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LinkedIn API - I dont understand how they want the urls formatted

I am looking at this documentation page for LinkedIn API:https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/profile-api

They have an example there: https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/profile-api

I am trying to send them a url like this:

/people/id=297823:(connections)

because they seem to recommend that under the "Selecting the amount of detail returned" section, but it gives this error:

LinkedIn::Errors::NotFoundError: (404): Not Found

Any idea what I am doing wrong with the url?

Thanks!

Solution

  • It returns NOT FOUND because 297823 is not a valid profile id. Try with a valid id,

    e.g.

    nbqwYraDfd is linked id of my linkedin profile, so below code works for me.

    https://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/id=nbqwYraDfd:(connections)

    p.s. notice that you need to authenticate in order to get this work.

    Edit: (after comment)

    To know your id, do this,

    https://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/~:(id)

    Use this to play with linkedin api,