Linkedin get user's connection from id

Question

I am developing an iOS app, I want to integrate linkedin This is how I want to use linked in to my app.

I am logged in from User A account , now I want coonection detail of User B , How to get that detail. I have read on linked in document anout this api

https://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/{id}/connections?modified=new

But this is not working. I am getting this error

**<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<error>
  <status>403</status>
  <timestamp>1426852256729</timestamp>
  <request-id>544WHZL91V</request-id>
  <error-code>0</error-code>
  <message>Access to connections denied</message>
</error>**

Can anyone please advice me on this?

Here I am using FACEBOOK tag to get more people attention this, I need this on immediate basis.

Answer 1

You can only get the first degree connections for authorized users, and the second degree connections - but only with approvel from LinkedIn afaik. And you have to use the People Search API to get second degree connections, it´sa bit more complicated than the Connections API.

More information:

• Linkedin second degree connections API
• https://developer-programs.linkedin.com/documents/connections-api
• https://developer-programs.linkedin.com/documents/people-search-api

If you want to show connections between two users, there is only one way i can think of:

• Both users must authorize your App
• You need to store all their first level connections
• Whenever the user comes back to your App, you need to update the connections
• You can compare the connections directly in your database