I'm having trouble connecting to, and pulling connections from, Linkedin. I have to use nodejs and express, and am using the linkedin-js client (https://github.com/masylum/linkedin-js). I have looked everywhere for examples and still don't quite understand how to do the "get" call and display a users connections on the page. I'm getting an error when I use "render", but when I try to use "send" instead, I find that the API call isn't working anyways. Anyone's help and explanation would be greatly appreciated! Here's what I have so far.
var express = require('express')
, linkedin_client = require('linkedin-js')('xxx', 'xxx', 'http://localhost:3003/')
, app = express();
app.configure(function(){
app.use(express.bodyParser());
app.use(express.methodOverride());
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/'));
app.use(express.cookieParser());
app.use(express.session({ secret: "string" }));
});
app.get('/', function (req, res) {
// the first time will redirect to linkedin
linkedin_client.getAccessToken(req, res, function (error, token) {
// will enter here when coming back from linkedin
req.session.token = token;
linkedin_client.apiCall('GET', '/people/~/connections:(headline,first-name,last-name)',
{
token: {
oauth_token_secret: req.session.token.oauth_token_secret
, oauth_token: req.session.token.oauth_token
}
, fields: req.param('id')//not sure?
}
, function (error, result) {
res.send('message_sent');
}
);
//res.render('auth'); I'm getting an error here as well
});
});
app.post('/message', function (req, res) {
linkedin_client.apiCall('POST', '/people/~/shares',
{
token: {
oauth_token_secret: req.session.token.oauth_token_secret
, oauth_token: req.session.token.oauth_token
}
, share: {
comment: req.param('message')
, visibility: {code: 'anyone'}
}
}
, function (error, result) {
res.render('message_sent');
}
);
});
app.listen(3003);
console.log("Listening");
Can you provide more details on the actual error you're receiving when attempting to make the GET call? What HTTP error code is being returned in the response?
On the second line replace the 'API Key' and 'Secret Key' with your own from https://www.linkedin.com/secure/developer:
var express = require('express'),
linkedin_client = require('linkedin-js')('API Key', 'Secret Key', 'http://localhost:3003/'),
bodyParser = require('body-parser'),
cookieParser = require('cookie-parser'),
methodOverride = require('method-override'),
session = require('express-session'),
app = express();
app.use(bodyParser.json()); //basic app set up
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({extended: true}));
app.use(methodOverride());
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/'));
app.use(cookieParser());
app.use(session({secret: 'secret',
saveUninitialized: true,
resave: true})); //session stuff
app.get('/', function (req, res) {
// the first time will redirect to linkedin
linkedin_client.getAccessToken(req, res, function (error, token) {
// will enter here when coming back from linkedin
req.session.token = token;
linkedin_client.apiCall('GET', '/people/~/connections:(headline,first-name,last-name)',
{
token: {
oauth_token_secret: req.session.token.oauth_token_secret
, oauth_token: req.session.token.oauth_token
}
, fields: req.param('id')//not sure?
}
, function (error, result) {
res.send(result);
}
);
});
});
app.post('/message', function (req, res) {
linkedin_client.apiCall('POST', '/people/~/shares',
{
token: {
oauth_token_secret: req.session.token.oauth_token_secret
, oauth_token: req.session.token.oauth_token
}
, share: {
comment: req.param('message')
, visibility: {code: 'anyone'}
}
}
, function (error, result) {
res.render('message_sent');
}
);
});
app.listen(3003);
console.log("Listening");