Thanks M. I'll look into that but I will need full access to LinkedIn (name, company, contacts)
I'm nearly there it's just the vague error message that had me stumped :) On 9 Oct 2010, at 04:18, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > If you only need authentication you may want to consider using rpx as > shown in this video: > > http://vimeo.com/13485916 > > On Oct 8, 7:36 pm, Carl <[email protected]> wrote: >> I've been following the instructions >> athttp://code.google.com/p/python-linkedin/ >> to add linkedin authentication. I grabbed the latest revision (#20) >> from svn. >> >> I've started by creating a new app (and called it oauth) within web2py >> to keep things simple. >> >> Into default.py I've added the following functions (and I've defined >> my own KEY and SECRET in db.py). When I >> enterhttp://127.0.0.1:8000/oauth/default/linkedin >> I am redirected to the LinkedIn website where I can give permission to >> log in. Once I do that I am redirected >> tohttp://127.0.0.1:8000/oauth/default/profile/ >> Here I can retrieve request.vars.oauth_verifier for a call to >> api.accessToken(). however, the return value is False and a call to >> api.getRequestTokenError() returns "permission_unknown". I can't find >> out what is causing this error. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> def linkedin(): >> RETURN_URL = "http://127.0.0.1:8000/oauth/default/profile/"; >> import gluon.contrib.login_methods.linkedin >> from gluon.contrib.login_methods.linkedin import LinkedIn >> api = LinkedIn(KEY, SECRET, RETURN_URL) >> token = api.requestToken() >> if not api.getRequestTokenError(): >> u = api.getAuthorizeURL(request_token=api.request_token) >> redirect(u) >> return dict(message=T('Hello World'),token=token, >> request_token=api.request_token, >> token_secret=api.request_token_secret) >> >> def profile(): >> oauth_token = request.vars.oauth_token >> oauth_verifier = request.vars.oauth_verifier >> >> RETURN_URL = "http://127.0.0.1:8000/oauth/default/more/"; >> import gluon.contrib.login_methods.linkedin >> from gluon.contrib.login_methods.linkedin import LinkedIn >> api = LinkedIn(KEY, SECRET, RETURN_URL) >> token = api.requestToken() >> result = api.accessToken(verifier=oauth_verifier) >> profile = None >> if result: >> profile = api.GetProfile(url='http://www.linkedin.com/in/ >> carlroach') >> else: >> print api.getRequestTokenError() >> >> return dict(message=T('Profile info'), profile=profile) >> >> def more(): >> return dict(message='more')
