LinkedIn 

LinkedIn is a social networking site designed for the business community. You can use LinkedIn as a data source when landing or replicating data.

The following APIs and scopes are supported:

• Advertising API

  • Ads (permission: r_ads)

  • Ads Reporting (permission: r_ads_reporting )

• Community Management API

  • Organization (permission: r_organization)

  • Organization admin (permission: r_organization_admin)

  • Members (permission: r_members)

• Lead Sync API

  • Organization admin (permission: r_organization_admin)

  • Ads Lead Generation Automation (permission: r_ads_leadgen_automation)

  • Events Lead Generation Automation (permission: r_events)

• Matched Audiences

  • DMP Segments (permission: rw_dmp_segments)

For more information about the LinkedIn API products and permissions, see API Products and Permissions.

• For more information about connecting to SaaS applications, see Connecting to SaaS applications.

• For more information about Lite connectors, see Classifications for SaaS application connectors.

• Depending on your use case, you might need to install Data Movement gateway to move data from SaaS applications. For more information, see When is Data Movement gateway required?.

Supported update methods

For more information, see An overview of target update methods.

Landing tasks:

• Change data capture (CDC)

• Reload and compare

Replication tasks:

• Change data capture (CDC) using Change Tables

• Full load

Landing data in a data lake tasks:

• Change data capture (CDC)

• Reload

Preparing for authentication

To access your LinkedIn data, you need to authenticate the connection with your account credentials.

Get your client ID and client secret

1. Select your application in the LinkedIn Developer Portal.

2. Click the Auth tab to view your application credentials.

3. Make sure that https://connector.qlik.com/auth/oauth/v3.htm is added as the re-direct URL.

Creating the connection

For more information, see Connecting to SaaS applications.

1. Click Authenticate when you have filled in the required connection settings.

   You may be asked to log in to the source application.

   A window is displayed with an authentication code.

2. Copy the code to the clipboard and return to the connection dialog.

3. Paste the code in Complete authentication with the code provided by the source and click Verify.

   Tip noteYou may need to scroll down to see this field.

   When status is Verified,the authentication is verified.

4. Provide a name for the connection in Connection name.

5. Select Open connection metadata to define metadata for the connection when it has been created.