Connect to Linkedin API with Power Query

Hello
Is there a way to create Power Query queries that connect to Linkedin API permanently (like Power Query does with Facebook)? I know it is possible to access Linkedin API the way Shish Shridar did it, but it is pretty limited and thus frustrating (see his
article entitled "Analyzing LinkedIn Data using PowerBI" on his blog).
I am sorry to ask without more technical details, but I am pretty new to Power query. I guess it has something to do with OAuth2 authentification not being implemented in Power query...
I would be delighted If someone would be kind enough to provide me some insight on this issue !

Thanks for your answer.
What if I create an app to get the required access token etc? I know an excel add-on could be considered as a Twitter app, and thus be able to connect to the website's API (I'm thinking about Analytics for Twitter 2013 for instance) - is there any way to
do the same with Linkedin?
I guess this is far beyond my capacities for now, but any insight would be very much appreciated !
[EDIT]
I did a little more research... I created a Linkedin app and then followed the steps described on the official documentation to enable it to make authenticated API calls to LinkedIn using OAuth 2.0 (I cannot use hyperlink for now, but here is the full link
to the official doc : https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/oauth2)
Maybe some VBA would be able to request an authorization code following this type of URL : https://www.linkedin.com/uas/oauth2/authorization?response_type=code&client_id=MYCLEINTID&state=STATE&redirect_uri=MYREDIRECTURL
- Then the user will be presented with LinkedIn's authentication dialog box. Is VBA able to fill in this login form?
-If it is, then it should get the code displayed in the redirection URL, which looks like :
MYREDIRECTURL?code=THECODETOGETWITHVBA&state=STATE
-If VBA could, then it just has to go to this new URL : https://www.linkedin.com/uas/oauth2/accessToken?grant_type=authorization_code&code=THECODETOGETWITHVBA&redirect_uri=MYREDIRECTURL&client_id=MYCLIENTID&state=STATE&client_secret=MYCLIENTSECRET
-At this point, the last URL returns the access token, which could then be stored somewhere in Excel and thus used in Power Query (pretty easy to do using a headers like this:
Headers=[#"Authorization"="Bearer Access Token"]])
Hope someone will see this and tell me if it is feasible and likely to succeed.

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