I did not understand what you meant by:

oauth_token = request.GET.get('oauth_verifier')

oauth_verifier = request.GET.get('oauth_verifier')

I know that is I input the auth_url on the browser while I´m logged on I can get the outh verifier number, but how can I do this programatically? I´m sorry if this sounds dumb, I´m relatively new in Python

Hello Michael

1. README.md states that for installation, you have to run pip install linkedin -- however if someone wishes to add scope to the request, in version 0.1.2, permissions is not part of LinkedinAPI::init() property list. To fix this, I added a minor text change in the README.md file. The user should now call, pip install linkedin==0.1.3. I noted that when I called pip install linkedin after someone else had bumped the version 0.1.3, pip was still installing version 0.1.2.
2. When trying to retrieve a requestToken and then accessToken, we were doing this by 'GET' method. However, documentation in http://developer.linkedin.com/documents/authentication states that these calls need to be of type 'POST'. -- I think there is a previous Pull Request with this change by evandekieft
3. While revising how to implement authentication with Linkedin, I noticed that the documentation on http://developer.linkedin.com/documents/authentication stated that the authorize url is: https//www.linkedin.com/uas/oauth/authenticate?oauth_token=XXXXXXXXX. I also notice a very strange behavior when using the aus/oauth/authorize link, it kept asking me to "Allow access" even though I had given access rights to the application. After switching to the url specified in documentation, I was requested to "Allow access" once, and thereafter, it would just redirect me to the correct authenticated callback url stated in the application callback url field.

Thanks, -e

The most important thing is function: get_access_token, since LinkedIn complains about the missing parameter oauth_token when sending the POST request

During importing the LinkedinAPI class from your package, it throws an error

from urlparse import parse_qsl
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'urlparse'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/andrew/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/linkedin.py", line 13, in <module>
    from cgi import parse_qsl
ImportError: cannot import name 'parse_qsl' from 'cgi' (/usr/lib/python3.8/cgi.py)

I was wondering if you could resolve these problems with your imports.

Would be nice to return the status code from linkedin when an exception is raised. https://github.com/rossdeane/linkedin/commit/82543502de1c9757c6e9a6195418480ebb9f7f7d

Hi Michael,

I ran into an issue in using this library to call the requestToken endpoint with an oauth_callback URL that itself contains parameters. Since the existing code is just doing a GET against the requestToken endpoint and appending oauth_callback as a URL parameter, when the callback URL itself has parameters, they get mixed up. So one fix would just be to percent-encode this; but since the LinkedIn Authentication docs suggest POST is the preferable method, I updated the code to send the oauth_callback in the POST body instead, and this works for me now.

By the way, ignore the other pull request I sent before, this one replaces it.

Hi Michael,

I ran into an issue in using this library when passing an oauth_callback URL that itself contains parameters. The requestToken endpoint was being hit with a GET and the callback URL was simply appended; but when the callback URL itself contains parameters, this doesn't work properly. One could percent-encode the callback URL but since the LinkedIn Authentication docs suggest POST is the preferred method, I just do that instead. This fixed the issue for me.

I'm trying to get the final_oauth_token and secret and in initiating the linkedin class the oauth_token_secret is defined as so: oauth_token_secret=session['linkedin_session_keys']['oauth_token_secret'] I must be missing something or not understanding it, but session doesn't seem to be defined anywhere. Or maybe it doesn't work now because it was last modified years ago. Please clarify.

In Linkediin package:

How to get this - oauth_token_secret = session['linkedin_session_keys']['oauth_token_secret']) ?

from where do we get linkedin _session_keys ?

Without this geting an error when obtaining final tokens

Can any one help me in this regard?

This improves the error handling a bit, so errors can easier be introspected when they happen. This is to have better error handling for know cases, f.ex. expired tokens.