linkedin

A Symfony project created on March 6, 2017, 2:52 pm.

LinkedinImporterBundle

Linkedin profile data importer for symfony

Installation

Add the package to your dependencies

{
    "require": {
        "ccc/linkedin-importer-bundle": "dev-master"
        ...
    }
}

Register the bundle in your kernel

public function registerBundles()
{
    $bundles = array(
        // ...
        new CCC\LinkedinImporterBundle\CCCLinkedinImporterBundle(),
        // ...
    );

Update your packages

$ php composer.phar update

Configuration

Add LinkedIn access details to your config:

ccc_linkedin_importer:
    company: Company Name
    app_name: Application Name
    api_key: <api key>
    secret_key: <secret key>
    oauth_user_token: <oauth user token>
    oauth_user_secret: <oauth user secret>

Basic Usage

See /LinkedinImporterBundle/DefaultController.php for examples

Requesting User Permissions

$importer = $this->get('ccc_linkedin_importer.importer');
$profileToRetrieve = 'https://www.linkedin.com/in/Profile-ID/';
$callbackUrl = $this->generateUrl('callback', ['url' => $profileToRetrieve], UrlGeneratorInterface::ABSOLUTE_URL);
$importer->setRedirect($callbackUrl);
return $importer->requestPermission('basic');

Getting an access token

$accessToken = $importer->requestAccessToken();

Pulling user data

Private profile data

$profile_data = $importer->requestUserData('private', $access_token);

Public profile data

$profile_url = 'http://linkedin.com/someones-profile';
$profileData = $importer->requestUserData('public', $accessToken);