Linkedin How to get email addresses of connections

Question

I am adding 'Invite a Friend' on my website, for that I have planned to included email grabber. I have tried http://openinviter.com/demo/ but you can see its not working for Linkedin, its mentioned on that demo page too.

How can I grab Email Addresses of LinkedIn Connections ? Preferably in PHP.

Answer 1

It looks like apps now have access to the email field, as described here:

https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/profile-fields#email

Note that I haven't used this myself. I was just investigating it because I was spammed by an app used by one of my contacts. If you want to disable this "feature", just click on "Turn on/off data sharing with 3rd party applications" in the "Groups, Companies & Applications" section of the Privacy settings and then untick the box.

Answer 2

At the moment nothin' changed about connections. Only basic profile fields available for connections. I think it is logical that if current member must confirm access to his email separately from his profile fields - the emails of his connections are not confirmed by those members, so they cannot be viewed.

Answer 3

LinkedIn has started the email address for the new Apps, but still can't use it for your existing LinkedIn Apps.

Answer 4

For connections, you can only grab the most basic profile fields, which does not include email address:

For 1st and 2nd degree connections, you may only retrieve profile fields available with the r_basicprofile member permission

https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/connections-api

Answer 5

LInkedin doesn't provide email address