How do you get the user ID from the LinkedIn API. Not the vanity id from the URL, but the id that’s used in the share api
I couldn’t find any reliable method of doing so without the target user granting permission to an OAuth app first.
Scraping doesn’t work if the user’s profile is private/not publically visible.
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So say it is for my profile (Which it is), could I use any of the LinkedIn modules to do this? As i think Make.coms LinkedIn OAuth permissions have the right visibility to do so.
Ive callled the GET https://api.linkedin.com/v2/me API (See screenshot of my set up)
but i get the following error:
Input bundle is as follows [
{
“url”: “https://api.linkedin.com/v2/me”,
“method”: “GET”
}
]
Which makes me think headers weren’t mapped to the request
Any ideas as i cant get an OAuth token with the permissions for the me endpoint and hoping there’s something obvious im missing here
I have all the right permissions in my LinkedIn Connection
This is not necessary… Would you kindly read carefully before responding.
Remove the root path of the API, i.e.:
Otherwise the module will call
https://api.linkedin.com/https://api.linkedin.com/v2/me, which is incorrect 
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Brilliant great spot
Got a bit further but now I’m getting a permission error on the shares api
Any ideas?
Shares API seems to be depreciated
To share an organisation post to a personal feed you need to use the new /rest/posts POST API
My body was
{
“author”: “urn:li:person:PERSONID”,
“commentary”: “Sample text Post”,
“visibility”: “PUBLIC”,
“distribution”: {
“feedDistribution”: “MAIN_FEED”,
“targetEntities”: ,
“thirdPartyDistributionChannels”:
},
“lifecycleState”: “PUBLISHED”,
“isReshareDisabledByAuthor”: false,
“reshareContext”: {
“parent”: “INSERT POST URN TO BE SHARED”
}
}
You can get the person id from the /me api
The post URN can be retrieved via the watch posts module
Running the posts API with the following info produces the following output
Wonderful
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Hey there @Ryan_Farren 
,
Just thought I might step in and pat you on the back for the great job you did while figuring out this problem with @samliew’s help. I’m thrilled to see you were able to learn more about the product and come up with a solution! 
Also thank you for stepping back into the community and sharing your solution with us. We greatly appreciate that.
Keep up the amazing work!
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