Deep dive into the LinkedIn API: Use C# to search for your dream Job

LinkedIn has an extensive API designed to access almost every aspect of the site. Developers can access People and Connections, Groups, Companies, Jobs, Social Stream, Communications and more. There are two types of LinkedIn APIs: JavaScript based and REST based with the ability to connect the two. For example: you can log in with a JavaScript button and monitor your social updates using server based code. You can then send yourself summary emails with the updates. This is a deep dive into both APIs. We are going to be using the JavaScript login button, showing the user’s name using HTML. LinkedIn’s REST API uses OAuth authentication which we will utilize in order to get a new REST token. We will then re log in on the server and invoke the REST API, perform a jobs keyword search, return the results as JASON and show them to the user.