How to use facets and values with linkedin gem

Question

I am using the linkedin gem and trying to pull second degree connections only. This is said to be done by using the people search api and the network,S facet. S is for "Second degree connections."

The problem is that the documentation explains doing this with something like:

GET http://api.linkedin.com/v1/people-search?facet=network,S

I am using the linkedin gem so I tried doing something like:

client.search( { :facets => [:network, :S] }, :people )

but I get a (400): Unknown facet code {network+S}

If I change it to client.search({ facets: ["network,S"] }, :people),

I get (400): Unknown facet code {S}

If I just do client.search( { :facets => [:network] }, :people ), it returns all connections. with codes F,S,A, and O.

Any help here?

Also, when it does return, it only returns 10 or so. I saw a way to paginate through but then I have too many api calls. Is there a way to pull them all in one call?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Linkedin no longer supports retrieval of second level connections.

Check out this post: Retrieve second level contacts LinkedIn API