[Plugin: LinkedIn SC] How to show "extra fields"

Hi,

Thanks for your comment. Can you provide me with the detailed list of the extra fields you need to be added ?

Best regards,

Guillaume.

Dear Guillaume,

I would be very happy to see the following fields also:
* languages,
* skills and
* publications.
The first two would be more important.
As I was reading about the issue, I see, that the solution could be a bit complicated, as these fields are not part of the public profile (as I see). That means: to get the values, you/we must use the linkedb Api, which requires a sophisticated authentication and Api code on every WordPress portal.
I might be wrong.

Best regards,
Gergely

Hi Gergely,

That’s what I was afraid of: this information is not on the public profile. Developing such a functionality will require quite a lot more work and, for now, I don’t have enough free time to do it.

However, if you’re interested in writing some code to do it, please feel free to do so and send me your modifications, I will happily send your changes to the repository.

Best regards,

Guillaume

Hi Guillaume,

thanks for fast answer. I am afraid of I could not manage to do the modifications unfortunately.
A simpler method could be parsing public (or public with link) profiles on https://resume.linkedinlabs.com/, after a user had authenticated linkedinlabs to fetch these fields by Api and also setting in a variable the url to his/her ResumeBuilder profile.
Coding that option would be a lot less work than fetching the fields via Api, I will see if I manage to code it.

Best regards,
Gergely

Hi Guillaume,

I have just seen that you implemented tha linkedin API on your really great plugin. That sounds really great, thank you!

I had done some testing, but unfortunatelly I could not manage to make your plugin work with the API, which is definitely a user error made by me.

I signed up for an API key and set it in the plugin’s option menu, but private fields are not shown, also not fetched and the example script you posted on the description page shows only the fileds on my homepage.

I have tested the ‘linkedin_api_test.php’ also in your lib directory, also ‘linkedin_api_profile.php’ but I get a php error:

require_once(): Failed opening required ‘/home/***/public_html/wp-content/plugins/linkedin-sc/lib/linkedin_profile/linkedin_3.0.1.class.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear’) in /home/***/public_html/wp-content/plugins/linkedin-sc/lib/linkedin_profile/linkedin_api_profile.php on line 18

which seems to me that the plugin requires linkedin_3.0.1.class.php which cannot be found in the plugin directory. Do I miss something?

Best regards,
Gergely

Hi Gergely,

It was not a user error :-). It was my bad, an error in my last commit. I updated the plugin to version 1.1.1 and it should now work.

Let me know if you still encounter problems.

Also, if you don’t mind, I’m trying to push LinkedIn to add a documentation concerning the Javascript API. If you can help me by adding a message saying you’re waiting for the same functionality here: https://developer.linkedin.com/thread/2306?start=15&tstart=0 I would greatly appreciate it.

Best regards,

Guillaume.

Hi Guillaume,

thank you for fast answer and precious support, I will be able to check your plugin in the afternoon.
I wrote a short message on the forum you posted, I hope a public documentation will be available soon!

Best regards,
Gergely

Hi,

Thanks for the message on the LinkedIn forum. I wrote a quick tutorial here: https://www.viguierjust.com/en/2011/02/07/using-linkedin-sc-with-linkedin-api/

Best regards,

Guillaume.