Which version of the UGC docs are correct? - linkedin

I avoided using the UGC API on my recent migration to v2 of the LinkedIn API because this page of the docs (dated 2/4/2019, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/integrations/community-management/shares/ugc-post-api) suggests that the UGC is an "upcoming" API, only available for uploading videos, but not retrieving them (e.g. "UGC Post is currently best suited for creating and fetching video posts" and "Use the UGC Post API to create video content for organic posts and video ads. More functionality will be soon be added to the UGC Post API. As of now, you cannot retrieve the actual video content of a video post. This feature will be available soon.").
However, I just found this (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/consumer/integrations/self-serve/share-on-linkedin?context=linkedin/marketing/context#creating-a-share-on-linkedin) page, which talks about Sharing on LinkedIn, and seems to suggest using the UGC endpoint to upload text posts, article shares, and images.
Does anyone have a clear picture of what it is ready and not ready to go? I don't want to build out our app to use endpoints that are available only for testing, etc. I would like to know that LinkedIn officially supports the APIs that I am using in my app. I know LinkedIn monitors SO and touts it as part of their official mechanism for support, so I am posting this here.
At any rate, it might be a good idea to bring these two pages into alignment to prevent confusion like this.
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EDIT: Noticed today that the link to the UGC docs is now time-stamped 4/10/2019. Not immediately clear to me what the changes between 2/4 and 4/10 are.

We use LinkedIn V2 UGC API to post articles, images etc. and it works fine. However, uploading video results in an error that we do not have permission. I am not sure if there is any special permission that is needed even when we can post images fine.

We use UGC API (V2).Here is documentation for reference https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/consumer/integrations/self-serve/share-on-linkedin?context=linkedin/marketing/context#creating-a-share-on-linkedin
Video upload end point is not yet released. if you access that it will return permission required response.

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One of my customer would like to share his job opportunities and last articles from his Linkedin page on his external website.
I see that the Linkedin API V1 supported the job searching but now this version is deprecated and V2 API not allows this functionality anymore.
And I didn't find anything about last articles sharing too.
I have written to the support.
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URL : https://www.jedecouvremercator.com/
My website is W3C validate. I have followed all the LinkedIn recommendations and Google recommendations. My Open Graph meta is correct and the website is shareable on all other platforms.
But when I'm trying to share it on LinkedIn or when I use a custom link to share it, LinkedIn can't display the meta information.
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The site in your URL is down, and you didn't post any code, so that makes this difficult, but not impossible. I can still view your URL through archive.org, and when I try to share the archive.org URL, like this...
https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20190618064744%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.jedecouvremercator.com%2F
When I click the above, everything works perfectly fine for me. Example:
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End-users need to login the first time (that is ok). But even though they login using their personal LinkedIn profile, they cannot see our company-feed. Why is that?
If the users are set as LinkedIn Designated Admins they can see the feed, otherwise they cannot.
We are using
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api_key: "The key"
lang: da_DK
authorize: true
onLoad: onLinkedInLoad
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I hope someone can share their knowledge.
This is why :'( https://developer.linkedin.com/blog/posts/2015/developer-program-changes
Starting on May 12, 2015, we will be limiting the open APIs to only support the following uses:
Allowing members to represent their professional identity via their LinkedIn profile using our Profile API.
Enabling members to post certifications directly to their LinkedIn profile with our Add to Profile tools.
Enabling members to share professional content to their LinkedIn network from across the Web leveraging our Share API.
Enabling companies to share professional content to LinkedIn with our Company API.
Only people who can admin the feed can read/update to the company feed. All others are excluded unless you manage to get yourself promoted to LinkedIN partner: https://developer.linkedin.com/partner-programs
Some light on this issue over here:
As ahmeij said, Linkedin doesnt provide anymore an easy way of embedding your company/personal profile timeline anywhere. However, there is an alternative way of implementing this.
You will make use of the RSS feed of the profile. The url will be something like this:
https://www.linkedin.com/biz/[PROFILE ID]/feed?start=0&v2=true
You can find out the numeric ID in you profile/company page.
Read the full source here: https://www.glintech.com/blog/confluence-embed-linkedin-company-feed.html
I found the way to implement a CORS proxy, and got this working.
I used this simple PHP CORS proxy
However, LinkedIn site doesn't return any information from this URL anymore, it just returns a [301 - moved permanently] error :_(
As Alberto mentioned in the post below a RSS feed can be used to create an embed code. To enable RSS on your LinkedIn and get the RSS link you can follow this guide. Then you can use this plugin to generate an embed code of the feed.
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I am working on a Wordpress site.
Woothemes framework, Canvas theme from Woothemes.
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I've followed the instructions as given here: https://developers.google.com/fonts/docs/developer_api
It says:
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Next, go to the API Access pane. The API key is near the bottom of that pane, in the section titled "Simple API Access."(Can't find this at all!)
Any ideas?
Sorry if this is a terribly simple question!
Kind regards
Annelie
Maybe the help page is a bit behind and refers to the 'old' console.
Old: https://code.google.com/apis/console/b/0/?noredirect
New: https://cloud.google.com/console?redirected=true
I wrote the Google Webfonts for Woo Framework plugin, found at http://wordpress.org/plugins/google-fonts-for-woo-framework/
For the last few versions, you do not need to use a Google API key to be up and running. The WordPress plugin contains a fallback list of all available Google webfonts, and I try to keep that list up-to-date as Google releases additional fonts.
So, unless there is a really new font you want to use, just run the plugin without an API key and it should provide all the Google Webfonts you want.
Hi at first create a project in Firebase then go there and click on the "Get a Key" at the main of the page choose your project and get it.

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