Ezlinkedin

A simple way to make calls on Linkedin's API. NOTE: It is not yet completed and does not encompass all of the api at this time. It serves the purpose I made it for but I will continue to develop it.

This is heavily inspired and influenced by the pengwynn/linkedin gem. I was having issues with his gem though and there is very little documentation for using it so I decided to redo it myself in order to:

  • Make it work for what I needed
  • Add precise and useful documentation
  • learn the api

Most of the tests are from pengwynn's gem

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'ezlinkedin'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install ezlinkedin

Usage

This is meant to be used alongside omniauth. Obtain access tokens from omniauth authentication and then use them to make api calls.

require 'ezlinkedin'

# Create a client
linkedin = EzLinkedin::Client.new("API KEY", "SECRET KEY", options) # options are the typical OAuth consumer options
linkedin.authorize("access_token", "access_token_secret") # tokens obtained from omniauth

linkedin.profile(id: 1234, fields: ['name', 'email']
linkedin.connections(count: 30)
linkedin.network_updates(types: [:shar, :prfx, :conn], count: 50)
linkedin.post_share({:comment => "I'm a comment",
                 :content => { :title => "A title!",
                               :description => "A description",
                               :submitted_url => "http...",
                               :submitted_image_url => "http..." },
                 :visibility => { :code => "anyone"} })

Currently, one can: * post shares * retrieve network updates, user profile, and connections * search for companies * use the company and people search api

TODO

I'd really like to include the facets capabilities in the search because it would really boost search efficiency.

This gem fits the purposes I had for it and I'm satisfied. Besides implementing Faceted search, I don't plan on implementing other features at this point. But feel free to contribute

Contributing

  1. Fork it
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create new Pull Request