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🚀 LinkedIn API: Share Content Automation

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 📊📢

Read the full article at https://cloudnativeengineer.substack.com/p/how-to-publish-a-post-with-the-linkedin

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