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superJustin
superJustin

Reputation: 65

Get the username from a linkedin REST API call

I'm using linkedin's Oauth2 stuff to authenticate and incorporate users info on a site I'm working on. I'd like to be able to use the REST API and using the querystring /people/~:(id,site-standard-profile-request) etc[assuming the person with an answer knows the API], to be able to get the user's linkedin username.

The reason I want this is so that I can use a link to view the users profile like this: linkedin.com/in/(username)

The /in/ works for both logged in and non-logged in viewers which is amazing for developers that like simple easy ways of doing things.

I hope that someone out there at least has an answer. I cannot find anything along the lines of 'username' in their API documentation. They might not offer it through this service, but it can't hurt to ask.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1460

Answers (1)

gdp
gdp

Reputation: 8252

I am not aware of a username field offered via the Linkedin People API. The default response from http://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/~ will return a site-standard-profile-request/url. So that will get the logged in users profile url, or substituting the tilde with a id will retrieve somebody elses profile url. Using this url will accomplish the same thing as what your after.

Upvotes: 2

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