LinkedIn - Invitation Manager

Accept or ignore pending connection invitations in bulk from https://www.linkedin.com/mynetwork/invitation-manager/received/<FILTER>/.

URL filters

The trailing slug pre-filters the received invitations. Observed slugs:

• PEOPLE_WITH_MUTUAL_CONNECTION - people who share a mutual connection
• PEOPLE_WITH_MUTUAL_SCHOOL - people who share a school
• omit the slug (.../received/) for all pending invitations

The filter chip at the top of the page mirrors the URL and also renders All (N), Mutual Connections (N), Your School (N) - the (N) is the authoritative remaining-count for the active filter and is what you loop on.

Button selectors

Each pending-invitation card contains an Accept and an Ignore control. The aria-label formats are different for the two buttons - don't derive one from the other:

• Accept: aria-label = "Accept <Name>'s invitation" (note: curly ’, not ASCII ')
• Ignore: aria-label = "Ignore an invitation to connect from <Name>"

# Match either — both are unique per card
accepts = js("Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('button, a')).filter(b => (b.getAttribute('aria-label')||'').startsWith('Accept ')).length")
ignores = js("Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('button')).filter(b => (b.getAttribute('aria-label')||'').toLowerCase().startsWith('ignore')).length")

Trap: "follows you" cards render Accept as <a>, not <button>

For invitations labeled <Name> follows you and is inviting you to connect (typically Premium users' auto-invites), the Accept control is an <a href>, not a <button> - and the href points at the current page URL.

<a>.click() follows the href → same-URL soft-nav → accept never fires. Dispatched MouseEvents and coordinate Input.dispatchMouseEvent clicks also land on the element (you can see the focus ring appear) but do not trigger the underlying accept handler. There is no known way to accept these via CDP. Click the Ignore button instead (Ignore is always a <button> and works with a normal coordinate click), or skip the row.

Detect with element.tagName === 'A' on the Accept element.

# In your extractor, capture the tag so downstream logic can route these
rows = js(r"""
(() => {
  const accepts = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('button, a'))
    .filter(b => (b.getAttribute('aria-label')||'').startsWith('Accept ') && !b.disabled);
  return accepts.map(a => ({aria: a.getAttribute('aria-label'), tag: a.tagName}));
})()
""")

Pagination - reload, don't scroll

The list only renders ~10 cards at a time. After you click Accept on the visible batch, LinkedIn replaces the pending section with a "X is now a connection" acknowledgment list + "Suggestions for you" - the next batch of pending invites does not auto-mount. Window-scroll does not trigger lazy-load either.

Pattern:

1. Navigate to the filter URL, wait_for_load(), sleep ~2.5s.
2. Extract visible rows, decide, click Accept/Ignore for each (.click() via JS works for <button> Accept and Ignore; coordinate click via Input.dispatchMouseEvent also works).
3. Reload the URL (cdp("Page.navigate", url=...)). Do not rely on scrolling or clicking a "show more" control.
4. Repeat until the filter chip shows (0) or no Accept buttons remain.

Chip count decreases by the number of successful accepts + ignores per cycle - use it as the loop guard.

Safety modal: "Take care when connecting"

LinkedIn occasionally interposes a "Take care when connecting" dialog when you click Accept on a connection it considers unfamiliar. The dialog has View profile and Accept invite buttons - click Accept invite to proceed. Watch for it between accepts; it's intermittent, not per-row.

Quick sketch

import time
 
def chip():
    return js(r"""(() => {
      const el = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('button, a')).map(e => (e.textContent||'').trim())
        .find(t => /^Mutual Connections \(/.test(t));
      return el || '';
    })()""")
 
while True:
    cdp("Page.navigate", url="https://www.linkedin.com/mynetwork/invitation-manager/received/PEOPLE_WITH_MUTUAL_CONNECTION/")
    wait_for_load()
    time.sleep(2.5)
    n = int(js(r"""(() => Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('button, a'))
      .filter(b => (b.getAttribute('aria-label')||'').startsWith('Accept ') && !b.disabled).length)()"""))
    if n == 0:
        break
    # click each Accept (route tag === 'A' rows to Ignore — see trap above)
    ...

invitation-manager.md · updated Apr 28, 2026 · 594 words