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Connecting your LinkedIn account

Connecting a LinkedIn account to Badgr takes about two minutes and provisions a dedicated residential proxy for that account during the process. This article walks through the flow and answers the most common questions.

Before you start

You’ll need:

  • The LinkedIn account credentials (email + password) you want to connect. Two-factor codes are handled during connection if you have them enabled.
  • The Badgr Chrome extension installed (you’ll be prompted to install it during the flow if you haven’t).
  • A clear sense of where the account holder is based geographically. We match the proxy IP to the account holder’s actual country to avoid mismatch flags.

The connection flow

  1. From your dashboard, click Accounts in the sidebar, then Add account.
  2. Enter the account’s email address and the country the account holder is based in.
  3. We provision a dedicated residential proxy in that country. This usually takes 10–30 seconds.
  4. The Chrome extension opens LinkedIn in a managed browser session and prompts for the account password.
  5. If two-factor is enabled, complete the verification on your phone as usual.
  6. LinkedIn confirms the session. The browser closes and the account appears as “Connected” in your Accounts list.

Total time from start to connected: usually under two minutes.

What happens behind the scenes

When you add an account, three things happen:

  • A new dedicated residential proxy IP is assigned exclusively to this account. It won’t be shared with other customers or rotated.
  • A browser fingerprint is generated for the account (user agent, screen size, language) and persisted, so LinkedIn sees a consistent “device” for every session.
  • A persistent session token is created and stored encrypted. We refresh it automatically as LinkedIn rotates session keys.

Common issues

“LinkedIn says my password is incorrect.” Most often a typo. If you’re sure the password is right, log into LinkedIn from your normal browser first to confirm the account isn’t locked. If LinkedIn is asking you to re-verify your identity, complete that first, then retry the Badgr connection.

“The verification code doesn’t arrive.” If you have SMS 2FA, give it 30 seconds and check your spam folder for email 2FA. If nothing arrives within a minute, retry — the code request occasionally fails on the first attempt.

“It says my account is in a different country to the proxy.” You probably picked the wrong country during step 2. Disconnect the account and re-add it with the right country. The proxy you pay for in the wrong country isn’t billed against your plan; we release it.

“I see a captcha during connection.” LinkedIn occasionally asks for a captcha when it sees a new device sign-in. Complete it in the managed browser; Badgr continues from there. If you see a “security verification” prompt asking you to confirm your identity by phone, complete that in LinkedIn directly before retrying.

After connecting

The newly connected account starts at the conservative end of LinkedIn’s weekly invitation cap (around 60–80 invites per week) regardless of plan, and ramps up over the first 14 days as we observe how LinkedIn responds. This is deliberate — see Warming up a new LinkedIn account safely for the why.