How I Automated My LinkedIn Posts

One of the first things my outplacement coach told me was that I ought to be posting to LinkedIn regularly. I knew I wanted to have updates specific to this website here on my blog, and I figured I'd just have to cross-post them manually.

It turns out that's not so!

The Docusaurus plugin that is behind this blog natively provides the option to generate an RSS feed. I did some exploration and found that LinkedIn actually supports consuming an RSS feed and generating posts from it natively! Hey, that's great! Problem solved!

(My RSS feed is here, if you're interested)

Except LinkedIn supports consuming RSS feeds natively if you have a business page. I'm not a business. I'm just some guy. And I really don't want more LinkedIn management on my plate.

I figured somebody had probably licked this problem before, and I was right!

Check out Zapier. They offer no-code configuration for automating tasks. You configure a trigger (new content in my RSS feed), an action (share it to LinkedIn), and provide any necessary credentials/authorizations and you're off and running. Anytime you see a LinkedIn post from prefixed "Latest from my developer blog:" that's exactly what's happened.

![Screen shot showing Zapier editor with a post-to-LinkedIn-from-RSS Zap in the editor pane][./_resources/zapier-screenshot.png]

I'm on the free trial right now. For my purposes I'm not sure it's going to be worth the $20 USD/month price tag. But maybe I can find an alternative, or figure out how to do something similar myself with APIs.

If you have a business that's producing income, maybe $20 USD is worth it to you.

Also, if you're getting spammed by me, I promise this content will slow down. I've been trying to catch up documenting the things I've done over the last few weeks.

That's all for now!