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Elad Barack
Elad Barack

Reputation: 51

Linkedin API rest request for profile

recently I've tried to use the LinkedIn API and I've faced a really basic problem, but I couldn't understand the basic usage of this API.

In another APIs you can get information on another person. but in LinkedIn I couldn't figure out how to do it.

I've already tried the urls below, but it didn't work.

https://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/(linkedinID)?format=json
https://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/id=(linkedinID)?format=json

Thank you people!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1844

Answers (1)

Brendan Kelly
Brendan Kelly

Reputation: 21

Make sure that you're using a valid access token with your requests. To get one follow the steps here: https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/oauth2

To get info on another person's profile make a request with a member ID.

Request:

https://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/id=MEMBER_ID?format=json

Response:

{
    "firstName": "FIRST_NAME",
    "headline": "HEADLINE",
    "id": "MEMBER_ID",
    "lastName": "LAST_NAME",
    "siteStandardProfileRequest":  {
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=ID&authType=name&authToken=AUTH&trk=TRK"
}

You can test out requests here: https://apigee.com/console/linkedin

Upvotes: 2

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