Moodle office tool integrations

Hi Sham,

The way the LinkedIn's API v1 authentication was available in Moodle was by manually configuring an OAuth 2 service, rather than being functionality integrated into core (unlike some other services such as Google), so there isn't a LinkedIn library as such that can be directly updated to support their API v2.

I have been investigating this as part of Tracker issue MDL-65637. The problem is that, unfortunately, LinkedIn's v2 user info endpoint no longer provides a user's email address, and now requires an additional call to a separate endpoint to fetch it (see their migration docs here). Since we require a user's email address, and the current OAuth functionality in Moodle expects all user information to be fetched from a single endpoint (in line with the OAuth 2 specification), I don't think it is currently possible to configure the new API as an OAuth 2 service.

I am looking into this further, and hope there will be a way around it. It would be great to hear from anyone in the community that has found a workaround and been able to successfully use the v2 LinkedIn API (and I will update the documentation if a solution is found).