linkedin-posts 0.0.12

Utility to share Linkedin posts using the Linkedin Marketing API

LinkedIn Posts

Utility to share LinkedIn posts using the LinkedIn Marketing API

Made easy to use in Python.

Installation and Setup

Install with pip

python -m pip install linkedin-posts

Generate LinkedIn's Access Token

The quickest way to get an Access Token is by using the LinkedIn Token generator tool

Usage

Share a post

By the time I am writing this sentence, this is the most useful function of this package.

Share a post by using the function share_post with some arguments.

from linkedin_posts.posts import share_post

response = share_post(
  "<HERE YOUR ACCESS TOKEN>",
  comment="publishing a post",
  author_type="organization",
  author_id="71513925",
)

# Do something with your response object r (http.client.HttpResponse)
# Interesting parameters to check:
# response.getheader("x-restli-id") will return the LinkedIn Post ID
# response.code will return 201 if request proccessed correctly
...

Delete a post

Deleting a post is very straightforward.

Just just need the access token and pass the LinkedIn Post ID.

from linkedin_posts.posts import delete_post

response = delete_post("<HERE YOUR ACCESS TOKEN>", "urn:li:share:7104319981684674560")

# response.code will return 204 if request proccessed correctly

Create a poll post

It is possible to share a post with a poll by using the following code:

from linkedin_posts.polls import share_poll

response = share_poll(
  "<HERE YOUR ACCESS TOKEN>",
  comment="Hello, this is just a test...",
  poll_question="Is this is a nice poll?",
  poll_options=["Yes", "No", "I do not care"],
  author_type="organization",
  author_id="71513925",
)

# do something with response if you need to!

Now go to your LinkedIn page and check your published poll!

Post with media

To create a post with a nice picture you can use this code.

# upload a image
upload_request, image_urn = upload_image(
    "<HERE YOUR ACCESS TOKEN>",
    file="img/nicecv.jpg",
    author_type=author_type,
    author_id=author_id,
)

# create a post with the uploaded image
share_post_with_media(
    "<HERE YOUR ACCESS TOKEN>",
    comment="Do you like this nice cv?",
    author_type=author_type,
    author_id=author_id,
    media_id=image_urn
)

And voilà. Here is your post!