I have been foaming at the mouth since I read this post about a LinkedIn API. (For the none techie – an API gives you the ability to grab information from LinkedIn and pull that data in to another website, plus a whole lot more). However, so far LinkedIn has yet to deliver anything I can use.

On the bright side, I think LinkedIn’s decision to utilize Google’s OpenSocial platform, will ultimately bring my dreams data freedom to fruition. But being the impatient person that I am, I can wait no longer. And ultimately, I have decided to take matters in to my own fingers and write a LinkedIn Public Profile API.

Let’s use my LinkedIn Profile as an example:

Public LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brandoncorbin
LinkedIn API XML Profile: http://jobfu.org/brandoncorbin-asxml

The Result is an XML document containing all of the information from the Users public profile, as well as the last 10 blog posts (if the user supplied a “My Blog” or “My RSS Feed”).