Having trouble getting access to the r_liteprofile scope

[alanwunsche]

I followed the link and created an app.

Generate a 3-legged access token using the Developer Portal [token generator tool](https://www.linkedin.com/developers/tools/oauth/token-generator), selecting the r_liteprofile scope.

The r_liteprofile is not one of the 4 selections made available when creating a 3-legged access token?

[alanwunsche]

These are the only options that it shows me:

Select scopes:

openid
Use your name and photo

profile
Use your name and photo

w_member_social
Create, modify, and delete posts, comments, and reactions on your behalf

email
Use the primary email address associated with your LinkedIn account

[timtoolboxx]

I have the same problem. After creating my LI-App there is only "Sign In with LinkedIn using OpenID Connect" available unter the products tab, which doesn't offer the scope "r_liteprofile" needed by my Extly.com extension using on a Joomla website.

[Dante690]

Hi i found some solution for this, plz check here https://community.auth0.com/t/the-linkedin-login-is-deprecated-updating-to-the-new-scopes-is-necessary/113696

[alvarolorentedev]

so seems those are the new profiles, and this library documentation is a bit out dated. What are you trying to do?
in my case for getting the profile info i am not using the me route but the userinforoute.

[shimizust]

Hi @alanwunsche, I'm no longer on the team that maintains this, but there was a change to this Sign in With LinkedIn product. This was updated in the python library here: linkedin-developers/linkedin-api-python-client@6331e52

@swathivshenoy Can you update the instructions for the js library?

[swathivshenoy]

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[wisejayden]

After running into the same issue I emailed the LinkedIn support team who informed me that the r_liteprofile scope is outdated.

"We no longer use r_liteprofile for sign in or auth. Please use the scope "profile" in your URL redirect requests."

Even after successfully authenticating some of the routes do not work, so I suppose this library is simply quite outdated.

[herwaldt]

As of July 2024, the readme for this repo is still out of date. For the three legged token, you need to request profile AND openId. Also, instead of calling /me for profile data it is /userinfo

[ravijammi]

We are able to sign in via the "Sign In with LinkedIn using OpenID Connect" however, the /userinfo does not return anywhere close to what /me provided.
So what is the alternative approach to get the same data that /me used to provide earlier?