LinkedIn is still lacking a public API in spite of several announcements in 2007 and 2008 (they even confirmed OpenSocial support but so far did not deliver anything).
However, I think there are some opportunities to emulate a light-weight LinkedIn API using Drupal. Imagine asking your users to provide their LinkedIn username in their drupal profiles. You could then parse their public profile pages (eg using FeedAPI) and store their current work positions, experiences etc. in a custom content type (CCK) that you link to the user profile. The only coding needed to accomplish this is a custom parser for linkedin profile pages, but I guess using XPath or hResume this wouldn't be too difficult.
Is anyone interested in something like this? We are thinking to implement this functionality and would like some feedback on this.
Source: http://groups.drupal.org/node/18180
However, I think there are some opportunities to emulate a light-weight LinkedIn API using Drupal. Imagine asking your users to provide their LinkedIn username in their drupal profiles. You could then parse their public profile pages (eg using FeedAPI) and store their current work positions, experiences etc. in a custom content type (CCK) that you link to the user profile. The only coding needed to accomplish this is a custom parser for linkedin profile pages, but I guess using XPath or hResume this wouldn't be too difficult.
Is anyone interested in something like this? We are thinking to implement this functionality and would like some feedback on this.
Source: http://groups.drupal.org/node/18180
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