LinkedIn may ban your account if you use this library. Although I can't un-ban your account, please open an issue against this repository if this happens to you. So far, I've only seen this happen while I was trying to get the login-flow correct.
Also note that LinkedIn seems to be requiring all IP addresses originating from cloud servers to have to go through additional "challenge" tasks in order to login.
import
yarn add linkedin-voyageruse
import { API, MessageDetails } from 'linkedin-voyager';
const api = new API('email@domain.com');
// You don't actually need to provide a password if you've enabled cookie persistence in
// the 'config' object passed to 'API' assuming it has a valid, non-expired sesssion.
api.setPassword('password1');
// Configure the SDK to echo all messages sent to the account back to the sender.
// This method returns a closure that you can call to remove the listener.
const close = await api.messaging.messages((message: MessageDetails) =>
api.messaging.sendToConversation(
`Stupid says "${message.body}"`,
message.conversationId,
),
);
// Wait one hour and then close the stream.
setTimeout(close, 60 * 60 * 1000);Adding additional API methods is easy but here's what I have so far:
- Send/receive messages
- Send/receive message receipts and message typing indicators
- Query for current conversations
- Query for current user identifiers
Other cool things which may persuade you to use this SDK instead of its competitors:
- Fully working login flow
- Session resumption
- Cookie persistence
- Compatible with node and browsers
- Realtime connections
- Connection reuse
- Typescript safe
- Ephemeral password usage
The SDK does not persist passwords. Provided passwords are maintained in memory.
If you work for LinkedIn, please consider opening your official OAuth-based API for non-partnered developers. This would be ideal for all parties: Clients don't have to provide passwords, LinkedIn can govern fine-grain ACLs and rate limits, and developers would get a better experience. It would also be great if LinkedIn provided a realtime/eventstream endpoint to the official API surface so that developers don't have to resort to shortpolling.
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Inspired by https://github.com/tomquirk/linkedin-api/