linkedin LinkedIn API returns Positions without Title

An user of our app has noticed a problem with LinkedIn, he has 4 positions and 2 of these positions get returned without an title:

http://i.stack.imgur.com/wmpPk.png

Also the connection profile seems ok:

http://i.stack.imgur.com/ZDMmc.png

I even logged in with his LinkedIn profile to check that he has filled in everything correctly and as far as I can see he has.

For retrieving the data from LinkedIn I am using the following gem: https://github.com/hexgnu/linkedin

And running:

Jun 09 '15 08:06 DelawareConsulting

What are the permissions you've set?

r_fullprofile? r_emailaddress?

Jun 10 '15 16:06 hexgnu

Hi @hexgnu I've checked:

r_fullprofile and r_basicprofile

Jun 10 '15 20:06 DelawareConsulting

Hmmm...

Not something I know of off the top of my head. Have you submitted a ticket with linkedin support?

the linkedin gem effectively sends simple http requests over to linkedin and jsonifes things up to be consumed.

Jun 11 '15 15:06 hexgnu

I've submitted via stackoverflow any other ways of submitting a ticket?

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On 11 Jun 2015, at 17:45, Matt Kirk <[email protected]mailto:[email protected]> wrote:

Hmmm...

Not something I know of off the top of my head. Have you submitted a ticket with linkedin support?

the linkedin gem effectively sends simple http requests over to linkedin and jsonifes things up to be consumed.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/hexgnu/linkedin/issues/256#issuecomment-111178216.

Jun 11 '15 15:06 DelawareConsulting

well SO is a good way and unfortunately linkedin themselves aren't super helpful with a lot of things...

Do you know if the people who aren't showing titles have any sort of visibility constraints on them?

For instance I don't show up as a full profile on many people's feeds.

This all smells very much like a privacy thing from linkedin's side :-/

Jun 12 '15 20:06 hexgnu

The only thing that is strange is :

Could this be a pattern?

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On 12 Jun 2015, at 22:49, Matt Kirk <[email protected]mailto:[email protected]> wrote:

well SO is a good way and unfortunately linkedin themselves aren't super helpful with a lot of things...

Do you know if the people who aren't showing titles have any sort of visibility constraints on them?

For instance I don't show up as a full profile on many people's feeds.

This all smells very much like a privacy thing from linkedin's side :-/

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/hexgnu/linkedin/issues/256#issuecomment-111611343.

Jun 13 '15 11:06 DelawareConsulting