Linkedin OAuth errors and making Comments - how have you overcome them?

[turk182]

GOAL: I want to COMMENT as my organization on Linkedin posts that mention my organization.
STATUS: Stuck at the Make a Comment step.
DONE THUS FAR:

• I’ve built the scenario to find the posts and generate appropriate replies.
• I’ve applied for and been granted the permissions for the linkedin Advertising API for w_organization_social and r_organization_social scopes that should let me comment.
• I’ve made a module that lets me POST as my organization successfully to verify permissions

PROBLEM
I’m unable via Make.com modules to make comment. The errors I get seem to be about PERMISSIONS. SO I’m trying to connect with permissions but I’m not sure what module to use to do so.

• Linkedin Make an API call - seems to fail because authentication requires a www.linkedin.com URL and the module uses api.linkedin.com for all calls.
• Generic HTTP module for Oauth 2.0 - I’m unable to Make a Connection but not clear why

If you have been able to set youself up as PERSON and make comments - please share how you did it – in case it’s that I’m trying to post as ORGANIZATION - however the API documentation suggests I need to post as my Org.

If you’ve been able to set your ORG up to make comments - please let me know which module you were using, and any settings that were tricky.

Help is much appreciated. Thank you.

[samliew]

Welcome to the Make community!

You’ll need to set up a new LinkedIn connection with the correct scopes, before the connection can be used to create a comment.

For more information, see “Access to Social Actions APIs”.

Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues. P.S.: investing some effort into the tutorials in the Make Academy will save you lots of time and frustration using Make!

— @samliew

[turk182]

Hi, Yes, I’ve been doing Academy courses. The Linkedin API documentation is confusing. Apparently I need to make a new app on the Linkedin API solely for applying for access to the COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT API. If they grant access, then I can add Social Actions APIs to OTHER apps. Quite buried in documentation and clarified with help of LInkedin help team.

If anyone else has found a way around that - please let me know. I’m awaiting approval for that new app with the Community Management API - but to get approval you have to click a link that comes over email to your business email and both times its come after 1am when I’m not online and the application is rejected before I wake up. I’ve sent then a support ticket - TBD.

Thanks!