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The official online compendium for Mining the Social Web, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly, 2013)
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LinkedIn API changed Terms of Service #272

Closed nicholasjackson827 closed 9 years ago

nicholasjackson827 commented 9 years ago

As seen here, LinkedIn just change its terms of service so that getting connections is no longer a possibility without going through a long application process. Any suggestions for a way around this? Or try to get the permissions by submitting the application?

EDIT: Here's the code I'm using that gets me a 403 error:

from linkedin import linkedin
import json

application = linkedin.LinkedInApplication(token='')
connections = application.get_connections(selectors=['headline', 'first-name', 'last-name'])
print json.dumps(connections, indent=1)
ptwobrussell commented 9 years ago

I haven't re-run all of the examples to check, but from my quick read of the changes is that the content for Chapter 3 should still work given that 1) most of the key examples are built from a CSV download that's not part of the API and 2) the few examples that shows the programmatic API are built from just grabbing the authorized user's connections and basic profiles. If I'm missing something there, though, please let me know.

Where I think the challenge will be for folks building more robust applications is with the application process, as you've pointed out. This process will ultimately create non-trivial friction that encourages people to tinker around with the API, which might make creating and maintaining 3rd party libraries like python-linkedin more difficult.

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 12:42 PM, nicholasjackson827 < notifications@github.com> wrote:

As seen here, https://developer.linkedin.com/support/developer-program-transition LinkedIn just change its terms of service so that getting connections is no longer a possibility without going through a long application process. Any suggestions for a way around this? Or try to get the permissions by submitting the application?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/ptwobrussell/Mining-the-Social-Web-2nd-Edition/issues/272 .

nicholasjackson827 commented 9 years ago

The examples do still work with the CSV file, but just in case anyone tried to get their connections (or groups, invitations, etc.) via the API, I wanted to put this out there.

Thanks for the response!

mmeloon commented 8 years ago

@ptwobrussell, just to clarify: you cannot grab information about the authorized user's connections through the API anymore. The CSV file will still have that information, so your examples can run with that. But unfortunately, your Comment #2 is not correct.