Social Auth LinkedIn 2.x - Installation instructions

Social Auth LinkedIn module depends on The League OAuth2 LinkedIn library and uses Composer to download it. Composer can automatically download the correct version of the library for you.

Overview of installation steps

1. Step 1: Create a LinkedIn application and get credentials by going to https://www.linkedin.com/developer/apps
2. Step 2: Download Social Auth LinkedIn and The League OAuth2 LinkedIn library using Composer.
3. Step 3: Enable and configure Social Auth LinkedIn module.

Step 1: Create a project

• Create a new application on https://www.linkedin.com/developer/apps/new after signing in. You might need to signup for LinkedIn developer program to do so.
• Enter your application name, homepage URL, application description (optional), authorization callback URL.
• For authorization callback URL, enter the full url to your drupal project + /user/login/linkedin/callback. For example, consider that your domain is http://www.example.com but your drupal project is in http://www.example.com/drupal. In this case you should enter http://www.example.com/drupal/user/login/linkedin/callback. You can also find this URL at /admin/config/social-api/social-auth/linkedin under the heading Authorized redirect URIs.

Step 2: Install Social Auth LinkedIn and The League OAuth2 LinkedIn Library.

On the command line of your server, navigate to your Drupal root directory.

Let Composer download Social Auth LinkedIn (and all its dependencies). The following command will download the latest 8.x-2.0 release of Social Auth LinkedIn:

composer require "drupal/social_auth_linkedin:^2.0"

If you would like to use the 2.x-dev version instead, use the following command:

composer require "drupal/social_api:2.x-dev" "drupal/social_auth:2.x-dev" "drupal/social_auth_linkedin:2.x-dev"

Social Auth Google dev versions are usually only compatible with Social Auth and Social API dev versions. The command above installs the dev branch of all these modules.

The composer will automatically download league/oauth2-linkedin

Step 3: Enable and configure Social Auth LinkedIn module

Now that Composer has downloaded The League OAuth2 LinkedIn library and other dependencies, you can enable Social Auth LinkedIn.

• The module settings can be configured on /admin/config/social-api/social-auth/linkedin
• Add your Client ID and Client Secret (from step 1) to the module settings
• You probably also want to check your Drupal account settings at /admin/config/people/accounts, making sure that visitors can create accounts

Check installation status and give it a try!

• After you have completed steps 1-3 above, verify that you can see that Composer has downloaded The League OAuth2 LinkedIn library to vendor/league/oauth2-linkedindirectory of your Drupal installation.
• Add a Social Auth Login block to any region. If you already have added a block before installing this module and nothing is shown, try rebuilding the cache.
• Click on the "LinkedIn" logo.
• Alternatively, you can add a link anywhere on the site that points to user/login/linkedin.

Support requests

• Before posting a support request, carefully read the installation instructions provided on this page and do the setup in this order.
• Once you have done this, you can post a support request at module issue queue. Support requests to the issue queue, please, not to the comments on this documentation page.
• When posting a support request, please inform if you were able to see any errors in the Recent Log entries.