LinkedIn API Authentication in Alteryx

[kelsey_kincaid]

Hello community,

I've been trying to pull the number of followers by day from LinkedIn's API for a corporate page my team helps manage. I've been stuck at the authentication piece for an embarrassing amount of time and was hoping that someone here might have experience with this. 

I'm trying to use the process described in their API docs here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/shared/authentication/authorization-code-flow?context=link...

I think the primary issue is with the redirects and I'm not sure how to either get around that or accomplish that. Does anyone here have experience with the LinkedIn API in Alteryx?

Thanks in advance.

[TrevorS]

Hello @kelsey_kincaid 

I am not familiar with the LinkedIn API, but are you encountering any error messages or is it just stuck with the Authorization piece?
Have you been able to reach out to anyone from the LinkedIn support team for assistance to see if what you are attempting to do is possible?

From what I have been able to find, connecting to their API can be tricky as they have some pretty serious restrictions in place.

I will keep digging to see if I can find anything else though!
Thanks,
TrevorS

[TrevorS]

@kelsey_kincaid 
I spoke with one of my support team members who said you may have better success in utilizing an existing Python library for LinkedIn’s API.

https://pypi.org/search/?q=LinkedIn

I hope this helps!