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dgivoni
dgivoni

Reputation: 555

LinkedIn Groups: post with link in title?

I'm trying to find out whether it's possible to post a new post to a group via the linkedin API and have a link in the title of the post?

I can't find any documentation on what is allowed or not in the title in the documentation here: https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/groups-api

Do you know if this is possible?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 433

Answers (2)

dgivoni
dgivoni

Reputation: 555

I have seen that it is possible.

An example is here: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Now-new-website-FoodBarcelona-Restaurants-1446917.S.136723085?qid=90c4aa0a-fc9a-4934-b7e5-3d555133b8e5&trk=group_most_popular-0-b-ttl&goback=%2Egmp_1446917 (not sure if it's visible without being a member).

In the lists of questions the title is the link to the details page, but on the details page, there is a link shown in the end of the title. Not sure though if that is passed as html or linkedin automatically parses links and converts them to html.

Upvotes: 1

Unpossible
Unpossible

Reputation: 10697

Doesn't look like it; you can test by trying to create a post here:

http://simplelinkedin.fiftymission.net/demo/groups.php#groupCreatePost

When you add any HTML to the tile, the API responds with a 400 error:

com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxUnexpectedCharException: Unexpected character '\' (code 92) in start tag Expected a quote
 at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [3,34]

Logically, I'm not sure how it would, as when you create a post via the API, it posts to a group on LinkedIn.com, and every group post title is itself a link to the full post itself within the group.

Upvotes: 0

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