Light-it-labs / laravel-linkedin-share

This Laravel package allows you to share content in Linkedin with the v2 API

Linkedin Share v2 API Integration for Laravel

This package allows you to share content in Linkedin with the v2 API

Installation on Laravel

You can install this package via composer:

composer require lightit/linkedin-share

In Laravel 5.5 the service provider will automatically get registered. In older versions of the Laravel you should add the service provider to the config/app.php file:

'providers' => [
    // ...
    Lightit\LinkedinShare\LinkedinShareServiceProvider::class,
];

You can publish the config file with:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Lightit\LinkedinShare\LinkedinShareServiceProvider" --tag="linkedin-share"

After publishing the config file, you should declare the following variables in your .env file.

LINKEDIN_SHARE_REDIRECT_URI={your_redirect_uri}
LINKEDIN_SHARE_CLIENT_ID={your_client_id}
LINKEDIN_SHARE_CLIENT_SECRET={your_client_secret}

Sharing content

You will need the user authentication code ($code) to be able to share content in behalf of the user, you will probabily get this code from the fornt-end of your application.

Sharing text

LinkedinShare::shareNone($code, $text);

Sharing images

LinkedinShare::shareImage($code, $image, $text);

Sharing links

LinkedinShare::shareArticle($code, $url, $text);

Sharing content with access_token

If you prefere to share content using the user access_token, you should include an optional parameter to the share functions. Example:

LinkedinShare::shareNone($access_token, $text, 'access_token');

Extra functionality

Getting access token from authentication code

LinkedinShare::getAccessToken($code)

About Lightit

Light-it is a software development company with offices in Uruguay and Paraguay.

License

This project and the Laravel framework are open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.