LinkedIn login setup

Objective

By integrating with LinkedIn’s sign-in service, you allow customers to log into your application with their existing LinkedIn identities.

Overview

Strivacity's support for social authentication and registration allows you to easily establish a trusted relationship between your applications and various social identity providers.

Social provider add-ons in the Admin Console come with many client-side configurations out of the box to make integration as painless as possible:

autodiscovery URL with automatic endpoint collection
pre-defined scopes for the essential requests
pre-configured claim mappings to obtain and synchronize relevant social profile attributes
continuous customer data synchronization

Prerequisites

General

General understanding of the OIDC Authorization Code Flow grant type
A test application where you can apply and test the LinkedIn social provider

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To demonstrate the integration process, the test application will be Strivacity's customer self-service management utility. The process will look mostly the same for any other application.

Existing LinkedIn identity
LinkedIn Developers Platform
New LinkedIn application
- Client ID and Secret of the application

Strivacity

Up-and-running Strivacity instance
Redirect URI where customers are redirected after successful authentication: https://<yourStrivacityinsanceID>.strivacity.com/provider/continue
Test application to test the social provider
The application's self-service URL for reference

Configuration steps

Creating a LinkedIn app for integration

1) Access LinkedIn’s developer portal.

2) Click ‘Create app’ to create a new application.

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You will be redirected to the ‘Create an app’ page.

3) Fill in the required fields:

Name your new app
Add your brand’s LinkedIn company page

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Your LinkedIn Page Admin can verify the association with your app later. Your LinkedIn app can still be used for providing social login without a verified company page.

Optional You can provide a URL to your brand’s Privacy Policy.

Add a logo to the app
Accept LinkedIn’s API Terms of Use to continue

4) Click ‘Create app’ once you’ve completed the fields.

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You will land on the 'Settings' tab of your new application.

Managing app settings

5) Go to the ‘Auth’ tab

Capture the Client ID and Secret from ‘Authentication keys’
Add a redirect URL at ‘OAuth 2.0 settings’

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The redirect URL consists of your Strivacity instance ID and the following endpoint: [https://**\](https://**\)**.strivacity.com/provider/continue

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You can review the available scopes at the bottom of the page.

Configuring LinkedIn sign-in

6) Go to the ‘Products’ tab.

7) Select ‘Sign In with LinkedIn’ at the additional available products.

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You will be asked to accept LinkedIn’s terms for using this product for the relevant use-case.

8) Click ‘Add product’.

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You’re all set for adding LinkedIn’s sign-in experience to your applications.

Adding LinkedIn as a social login provider

1) In the Strivacity Admin Console, navigate to External Login > Social Login.

2) Click ‘Create Social Login Provider’.

3) Select ‘LinkedIn’ from the list of available social provider capabilities.

4) Paste the Client ID and Secret you’ve previously obtained from your LinkedIn application.

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The scopes that your Strivacity application will request are already defined. For more information about the scopes of LinkedIn’s sign-in service, visit this page.

5) Enable Synchronize and store profile data at each login to ensure customer data is kept up-to-date inside your application.

6) Click ‘Save’ to add the LinkedIn social provider.

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Claim mappings are automatically handled for social login providers after saving.

Adding LinkedIn sign-in capability to your application

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Follow the steps described in this guide to add a social login provider to an application

Testing your social login provider

1) Copy the self-service URL of your application.

2) Open an incognito window or launch another browser.

3) Go to the self-service login page of your application using the application’s link.

4) Click ‘Continue with LinkedIn’ to sign in with your LinkedIn identity.

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In case of successful setup, after authentication, you should be asked to allow permission to your basic profile information and email address in your LinkedIn account.