Is it possible to extract profile info of Linkedin group members? Seems to me Linkedin API does not allow it, doesn't it?
Some options:
I being a member of a group
I being not a member of a group.
If it is possible then what would be the way?
As you can see here, the group fields do not include any fields regarding the personal details of group members. Also the documentation does not offer any way to get profiles of members. So I'd say it is not possible to get profile information of group members other than knowing their group-related traits.
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I know scraping LinkedIn is not permitted. But I see that you're able to retrieve shares based on someone's profile ID, but is it also possible to retrieve shares based on keywords?
Or is there a workaround where I can first get all profile ID's / Vanitynames based on a specific search and then get the shares / post content based on these ID's?
Thanks!
As far as i know linkedin is very strict in scrapping their data. I think there is no retrieving based on keyword. You can retrive all then , use filter to sort.
Using LinkedIn API Documentation for company pages, I know how to retrieve :
The list of companies a user is admin of
Several profile fields for each individual company
Can I do that in one call instead of N+1 calls ?
Well, I ended up answering my own question pretty quickly. Calling the API in the following way gives you the list of companies AND the list of profile fields you need :
https://api.linkedin.com/v1/companies:(id,name,ticker,description,website-url,square-logo-url)?format=json&is-company-admin=true
To anonymously analyze users flow and engagement I want to use the ClientID, as identifier of each user, as a value of a custom dimension. I have two questions regarding this idea:
How many values can be associated to a custom dimension? This will determine the feasibility of this approach or not.
Is there any other approach to track individually, yet anonymously, users activity?
I'm not aware of a limit though for custom dimension length. But storing userId, sessionId customerId and timestamps for all hits in custom dimensions is not all that unusual these days. Here is a link to a post by Simo Ahava's post Improve Data Collection With Four Custom Dimensions on how to set it all up in google tag manager.
For hit based custom dimension you can store as many values as there are hits. The problem is not storage, the problem is that the interface will not show more than 50 000 rows with distinct values (any additional value will go into a row labeled "other"). Also some of the reports (namely demographics) will not work with very small segments.
I cannot think of any other way to track users individually (and if you are interested in opinions, I blogged about how I do not understand why people want to do this). The interface is not very well suited for this kind of "atomic" information, so I think the approach is more useful for API integrations that can properly visualize information on a per user basis.
I'm trying to get the Google UserID working so that I can identify certain users journeys through my website.
I've enabled the USER ID feature as per the docs, which created a new view named Users in my Analytics account. There's data in there, but I can't see to separate it. It looks like a standard account.
How do I spilt data by the user ID I've given them?
You don't. Userid is not displayed. It is used to stitch user sessions together when users come from multiple devices, it does not identify individual users in the interface.
If you want to do that you have to use a custom dimension and store an identifier per user there.
I want to extract LinkedIn group members' email addresses. (Note: I do not own the groups; they are just groups that I am a member of). I could not find anything yet to do so in LinkedIn API. Although I am able to get my current status, update status, friends list.
Around 4 years ago it was possible to get email addresses of members who joined your group if the group was set to private. Now there is no way to access this data apart from being a connection with all of the members of the group or viewing each members profiles and grabbing any email address that they have listed publicly.