Question

I am currently trying to use this gem http://github.com/pengwynn/linkedin. Everything works fine (i.e. authentication and calling the method which gets the profile), except that the profile object only contains the first name and the last name.

I’m trying to get my own profile info through the LinkedIn API, So the necessary information is there. How to do that?

Thank you.

Answer 1

I just found out that in order to get more info rather that first name and last name, one needs to pass in the :fields param specifying the desired fields.

Link LinkedIn into your next Ruby application

Example from the site:

# get a profile for someone found in network via ID
client.profile(:id => 'gNma67_AdI', :fields => %w(first-name, last-name, headline, positions, education))