Linkedin How to get email addresses of connections

Question

I am adding 'Invite a Friend' on my website, for that I have planned to included email grabber. I have tried http://openinviter.com/demo/ but you can see its not working for Linkedin, its mentioned on that demo page too.

How can I grab Email Addresses of LinkedIn Connections ? Preferably in PHP.

Duwe

Answer 1

For connections, you can only grab the most basic profile fields, which does not include email address:

For 1st and 2nd degree connections, you may only retrieve profile fields available with the r_basicprofile member permission

https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/connections-api

Cheshire

It is now possible to get the email field. See my answer. – Altair

Answer 2

At the moment nothin' changed about connections. Only basic profile fields available for connections. I think it is logical that if current member must confirm access to his email separately from his profile fields - the emails of his connections are not confirmed by those members, so they cannot be viewed.

Mickel

Answer 3

LInkedin doesn't provide email address

Monoculture

Answer 4

LinkedIn has started the email address for the new Apps, but still can't use it for your existing LinkedIn Apps.

Oxytocin

They started giving email address in profile API recently, but I am searching for connections :( Still looking for latest updates, don't know if they have email for connections in near future. – Duwe

Answer 5

It looks like apps now have access to the email field, as described here:

https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/profile-fields#email

Note that I haven't used this myself. I was just investigating it because I was spammed by an app used by one of my contacts. If you want to disable this "feature", just click on "Turn on/off data sharing with 3rd party applications" in the "Groups, Companies & Applications" section of the Privacy settings and then untick the box.

Altair

I don't think this has changed - the doc you link to is talking about asking for the authenticating user's email (thus asking for the r_emailaddress permission). Testing the following against the API still returns nothing for email: https://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/~/connections:(id,email-address) – Cheshire

Are you sure you've got the r_emailaddress permission? developer.linkedin.com/forum/… – Altair