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Reputation: 22914

LinkedIn send message to a connection

I'm trying to use LinkedIn api to send message to a connection of the user but I find extreme lack of examples and lacking docs make it very hard to diagnose.

I do not want to request w_messages permission when user signs up, so I use javascript API to get a new access token with this permission and pass to server for SendMessage call only.

On Client:

 IN.init({
    onLoad: "onLoadApi",
    api_key: viewBag.clientSettings.LinkedInClientId,
    authorize: false,
    scope: "r_basicprofile r_network w_messages"
 });

 function onLoadApi() {
     if (!IN.User.isAuthorized()) {
        IN.User.authorize(sendMessage);
     }

     function sendMessage() {
          var w_message_accesstoken = IN.ENV.auth.oauth_token;
          $http.post("/MyApi/SendMessage/vBejds6Vh8", w_message_accesstoken);
     }
 }

On Server:

string jsonData = "{\"subject\":\"test subject\",\"body\":\"testbody\",\"recipients\":{\"values\":[{\"person\":{\"_path\":\"/people/vBejds6Vh8\"}}]}}"


var response= "https://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/vBejds6Vh8/mailbox"
                     .SetQueryParam("oauth2_access_token", accessTokenPassedFromClient)
                     .PostJsonAsync(jsonData);

Result:

{"Request to https://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/vBejds6Vh8/mailbox?oauth2_access_token=xxxxx failed with status code 401 (Unauthorized)."}

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2061

Answers (1)

Anna Keramaty
Anna Keramaty

Reputation: 281

You are going to want to make this call as a POST call. You can only send a message on behalf of a member whose access token you have with the "w_messages" member permission.

A sample request of the POST should be: POST https://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/~/mailbox?oauth2_access_token=***

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<mailbox-item>
    <recipients>
        <recipient>
            <person path='/people/~' />
        </recipient>
        <recipient>
            <person path="/people/{id}" />
        </recipient>
    </recipients>
    <subject>Congratulations on your new position.</subject>
    <body>You're certainly the best person for the job!</body>
</mailbox-item>

Upvotes: 2

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