To allow Socital to connect to LinkedIn on your behalf, to extract User Data, authenticate users and offer its other services to you, you need to connect to your Socital Account the LinkedIn app which you are using for LinkedIn Login.
Step 1: Get your LinkedIn App ID and App Secret
1. Go to LinkedIn Developers platform.
2. Login to your LinkedIn account.
3. Click “My Apps” and choose the App you would like to connect to your Socital Account.
4. On the “Authentication”tab of your App’s Dashboard, you can see the App ID and App Secret.
5. Under “Default Application Permissions” check the “r_basicprofile” and “r_emailaddress” boxes.
6. Under “OAuth 2.0 – Authorized redirected URLs” add Socital’s callback URL: https://plugin.socital.com/api/v1/auth/callback and click “Add”.
7. Click “Update”.
Step 2: Add your LinkedIn App ID and Secret to your Socital Account
5. Login to your Socital Dashboard.
6. Open the drop-down menu in the top right corner and choose “Account Settings”.
7. From the left-hand menu open the “Connect Social Apps” tab.
8. Click on “Connect a LinkedIn Application”.
9. In the pop-up enter your Linkedin Application Name, your LinkedIn Client ID in the “Application Key field” and your LinkedIn Client Secret in the “Application Secret field” and click on “Connect”.
10. You should see a Success message in the popup.
11. You can now see the connected LinkedIn App in the list of your Connected Social Media apps.
