Social Login with LinkedIn API and OAuth — Live Coding — Part 1

Social Login allows you to improve convenience for your customers and increase conversion rates for your signups and offerings. Instead of letting users fill in forms, they just need to click to sign in with LinkedIn.

In this video, I show you how you can develop Social Login with LinkedIn, by leveraging the LinkedIn API and LinkedIn OAuth. We will develop a small program in node.js to see OAuth and APIs in practice.

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This is the first part of a 3 part series on social login:

• Social Login Part 1: Write code to call the LinkedIn APIs to get profile and email data.
• Social Login Part 2 (publication scheduled for 2020–06–17): Write code for the redirect endpoint and code for getting an access token.
• Social Login Part 3 (publication scheduled for 2020–06–24): Write code to push signup information to a mailinglist provider via API.