Linkedin connection error

Hi Ben, thanks for the report.

Hrm, I haven’t specifically tried interacting with any company pages using this method, so I’m not sure what’s going on there/what’s missing/what’s broken.

Are you using some custom code on top of Keyring to try to pull data from a company page or something? Can you give me a bit more info on what exactly you’re trying to do, then I’ll see if I can replicate/debug.

To be honest I’m not even sure how to get set up with access to a company page, so if you could drop me a line on how to do that on LinkedIn as well, that’d be great.

Thanks!

Hi Beau,

Thanks for your reply and sorry for my late one.

Actually it seems that LinkedIn uses a OAuth 2.0 to generate a token with a step with a code that you have to send back to get the final token.

https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/oauth2

In Keyring, I saw that the LinkedIn class extends from Keyring_Service_OAuth1 and when I call the “request” method of the LinkedIn Keyring_Service there is no added token.

What I’d like to do is fetch a company feed as per this example at the bottom of the page: https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/rest-api# and as the example, what I receive is an 401 as if you try to reach: https://api.linkedin.com/v1/companies/1337/updates?start=20&count=10&format=json

I don’t know if LinkedIn Auth protocol has change since you wrote the plugin or if you have a special trick to fetch the data but I guess that the LinkedIn service has to extends from Keyring_Service_OAuth2. Do you agree?

By the way I’ve just written a Vimeo keyring service. Let me know if you want to give it a go and maybe intergrate it to the plugin.

Thanks again!
Best,
Ben

Hi Beau,

I have some more information for you ??

There’s a LinkedIn API debug tool here where you can try their API endpoints.

https://apigee.com/console/linkedin

If you try any of them (for me it’s “Get a company profile (simple)”), you’ll need to sign-in with your Linkedin account and you’ll see that a token is added to the query.

In the Keyring class, even if we create credentials that seem to work, API calls are made without token so we receive an error. I guess that it’s the point.

Let me know if you get a chance to give it a go.

Thanks.
Best,

Ben

The current implementation does send auth tokens, but it sends them via a header, so you don’t see them in the URLs being requested.

From what I can tell, LinkedIn has upgraded now and is using OAuth2, not the OAuth1 from when this was first written. Some requests work still, but not this one. I guess that means I’ll need to write an OAuth2 version to be able to do things like this.

I’ve created an issue for it here; https://github.com/beaulebens/keyring/issues/20

That would be awesome, thanks for the issue!

Best,

Ben