Getting ugcPost details through rest/posts api? - linkedin

Question

I could not get the ugcPost of a post or comment, the urn looks like: urn:li:ugcPost:7023566176156811264,7023567581345140736
how to use this in the api rest/posts/{ugcPosts urn}
the API returns the error {
"message": "Could not find entity",
"status": 404,
"code": "NOT_FOUND"
}
I have also added the headers
{
Linkedin-Version: 202210,
X-RestLi-Protocol-Version: 2.0.0
}
but it is still returning the same error even though I have encoded the urn, example:
https://api.linkedin.com/rest/posts/urn%3Ali%3AugcPost%3A7023566176156811264?viewContext=Reader

Answer 1

You need to add a bearer token in the header. And viewContext=Reader params is not required as per my knowledge of the documentation. I am sharing a sample example.
var axios = require('axios');
var config = {
method: 'get',
url: 'https://api.linkedin.com/rest/posts/urn%3Ali%3AugcPost%3A7023566176156811264',
headers: {
'X-Restli-Protocol-Version': '2.0.0',
'LinkedIn-Version': '202208',
'Authorization': 'Bearer [your_bearer_token]',
}
};
axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
console.log(error);
});
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