PHP and REST API - Retrieving Company Updates

Question

I'm actually working on displaying my company updates as a feed on my website.

I've created an App on LinkedIn and I'm able to get my security token and list info related to my profile by using the : "https://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/ME".

However, when I'm trying to retrieve my company updates using a GET call on : "https://api.linkedin.com/v1/companies/".$company_id."/updates". I'm getting a :

"Member does not have permission to get company." in the HTTP response message.

Configuration set :

I'm correctly listed as Admin on my company's page
"rw_company_admin" is enabled on my LinkedIn App
My App status is set to "Live"
My company ID is the correct one (I've double checked already)
My token is properly issued and I'm correctly identified by the app

Here is the code I'm using in the PHP method to get the updates :

public function getCompanyUpdates($company_id, $start=0,$count = 20){
		if(!$company_id)return false;
		$params['url'] = "https://api.linkedin.com/v1/companies/".$company_id."/updates";
		$params['method']='get';
		$params['args']['format']='json';
		if($start != 0 )$params['args']['start']=$start;
		if($count != 0 )$params['args']['count']=$count;
		$params['args']['event-type']='status-update';
		$result =  $this->makeRequest($params);
		return json_decode($result,true);
	}

I'm probably missing a step somewhere, but I've no idea where..

In advance, thanks a lot for your help!!

Here is an additional info, I'm also passing the scopes during the "getAuthorizeUrl" with this code : $scope = array('rw_company_admin','r_basicprofile','r_emailaddress','w_share'); $connect_link = $LIOAuth->getAuthorizeUrl($client_id,$redirect_url,$scope); — R. Couturier

R. Couturier R. Couturier · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-24T08:21:05

I fixed the error some weeks ago, but forgot to post the answer that fixes the issue.

My errors : - At first, I forgot to pass the scope while requesting the Token - After fixing this, I forgot to re-issue a new Token to get the scope applied

To conclude, it was just an oversight from me.

However, the LinkedIn API is a bit shitty, as it requires to refresh the Token periodically. It should be simplified when we only want to list Public updates that everyone can access.

Cheers

PHP and REST API - Retrieving Company Updates

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