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Is there a way to access the LinkedIn API without a user

I am creating an application that receives data from LinkedIn using the REST API. When my user has a LinkedIn account, I use OAuth to authenticate and access data on behalf of the user.

My problem is that the user does not have a LinkedIn account. In this case, I would like to return to anonymous access and get the most basic (and publicly available) information from LinkedIn.

In some other questions and discussions, I saw that LinkedIn does not allow anonymous access to its API at all, but I also saw some hints of some APIs that are also available anonymously.

There is no way to get any data type from LinkedIn API anonymously? Even the most basic data that everyone could see in the user's public profile without logging in?

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In accordance with the Terms of Use, it is not permitted to display API data to an unidentified user (section III (A) (1), III (A) (2) (g)). All data retrieved from the API must be pushed by an authenticated user using their OAuth credentials.

From the point of view of anonymous presentation of the profile master data, a member profile plug-in was created for this.

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// Rest API for getting loggedin user information

var lkdURL = " https://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/~:(id,location:(name),email-address,first-name,last-name)?oauth2_access_token= " + LinkedSecurityKey + "& callback = yourfunction ";

AJAX (lkdURL); // call ajax

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