A python repository which scrapes basic linkedin profile informations To scrape linkedin profiles you need to signin with you own username/password. This program scrapes data for certain number of test profiles. The insructions provided is to make the sraper work over a Ubuntu 16.04 OS. However, if the applications provided in the requirements section are installed, it should work with Windows or MAC OSX The scraped data are following
- Name
- Location
- Education
- Number of connections
- Python3
- pip3 (sudo apt install python3-pip)
- Selenium (pip3 install selenium)
- Google Chrome
- Chromewebdriver
- Download the latest chromedriver https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.38/chromedriver_linux64.zip
- Unzip the file
- chmod +x chromedriver
- sudo mv -f chromedriver /usr/local/share/chromedriver
- sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/chromedriver /usr/local/bin/chromedriver
- sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/chromedriver /usr/bin/chromedriver
- sudo pip3 install selenium
- Run scraper.py (python3 scraper.py)
- It will prompt for email/password for your linkedin profile
- It will genrate a CSV file with all the scaped outputs