Derive LinkedIn profile URL from API user token?

Question

The LinkedIn API refers to users by alphanumeric member token instead of numeric ids.

Is it possible to derive a linkedin profile url (public OR private) from the user token?

(Info: https://developer.linkedin.com/comment/4173#comment-4173)

Answer 1

Since you are already using the API to pull the id field, why not just directly pull the public-profile-url as well?

On the hexadecimal nature of the member id, those strings are uniquely generated on a per application basis, so there is no way to map them directly to the corresponding id number used on LinkedIn.com.