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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?

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Did you ever get an answer Jan? I'd love to be able to show my reading list on my web page.

Matt Tomlinson
No, I stopped looking, since it seems to be very complicated to do. I will probably just use another service like [Goodreads](http://www.goodreads.com/) and [their API](http://www.goodreads.com/api).
Jan Fabry
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That is why the started to use captcha for logging in.

Lukasz
How does your answer relate to this thread?
Marcin Cylke