Searching CPAN I was rather surprised that the only general modules for connecting to LinkedIn seem to be WWW::LinkedIn and Net::Linkedin::OAuth2 - both of these date from before Microsoft acquired LinkedIn 5 years ago...unbelievable that it is that long ago!

Since the 5th April, Hootsuite have reduced the number of scheduled posts permitted on free accounts down to just 5 and we don't use the other features to warrant the paid price tag. We already have an automated Twitter scheduler and I want to add LinkedIn to it so just need something to authenticate, read the timestamp of the latest post and be able to create a post containing media.

Before I write something to do this, are there any modules available or should I try out the modules above despite their age?

In reply to LinkedIn module by Bod

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