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Connect LinkedIn

Hook up LinkedIn once and BitterClip can post your clips to your own feed for you. You do the connecting here; from then on, publishing happens right inside BitterClip.

Before you start

A couple of things to have ready first:

  • A BitterClip account. It's free to start.
  • A recording you've uploaded, so you have something to clip.

You manage your connections under Settings in the BitterClip app.

What connecting LinkedIn lets BitterClip do

When you connect, LinkedIn asks you to allow a few things. Here's what each one means in plain words:

This connection lets BitterClip:

  • Post to your own feed
  • Add a comment to your own post
  • Confirm who you are when you connect
  • Read your basic profile

Connect LinkedIn

  1. Open Settings in the BitterClip app and find LinkedIn under Publishing accounts.
  2. Choose Connect. BitterClip sends you over to LinkedIn to sign in.
  3. Sign in as yourself and approve the permissions above. LinkedIn brings you back to BitterClip, and the channel shows as Connected.

Once connected, publishing a clip to LinkedIn works the same as any other channel. See Publish a clip.

Posts go to your own feed

BitterClip posts your clips to your personal LinkedIn feed, as you. It can't post to a company page or to someone else's account. Want a clip on a company page? Publish it to your own feed first, then share it across to the page yourself.

If you connected LinkedIn a while ago

Sometimes a channel you already connected shows "Reconnect required" in Settings. That's normal. It usually means LinkedIn needs you to sign in again so BitterClip can keep the permissions it needs to post for you. Newer features can also ask for a permission your earlier connection didn't include.

If you connected LinkedIn a while ago, a quick Reconnect grants the newer posting permission LinkedIn now requires before your clips can reach your feed.

To fix it, open Settings, find LinkedIn in your connections, and choose Reconnect. You'll sign in and approve again, and the channel goes back to "Connected." Nothing you set up before is lost.

If a LinkedIn post fails, your connection probably predates a permission LinkedIn now requires. Reconnect to grant it, then try the post again. The same fix covers a post that goes up but is missing its YouTube link in the comments.

What gets posted, and when

You stay in control of what goes out. Nothing gets posted until you set up a channel first, and connecting one just lets BitterClip post on your behalf when you ask it to.

Each project has its own publishing setting, and you choose which one fits:

  • Wait for my approval (the default): clips are prepared as drafts and sit ready for you to look over. Nothing goes out until you say so.
  • Publish automatically: once you turn this on for a project, ready clips post to your connected channels on their own. You opt into it, so it's never the starting point.

Your account, your plan, and your payment details always live on BitterClip's own site, and nothing you connect can reach them.