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Aws cognito linkedin

I'm trying to add LinkedIn login to my react app that using Amazon Cognito, I did everything like explained here and yes it works but I'm not using Amazon Cognito hosted UI and I don't want my user to get redirected to Auth0 site to login with…
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How to use LinkedIn API in iPhone SDK?

I want to use the LinkedIn API in my project, but I haven't found any good tutorials about using LinkedIn API. How to use LinkedIn API? "A beginners guide/introduction" of "basic concepts" would be helpful. OK, after googleing around I went to this…
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Basic Example of Client Side Templating with Dust.js

This is my first foray into client-side templating and I want to make sure I'm understanding it and using it correctly. After reading this LinkedIn engineering blog, I decided to go with dust.js rather than mustache or handlebars. Note that this…
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How to use linkedin API with python

I tried so many methods, but none seem to work. Help me make a connection with linkedin using python. I have all the tokens. I have python 2.7.5. Please post a sample of basic code that establishes a connection and gets a user's name. Below, I have…
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Compute social distance between two users

How you would code an efficient algorithm which can return a social 'distance' between two users. For example, when you visit a profile on LinkedIn you can see what is the distance between you and the user. -> user A is friend with user B - and B is…
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How to Get Description Field to Display with LinkedIn Share API

When I post this JSON to the Share API: { "comment": "Here is my comment", "content": { "title": "Here is my title", "description": "Description: The picture will be of a blue and gold macaw", "submitted-url":…
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Angular 2: EXCEPTION: Response with status: 0 for URL: null

I am trying to send a HTTP GET request from my Angular2/ionic2 app using http.get. The HTTP GET request contains a valid Linkedin access token and is supposed to return some profiledata. However, the following error occurs when getProfileData() is…
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LinkedIn API unable to view _any_ company profile

I'm trying to figure out how to access any company profile on LinkedIn. For example, the REST endpoint API for LinkedIn itself is: https://api.linkedin.com/v1/companies/1337?format=json with the sample response of: { "id": 1337, "name":…
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Oauth 2.0 authorization for LinkedIn in Android

Even though there is no such android specific sdk from linkedIn(like facebook and twitter sdk for android).Setting up linkedIn authorization with Oauth 1.0 was still easy using: scribe-java Social-auth for android. And the list of tools here. But…
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LinkedIn share content option like facebook request dialog

I am trying to integrate the LinkedIn API into my VS 2012 C# MVC4.5 application. I used the LinkedIn documentations to call API urls in my application. Currently I am working in the share API for my application. But I don't want to share the…
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Has anyone managed to build any applications with the LinkedIn API?

LinkedIn are very cautious of applications using their APIs. I have tried and failed to get access to them. Has anyone actually built any real applications with them yet? If yes, what strategy did you employ to get access to their API? BTW I am…
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How to properly implement linkedIn login ?

I have an andorid app and i am trying to implement linkedIn login in it. LinkedIn SDK has been successfully integrated and i am getting user information as well along with the email address. Here is how my application works for google login : 1)…
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Internal service error on linkedin rest api

I'm working on an app that uses LinkedIn api. Since about two days I can't get any response from the endpoint "company-statistics". To be more specific, I'm calling https://api.linkedin.com/v1/companies/2414183/company-statistics?format=json And…
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Why does LinkedIn v2 Share API give not enough permissions error on any v2/shares endpoint?

When I make a call to any v2 LinkedIn share API endpoint such as https://api.linkedin.com/v2/socialActions/{share URN}?oauth2_access_token={access token} I get a response saying "Not enough permissions to access /socialActions/{target} GET ". Our…
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Get linkedin Access Token with JavaScript SDK

I am working on that application allow user to connect to linkedin (using javascript). I want to store access token that I got from IN.ENV.auth.oauth_token because I will use it to post to user's timeline. But when I use this access token to post to…
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