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Is there a way to list the groups of a user who is a contact of the authenticated user on LinkedIn?

The LinkedIn API documentation has confused me. It says that it is possible to list the groups of a user (not the logged in user, but any contact of the user) by providing the person-id.

The url shows this as an example:

To Get the Group of the Logged In User:
http://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/~/group-memberships:(group:(id,name,counts-by-category))?membership-state=member

I've tried the following

http://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/person-id=abcde/group-memberships:(group:(id,name,counts-by-category))?membership-state=member
http://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/abcde/group-memberships:(group:(id,name,counts-by-category))?membership-state=member
http://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/~/group-memberships:(group:(id,name,counts-by-category))?membership-state=member&person-id=abcde

None of them work. Where should I put the person-id? It's driving me bananas.

Solution

  • Turns out that the LinkedIn Groups API doesn't support retrieval of groups for anybody else except the logged in user.