Omniauth with Linkedin in Rails to Post Updates

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I have an application using OmniAuth for authenticating with a variety of social networking services (including Linkedin) and want to post updates. I have the following information on a user from omniauth:

linkedin_verifier: ****
linkedin_token: *****
linkedin_secret: *****
linkedin_url: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/*****

But can't figure out how to use it to post. I've taken a look at: https://github.com/pengwynn/linkedin, but it requires a request token and request secret (I seem to only have the response token and response secret) that I don't get from omniauth. Any ideas?

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ruby-on-railsrubylinkedinomniauth

2 Answers

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votes

Have you tried authorize_from_access using the token and secret you get after omniauth?

client = LinkedIn::Client.new('your_consumer_key', 'your_consumer_secret') client.authorize_from_access(linkedin_token, linkedin_secret)

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from the link (https://github.com/pengwynn/linkedin) I found this,

You need to get your api keys first, create a client with them and then you will get your request token and response.

#get your api keys at https://www.linkedin.com/secure/developer

client = LinkedIn::Client.new('your_consumer_key', 'your_consumer_secret')

rtoken = client.request_token.token

rsecret = client.request_token.secret