'Have linkedin deprecated the share-offsite URL sharing method or is it just broken?
A few stackoverflow questions make reference to the widely used method of using
https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url={url}
to let users share content from your site to their linkedin pages, but this results in a "something went wrong" error from linkedin or just the linkedin header logo on a blank page when used with any URL, percent encoded or otherwise.
The developer docs point to an oauth2 method of sharing, but that's total overkill for a share button on a website.
Was there an announcement? I can't find any and lots of websites (Youtube, NYT, ABC(AU)) are currently using this method of sharing including, ironically the very Microsoft developer doc that instructs you about oauth2 sharing.
Solution 1:[1]
As far as I can tell, that method is still a viable way to share to LinkedIn. That error message and this issue seem to be impacting major websites so it appears that something has broken on LinkedIn's side of things. I have been unable to find any acknowledgement of the issue but can attest my users started noticing it yesterday.
Solution 2:[2]
Issue looks to be fixed now and the linkedin share is working again.
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| Solution | Source |
|---|---|
| Solution 1 | Danny McPeak Jr. |
| Solution 2 | Ryan |