Extending Your Site with Professional Networking

Let your users bring their professional networks with them to your service. You’ll be able to extend your site or application to:

• Provide a better experience: Build better experiences on your site by understanding the professional profiles and connections of your users.

• Increase productive engagement: When your users have access to profiles and their professional network, they are more productive researching people, sharing content, seeing who they know in any group, seeing updates from their network relevant to the task at hand, just to name a few opportunities.

• Increase your reach: Let your users share the good work they do on your site with their LinkedIn network. You’ll get exposure and they’ll build their professional identities.

Where Do I Begin?

In a few simple steps, you can start building LinkedIn into your site:

1. Request an API Key

   An API key will give your application access to the power of the LinkedIn network.

2. Browse the documentation

   Start with the OAuth documentation and move on from there. See Common Issues with OAuth Authorization if you run into problems.

3. Interact with the LinkedIn Developer Network community

   Join the forums to ask and answer questions.