Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: python-linkedin
Version: 4.1
Summary: Python Interface to the LinkedIn API
Home-page: http://ozgur.github.com/python-linkedin/
Author: Ozgur Vatansever
Author-email: ozgurvt@gmail.com
License: MIT
Description: Python LinkedIn
        =================
        
        Python interface to the LinkedIn API
        
        This library provides a pure Python interface to the LinkedIn **Profile**, **Group**, **Company**, **Jobs**, **Search**, **Share**, **Network** and **Invitation** REST APIs.
        
        `LinkedIn <http://developer.linkedin.com>`_ provides a service that lets people bring their LinkedIn profiles and networks with them to your site or application via their OAuth based API. This library provides a lightweight interface over a complicated LinkedIn OAuth based API to make it for python programmers easy to use.
        
        Installation
        --------------------
        
        You can install **python-linkedin** library via pip:
        
        .. code-block:: bash
        
            $ pip install python-linkedin
        
        Authentication
        -----------------------
        
        LinkedIn REST API uses **Oauth 2.0** protocol for authentication. In order to use the LinkedIn API, you have an **application key** and **application secret**. You can get more detail from `here <http://developers.linkedin.com/documents/authentication>`_.
        
        For debugging purposes you can use the credentials below. It belongs to my test application. Nothing's harmful.
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
            KEY = 'wFNJekVpDCJtRPFX812pQsJee-gt0zO4X5XmG6wcfSOSlLocxodAXNMbl0_hw3Vl'
            SECRET = 'daJDa6_8UcnGMw1yuq9TjoO_PMKukXMo8vEMo7Qv5J-G3SPgrAV0FqFCd0TNjQyG'
        
        
        LinkedIn redirects the user back to your website's URL after granting access (giving proper permissions) to your application. We call that url **RETURN URL**. Assuming your return url is **http://localhost:8000**, you can write something like this:
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
            from linkedin import linkedin
        
            API_KEY = "wFNJekVpDCJtRPFX812pQsJee-gt0zO4X5XmG6wcfSOSlLocxodAXNMbl0_hw3Vl"
            API_SECRET = "daJDa6_8UcnGMw1yuq9TjoO_PMKukXMo8vEMo7Qv5J-G3SPgrAV0FqFCd0TNjQyG"
            RETURN_URL = "http://localhost:8000"
            authentication = linkedin.LinkedInAuthentication(API_KEY, API_SECRET, RETURN_URL, linkedin.PERMISSIONS.enums.values())
            print authentication.authorization_url
            application = linkedin.LinkedInApplication(authentication)
        
        When you grant access to the application, you will be redirected to the return url with the following query strings appended to your **RETURN_URL**:
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
            "http://localhost:8000/?code=AQTXrv3Pe1iWS0EQvLg0NJA8ju_XuiadXACqHennhWih7iRyDSzAm5jaf3R7I8&state=ea34a04b91c72863c82878d2b8f1836c"
        
        
        This means that the value of the **authorization_code** is **AQTXrv3Pe1iWS0EQvLg0NJA8ju_XuiadXACqHennhWih7iRyDSzAm5jaf3R7I8**. After setting it by hand, we can call the **.get_access_token()** to get the actual token.
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
            authentication.authorization_code = "AQTXrv3Pe1iWS0EQvLg0NJA8ju_XuiadXACqHennhWih7iRyDSzAm5jaf3R7I8"
            authentication.get_access_token()
        
        
        After you get the access token, you are now permitted to make API calls on behalf of the user who granted access to you app. In addition to that, in order to prevent from going through the OAuth flow for every consecutive request,
        one can directly assign the access token obtained before to the application instance.
        
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
            application = linkedin.LinkedInApplication(token='AQTFtPILQkJzXHrHtyQ0rjLe3W0I')
        
        
        Quick Usage From Python Interpreter
        ---------------------------------------------------------
        
        For testing the library using an interpreter, use the quick helper.
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
            from linkedin import server
            application = server.quick_api(KEY, SECRET)
        
        This will print the authorization url to the screen. Go into this URL using a browser, after you login, the method will return with an API object you can now use.
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
            application.get_profile()
        
        
        More
        -----------------
        For more information, visit the `homepage <http://ozgur.github.com/python-linkedin/>`_ of the project.
        
Keywords: linkedin python
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
Classifier: Environment :: Console
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
Classifier: Natural Language :: English
