Question

I use the AppEngine-OAuth-Library to get user information from LinkedIn, but how do I grant for more permissions than the default basic profile.

The LinkedInClient class has this constructer:

OAuthClient.__init__(self,
    LINKEDIN,
    consumer_key,
    consumer_secret,
    "https://api.linkedin.com/uas/oauth/requestToken",
    "https://api.linkedin.com/uas/oauth/accessToken",
    callback_url)

I have tried this instead:

https://api.linkedin.com/uas/oauth/requestToken?scope=r_basicprofile+r_emailaddress

But it gives an Internal Server Error, when I make a request. It works perfect with the default basicprofile request. Some ideas on what is wrong?

Thanks in advance 🙂

Answer 1

You have to give additional params in the oauth.py. Where you put a dictionary with the key ‘Scope’ and the value should be the permission you want. If you want more than 1 permission, make a space in the value like so ‘r_basicprofile r_emailaddress’