Linkedin How to get email addresses of connections

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Riz picture Riz · Sep 21, 2012 · Viewed 9.2k times · Source

I am adding 'Invite a Friend' on my website, for that I have planned to included email grabber. I have tried http://openinviter.com/demo/ but you can see its not working for Linkedin, its mentioned on that demo page too.

How can I grab Email Addresses of LinkedIn Connections ? Preferably in PHP.

Answer

Paul Mennega picture Paul Mennega · Sep 21, 2012

For connections, you can only grab the most basic profile fields, which does not include email address:

For 1st and 2nd degree connections, you may only retrieve profile fields available with the r_basicprofile member permission

https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/connections-api

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