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Asked: 2026-06-18T11:46:34+00:00

I’m having trouble setting up a connection to Linkedin Api using Spring Social. I

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I’m having trouble setting up a connection to Linkedin Api using Spring Social.

I am passing the “scope” variable “r_emailaddress” as a hidden field with the form to retrieve the email address but it’s not working – I don’t see the email_address permission like you do here. https://developer.linkedin.com/sites/default/files/gp-dialog.png

I am following the Spring Social Showcase Application Example. I should add, the Social Application there is no hidden scope field.

It works fine with Facebook.

Form

<form name="linkedinin_signin" id="linkedin_signin" action="${linkedin_uri}" method="POST">
    <input type="hidden" name="scope" value="r_basicprofile, r_emailaddress" />
    <input type="image" src="${linkedin_img_uri}" />
</form>
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  1. Editorial Team

    It is correct that LinkedIn is an OAuth 1.0a provider and that the “scope” parameter is non-standard with regard to OAuth 1.0(a). Therefore, Spring Social did not recognize the scope parameter for OAuth 1.0(a) providers.

    However, you may be interested to know that yesterday I pushed a change to Spring Social that will allow any arbitrary parameter to be passed along to the request token URL and the authorization URL…including the “scope” parameter. This change, being relatively new, is only available in the latest 1.1.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT builds, but will soon make an appearance in 1.1.0.M2. This should address your need.

    You may also want to look at the Spring Social Showcase example, as it now uses the “scope” parameter to request “r_emailaddress” scope when a user connects to LinkedIn.

    I’d appreciate any feedback you have on this change, preferably as comments to https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SOCIAL-349 or in the Spring Social forum at http://forum.springsource.org/forumdisplay.php?82-Social. (I do not monitor questions on StackOverflow nearly as often as I do on the Spring Social forum.)

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