LinkedIn API UGC post success but not showing? - php

Question

I believe I am successfully posting a new post to the endpoint
https://api.linkedin.com/v2/ugcPosts
using (similar to)
{
"author": "urn:li:organization:1234567",
"lifecycleState": "PUBLISHED",
"specificContent": {
"com.linkedin.ugc.ShareContent": {
"shareCommentary": {
"attributes": [],
"text": "Some share text"
}
}
},
"visibility": {
"com.linkedin.ugc.MemberNetworkVisibility": "PUBLIC"
}
}
The response I get is
{"id":"urn:li:share:01234567890123456789"}
But then when I go to the company page, the post is not visible. Note that the IDs are redacted here. Is there another step I have to take?
edit: I went to verify the post with the endpoint https://api.linkedin.com/v2/ugcPosts/[redacted URN]?viewContext=AUTHOR and my post is a success
{
"lifecycleState": "PUBLISHED",
"specificContent": {
"com.linkedin.ugc.ShareContent": {
"shareCommentary": {
"inferredLocale": "en_US",
"attributes": [],
"text": "Test article sharing article on LinkedIn API , please ignore"
},
"media": [
{
"media": "urn:li:digitalmediaAsset:XXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
"title": {
"attributes": [],
"text": "image"
},
"thumbnails": [],
"status": "READY"
}
],
"shareFeatures": {
"hashtags": []
},
"shareMediaCategory": "IMAGE"
}
},
"visibility": {
"com.linkedin.ugc.MemberNetworkVisibility": "PUBLIC"
},
"created": {
"actor": "urn:li:person:XXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
"time": 1649285262053
},
"author": "urn:li:organization:XXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
"clientApplication": "urn:li:developerApplication:XXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
"versionTag": "0",
"id": "urn:li:share:XXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
"firstPublishedAt": 1649285262053,
"lastModified": {
"actor": "urn:li:csUser:7",
"time": 1649285262122
},
"distribution": {
"externalDistributionChannels": [],
"distributedViaFollowFeed": true,
"feedDistribution": "MAIN_FEED"
},
"contentCertificationRecord": "{\"spamRestriction\":{\"classifications\":[],\"contentQualityClassifications\":[],\"systemName\":\"MACHINE_SYNC\",\"lowQuality\":false,\"contentClassificationTrackingId\":\"073BB82AD64A7608E3F142B6D0362E3D\",\"contentRelevanceClassifications\":[],\"spam\":false},\"originCountryCode\":\"ca\",\"modifiedAt\":1649285262024,\"contentHash\":{\"extractedContentMd5Hash\":\"0725A7E31B109EB4CFB84D2648CE3EC8\",\"lastModifiedAt\":1649285262023}}"
}
What am I missing here?? Why is it now showing on LinkedIn??
edit2 : went ahead and tried to share the post again, now all the posts are gone from the company page when viewed as admin, but showing (except the API posts) as a member.... How broken is this API ??????

Answer 1

I will answer my own post. Uploads using CurlFile DO NOT WORK, you have to use Guzzle... Once the upload & publishing are done, the feed will unbreak itself.. The company page will be broken if the endpoint is still waiting for upload while you post.
$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();
$res = $client->request('PUT', $__url, [
'headers' => [
'Authorization' => 'Bearer ' . $__token
],
'body' => fopen($__file, 'r')
]
);
if($res){
$res = json_decode($res->getBody());
}