linkedin-api-wrapper

linkedin-api-wrapper

Simple promise-based wrapper to access the LinkedIn API. The pacakge does not include OAuth part, assuming you already have an access token. I suggest you obtain the token using Postman or a similar application, but any other solution is viable.

Due to the limited lifetime of LinkedIn access tokens, continuous integration does not work on the long term. Sorry about that.

Installation

npm install --save linkedin-api-wrapper

Usage

Initializing the library

const LinkedIn = require("linkedin-api-wrapper");
const linkedin = LinkedIn({
  access_token: auth_token,
});

Obtaining informations about your profile

const profile = await linkedin.api('me');

Sharing content on your feed

const response = await linkedin.api('ugcShares', {
    method: 'POST',
      body: {
        "author": `urn:li:person:${author}`,
        "lifecycleState": "PUBLISHED",
        "specificContent": {
          "com.linkedin.ugc.ShareContent": {
            "shareCommentary": {
              "text": "Check out my web site --  https://yesik.it",
            },
            "shareMediaCategory": "NONE",
          }
        },
        "visibility": {
          "com.linkedin.ugc.MemberNetworkVisibility": "PUBLIC"
        }
      },
      "visibility": {
        "code": "anyone"
      }
  });

Other methods

The library is a very thing wrapper. It should work with any API endpoint.

Obtaining your access token

LinkedIn uses OAuth2 for authentification and requires user approval. Two helpers scripts are provided to obtain those credentials:

1. First, export the LINKEDIN_CLIENT_ID and LINKEDIN_CLIENT_SECRET environment variables with the corresponding values for your application
2. Then, run oauth-step1.sh. It will open an x-www-browser window to the authorization page
3. Eventually log in to LinkedIn, then grant parmissions to your application
4. LinkedIn will redirect your browser to http://localhost:8000. From the URL bar, copy the code parameter
5. Export the code obtained in the previous step as the environment variable LINKEDIN_CODE
6. Run the oauth-step2.sh script. It will connect to LinkedIn and get an access token for your application using the authorization code.
7. Copy the access token from the reply. It will be the token to use for all subsequent api requests.

Node version

Require NodeJS >= v7.6 (should work starting with v7.0 with the --harmony flag) Tested with v7.6 and v8.9

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2018 Sylvain Leroux

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