How to get LinkedIn Amazon Reading List data

Question

Amazon has a "Reading List" application on LinkedIn. Has anyone succeeded in extracting the data from your own reading list? I would like to integrate this on my own site. To be clear, I am only talking about my own reading list, this is not to collect other the data of other people. Unless I'm missing something, there is no clear way to get this data, either using the LinkedIn API or via Amazon. The connection to Amazon happens via a LinkedIn AJAX proxy, so you can't just do the RPC calls to their service.

The application seems to run in a sort of sandbox, and requires you to be logged in to LinkedIn. Of course, this can be emulated, but probably requires a lot of work. So, is there an API to do this that I missed, or has anyone else also created some scripts that emulate a logged in user?

Answer 1

Please do check out a related thread of discussion on the LinkedIn Developer Network itself here.

As mentioned on that page, it is not yet possible for the general public to have access to the API to extract this reading list info, but you could probably do a curl/wget of the page and parse the HTML for the list of books.

Hope this helps.