Acessing LinkedIn API From a Non-Web Application

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Ricardo Peres
Joined: 02/14/2012
Wed, 02/22/2012 - 08:14
Acessing LinkedIn API From a Non-Web Application

Greetings!

I am trying to develop a non-web application (mobile, non-mobile) for consuming information from LinkedIn.
I would like to have the user authenticated by entering a valid username and password and accessing his account using this authentication.
Is this possible? From what I've read, it seems the only way to access LinkedIn is by using OAuth, which is not what I had in mind.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

RP

Kirsten Jones
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Joined: 06/30/2011
Wed, 02/22/2012 - 08:51

This is not possible with our API. Our APIs are secured by OAuth and username/passwords cannot be collected or passed by third party applications.