LinkedIn Login not working, needs to be updated

[ed-zitle]

Expected behaviour

Should get the profile information from a LinkedIn logged in user using OAuth2

Actual behaviour

Despite changing the scopes in settings.py, the social-auth app automatically adds the 'r_liteprofile' scope which causes an error when trying to send the request via URL, if that scope is removed from the URL to work around this, the social-auth app tries to connect to a deprecated endpoint 'v2/me/'.

What are the steps to reproduce this issue?

Input clear steps to reproduce the issue for a maintainer.

1. Implement the LinkedIn login settings and views
2. Set scopes as the following: SOCIAL_AUTH_LINKEDIN_OAUTH2_SCOPE = ['openid', 'profile', 'email']
3. Try to log in
4. Remove 'r_liteprofile' from the URL: https://www.linkedin.com/oauth/v2/authorization?client_id=APPID&redirect_uri=http://127.0.0.1:8000/social-auth/complete/linkedin-oauth2/&state=H4ziRDKMAtoQ1TlMiMJn6kdhTwnHfT42&response_type=code&scope=openid+profile+email+r_liteprofile
5. A log in page from LinkedIn should appear now, enter credentials and press the sign in button
6. A Django error screen pops up

Any logs, error output, etc?

The Django error screen says the following:

HTTPError at /social-auth/complete/linkedin-oauth2/
403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://api.linkedin.com/v2/me?projection=(firstName,id,lastName)

Any other comments?

The new endpoint to update to is '/v2/userinfo'

[noxan]

@ed-zitle did you check out #833? it was shipped with the latest version, documentation is coming soon (works like any other openid connect backend). also it only works with the current development version (as it needs 8fed29b).

[nijel]

#915 most likely addresses this issue, review wanted.