Linkedin API get company's follower list

Question

So I need to get my company's followers details.

I tried this :

public function getCompanyFollowers($company_id=""){
    if(!$company_id)return false;
    $params['url'] = "https://api.linkedin.com/v1/companies/".$company_id.":(num-followers)";
    $params['method']='get';
    $params['args']['format']='json';
    $result =  $this->makeRequest($params);
    return json_decode($result,true);
}   

but that only returns the count of followers.

On the Linkedin Company page if you click on that number of followers link we can see a list of detailed followers. How can I get that list of detailed followers with Linkedin API ?

Thank you.

Answer 1

I ran into this question myself today.

At the time of writing this response, accessing a detailed list of followers for a LinkedIn company page is not an option in the company API endpoint.

For a full list of supported company API fields such as num-followers used in your example, see this page.

It's possible to list companies that the current logged-in user follows via the people endpoint:

http://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/~/following/companies

It's not possible to list people that follow a company via the people or companies endpoints.