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How To Use Linkedin Apis

This document outlines the steps to use LinkedIn APIs, including signing in with LinkedIn, sharing to LinkedIn, and managing company pages. It describes creating a LinkedIn application, requesting an authorization code, exchanging the code for an access token, retrieving a user's profile, and sharing content to LinkedIn by posting to a specific API endpoint.

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How To Use Linkedin Apis

This document outlines the steps to use LinkedIn APIs, including signing in with LinkedIn, sharing to LinkedIn, and managing company pages. It describes creating a LinkedIn application, requesting an authorization code, exchanging the code for an access token, retrieving a user's profile, and sharing content to LinkedIn by posting to a specific API endpoint.

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How to use LinkedIn APIs

Scope
• Sign In with LinkedIn, Share with
LinkedIn and Manage Company Pages with
LinkedIn.
Steps
• Create a linkedin application
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/shared/authentication/authorization-code-
flow?context=linkedin/context
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/consumer/integrations/self-serve/sign-in-with-
linkedin?context=linkedin/consumer/context
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/consumer/integrations/self-serve/share-on-
linkedin?context=linkedin/consumer/context
Request an authorization code
• https://www.linkedin.com/oauth/v2/authorization?response_type=code&client_id=xxxxxxxx&redir
ect_uri=https://www.yoursite.com/oauth2/callback&state=fooobar&scope=r_liteprofile%20r_emai
laddress%20w_member_social
Exchange authorization code for an
access token
• POST /oauth/v2/accessToken HTTP/1.1
• Host: www.linkedin.com
• Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
• grant_type=authorization_code&code=987654321&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffanyv88.com%3A443%2Fhttps%2Fwww.myapp.co
m%2Fauth%2Flinkedin&client_id=123456789&client_secret=shhdonottell
Retrieve profile

Store this URN


Share
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/consumer/integrations/self-serve/share-on-
linkedin?context=linkedin/consumer/context
• Too big a page.. See the link
scope

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