Configuring LinkedIn connections - Amazon Glue
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Configuring LinkedIn connections

LinkedIn supports AUTHORIZATION_CODE grant type for OAuth2.

This grant type is considered “three-legged” OAuth as it relies on redirecting users to the third-party authorization server to authenticate the user. Users may opt to create their own connected app in LinkedIn and provide their own client ID and client secret when creating connections through the Amazon Glue console. In this scenario, they will still be redirected to LinkedIn to login and authorize Amazon Glue to access their resources.

This grant type results in both a refresh token and an access token. The access token expires 60 days after creation. A new access token can be obtained using the refresh token.

For public LinkedIn documentation on creating a connected app for Authorization Code OAuth flow, see Authorization Code Flow (3-legged OAuth).

Configuring a LinkedIn connection

  1. In Amazon Secrets Manager, create a secret with the following details:

    • For customer managed connected app – Secret should contain the connected app Consumer Secret with USER_MANAGED_CLIENT_APPLICATION_CLIENT_SECRET as key.

    • For Amazon Managed connected app – Empty secret or secret with some temporary value.

      Note

      It is a must to create a secret per connection in Amazon Glue.

  2. In the Amazon Glue Studio, create a connection under Data Connections by following the steps below:

    1. When selecting a Connection type, select LinkedIn.

    2. Provide the LinkedIn environment.

    3. Select the IAM role for which Amazon Glue can assume and has permissions for following actions: 

      {
"Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "secretsmanager:DescribeSecret",
                "secretsmanager:GetSecretValue",
                "secretsmanager:PutSecretValue",
                "ec2:CreateNetworkInterface",
                "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterface",
                "ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface",
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

    4. Select the secretName which you want to use for this connection in Amazon Glue to put the tokens.

    5. Select the Network options if you want to use your network.

  3. Grant the IAM role associated with your Amazon Glue job permission to read secretName.