LinkedIn Pages

Sync overview

The LinkedIn Pages source only supports Full Refresh for now. Incremental Sync will be coming soon.

Airbyte uses LinkedIn Marketing Developer Platform - API to fetch data from LinkedIn Pages.

Output schema

This Source is capable of syncing the following data as streams:

• Organization Lookup
• Follower Statistics
• Share Statistics
• Total Follower Count
• Follower Statistics Time Bound (Incremental)
• Share Statistics Time Bound (Incremental)

Data type mapping

Features

Performance considerations

There are official Rate Limits for LinkedIn Pages API Usage, more information here. Rate limited requests will receive a 429 response. Rate limits specify the maximum number of API calls that can be made in a 24 hour period. These limits reset at midnight UTC every day. In rare cases, LinkedIn may also return a 429 response as part of infrastructure protection. API service will return to normal automatically. In such cases you will receive the next error message:

"Caught retryable error '<some_error> or null' after <some_number> tries. Waiting <some_number> seconds then retrying..."

This is expected when the connector hits the 429 - Rate Limit Exceeded HTTP Error. If the maximum of available API requests capacity is reached, you will have the following message:

"Max try rate limit exceeded..."

After 5 unsuccessful attempts - the connector will stop the sync operation. In such cases check your Rate Limits on this page > Choose your app > Analytics.

Getting started

The API user account should be assigned the following permissions for the API endpoints: Endpoints such as: Organization Lookup API, Follower Statistics, Share Statistics, Total Follower Count, Follower Statistics Time Bound, Share Statistics Time Bound require these permissions:

• r_organization_social: Retrieve your organization's posts, comments, reactions, and other engagement data.
• rw_organization_admin: Manage your organization's pages and retrieve reporting data.

The API user account should be assigned the ADMIN role.

Authentication

There are 2 authentication methods: Access Token or OAuth2.0. OAuth2.0 is recommended since it will continue streaming data for 12 months instead of 2 months with an access token.

Create the Refresh_Token or Access_Token:

The source LinkedIn Pages can use either the client_id, client_secret and refresh_token for OAuth2.0 authentication or simply use an access_token in the UI connector's settings to make API requests. Access tokens expire after 2 months from creation date (60 days) and require a user to manually authenticate again. Refresh tokens expire after 12 months from creation date (365 days). If you receive a 401 invalid token response, the error logs will state that your token has expired and to re-authenticate your connection to generate a new token. This is described more here.

1. Log in to LinkedIn as the API user

2. Create an App here:

   • App Name: airbyte-source
   • Company: search and find your LinkedIn Company Page
   • Privacy policy URL: link to company privacy policy
   • Business email: developer/admin email address
   • App logo: Airbyte's (or Company's) logo
   • Review/agree to legal terms and create app
   • Review the Auth tab:
     • Save your client_id and client_secret (for later steps)
     • Oauth 2.0 settings: Provide a redirect_uri (for later steps): https://airbyte.com

3. Verify App:

   • In the Settings tab of your app dashboard, you'll see a Verify button. Click that button!
   • Generate and provide the verify URL to your Company's LinkedIn Admin to verify the app.

4. Request API Access:

   • Navigate to the Products tab
   • Select the Advertising API and agree to the legal terms
   • After a few minutes, refresh the page to see a link to View access form in place of the Select button
   • Fill out the access form and access should be granted within 72 hours (usually quicker)

5. Create A Refresh Token (or Access Token):

   • Navigate to the LinkedIn Developers' OAuth Token Tools and click Create token
   • Select your newly created app and check the boxes for the following scopes:
     • r_organization_social
     • rw_organization_admin
   • Click Request access token and once generated, save your Refresh token

6. Use the client_id, client_secret and refresh_token from Steps 2 and 5 to autorize the LinkedIn Pages connector within the Airbyte UI.

   • As mentioned earlier, you can also simply use the Access token auth method for 60-day access.

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