Linkedin Connection API failed

Question

I use the REST console to run LinkedIn APIs to collect connections' public profile URL.

For example, in Service, I select "Get My connections", Authentication "OAuth 2" If I try the following request it is OK:

https://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/~/connections:(public-profile-url)?start=0&count=4000&modified=updated

Since I have more than 20K connections, I have to limit the count to a number less than 5000. Before, I could run multiple queries to collect the data by changing the start and count parameters. For instance:

start=0&count=4000
start=4001&count=4000
start=8001&count=4000

etc.

However, now, if I put a non-zero number in 'start' parameter, it always returns an internal error (below). How can I resolve this?

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error

mahboudz mahboudz · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-25T10:03:05

I was having a similar problem requesting 500 contacts at a time:

https://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/~/connections:(public-profile-url)?start=0&count=500&modified=updated

And last week that started giving me the same 500 Internal Server Error.

I reduced the count to 100 and it started working again. 250 works too.

https://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/~/connections:(public-profile-url)?start=0&count=100&modified=updated

Linkedin Connection API failed

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