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Ramesh
Ramesh

Reputation: 775

linkedIN profileAPI data extract

I am in the process of collecting a huge data set for a new project. Let me brief a little about our research work so far.

Microsoft Academic search contains details of the papers published in a conference or journal. Using their API, I will get the list of papers published in a certain conference. From the same Microsoft Academic search API, I will get more details of the paper such as title, abstract, author, organization (Where the author works) etc. To get a huge data set, we decided on getting more information about the author (some more details that will be present in his linkedin profile). To get the details, we decided to use profile API of linkedin. However, I read in an article that linkedin doesn't allow data extraction for research purposes. It was answered by a linkedin employee in the below link.

https://developer.linkedin.com/forum/how-get-public-profile-url-members-linked-api

My question is,

Is there any other way to get more information about an author apart from linkedin?

Please let me know if you need more information.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4130

Answers (1)

Samer Bechara
Samer Bechara

Reputation: 2109

Here is one workaround:

  1. Auhtenticate your own linkedin profile with your own application
  2. Conduct a linkedin API search to find the person you need.
  3. Send a message to that person via the API, detailing what you are doing, and asking them to authenticate on your website via their linkedin profile
  4. Once they have authenticated, you will be able to save their profile data, in a perfectly legal way, since they would have given you the authorization to do so.

I hope this helps!

Upvotes: 1

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