LinkedIn Application Development Series (1)

SNS websites are not popular on the Internet outside China. Every name is well-known: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, MySpace, Flickr and LinkedIn.

Recently, I have been engaged in the development of overseas mobile phone apps for these websites, including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. I was looking for some domestic materials, but I really couldn't. There were few (possible reasons for being banned ). This is because LinkedIn was just created during this period of time. When the time is blank, record it with rough text and paste it.CodeHope you can give me a reference.

LinkedIn is an excellent white-collar SNS Social Network website and a social network service website for commercial customers. The purpose of this website is to enable registered users to maintain the contacts they know and trust in their business dealings. These people are called "acquaintances" and users can invite people they know to become acquaintances. This website is suitable for business people such as professional white-collar workers, especially enterprise employees or freelancers with international business. Development with this demand is developed in response to the requirements of operators in some countries in the Middle East.

Currently, LinkedIn does not have any development manuals or sdks in Chinese versions. (You may be too lazy to find them ).

I wrote a bunch of nonsense words and turned around.

According to the official description, the authentication methods are basically the same as those of Facebook and Flickr.

1. First of all to apply for an API key (in fact, is used with secret key, the application omitted) address is: https://www.linkedin.com/secure/developer

2. the flowchart of the authentication document can be posted.

 

We can simplify the complex steps of the official website and simply sum up the steps below.

1.Obtain the request token.RequestThe https://api.linkedin.com/uas/oauth/requestToken gets the request token.

2.Authorization(Authorized) Request toekn.After obtaining the request Token, you must authorize(Authorized)Before access. The verification code is also required.Verifier,The authorization address is: HTtps: // api.linkedin.com/uas/oauth/authorize? Oauth_token =Request token

3. PassAuthorizedRequest token and then obtain the permission operationAccess Token. WhenThe request token has been obtained. Note that this is only a request token.Https://api.linkedin.com/uas/oauth/accesstokenrequestObtain the access token of an operation permission.

4. Create an API requestProgram: After obtaining the access token, we can basically use the requestHttps://api.linkedin.com/v1/people /~ This address is used to operate member information.

The outline is simplified. The detailed development and parameters are to be started in the next chapter.

Next articleArticleIs to implement the first step of the function through the program,Obtain the request token.