How do I get the r_basicprofile permission on LinkedIn?

Question

The problem: We need the public profile url or vanityName of the users authenticating with LinkedIn OAuth 2.0 on our website for a social feature. But apparently LinkedIn does not give out permissions for that OAuth scope by default and you need to request it.

What we've found so far: The only "application" process we've found for that is through the Marketing Developer Platform which has a whole bunch of other stuff while we only need this one permission. So our request for that one got rejected.

What we're doing right now: The r_liteprofile we're using right now does not include the profile url of the user. Contacting LinkedIn support didn't help. They just told us to ask any developer portal related questions on StackOverflow with the #linkedin tag.

Is there any other way to get permissions for this OAuth scope apart from applying for the marketing developer platform? If there is no other way, what's the criteria to get access the marketing developer platform? LinkedIn support has been very unhelpful with this entire matter.

Answer 1

Our understanding is that all permissions besides w_member_social are obtained by adding the "Marketing Developer Platform"