Badge Request: LinkedIn

[arnonrdp]

📋 It would be nice if we had a LinkedIn badge showing our number of connections.

🔗 I found something related to the API on the Microsoft website and on Stack Overflow there is a lot of stuff, but I'm not sure how this call would work:

• Authorization Code Flow (3-legged OAuth)
• How to call the LinkedIn API using Python?

[calebcartwright]

Thanks for reaching out and doing some digging on the auth. However, I'm going to close this given those supported auth mechanisms which would not be viable for our consumption model.

In order for Shields to be able to fetch data from an upstream service, our servers have to be able to retrieve the data via anonymous requests, or when authentication is required, we have to be able to use a standard, static authentication mechanisms that are global/non-user specific.

It seems the Connections API only supports explicitly user-authorized applications which necessitate that 3-legged OAuth flow, which simply could not work in the Shields ecosystem.

For anyone that does want this type of badge, the only option I could think of would be to utilize our Custom Endpoint feature, where it'd be your responsibility to go through the OAuth flow to generate the access token and deploy that token with your custom endpoint, and to then refresh your access token every 60 days.