Compliance FAQ

The Compliance API Partner Program is a private and paid partnership. Acceptance to this partnership is subject to discretion of LinkedIn based on the following criteria. The Partner organization or its customers should be FINRA / SEC registered. The primary use case should be archiving and monitoring LinkedIn member’s posts and public correspondence as required to be compliant with FINRA & SEC regulations. If you believe your use case meets our acceptance criteria, please complete the LinkedIn Compliance Partner Request Form

The Compliance Events API allows you to archive a changelog of LinkedIn activities of a regulated, authenticated member for the past 28 days. It returns each monitored activity (such as content created, edited and so on.) as an individual compliance event record to provide ease of archival and remediation if necessary. To know more on Compliance Events API, refer to our documentation. Compliance Snapshot APIs are for gathering information on authenticated members. It provides data as we see on linkedin.com. It does not provide any information on edits and deletes covered under the Compliance Events API. To know more on Compliance Snapshot API, refer to our documentation.

A regulated member is a LinkedIn user who has consented to share information with the developer and the developer has registered the member for compliance monitoring via our POST /memberComplianceAuthorizations API. Only these members are considered as regulated members and their interaction on LinkedIn is archived for Compliance Events API. Note that there must be legal record-keeping compliance obligations, to justify achieving member posts for the Compliance API.

The Compliance Events API allows you to query all LinkedIn activities from the past 28 days of a regulated, authenticated member. Compliance events older 28 days are purged from LinkedIn. Note that LinkedIn starts monitoring and archiving the compliance events for a member only once they have been opted in for compliance events. Events before opting in for Compliance Events would not be present.

The Compliance Events API allows you to archive all LinkedIn activities from the past 28 days. For data beyond 28 days, you can use Compliance Snapshot APIs which provide a limited set of data.

The access token is valid for 1 year from the time the member consents to be regulated. Post which the developer would have to initiate the oAuth flow again to request the member’s consent and get a new token. We do not provide any refresh tokens.

Yes, members can remove access to any third-party application from their Settings and Privacy page on LinkedIn.com. For more information on how to remove access, refer to this article. Note that if a regulated member removes access from their Setting and Privacy page, their access_token is invalidated immediately and they are automatically removed from (Opted out) from Compliance Monitoring and LinkedIn stops monitoring the member for compliance events.

• Profile Updates made by the regulated member
• Endorsement - endorsement received & given by the regulated member
• Recommendation - recommendations received & given by the regulated member
• Posts -
  • Posts created by the regulated member
  • Edits made to an already updated posts
  • Post deleted by the regulated member
• Reactions & comments:
  • created by the regulated member
  • Updated by the regulated member
  • deleted by the regulated member
• Organizations
  • Company page created by the regulated member
  • Updating company page
  • Adding admins to the page
• Invitations - Connection requests sent & received by the regulated member
• Messages
• Messages sent and received by the regulated member
• INMAILS sent and received by the regulated member
• Messages and INMAILS sent and received by the regulated member’s sales Navigator mailbox
• LinkedIn Events - LinkedIn event created by the regulated member