Retrieving the profile image from LinkedIn API response

Question

I've gone through the authentication and am receiving the correct data from LinkedIn and receiving a response as shown in this link:

https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/ref/v2/profile/profile-picture

However, I'm unsure how to extract the image from this:

"displayImage": "urn:li:digitalmediaAsset:C4D03AQGsitRwG8U8ZQ",

Do I need to make another request for the image url next?

Answer 1

For anyone else looking, I overlooked there is an identifier field like so with a url:

"identifiers": [
 {
  "identifier": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/C4D03AQGsitRwG8U8ZQ/profile-displayphoto-shrink_100_100/0?e=1526940000&v=alpha&t=12345",
  "file": "urn:li:digitalmediaFile:     (urn:li:digitalmediaAsset:C4D03AQGsitRwG8U8ZQ,urn:li:digitalmediaMediaArtifactClass:profile-displayphoto-shrink_100_100,0)",
    "index": 0,
    "mediaType": "image/jpeg",
    "identifierExpiresInSeconds": 1526940000
}

To get the above response in ruby I'm doing the following:

url = 'https://api.linkedin.com/v2/me?projection=(id,firstName,lastName,profilePicture(displayImage~:playableStreams))'
res = RestClient.get(url, Authorization: "Bearer #{access_token}")