matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/docs/configuring-playbook-bridge-beeper-linkedin.md

Setting up Beeper Linkedin bridging (optional)

The playbook can install and configure beeper-linkedin for you, for bridging to LinkedIn Messaging. This bridge is based on the mautrix-python framework and can be configured in a similar way to the mautrix bridges.

See the project's documentation to learn what it does and why it might be useful to you.

Prerequisite

Enable Appservice Double Puppet or Shared Secret Auth (optional)

If you want to set up Double Puppeting (hint: you most likely do) for this bridge automatically, you need to have enabled Appservice Double Puppet or Shared Secret Auth service for this playbook.

See this section on the common guide for configuring mautrix bridges for details about setting up Double Puppeting.

Note: double puppeting with the Shared Secret Auth works at the time of writing, but is deprecated and will stop working in the future.

Adjusting the playbook configuration

To enable the bridge, add the following configuration to your inventory/host_vars/matrix.example.com/vars.yml file:

matrix_beeper_linkedin_enabled: true

Extending the configuration

There are some additional things you may wish to configure about the bridge.

See this section on the common guide for configuring mautrix bridges for details about variables that you can customize and the bridge's default configuration, including bridge permissions, encryption support, relay mode, bot's username, etc.

Note: when following the guide to configure the bridge, make sure to replace _mautrix_SERVICENAME_ in the variable names with _beeper_linkedin_.

Installing

After configuring the playbook, run it with playbook tags as below:

ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts setup.yml --tags=setup-all,ensure-matrix-users-created,start

Notes:

• The ensure-matrix-users-created playbook tag makes the playbook automatically create the bot's user account.

• The shortcut commands with the just program are also available: just install-all or just setup-all

  just install-all is useful for maintaining your setup quickly (2x-5x faster than just setup-all) when its components remain unchanged. If you adjust your vars.yml to remove other components, you'd need to run just setup-all, or these components will still remain installed.

Usage

To use the bridge, you need to start a chat with @linkedinbot:example.com (where example.com is your base domain, not the matrix. domain).

You then need to send login YOUR_LINKEDIN_EMAIL_ADDRESS to the bridge bot to enable bridging for your LinkedIn account.

Troubleshooting

Bridge asking for 2FA even if you don't have 2FA enabled

If you don't have 2FA enabled and are logging in from a strange IP for the first time, LinkedIn will send an email with a one-time code. You can use this code to authorize the bridge session. In my experience, once the IP is authorized, you will not be asked again.