Next up on our developer series is Scoop.it. Now you can check out how Scoop.it integrated with LinkedIn in multiple ways and increased their referral traffic significantly.
Scoop.it & Content Curation for professionals
Social Media is a fantastic opportunity for professionals to share their expertise and develop their own personal brands. In this spirit, Scoop.it was created to make it much easier and efficient for professionals to become Media Publishers — with Scoop.it...
Read moreIn August 2012, we introduced Member Permissions. This feature allows you to specify exactly which information the member shares with your application and actions you can take on their behalf. In November 2012, we introduced a migration path to this new flow for applications created before that change. We have been thrilled to...
Read moreWe are excited to provide a much simpler way for you to add default member permissions for your application.
With the LinkedIn API, you have the ability to specify which member permissions or scopes you want users to grant to your application. Previously, regardless of which version of OAuth your application was using, requesting permissions required you to pass the scopes as query parameters when authenticating the user.
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https://www.linkedin.com/... Read moreTo continue with the Developer Perspective Series, our next guest poster is Mathieu Crucq, a Senior Project Director from Brainsonic. This is a fantastic social and professional case study on how one of our French partners leveraged the LinkedIn API. Enjoy!
How LinkedIn’s API Enhanced The Social Experience At Microsoft TechDays 2013
Microsoft TechDays is the largest European IT event of the year, drawing 18,200 people to the Palais des Congrès in Paris, and more than 40...
Read moreWith over 200 Million members worldwide, we've had lots of requests to make Sign In With LinkedIn, one of our most popular plugins, more accessible to non-English speaking members. Sign In with LinkedIn is our most convenient way for you to enable a valuable professional audience to register for your site using their LinkedIn identity, along with providing you ways to personalize their experience. This can lead to a surge in your user base.
We’re happy to announce that Sign In With...
Read moreI'm excited to share with you a series of posts from partners that are doing some exciting things with the LinkedIn Platform. To kick start this series, I will be starting with Oriol Esteban, the VP of Development from Friend2Friend. I hope you will enjoy our guest posters and check out the interesting apps that they have created.
App Development for Top Consumer Brands on LinkedIn
LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, which makes it an enticing...
Read moreBy default, the Profile API returns URLs using HTTP. In some instances, you may prefer to have the URLs returned by the Profile API as secure. This can be accomplished easily by passing the secure-urls parameter and setting it's value to "true".
Request:
GET
https://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/~?secure-urls=trueResponse:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 <person> <first-name>Kamyar</first-name> <last-name>Mohager</last-name> <headline>... Read moreAt LinkedIn, one of our three key product goals is simplicity. Unfortunately, many developers have found OAuth 1.0a to be anything but simple. While secure, it has some complexities that can make it difficult for developers to successfully create applications on the LinkedIn Platform.
We've heard from our community about their interest in OAuth 2.0, and we have wanted to provide it to you for a long time. After careful evaluation and analysis over the current state of the OAuth 2.0...
Read moreWe've seen great adoption of the Share API among applications using the LinkedIn Platform over the last few months. While the API serves as a great way to increase engagement for your users, as a developer it was difficult to determine where the share was located once it was successfully posted. We're happy to announce that now you'll receive a more helpful response when making a successful POST to the API:
Successful Share API Response
{ "updateKey": "UNIU-117025317-... Read moreTwitterfeed, a bitly Inc. company, makes sharing RSS feeds to social media channels easy. The service helps people distribute their blog posts to a wider audience by automatically feeding the content to their social media accounts.
Twitterfeed uses Sign In to enable LinkedIn members to log in and bind their accounts, providing an easy way to post their content without the hassle of signing into multiple platforms and websites.
LinkedIn members using twitterfeed can now...
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