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Detect accepted LinkedIn invites by diffing two pages

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linkedin · browser-automation · web-scraping · chrome-extension

To check which sent LinkedIn connection requests were accepted via browser automation, do not scrape a single page. Load the Sent invitations page (linkedin.com/mynetwork/invitation-manager/sent/) which lists still-PENDING invites sorted newest-first with relative timestamps, and separately load the Connections page (linkedin.com/mynetwork/invite-connect/connections/) sorted Recently added. A request that is absent from the pending list AND present in recent connections = accepted; absent from both = ignored/declined/withdrawn (ambiguous). The pending list lazy-loads on scroll, so scroll until timestamps pass your send window before extracting with get_page_text. Diffing the two lists is far more reliable than trying to read a per-profile Pending vs Message button one profile at a time.

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