LinkedIn

The Lyftron Provider for LinkedIn offers the most natural way to access LinkedIn data from Lyftron with ease and also enables to connect with BI, MDM & ML tools, Data warehouses, Databases and other SAAS based applications with zero code and zero infrastructure requirements. The provider wraps the complexity of accessing LinkedIn data into easy-to-integrate relational fully managed ANSI Sql format. Make faster and better business decisions with Lyftron’s LinkedIn data provider and automatically build your data migration pipelines in minutes, not months.

The provider hides the complexity of accessing data and provides additional powerful security features, smart caching, batching, socket management, and more.

Key Features

• Comprehensive Delta load mechanism.
• Real-time access to LinkedIn.
• Comprehensive full support of ANSI Sql to query data with ease.
• Collaborative query processing.

Prerequisites

The user must have credentials for LinkedIn, Lyftron and your destination data warehouse, lake or database to perform the data pipeline operation with Lyftron

Establishing a Connection with Lyftron's Quickstart Steps

Create your LinkedIn connection with Lyftron by following the 5 easy steps show below:

Step1. Add your connection

Click on Connect section on the left panel →  Click on Add Connection button

Step2. Select your connector

In the connector selection panel, search and click LinkedIn for your connection 

Step3. Enter your connection details

In the Connection String section enter the values of the below parameters. The following connection string is required to establish LinkedIn connection with Lyftron.

"InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH;OAuthClientId=[your_OAuthClientId];

OAuthClientSecret=[your_OAuthClientSecret];CallbackURL=[your_callbackURL];CompanyId=[your_companyID]"

Key	Value	Field
Connection Name	Enter your connection details	Required
InitiateOAuth	GETANDREFRESH	Required
OAuthClientId	Enter OAuthClientId	Required
OAuthClientSecret	Enter OAuthClientSecret	Required
CallbackURL	Enter CallbackURL	Required
CompanyId	Enter CompanyId	Required
Logfile**	Use the logfile option to debug your job and provide your connection name to generate the log file.  [ConnectionConfigurationPath]\Connection_name_log.tx	Optional
Verbosity**	Choose verbosity 1-5 based on the severity of debugging	Optional

** For more information, check the Lyftron logging and debugging section.

If you want more detailed information about how to establish a connection with Lyftron, click on Lyftron Connection Quick Start guide.

Step4. Test your connection

Once you are done entering your connection details, simply click on the Test Connection button to test the connectivity. In case your connection fails, add Logfile and Verbosity parameters and check the Lyftron logging and debugging section, to debug the error.

 Step5. Save your connection

Hurray! Now you have successfully connected with the Lyftron LinkedIn connector and can utilize the connector to Extract, Warehouse, Analyze, Visualize and Share your data.

Data Model

The Lyftron Provider for LinkedIn models entities in the LinkedIn API as tables, views, and stored procedures. These are defined in schema files, which are simple, text-based configuration files.

API limitations and requirements are documented in this section; you can use the SupportEnhancedSQL feature, set by default, to circumvent most of these limitations.

Tables

The Lyftron Provider for LinkedIn models Item Listings in tables so that they can be easily queried, updated, and deleted. You can list items on your LinkedIn store by calling the AddItem stored procedure.

Views

Views are tables that cannot be modified. Typically, read-only data are shown as views. 

Name	Type	Description
CompanyStatusUpdates	Tables	Lists update events from the LinkedIn company page. This table supports the SELECT and INSERT operations.
AdAccounts	Views	The Ad Account status finder returns all accounts in a specified status that the authenticated user has access to.
AdAnalytics	Views	The Ad Analytics API provides account, campaign, and creative level insights on click intelligence numbers.
AdAudienceCount	Views	The Audience Count API allows advertisers to forecast the reach of targeting criteria.
AdBudgetPricing	Views	The LinkedIn Ad Budget Pricing API provides developers with key insights on pricing metrics (e.g. minimum, maximum and suggested bids) based on targeting criteria.
AdCampaignGroups	Views	The Ad Campaign status finder returns all campaigns in a specified status that the authenticated user has access to.
AdCampaignInsights	Views	The Insights API offers analysis of a campaign's budget utilization, and identifies modifications that can be made to a bid, daily budget, or total budget to maximize utilization or impressions.
AdCampaignRecommendations	Views	The Recommendations API offers recommendations for underperforming campaigns and suggests ways to improve performance; including adjusting the creative, bid, audience size, or number of creatives.
AdCampaigns	Views	The Ad Campaign status finder returns all campaigns in a specified status that the authenticated user has access to.
AdConversions	Views	Retrieves a list of Conversions. Conversions are actions a member makes that are valuable to your business.
AdCreatives	Views	The Ad Creatives search finder allows you to search for creatives by id, campaign URN, status, or reference URN.
AdDegrees	Views	Degree taxonomy is used to standardize data across the LinkedIn platform. Use this API to retrieve standardized URNs and their names.
AdFieldsOfStudy	Views	Fields of study taxonomy is used to standardize data across the LinkedIn platform. Use this API to retrieve standardized URNs and their names.
AdForms	Views	LinkedIn Lead Gen Forms make it easy for advertisers to collect leads through forms that LinkedIn members can submit.
AdIndustries	Views	Industry taxonomy is used to standardize data across the LinkedIn platform. Use this API to retrieve standardized URNs and their names.
AdJobFunctions	Views	Job function taxonomy is used to standardize data across the LinkedIn platform. Use this API to retrieve standardized URNs and their names.
AdLocations	Views	Location taxonomy is used to standardize data across the LinkedIn platform. Use this API to retrieve standardized URNs and their names.
AdSeniorities	Views	Seniority taxonomy is used to standardize data across the LinkedIn platform. Use this API to retrieve standardized URNs and their names.
AdSkills	Views	Skills taxonomy is used to standardize data across the LinkedIn platform. Use this API to retrieve standardized URNs and their names.
AdThirdPartyTracking	Views	Use thirdPartyTrackingTags to retrieve a previously created third-party tracking tag.
AdTitles	Views	Titles taxonomy is used to standardize data across the LinkedIn platform. Use this API to retrieve standardized URNs and their names.
Comments	Views	Query comments for a specific company update.
CompanyDetails	Views	Retrieve company profiles and updates.
CompanyFollowerStatistics	Views	Query statistics about followers for a particular company page.
CompanyList	Views	Lists all companies that the member is an administrator of.
CompanyLocations	Views	Retrieve company locations information.
CompanyUpdateStatistics	Views	Query update statistics about a company. If the TimeRange filters are not specified, the default result set is for the last 12 months.
Positions	Views	Query the member's current positions.
Profile	Views	Lists the details of your profile.