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Is it possible to search LinkedIn Profiles by name within your network using Spring Social?

I've seen the search option defined on profileOperations but there's nothing like that available on connectionOperations. I was thinking something along the line of retrieving all the connection ids and using that as a filter on a profile search.

But I couldn't find any documentation on how to use the search function and since the connectionOperations only retrieves full profiles that's a pretty expensive operation, in any case.

Any suggestions?

Marc
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Yes. It is possible.

You can use the search() method in org.springframework.social.linkedin.api.ProfileOperations

LinkedInProfiles search(SearchParameters parameters)

Set the firstName and/or lastName attributes in SearchParameters object.

Sample code:

SearchParameters searchParameters = new SearchParameters();
searchParameters.setFirstName("first_name");
searchParameters.setLastName("last_name");
LinkedInProfiles profiles = linkedinApi.profileOperations().search(searchParameters);

Hope this helps. Let me know if you have any further questions.

Praveen

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