkedin.com/developers/apps and link it to a LinkedIn Page.
  2. Under Products, add Sign In with LinkedIn using OpenID Connect and Share on LinkedIn.
  3. Set the redirect to https://clickruntime.com/oauth/callback and use the scopes openid, profile, email and w_member_social.
  4. Under Connections in the ClickRuntime dashboard, enter the client ID and client secret and click Connect. Reconnect when the token runs out after 60 days.

SerpApi

Data / Search results API

  1. Sign in at serpapi.com and open your dashboard.
  2. Open Your Private API Key (the manage-api-key page) and copy the key.
  3. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections & secrets and save the key as a SerpApi secret.

FAQ

Questions about connecting LinkedIn and SerpApi

Does it post as me or as my company?
As the LinkedIn account you connect, which is usually your personal profile. Posting to a company page needs page admin rights on that account.
Can I review posts before they go out?
Yes. Ask for drafts to be emailed to you instead of published, and post the ones you like yourself.
Where do the facts come from?
From the top Google web or news results for your topic. The post can link the main source so readers can check it.
How often can it post?
As often as you schedule it, but once a day or a few times a week is usual. LinkedIn may limit accounts that post far more than that.
Can it include a link preview?
Yes. Posts with a link show a preview.
Can it avoid repeat topics?
Yes. It remembers topics and links already used.
Can it post images?
Yes, if you provide or generate one.

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