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Informations about the package linkedin-api-php-client

LinkedIn API Client with OAuth 2 authorization written on PHP

Build Status Code Climate Packagist GitHub license

See index.php to get started.

Installation

You will need at least PHP 7.3. We match officially supported versions of PHP.

Use composer package manager to install the lastest version of the package:

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Get Started

Before you will get started, play visit to LinkedIn API Documentation. This will save you a lot of time and prevent some silly questions.

To start working with LinkedIn API, you will need to get application client id and secret.

Go to LinkedIn Developers portal and create new application in section My Apps. Save ClientId and ClientSecret, you will use them later.

Bootstrapping autoloader and instantiating a client

Getting local redirect URL

To start linking process you have to setup redirect url. You can set your own or use current one. SDK provides you a getRedirectUrl() helper for your convenience:

We recommend you to have it stored during the linking session because you will need to use it when you will be getting access token.

Setting local redirect URL

Set a custom redirect url use:

Getting LinkedIn redirect URL

In order of performing OAUTH 2.0 flow, you should get LinkedIn login URL. During this procedure you have to define scope of requested permissions. Use Scope enum class to get scope names. To get redirect url to LinkedIn, use the following approach:

Now you can take user to LinkedIn. You can use link or rely on Location HTTP header.

Getting Access Token

To get access token use (don't forget to set redirect url)

This method returns object of LinkedIn\AccessToken class. You can store this token in the file like this:

This way of storing tokens is not recommended due to security concerns and used for demonstration purpose. Please, ensure that tokens are stored securely.

Setting Access Token

You can use method setAccessToken() for the LinkedIn\Client class to set token stored as string. You have to pass instance of LinkedIn\AccessToken to this method.

Performing API calls

All API calls can be called through simple method:

There are 3 helper methods:

Examples

Perform api call to get profile information
List companies where you are an admin
Share content on a personal profile

Make sure that image URL is available from the Internet (don't use localhost in the image url).

Get Company page profile
Share content on a LinkedIn business page
Setup custom API request headers

Change different headers sent to LinkedIn API.

Change default API root

Some private API access there.

~Image Upload~

I assume you have to be LinkedIn partner or something like that.

Try to upload image to LinkedIn. See Rich Media Shares (returns "Not enough permissions to access media resource" for me).

Contributing

Please, open PR with your changes linked to an GitHub issue. You code must follow PSR standards and have PHPUnit tests.

License

MIT

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