LinkedIn is strongly committed to doing everything we can to make you, our developers, successful.  To that end, we're launching a few consoles to make it easier to answer questions, debug, and explore the API.

The first console is the OAuth Test Console.  This console allows you to input your OAuth credentials and API call variables and see the correct OAuth parameters - and then make that call directly from the console to see the output.  Since many authentication issues arise from signature mismatches, it's quite useful to be able to see the correct signature to confirm if there's something going awry with the signature you're creating.  You can set all of the parameters to match the ones your application is using and determine if it's an exact match.  Additionally, this is a great tool to just explore the API - figure out exactly the call you want to get the information you're looking for, with quick iterations to check the output.  To make this tool even handier, we've added HTML5 local browser storage for browsers which support it - so you don't have to copy and paste your application and member credentials each time you enter the console.

The second console is the REST Console, which comes thanks to our friends at apigee. This is a quick way to browse through our APIs. It uses its own credentials, so once you've signed in as a user, you simply choose which calls you want to make and see how they work. Nothing could be more simple to let you explore the API and see what it offers. Along with the pre-set options in the navigation panel, you can also input your own URL to fetch resources which aren't included in the menu. If this tool looks familiar, it used to live on the apigee site, but, to make it even more conveinent, it's now part of our site, too!

We hope these consoles will serve you well in your development cycles.  Please let us know how we can make them better, or if you have ideas for additional tools.  As always, we look forward to seeing what you can create.  Have fun!