LinkedIn Social walkthrough

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LinkedIn Social API version 2024-06 is supported.

LinkedIn Social source

You can get the statistics from your LinkedIn into Data Integration.

LinkedIn Social reports in Data Integration

1. Report: The LinkedIn reports in Data Integration is available in the report input:

• Get Posts: Get UGC posts for an organization.
• Get Shares Statistics: Get statistics for each share.
• Organization Follower Statistics: The API returns the aggregate follower count for paid and organic followers.
• Organization Page Statistics: The API returns aggregate page statistics.
• Organizational share statistics: The API returns aggregate share stats.
• Standardized Data: The API returns Standardized data across the LinkedIn platform. You must select only the standardized data report, such as degrees, fields of study, functions, industries, countries, country groups, states, seniorities, and IAB categories.

2. Organizations/companies pages: Click it to load all pages on which you are an Admin, or leave it empty to get them all.
3. Is lifetime report: The API lets you retrieve lifetime and time-bound statistics on followers for an organization.

For Organization Follower Statistics and Organization Page Statistics reports, select a Segment By when Is Lifetime Report is selected:

4. Include UGC Posts: Select to include UGC posts with shares on the "Get Shares Statistics" report.

Select a Time period and Granularity for the report.

1. Date range:

(Two kinds of time period filters:)

• Date Range
  • Pulls data in the date range between the start and end date provided, including the end date.
  • You must select a Start date.
  • The Start Date will not be updated if a River run fails. To change this default behavior, navigate to More Options and select the checkbox to advance the Start Date even if the River run is unsuccessful (Not recommended).
• Leaving the End date empty will pull data up to the current time of the River's run.
• Select a timezone offset to send dates considering the offset.
• Use the Last Days Back For Each Run to expand the start date and pull data a number of days before the chosen start date.
• Predefined date- A date range defined by Data Integration:
  • Day: Yesterday.
  • Week (From Monday to Sunday): Week to date, Previous week, Previous week to date.
  • Month: Month to date, Previous month, Previous month to date.
  • Year: Year to date.

2. Time granularity: Select the Time granularity of the results. Each record in the results will contain details of each unit in the time period, including the start date and the end date of the time unit.

   For example: If you run the report for dates 1.6.2017-10.7.17 with the time granularity set to monthly, the results will contain two records (for each selected pivot), one for June and the other for July. If time granularity is selected daily, the results will contain 30 records, one for each day.

Activity Logs

The Activity Logs offer an inside perspective of LinkedIn Social River's processes.