Ezlinkedin
A simple way to make calls on Linkedin's API. NOTE: It is not yet completed and does not encompass all of the api at this time. It serves the purpose I made it for but I will continue to develop it.
This is heavily inspired and influenced by the pengwynn/linkedin gem. I was having issues with his gem though and there is very little documentation for using it so I decided to redo it myself in order to:
- Make it work for what I needed
- Add precise and useful documentation
- learn the api
Most of the tests are from pengwynn's gem
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'ezlinkedin'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install ezlinkedin
Usage
This is meant to be used alongside omniauth. Obtain access tokens from omniauth authentication and then use them to make api calls.
require 'ezlinkedin'
# Create a client
linkedin = EzLinkedin::Client.new("API KEY", "SECRET KEY", options) # options are the typical OAuth consumer options
linkedin.authorize("access_token", "access_token_secret") # tokens obtained from omniauth
# make calls on linkedin
linkedin.profile(id: 1234, fields: ['name', 'email']
linkedin.connections(count: 30)
linkedin.network_updates(types: [:shar, :prfx, :conn], count: 50)
linkedin.post_share({:comment => "I'm a comment",
:content => { :title => "A title!",
:description => "A description",
:submitted_url => "http...",
:submitted_image_url => "http..." },
:visibility => { :code => "anyone"} })
linkedin.search(company: ['id', 'name'], keywords: 'apple')
linkedin.search(people: ['first-name', 'id'], last_name: 'johnson')
Currently, one can:
- post shares
- retrieve network updates, user profile, and connections
- search for companies and people
- join groups
TODO
I'd really like to include the facets capabilities in the search because it would really boost search efficiency.
This gem fits the purposes I had for it and I'm satisfied. Besides implementing Faceted search, I don't plan on implementing other features at this point. But feel free to contribute
Contributing
- Fork it
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature
) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature'
) - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature
) - Create new Pull Request