Extracting LinkedIn recommendations for your website

Question

How can I extract or get the LinkedIn recommendations for my website? Is there any plugin or PHP script?

Answer 1

LinkedIn ended their support for the most of the apps. You must be in a partner program in order to be able to get full profile information.

Answer 2

You can extract the recommendations using the LinkedIn API, specifically the Profile API. Rough steps are:

1. Create an application;
2. Authenticate yourself via OAuth;
3. Make a call to the API (via JavaScript or some other language via the REST interface) to retrieve your recommendations. A sample call that will do this:

http://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/~:(recommendations-received)

In terms of doing this with PHP, there is a free library, along with demo scripts, here:

http://code.google.com/p/simple-linkedinphp/