gc-linkedin

participatory professional network visualisation through linkedin and graph commons.

build and run

• Create a LinkedIn application and obtain the API and secret keys
• Get an API key on your Graph Commons profile edit page
• Create a graph on Graph Commons, and publish it so that it will be available as an embedded graph.
• download dependencies

npm install

• Prepare a postgres database and keep the url. In order to start a db instance with Docker;

docker run \
  --name gc_linkedin_postgres \
  --publish=5432:5432 \
  -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=123456 \
  -e POSTGRES_USER=graphcommons \
  -d postgres:9.5.0

The database in the container can be reached at postgres://graphcommons:123456@localhost:5432/postgres

• build the css files, if necessary

gulp sass

• start the program

DATABASE_URL=postgres://graphcommons:123456@localhost:5432/postgres \
APP_URL=http://localhost:3000 \
PORT=3000 \
LINKEDIN_API_KEY=<linkedin-api-key> \
LINKEDIN_SECRET_KEY=<linkedin-secret-key> \
GC_GRAPH_ID=<graph-id> \
GC_API_KEY=<graphcommons-api-key> \
node app.js

APP_URL is necessary for the authentication callback from LinkedIn. The authentication callback URL should be set as http://localhost:3000/auth/callback

Quick Deploy

This will deploy this app on Heroku to demo it right away. By default, a web dyno will be started with free heroku postgres database add on. Required environment variables will be listed on the installation page for you to fill out.