Get my own full profile with LinkedIn API

Question

For testing purposes, I'd like to get my own full profile datas from LinkedIn API.

So far my code looks like this :

// Fill the keys and secrets you retrieved after registering your app
    $oauth = new OAuth("APIKEY", "SECRETKEY");
    $oauth->setToken("Token OAuth", "Secret User OAuth");
    $oauth->disableSSLChecks();

    $params = array();
    $headers = array();
    $method = OAUTH_HTTP_METHOD_GET;

    // Specify LinkedIn API endpoint to retrieve your own profile
    $url = "https://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/~:(first-name,last-name,headline,location:(name),skills:(name),educations:(id,school-name,field-of-study))?format=json";

    // By default, the LinkedIn API responses are in XML format. If you prefer JSON, simply specify the format in your call
    // $url = "https://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/~?format=json";

    // Make call to LinkedIn to retrieve your own profile
    $oauth->fetch($url, $params, $method, $headers);

    $oProfile = json_decode($oauth->getLastResponse());

    var_dump($oProfile);

Although I am getting basic profile informations (firstName,headline etc...) but when it comes to full profile informations I get an object with '...' as value everytime, although the informations exist.

I have r_fullprofile ticked in my LinkedIn app interface, so I don't know what I have to do to get these values.

Answer 1

I tried your query with my own account. It looks you issue is with the skills field.

You can see in the LinkedIn API documentation that skills are made up of a skill, and each skill has a name. If you only want the name returned the proper way to ask for it is skills:(skill:(name)) , whereas your request asks for skills:(name) .

Here is an updated request for you:

GET https://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/~:(first-name,last-name,headline,location:(name),skills:(skill:(name)),educations:(id,school-name,field-of-study))?format=json