Introduction

PyLinkedIn is a simple interface to the LinkedIn OAuth system. Right now it supports fetching all of your "connections" (your contacts) and getting your status.

Quick Start

A great introduction to using pylinkedin (Thanks to Raymond Yee for providing this): http://blog.mashupguide.net/2010/02/05/linkedin-api-python-step-1/

Slightly Less Quick Start

• Download http://pylinkedin.googlecode.com/files/pylinkedin-0.01.tar.bz2
• Install python oauth from here http://oauth.googlecode.com/svn/code/python/
• from linkedin import LinkedIn
• get request token: LinkedIn.getRequestToken(key, secret)
• get authorization url: LinkedIn.getAuthorizeUrl(requestToken), redirect user to the page.
• LinkedIn will redirect to the page you have on file with them, save the verifier they send.
• After redirect: get access token: LinkedIn.getAccessToken(requestToken, verifier)

Get all Connections for current user

``` li = LinkedIn(API_KEY, SECRET_KEY) connections = li.connections_api.getMyConnections(access_token)

for c in connections: # Access c.firstname, c.lastname, etc. Sorry, no encapsulation... ```

Get status for current user

status = li.status_api.getMyStatus(access_token)