Using web2py's sample classes as a reference and a lot of code written by Ozgur Vatansever I have written code to OAuth into LinkedIn (built on gluon.contrib.login_methods.oauth10a_account)
This enables access to a contact's name, job title, photo & company as well as details about their connections. It can also send messages to their LinkedIn account. Alas I find LinkedIn's account quite limiting as it's aimed at enhancing the experience of LinkedIn users during their own sessions and not for providing services when they are not logged in. You're right that no access is given to any of the email addresses of a user but LinkedIn are doing well to protect the value of the service - and as I user I appreciate I can't be spammed. On 14 July 2011 04:32, Luis Goncalves <lgoncal...@gmail.com> wrote: > I didn't. > > But by doing the authentication manually (that is, in an interactive shell), > I was able to connect to linked in. I realized that I wouldn't be able to > get the information that I wanted though (email address - never provided by > linkedin!), so I gave up. > > But the web2py linked-in auth is broken, as far as I can tell. > > The same thing with facebook. I think there are some steps that are just > missing in the web2py implementation. I have a simple script that works > with facebook auth (I can get all the info from a person and their graph on > facebook) -- but I don't know how to integrate that with the web2py auth. > > If you, or anyone else, wants my facebook login script, I can post it. > > Luis. >
