FB Linkedin Resume: we're sorry but we can't correctly download your LinkedIn pr

that seems to be the final solution ??
thank you for the debug and i’ll post a new release ASAP!

hello,
WP 3.9.1
FB linkedin 2.9.2

tried without success this :
$options[“fb_linkedin_resume_url”] = preg_replace(“/^https:/i”, “http:”, $options[“fb_linkedin_resume_url”]);

still get FB Linkedin Resume: we’re sorry but we can’t correctly download your LinkedIn profile.

the problem seems linked with some blacklisting of IP from linkedin server. I have test from various ADSL IP and hosting services, it always worked from ADSL IPs, and most of the time fails from dedicated server at hosting services when trying to access to https://www.linkedin.com/in/username returning 999 error code.

watching at develloper linkedin it seems that there is an api but I do not see the point of subscribing to an API for a single account access.

If it is true that LinkedIn is blacklisting certain IP’s…. is there a way to ask them to whitelist my hosting provider? My DNS server is ns1.main-hosting.com / ns2.main-hosting.com / ns3.main-hosting.com and I also have the error:

FB Linkedin Resume: we’re sorry but we can’t correctly download your LinkedIn profile.

I finally registered for an api key at linkedin, and test two other plugins for wordpress and linked in resume.
One of them connects easily by giving it api key and pass: wp-linkedin , the other fails for me trying to obtain a token (LinkedIn Profile Synchronizer Tool).

The one that connects is not as interesting as you plugin Fabrizio, but it can be a source of inspiration to connect to linkedin when the simple https://www.linkedin.com/inusername gets a 999 error code in return ??

I am not a wordpress plugin monk but i will have a look if i can help

replacing this code

$wp_remote_get_args = array(
"user-agent" => "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.89 Safari/537.1"
);

with this code:

$wp_remote_get_args = array(
"user-agent" => "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.89 Safari/537.1",
"sslverify" => false
);

Totally worked for me.

sslverify option is already set to false in the latest version, did you update?

Hi, love the plugin! But I still experience this problem. I have tried to modify the code as suggested above, but to no avail. Any idea?

URL: https://kennhardy.org/

WordPress: Version 3.9.2
Plugin: Version 2.9.3

Edit: Well… Do not know what happened, but out of nowhere it works again. I think i changed the url to full path of my linkedin profile without https, and voila.

Thanks anyway!

yep the problem is that linkedin has lately introduces very strict policies regarding what the plugin do :-\
so if you have problems i’m really sorry but there’s no way than copying and pasting the source code of your linkedin profile page in the plugin’s cache system, no way to workaround this thing :-\

the only way to workaround would be to connect with an api key to linkedin to gain a token, see https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/authentication

yes, it’s the only way but:
– there are already other wordpress plugins that work with linkedin’s apis, mine wanted to be different and easier when it was born
– some months ago i was reading about linkedin’s oauth and the token is expiring after some time and it requires a token refresh (i could be wrong about this point)
– with the APIs i cannot access the raw profile html as far as i know, but just to some sections in json format, this plugin is always been about using the ready made linkedin’s html, otherwise it’s again completely another project

let me know what you think
thanks

indeed it would modify greatly the project using json in place of html. Such a shame linkedin blacklisted IP of a lot of hosting services, like where my server is hosted. The way your plugin shows the resume is great.

?? thanks, but it looks nice cause it directly takes linkedin’s html.. if i have to rewrite everything to use json than i’ll have to create my own html and features will probably get out-of-sync with linkedin’s ones and again, there are other plugins already doing it :-\