Sample Application for LinkedIn APIs

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Overview

Sample Application is a ready-to-use code example that enables you to try out RESTful calls to LinkedIn's APIs. The application provides scalable and customizable code for your requirements as you begin API development with LinkedIn.

The sample application contains the client and server component you can use to manage your requests to LinkedIn's APIs. The server creates and stores your access token and invokes APIs upon request from the client application. You can download or clone the OAuth sample application and try out these APIs.

Note: For a detailed demo, please visit LinkedIn's public documentation page

The sample application uses the following development tools:

Spring Boot: Used as web server framework [https://spring.io/projects/spring-boot]
LinkedIn OAuth 2.0: user authorization and API authentication
Maven: app building and management
Java: SE 7 or later versions are required for development

Prerequisites

Ensure that you have an application registered in LinkedIn Developer Portal. Once you have your application, note down the Client ID and Client Secret
Add http://localhost:8080/login to the Authorized Redirect URLs under the Authentication section
Configure the application build by installing MAVEN using Installing Apache Maven

Configure the application

Configure the client app:

Navigate to the application.properties file. You can find this file under: /client/src/main/resources/application.properties
To edit server link or port with custom values modify the following values:

server.port = <replace_with_required_port_no>

SERVER_URL = <replace_with_required_server_url>
Save the changes.

Configure the server app:

Navigate to the config.properties file. You can find this file under: /server/src/main/resources/config.properties
Edit the following properties in the file with your client credentials:

clientId = <replace_with_client_id>

clientSecret = <replace_with_client_secret>

redirectUri = <replace_with_redirect_url_set_in_developer_portal>

scope = <replace_with_api_scope> client_url = <replace_with_client_url>
Save the changes.

Start the application

To start the server:

Navigate to the server folder.
Open the terminal and run the following command to install dependencies: mvn install
Execute the following command to run the spring-boot server: mvn spring-boot:run

Note: The server will be running on http://localhost:8080/

To start the client:

Navigate to the client folder.
Open the terminal and run the following command to install dependencies: mvn install
Execute the following command to run the spring-boot server: mvn spring-boot:run

Note: The client will be running on http://localhost:8989/

List of dependencies