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LinkedIn

Learn how to authorize RAW to read LinkedIn.

How to create​

As a prerequisite to accessing LinkedIn's API you will need a LinkedIn developer application. To create a new app you can go to LinkedIn's new app page. Information about LinkedIn's authorization flow can be seen in the authorization code flow page

Creating a new token for your LinkedIn App​

First go to LinkedIn apps page, select the app you want to generate the new token.

Click on the "Auth" tab and click on the "Oauth 2.0 tools" on the right pane.

Create linkedin token

Click on "Create token".

Create linkedin token

Select the scopes you want to give to the new token.

You will be presented with a new access-token and refresh-token, do not close this page or copy paste the tokens somewhere.

Create linkedin token

Registering the Generated LinkedIn Token​

Now we can register the linkedIn credential in your repository.

Go to your RAW-labs admin page, click on "Repositories" -> "Credentials" and click on the LinkedIn icon.

Register linkedin token

In the popup form add;

  • The name you want to give to this credential.
  • The token.
  • The refresh-token.
  • The client-ID.
  • And the client-secret of your app

Register linkedin token

How to use from Snapi​

LinkedIn APIs are essentially HTTP-accessible endpoints and as such they can be accessed using the Http package. For instance, here is an example that uses the service https://api.linkedin.com/v2/me, which provides personal information for a specific LinkedIn user:

let
  location = Http.Get(
    "https://api.linkedin.com/v2/me",
    authCredentialName = "MyLinkedInToken"
  )
in
  Json.Read(location)

LinkedIn Credential MyLinkedInToken is defined previously using an access token generated for our test LinkedIn application. For further details, please see LinkedIn documentation and access token generator. Note that instead of using OAuth Token, we could use OAuth Client HTTP type and specify Client ID and Client Secret.