<p>Do you know if it's possible to build an application for the LinkedIn platform?</p>

[{'answer_id': 40973, 'author': 'Jim McKeeth', 'author_id': 255, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/255', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Yes, Linkedin has an API:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href="http://www.programmableweb.com/api/linkedin" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.programmableweb.com/api/linkedin</a></li>\n<li><a href="http://blog.linkedin.com/blog/2007/12/the-intelligent.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://blog.linkedin.com/blog/2007/12/the-intelligent.html</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>So you could build an application that uses it.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Update:</strong> (<a href="http://blog.linkedin.com/blog/2007/12/the-intelligent.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">from second link</a>)</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>We’ll be phasing all of this in over the coming months and to get involved with the Intelligent Application Platform either for APIs, widgets, or hosted applications, send us an e-mail to <strong><em>developers@linkedin.com</em></strong> telling us what you want to build and what you need to build it.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Since there are published Mashups using LinkedIn I would assume that means you can use the API even if the documentation isn\'t readily available.</p>\n\n<p>As a tip, in the future include links to what you found that didn\'t work, so we know not to give it to you again.</p>\n\n<p>I poked around a bit more and I found some <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=developers_widgets&amp;trk=hb_ft_widgets" rel="nofollow noreferrer">more on their widgets</a> which appears to be the main focus of their API.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 41015, 'author': 'Ryan Farley', 'author_id': 1627, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1627', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>While LinkedIn has promised a public API for a very long time now, they have yet to deliver.  </p>\n\n<p>No, there is no <strong>public</strong> LinkedIn API yet.   </p>\n\n<p>IMO, their widgets (which there are only two of at the moment, which are very limited) don\'t count.  </p>\n\n<p>They say that they are open to being contacted with specific uses for their API and they may give access to parts as needed - but that is if they accept your ideas for integration. They have been very picky with this - and have not accepted my attempts to integrate with LinkedIn yet, they tell me I have to wait with everyone else, apparently my applications are not "high-profile" enough.  </p>\n\n<p>Sure, you\'ll find many Google results talking about their "promised" API, but they are empty promises and won\'t be of much help. </p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 1778672, 'author': 'David Rabinowitz', 'author_id': 82804, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/82804', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Yes, they have API at <a href="http://developer.linkedin.com/index.jspa" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://developer.linkedin.com/index.jspa</a>, allowing access to the profile, connections, messaging and more.</p>\n'}]
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