LinkedIn OAuth 2 Tutorial

Setup credentials following the instructions on LinkedIn. When you have obtained a client_id and a client_secret you can try out the command line interactive example below.

>>> # Credentials you get from registering a new application
>>> client_id = '<the id you get from linkedin>'
>>> client_secret = '<the secret you get from linkedin>'

>>> # OAuth endpoints given in the LinkedIn API documentation
>>> authorization_base_url = 'https://www.linkedin.com/uas/oauth2/authorization'
>>> token_url = 'https://www.linkedin.com/uas/oauth2/accessToken'

>>> from requests_oauthlib import OAuth2Session
>>> from requests_oauthlib.compliance_fixes import linkedin_compliance_fix

>>> linkedin = OAuth2Session(client_id, redirect_uri='http://127.0.0.1')
>>> linkedin = linkedin_compliance_fix(linkedin)

>>> # Redirect user to LinkedIn for authorization
>>> authorization_url, state = linkedin.authorization_url(authorization_base_url)
>>> print 'Please go here and authorize,', authorization_url

>>> # Get the authorization verifier code from the callback url
>>> redirect_response = raw_input('Paste the full redirect URL here:')

>>> # Fetch the access token
>>> linkedin.fetch_token(token_url, client_secret=client_secret,
...                      authorization_response=redirect_response)

>>> # Fetch a protected resource, i.e. user profile
>>> r = linkedin.get('https://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/~')
>>> print r.content