Posts Finder

[inarie]

Hi! Using the Community Management API, I'm attempting to get a company's most recent posts. I'm having some trouble passing the parameters, though. What I have is this:

from linkedin_api.clients.restli.client import RestliClient

restli_client = RestliClient()

response = restli_client.finder(
  resource_path="/posts",
  finder_name="author",
  query_params={
    "author": {
      "value": "urn:li:organization:2414183"
    }
  },
  version_string="202212",
  acccess_token=<THREE_LEGGED_ACCESS_TOKEN>
)
posts = response.elements

This is the endpoint I'm attempting to reach: (I tested it using Postman, and it works as expected) https://api.linkedin.com/v2/posts?q=author&author=urn%3Ali%3Aorganization%3A2414183

[nbro10]

Afaik, at this point, you should be using the rest path instead of v2. Can you please try checking if you can still make a request to https://api.linkedin.com/rest/posts?q=author&author=urn%3Ali%3Aorganization%3A2414183 (so with rest instead of v2)? Also, make sure you're using the xrestli protocol version 2.0 (you need to set this corresponding header), which is used by this library.

Could you please also give more info about the problem you're encountering when you make the request with this client library? What's the error in response.response.json(), HTTP status code and posts?

[inarie]

Afaik, at this point, you should be using the rest path instead of v2. Can you please try checking if you can still make a request to https://api.linkedin.com/rest/posts?q=author&author=urn%3Ali%3Aorganization%3A2414183 (so with rest instead of v2)?

I've test with rest and it's working as expected on Postman. On other hand, the problem remains using the RestliClient.

Could you please also give more info about the problem you're encountering when you make the request with this client library? What's the error in response.response.json(), HTTP status code and posts?

When using the client , I get this error:

{ 
 "serviceErrorCode": 100, 
 "message": "Field Value validation failed in PARAMETER: Data Processing Exception while processing fields [/author]", 
 "status": 403 
}

Using the sample of code I've send above, the request url stays like this: https://api.linkedin.com/rest/posts?q=author&author=(value:urn%3Ali%3Aorganization%3A2414183).

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I've also tried it this way:

from linkedin_api.clients.restli.client import RestliClient

restli_client = RestliClient()

response = restli_client.finder(
  resource_path="/posts",
  finder_name="author",
  query_params={
    "author": ("urn:li:organization:2414183")
  },
  version_string="202212",
  acccess_token=<THREE_LEGGED_ACCESS_TOKEN>
)
posts = response.elements

The request url stays something like this https://api.linkedin.com/rest/posts?q=author&author=(urn%3Ali%3Aorganization%3A2414183). As you can see, it almost achieves what I want, but it doesn't work. (I also tried without the parenthesis, but for some reason it doesn't work too)

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Also, using a get instead of a finder and making some code adjustments, returns Method 'GET' is not supported for URI error. A simple get to /posts also returns No virtual resource found error with 404.

[nbro10]

@inarie I was able to get the posts using the following code, which slightly different from both of your examples. Give it a try ;)

restli_client = RestliClient()

response = restli_client.finder(
  resource_path="/posts",
  finder_name="author",
  query_params={
    "author": "urn:li:organization:2414183"
  },
  version_string="202212",
  access_token="my_access_token"
)
posts = response.elements

Note 1: your access token should have been generated using the suitable scopes, etc.

Note 2: the syntax of the values in the query_params dictionary may change in newer API versions. See e.g. https://github.com/linkedin-developers/linkedin-api-python-client/issues/39