Extract Posts from Linkedin Feed

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I’m searching the Linkedin documentation for a way to extract the Posts from a particular company. You can do this ?

I’m not finding methods.

The closest I got was this link: https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/company-pages

But it has nothing like Feed, similar to what you have on Twitter and Facebook.

I try to run a direct URL in the Browser according to the documentation with the Company ID and shows an error:

{
  "errorCode": 0,
  "message": "Unknown authentication scheme",
  "requestId": "MJYSLQZZXX",
  "status": 401,
  "timestamp": 1448970119372
}
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  • The new version of the Linkedin API is full of limitations. I gave up for example to get a people’s connections. It was too bureaucratic.

  • I read on Soen that it is not possible to extract data from the feed, but it was a question from a year ago. So I thought I had updated. But that this API is very limited, that’s right.

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What you read in Soen’s reply is correct, it is no longer possible to do so. No Official Blog of Linkedin you can see the changes that took place in May 2015.

It is becoming common for companies to restrict the functionality of their API’s, whether due to abuse or some problem. This can be seen with others, such as Facebook, Google, Outlook, etc. Those who use these services for a few years, know that this kind of restriction has been happening.

Linkedin makes available the console with the endpoints of your API. It is very useful to know what may or may not be requested.

A possible solution would be for you to try the Partner Program from Linkedin and he says this about the program:

The partnership with Linkedin provides additional functionality to the API, data access, increased call limits, and dedicated support. Read more about our various partner programs and use cases and see if it corresponds to your application. Applications are only accepted when we feel they are providing value to members, developers and Linkedin.

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This error is because, when pasting the url into the browser, you made a GET call into the API without passing any authorization token.

To perform it, you basically need to register your application on Linkedin and thus receive an access token to pass the header of your requests.

Without this, you are not "allowed" to access their restful API. And, of course, you will always receive an HTTP 401 status.

They express step-by-step at this link: https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/oauth2

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