I'm attempting to build a LinkedIn based application using the Marketing Solutions API which will help users use LinkedIn more efficiently.
For that we require these extra permissions:
r_fullprofile
r_member_social
w_compliance
r_compliance
r_primarycontact
r_1st_connections
I'd like to know if there's anything that we need to do in order to be able to get those permissions granted.
My team and I have spent a lot of time and resources in the last few months researching and building the use case to provide value to LinkedIn professionals. It's really unfortunate that we're not able to proceed further. We're in a very difficult position.
submit your question to linkedin support
https://linkedin.zendesk.com/hc/en-us
According to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/shared/integrations/people/profile-api-v1-migration r_fullprofile was not accessible to Marketing Developer Program developers.
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I want to create a webpage where users can access their education records from LinkedIn (which are then plotted on a timeline).
Using OAuth, I was only able to access my Name and Profile picture. It seems like LinkedIn heavily restricts access, even if users give their explicit consent. I don't see any way to request the scopes needed to request the education section of my profile. A similar experience is also outlined in this medium article:
The frustrations of dealing with the LinkedIn API
Alternatively, people have suggested using Selenium to scrape the public profiles of users. However, LinkedIn has taken up multiple legal fights against scrapers, so obviously they are not ok with it.
Considering that I want to build a service that benefits LinkedIn users and that I only want to access information of users that give their explicit consent to do so, it seems odd to me that this should not be possible on LinkedIn. Is there any way of doing this in 2023? I know similar questions have been asked before, but LinkedIn changed their policy quite a few times as far as I'm aware and previous questions date back many years.
My company has recently started offering certifications, and I'm looking to add them to a users profile using the linkedin api.
I can see from the documentation that I need access to the w_compliance permission in order to edit someone's profile, but I can't see any way to get this permission through self-serve, and none of the four linkedin partner programs seem relevant.
Does anyone know if it's still possible to get this permission?
Really sorry for posting this question here (since due to some reason I am unable to post this on LinkedIn forums). I need to work on a project wherein I can increase the number of prospective customers for a company. We want to leverage LinkedIn's database for the same. I went through articles and the program that I got interested in was "LinkedIn Marketing Developer Program" and we will be looking forward to using it to create ads for specific audiences. But I am not able to see if I will have access to people search since this post says that I will have access to it but I cannot find confirmation on LinkedIn access documentation here. I have two queries: Is it possible to access people search API wherein we can get individuals in a particular demographic region under the "LinkedIn Marketing Developer Program"? If not this program, in general, can we get paid access to the people search API?
PS: Please do not mark this question as irrelevant as asking question on LinkedIn forum is disabled (cannot click submit button on the given link even after adding all the details to the form).
People Search is not offered by any of LinkedIn's Partner Programs.
Years ago, someone asked on Stack Overflow if it were possible to retrieve a list of all employees who work at a company. I can do this through the LinkedIn UI, but I cannot seem to find any mechanism for this using the v2 API. The SO response mentions this used to be possible on the v1 API, but you had to request access through LinkedIn's "Vetted API Access Program." Unfortunately, the link on this response is now obsolete and does not send users to any such program.
How could I apply for this program nowadays? This is a specific situation to me and my company, so I would very much like to discuss this with someone at LinkedIn if some form of this Vetted API Access Program still exists. I do not wish to disclose the details of this request to the open internet.
I have confirmed through contacts inside LinkedIn that this API functionality has been removed. No further information has been provided, and LinkedIn tech support refuses to comment any more on this issue. Furthermore, no LinkedIn engineers will comment on this thread here.
This is bizarre since any regular user can do this functionality through the web front-end, but for some reason LinkedIn believes this would be a violation of privacy/security if we could do this programmatically.
Therefore, the only way to obtain this data would be through screen scraping. I wish I had better news, and I wish that LinkedIn would provide some reasoning for their changes, but alas this is where we are.
I just posted a very similar question because I ran into the same problem as you.
The application forms for Linkedin's current partner programs seem to be located here, however I can't tell you which one of those programs comes with the necessary API access rights and I am in general not sure if this API request is still allowed.
Edit: The Linkedin Help page states that applications for partner programs are currently unavailable?
In general, you can get a list of employees of a company if you scrape Linkedin profiles exhaustively, or if you have an exhaustive dataset of Linkedin profiles.
Each Linkedin profile contains a list of experiences that links to the company profile URL.
Thereafter, you will filter the dataset into profiles currently working at X company to get a list of employees currently working in a company. The same technique can also be used to retrieve a list of past employees.
And that is what we did. We scraped all public Linkedin profiles based in the US and made an alternative API known as Proxycurl Employee Listing API to Linkedin API to provide employee listing functionality.
Proxycurl's Employee Listing API will never be as exhaustive as Linkedin's dataset because not all profiles are made public, but most are. But will suffice to meet your needs.
I am trying to get latest 3 public activities of our company from linkedin (ex: http://www.linkedin.com/company/4043/activity) and present it on our website but unfortunately I dont see a clear explanation to do so in the API documentations. I registered an API Key but I am confused if I need to do OAuth if so against what and then what API to call to get publicly available info?
Is OAuth really needed for something that is available?
Can I store an OAuth token for an internal user and keep fetching data on that? I would really do not want to authenticated the site visitors with oauth to get free linkedin content.
This question is on the lines of this one, but I still wanted to ask and see if I could get a better response/answer.
To get the company updates from the LinkedIn API, you will need to reference the following document:
https://developer.linkedin.com/reading-company-updates
The API is currently in preview mode, but the above document addresses your question re: OAuth as well as shows the specific calls as well as sample output. If you have any questions after reviewing the docs, please feel free to visit our developer forums at:
https://developer.linkedin.com/forums/rest
And one of someone from our team would be more than happy to help you further.
Enjoy!
-Jeremy