Unofficial LinkedIn Profile API
I have been foaming at the mouth since I read this post about a LinkedIn API. (For the none techie - an API gives you the ability to grab information from LinkedIn and pull that data in to another website, plus a whole lot more). However, so far LinkedIn has yet to deliver anything I can use.
On the bright side, I think LinkedIn’s decision to utilize Google’s OpenSocial platform, will ultimately bring my dreams data freedom to fruition. But being the impatient person that I am, I can wait no longer. And ultimately, I have decided to take matters in to my own fingers and write a LinkedIn Public Profile API.
Let’s use my LinkedIn Profile as an example:
Public LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brandoncorbin
LinkedIn API XML Profile: http://jobfu.org/brandoncorbin-asxml
The Result is an XML document containing all of the information from the Users public profile, as well as the last 10 blog posts (if the user supplied a “My Blog” or “My RSS Feed”).
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This is awesome. I’ve been wanting to do the same for a while now too (I am also very impatient for the official LinkedIn API to go public).
Thanks.