Profile Edit API - Publications

This sub-resource API will allow you to create, update, and delete publications of a member. See Publication Fields for a description of the fields available within this object.

Supported Methods

CREATE | PARTIAL_UPDATE | DELETE

CREATE

POST https://api.linkedin.com/v2/people/(\$params),id:{person ID})/publications

sample request body

{
  "date": {
    "month": 2,
    "year": 2016,
    "day": 2
  },
  "name": {
    "localized": {
      "en_US": "LinkedIn API Publication"
    },
    "preferredLocale": {
      "country": "US",
      "language": "en"
    }
  },
  "description": {
    "localized": {
      "en_US": {
        "rawText": "API!"
      }
    },
    "preferredLocale": {
      "country": "US",
      "language": "en"
    }
  },
  "publisher": {
    "localized": {
      "en_US": "LinkedIn"
    },
    "preferredLocale": {
      "country": "US",
      "language": "en"
    }
  },
  "url": "http://www.developer.linkedin.com",
  "authors": [
    {
      "memberId": "urn:li:person:123ABC"
    }
  ]
}
}

Note

A successful response will return a 201 Created HTTP status code. To record the created entity's id, refer to the header x-linkedin-id field.

PARTIAL UPDATE

POST https://api.linkedin.com/v2/people/(\$params),id:{person ID})/publications/{publication ID}

sample request body

{
    "patch": {
        "$set": {
            "date": {
                "day": 15,
                "month": 5,
                "year": 2016
            },
            "description": {
                "localized": {
                    "en_US": {
                        "rawText": "New LinkedIn Developer API!"
                    }
                },
                "preferredLocale": {
                    "country": "US",
                    "language": "en"
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Sample Json to delete one or more fields. If you attempt to delete a field that is mandatory, the API will return a 422 Error Response. See Publication Fields for allowed list of fields for this resource

sample request body

{
    "patch": {
        "$delete": [
            "field1",
            "field2"
        ]
    }
}

DELETE

DELETE https://api.linkedin.com/v2/people/(\$params),id:{person ID})/publications/{publication ID}