Can I get 'open to work' option from LinkedIn Profile API

Question

I'm integrating LinkedIn Profile API, Here, I want to know that the member selects the 'open to work' or not. Seen Profile Fields, there is no information about this detail.

Answer 1

@Surya the LinkedIn API team should be able to help answer this question via StackOverflow. Please see this article for details.

I hope this helps!

Answer 2

Let me share my experiance in the past with linkedin api support .

It was not very clear at all in the documentation that the partner program was how you gain access to the w_compliance permission or that LinkedIn were not taking new applicants for the partner program.

So I decided to use the help centre on LinkedIn’s documentation to track down how I would gain access to the w_compliance permission.

The first port of call was the FAQs which didn’t really offer much, you’ll find the message about the partner programs being unavailable but at this time I hadn’t realised this was what I needed to get access to the correct permissions.

I then tried the LinkedIn forums where there were a couple of posts from developers asking how to get access to the permission.

I’m not sure if the response came from an automated bot or the person didn’t grasp the question but the responses to the posts were exactly the same, telling the poster to go to the LinkedIn developer website.

So at this point I’ve been on the LinkedIn developer website, gone to the LinkedIn help centre, found a relevant post that then tells me to go back to the LinkedIn developer website

Of course at no time does the help centre show any form of email or phone number I could have contacted to make enquiries.

Eventually I gave up using LinkedIn’s (un)help(ful) centre and went over to Stack Overflow which after doing broader and broader searches.

The documentation is extensive with loads of examples, but the simple fact that a lot of the APIs used in those examples require partner program approval and they didn’t think to make it really clear the articles were redundant due to the partner program not being open has probably wasted many hours of developer time.