LinkedIn API - I dont understand how they want the urls formatted

Question

I am looking at this documentation page for LinkedIn API:https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/profile-api They have an example there: https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/profile-api I am trying to send them a url like this: ``` /people/id=297823:(connections) ``` because they seem to recommend that under the "Selecting the amount of detail returned" section, but it gives this error: ``` LinkedIn::Errors::NotFoundError: (404): Not Found ``` Any idea what I am doing wrong with the url? Thanks!

Accepted Answer

It returns NOT FOUND because `297823` is not a valid profile id. Try with a valid id,

e.g.

`nbqwYraDfd` is linked id of my linkedin profile, so below code works for me.

```
https://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/id=nbqwYraDfd:(connections)
```

p.s. notice that you need to authenticate in order to get this work.

Edit: (after comment)

To know your id, do this,

```
https://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/~:(id)
```

Use this to play with linkedin api,

LinkedIn API - I dont understand how they want the urls formatted

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