Learn how to use the LinkedIn API to automate content sharing on LinkedIn and other social media platforms.
🔗 Motivation
- Automate marketing of articles, newsletters, and personal blog.
- Insights on LinkedIn API, OAuth2, and Open Graph meta tags.
🔐 Generate OAuth2.0 Token
- Create a LinkedIn App in the LinkedIn developer portal.
- Easily generate an access token for personal use.
- Programmatically generate tokens using official docs or Postman.
- Tokens expire after 60 days, so be ready to refresh.
📝 Publish on LinkedIn
- Explore LinkedIn API to publish articles on your profile.
- Check the official documentation for more endpoints.
- Use Open Graph meta tags for title, description, and image preview from the article content.
🌐 Open Graph Meta Tags
- Learn how Open Graph meta tags are used to describe content in HTML pages.
- Substack automatically includes them, but you can add them to your blog.
- Inspect them with the LinkedIn post inspector.
- Read more in Facebook's open graph protocol documentation.
🤝 LinkedIn API, OAuth2, and Open Graph meta tags can streamline your content sharing. Automate and enhance your social media marketing with these insights. #LinkedIn #SocialMediaMarketing #Automation 📊📢
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