LinkedIn will be drastically limiting their API next week. The grace period ends on May 12th.
https://developer.linkedin.com/support/developer-program-transition<p>One of the major restrictions is limiting the access of the r_fullprofile fields to only explicit LinkedIn partners. This is used by a lot of startups to create a great onboarding UX and minimize user data entry.<p>While this is a disruption to developers who will now have to adapt their onboarding, more importantly, it's a major setback for millions of LinkedIn users. LinkedIn is heightening their walls and there will no longer be an easy way for LinkedIn users to export their profile data out of LinkedIn and use it for other purposes.<p>We build an online resume/portfolio creation tool and are offering all our premium plans for free when users signup with LinkedIn until our API access to LinkedIn profiles gets turned off on May 12:
https://www.visualcv.com/?ref=freeLinkedIn<p>Before the LinkedIn API grace period ends, we would love to hear from any more startups that are currently relying on the LinkedIn API for signups and are offering a promo to their services one last time. Please list your startup in the comments below.
I wrote a nightmare (high level wrapper for phantomJS: <a href="https://github.com/segmentio/nightmare" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/segmentio/nightmare</a>) plugin for navigating linkedin: <a href="https://github.com/lambtron/nightmare-linkedin" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/lambtron/nightmare-linkedin</a><p>Exposes a few methods. Main use case was just to traverse linkedin results.<p>Contributors welcome!!!
That's why I hate working with these so-called APIs, they release it then cut it down or stop it. Never rely on these APIs to build anything significant
We built Prezence an app that showed you the LinkedIn profiles of the people around you <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=954962586&mt=8" rel="nofollow">https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftw...</a><p>For us LinkedIn integration was obviously critical. We think we can still go forward with what API's are available but we knew full well we were building a business on top of another business's API. So it is what it is. Can't really say it's unfair, they built the platform. Oh well.
What I'm wondering about is, what will happen if you request certain permissions (e.g. w_messages / rw_groups ) as part of the oauth process, but do not actually call API endpoints that require them.<p>The documentation just mentions the limitation in API endpoints, but I'm a bit worried whether it could make the oauth login fail due to permissions requested that you can no longer use.
Tangent: I'm slowly working on a toy site, and I want to provide API access (nowhere close yet).<p>I had thought to use LinkedIn as one of a few APIs to learn from and to prompt thinking.<p>Anyone recommend a few good API-backed sites to learn from? Is HN's API particularly good, or simple, or something?<p>Anything else?
My main gripe with LinkedIn is that the API is not even available for a fee through their partner programs.<p>Yahoo! mail recently launched integration with LinkedIn data, and Salesforce.com and Microsoft Dynamics have integration, but no other CRM is allowed to have access.
Glad you are calling attention to this. We (<a href="https://jobboard.io" rel="nofollow">https://jobboard.io</a>) offer a feature for our users where they can have a profile database as part of their job boards (example: <a href="http://www.railsjobs.com/profiles" rel="nofollow">http://www.railsjobs.com/profiles</a>) - Profile creation is super easy via LinkedIn, but we've had to strip back use of r_fullprofile. A huge pain for job seekers. We "applied" to get the permission to use it but were denied without explanation. Sad state of affairs.
Like Twitter and other Tech 'Giants', this is insane.<p>These corporations assume they can do it all on their own, as they have billions of dollars and great engineers.<p>Still, it's quite useless: greed is what really drives true innovation.<p>Good luck Linkedin
ConferenceCloud: A virtual attendance platform for professional and industry conferences. We use LinkedIn as a part of our login stuff, more specifically the fullprofile to help us understand our attendees and add to our "Contextual Networking" features which enables us to recommend other people at an event that you should connect with.<p>Really saddened to see LinkedIn restricting this API access. It won't cause any significant disruption to our platform, but destroys the convenience of using LinkedIn.
It looks like LinkedIn is having the illusion that the profile data is "owned" by them. Well... it isn't. If I cannot share my profile information with the platforms I choose, LinkedIn will loose it's sympathy factor for jobseekers. LinkedIn's decision triggered us at <a href="https://www.wematchit.nl" rel="nofollow">https://www.wematchit.nl</a> to work on a better solution. A world where LinkedIn will no longer be needed :-)
I think I'm correct in saying that for anyone who is just using `r_basicprofile`, you won't be affected, and you do get quite a lot of information just from that:<p><a href="https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/fields/basic-profile" rel="nofollow">https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/fields/basic-profile</a>
My app (Bubbler) used LinkedIn pretty heavily as a data source. There seem to be enough market demand that someone might be able to step in and be the new source of professional profiles.<p>Does the OP have an API for taking data out for Virtual CV users?
Clearbit's person lookup API might be a suitable alternative for a number of cases: <a href="https://clearbit.com/docs" rel="nofollow">https://clearbit.com/docs</a>