PingOne Platform APIs

Create Identity Provider Attribute (LinkedIn Legacy Deprecated)

   

POST {{apiPath}}/environments/{{envID}}/identityProviders/{{providerID}}/attributes

The POST {{apiPath}}/environments/{{envID}}/identityProviders/{{providerID}}/attributes operation adds a new identity provider attribute mapping resource for the specified identity provider.

For LINKEDIN type attribute mappings, supported Google provider attributes can be mapped to any searchable PingOne user attribute.

Deprecation notice: PingOne no longer supports the LINKEDIN external identity provider type. You can set the type to LINKEDIN_OIDC to connect with LinkedIn through OpenID Connect (refer to POST Create Identity Provider Attribute (LinkedIn OIDC)). The LINKEDIN type is deprecated and will be removed in February 2026.

If LinkedIn is specified as the the external identity provider, a subset of LinkedIn provider attributes can be used as the mapping attribute placeholder value.

The placeholder value must use the following syntax:

${providerAttributes.<LinkedIn attribute name>}

When you create a new LinkedIn identity provider entity, the POST request automatically maps the PingOne username attribute to the LinkedIn emailAddress attribute. The username attribute is the core mapping attribute; the default LinkedIn attribute value is emailAddress. It is also recommended that you map the PingOne email attribute to the LinkedIn emailAddress attribute.

The request body for the email-to-email mapping looks like this, with the value attribute showing the LinkedIn emailAddress attribute expressed using the placeholder syntax:

{
    "name": "email",
    "update": "EMPTY_ONLY",
    "value": "${providerAttributes.emailAddress}"
}

Refer to Identity Provider Attributes for more information. Refer also to Base IdP data model for the properties available to all of the supported identity providers.

Prerequisites

Headers

Authorization      Bearer {{accessToken}}

Content-Type      application/json

Body

raw ( application/json )

{
    "name": "email",
    "update": "EMPTY_ONLY",
    "value": "${providerAttributes.emailAddress}"
}

Example Request

  • cURL

  • C#

  • Go

  • HTTP

  • Java

  • jQuery

  • NodeJS

  • Python

  • PHP

  • Ruby

  • Swift

curl --location --globoff '{{apiPath}}/environments/{{envID}}/identityProviders/{{providerID}}/attributes' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer {{accessToken}}' \
--data '{
    "name": "email",
    "update": "EMPTY_ONLY",
    "value": "${providerAttributes.emailAddress}"
}'
var options = new RestClientOptions("{{apiPath}}/environments/{{envID}}/identityProviders/{{providerID}}/attributes")
{
  MaxTimeout = -1,
};
var client = new RestClient(options);
var request = new RestRequest("", Method.Post);
request.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer {{accessToken}}");
var body = @"{" + "\n" +
@"    ""name"": ""email""," + "\n" +
@"    ""update"": ""EMPTY_ONLY""," + "\n" +
@"    ""value"": ""${providerAttributes.emailAddress}""" + "\n" +
@"}";
request.AddStringBody(body, DataFormat.Json);
RestResponse response = await client.ExecuteAsync(request);
Console.WriteLine(response.Content);
package main

import (
  "fmt"
  "strings"
  "net/http"
  "io"
)

func main() {

  url := "{{apiPath}}/environments/{{envID}}/identityProviders/{{providerID}}/attributes"
  method := "POST"

  payload := strings.NewReader(`{
    "name": "email",
    "update": "EMPTY_ONLY",
    "value": "${providerAttributes.emailAddress}"
}`)

  client := &http.Client {
  }
  req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, payload)

  if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
    return
  }
  req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
  req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer {{accessToken}}")

  res, err := client.Do(req)
  if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
    return
  }
  defer res.Body.Close()

  body, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
  if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
    return
  }
  fmt.Println(string(body))
}
POST /environments/{{envID}}/identityProviders/{{providerID}}/attributes HTTP/1.1
Host: {{apiPath}}
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer {{accessToken}}

{
    "name": "email",
    "update": "EMPTY_ONLY",
    "value": "${providerAttributes.emailAddress}"
}
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient().newBuilder()
  .build();
MediaType mediaType = MediaType.parse("application/json");
RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(mediaType, "{\n    \"name\": \"email\",\n    \"update\": \"EMPTY_ONLY\",\n    \"value\": \"${providerAttributes.emailAddress}\"\n}");
Request request = new Request.Builder()
  .url("{{apiPath}}/environments/{{envID}}/identityProviders/{{providerID}}/attributes")
  .method("POST", body)
  .addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .addHeader("Authorization", "Bearer {{accessToken}}")
  .build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();
var settings = {
  "url": "{{apiPath}}/environments/{{envID}}/identityProviders/{{providerID}}/attributes",
  "method": "POST",
  "timeout": 0,
  "headers": {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Authorization": "Bearer {{accessToken}}"
  },
  "data": JSON.stringify({
    "name": "email",
    "update": "EMPTY_ONLY",
    "value": "${providerAttributes.emailAddress}"
  }),
};

$.ajax(settings).done(function (response) {
  console.log(response);
});
var request = require('request');
var options = {
  'method': 'POST',
  'url': '{{apiPath}}/environments/{{envID}}/identityProviders/{{providerID}}/attributes',
  'headers': {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'Authorization': 'Bearer {{accessToken}}'
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "name": "email",
    "update": "EMPTY_ONLY",
    "value": "${providerAttributes.emailAddress}"
  })

};
request(options, function (error, response) {
  if (error) throw new Error(error);
  console.log(response.body);
});
import requests
import json

url = "{{apiPath}}/environments/{{envID}}/identityProviders/{{providerID}}/attributes"

payload = json.dumps({
  "name": "email",
  "update": "EMPTY_ONLY",
  "value": "${providerAttributes.emailAddress}"
})
headers = {
  'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  'Authorization': 'Bearer {{accessToken}}'
}

response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, data=payload)

print(response.text)
<?php
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';
$request = new HTTP_Request2();
$request->setUrl('{{apiPath}}/environments/{{envID}}/identityProviders/{{providerID}}/attributes');
$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_POST);
$request->setConfig(array(
  'follow_redirects' => TRUE
));
$request->setHeader(array(
  'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
  'Authorization' => 'Bearer {{accessToken}}'
));
$request->setBody('{\n    "name": "email",\n    "update": "EMPTY_ONLY",\n    "value": "${providerAttributes.emailAddress}"\n}');
try {
  $response = $request->send();
  if ($response->getStatus() == 200) {
    echo $response->getBody();
  }
  else {
    echo 'Unexpected HTTP status: ' . $response->getStatus() . ' ' .
    $response->getReasonPhrase();
  }
}
catch(HTTP_Request2_Exception $e) {
  echo 'Error: ' . $e->getMessage();
}
require "uri"
require "json"
require "net/http"

url = URI("{{apiPath}}/environments/{{envID}}/identityProviders/{{providerID}}/attributes")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port);
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Content-Type"] = "application/json"
request["Authorization"] = "Bearer {{accessToken}}"
request.body = JSON.dump({
  "name": "email",
  "update": "EMPTY_ONLY",
  "value": "\${providerAttributes.emailAddress}"
})

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
let parameters = "{\n    \"name\": \"email\",\n    \"update\": \"EMPTY_ONLY\",\n    \"value\": \"${providerAttributes.emailAddress}\"\n}"
let postData = parameters.data(using: .utf8)

var request = URLRequest(url: URL(string: "{{apiPath}}/environments/{{envID}}/identityProviders/{{providerID}}/attributes")!,timeoutInterval: Double.infinity)
request.addValue("application/json", forHTTPHeaderField: "Content-Type")
request.addValue("Bearer {{accessToken}}", forHTTPHeaderField: "Authorization")

request.httpMethod = "POST"
request.httpBody = postData

let task = URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: request) { data, response, error in
  guard let data = data else {
    print(String(describing: error))
    return
  }
  print(String(data: data, encoding: .utf8)!)
}

task.resume()

Example Response

201 Created

{
    "_links": {
        "self": {
            "href": "https://api.pingone.com/v1/environments/abfba8f6-49eb-49f5-a5d9-80ad5c98f9f6/identityProviders/ad6e99f3-1053-4ce0-9623-09bab0a1c74a/attributes/065281f6-923d-483f-a63f-98888b0c7b01"
        },
        "identityProvider": {
            "href": "https://api.pingone.com/environments/abfba8f6-49eb-49f5-a5d9-80ad5c98f9f6/identityProviders/e46e99f3-1053-4ce0-9623-09bab0a1c74a"
        }
    },
    "name": "email",
    "value": "${providerAttributes.emailAddress}",
    "update": "EMPTY_ONLY",
    "id": "065281f6-923d-483f-a63f-98888b0c7b01",
    "mappingType": "CUSTOM",
    "environment": {
        "id": "abfba8f6-49eb-49f5-a5d9-80ad5c98f9f6"
    },
    "identityProvider": {
        "id": "e46e99f3-1053-4ce0-9623-09bab0a1c74a"
    },
    "createdAt": 1559592542048,
    "updatedAt": 1559592542048
}