import requests import simplejson as json consumer_key = "7895bbnlh1k0mn" consumer_secret = "7CjUx1xTsF2WDRAI" oauth_token = "60b8f2c4-28b6-498d-a645-9dffb8baf47d" oauth_secret = "3114e3d4-d725-482d-a11c-2e7607025a27" def getUserInfo(): req = requests.get("https://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/~") jlist = [] jlist.append(json.loads(req.content)) parsedData = [] userData = {} for data in jlist: userData['firstname'] = data['firstname'] userData['lasttname'] = data['lastname'] userData['email'] = data['email'] userData['connections'] = data['connections'] parsedData.append(userData) return parsedData