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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.

Riz
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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

Unpossible
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At the moment nothin' changed about connections. Only basic profile fields available for connections. I think it is logical that if current member must confirm access to his email separately from his profile fields - the emails of his connections are not confirmed by those members, so they cannot be viewed.

ishubin
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LInkedin doesn't provide email address

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LinkedIn has started the email address for the new Apps, but still can't use it for your existing LinkedIn Apps.

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    They started giving email address in profile API recently, but I am searching for connections :( Still looking for latest updates, don't know if they have email for connections in near future. – Riz Oct 17 '12 at 07:53
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It looks like apps now have access to the email field, as described here:

https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/profile-fields#email

Note that I haven't used this myself. I was just investigating it because I was spammed by an app used by one of my contacts. If you want to disable this "feature", just click on "Turn on/off data sharing with 3rd party applications" in the "Groups, Companies & Applications" section of the Privacy settings and then untick the box.

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  • I don't think this has changed - the doc you link to is talking about asking for the authenticating user's email (thus asking for the r_emailaddress permission). Testing the following against the API still returns nothing for email: `https://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/~/connections:(id,email-address)` – Unpossible Oct 29 '14 at 20:46
  • Are you sure you've got the r_emailaddress permission? https://developer.linkedin.com/forum/authorization-permission-breaks-authorizetrue-option – CpnCrunch Oct 30 '14 at 21:45