Linkedin Sign-in Playground

This is a simple flask app that shows how linkedin authentication and get_profile endpoint works.

This was made for educational purpuses, DO NOT use this in production, I know it looks good, but this wasn't made with that in mind.

How to use this?

How to install

Pre-requisites

• You need a Linkedin account in order to:
• Create an app in order to:
• Get CONSUMER_KEY and the CONSUMER_SECRET
• NOTE: As the return url for oauth, this app expects it to be http://localhost:8000/login

Once you have that:

$ git clone # this repo
$ mkvirtualenv linkedin_signin
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Then pick your poison.

In the browser (Recommended)

# Make sure you have all the environment variables you need:
# CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET

$ python app.py

# Open your browser http://localhost:8000 and follow the steps :)

In the console

# Make sure you have all the environment variables you need:
# CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET

$ python linkedin_auth.py

# This will open your browser with a page so you can input your linkedin
# credentials, after that you will be redirected to a url that hopefully
# returns a 404, copy the value of the GET parameter "code" and paste in
# the console (the script will prompt you for it).
# After that, an access_token will be spit out, copy that and use it as
# the environment variable ACCESS_TOKEN and run the next script:

$ python linkedin_get_profile

Note: The output will be in json, so feel free to use a tool to pretty print it.

Recommended documentation:

• Linkedin Profile Fields
• In case you don't know Flask