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Ryan Grush
Ryan Grush

Reputation: 2128

Linkedin API - getting a Member_id from a URL

I'm trying to take a given URL (http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=6263712 or http://www.linkedin.com/in/rgrush/) that a user passes to my app and derive the app-specific 'member_id' of that person. The info I'm trying to collect will be for 1st, 2nd, or 3rd connections of my app's OAuth user.

This method looked to be it http://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/url=<public-profile-url> but all I'm seeing are the basic public profile fields, not the full info I'm able to get in the browser.

I've also seen some people suggest searching with criteria scraped from the page (name, company, location). It will give you the app-specific 'member_id' if you use something like this http://api.linkedin.com/v1/people-search? keywords=[space delimited keywords]& first-name=[first name]& last-name=[last name] but this seems messy and kind of defeats the purpose of going through the API. Am I understanding everything correctly and is there a good solution for this?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3038

Answers (1)

Shashank K
Shashank K

Reputation: 398

When you use r_fullprofile member permission, you get access to the full profile fields of ONLY the authenticated user. You can only retrieve the basic profile fields of the 1st degree connections of the authenticated user as explained in our Connections API doc. There are no member permissions that allow you to access the full profile fields of the connections. This restriction is added to protect the data privacy of our users.This issue is not with your code, you are getting what our Linkedin APIs allow.

Read the following link to understand more https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/connections-api

Upvotes: 1

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