How to Scrape LinkedIn Profiles

In its simplest form, web scraping is about making requests and extracting data from the response. For a small web scraping project, your code can be simple. You just need to find a few patterns in the URLs and in the HTML response and you’re in business.


Today we will learn the basic steps to extract information from the public Linkedin profiles. Information like:

1. Complete public profile,
2. User skills etc.


Development

JLinkedin Scrapper is written in python exesulsilvery from my to enables the highly efficient way to extract information from Linkedin. 


JLinkedin Scrapper python package to scrape all details from public linkedin profiles. It can also be used as a parser to transform html linkedin profiles into structured json.



Requriment

1. Python:  We will use python programming language to extract the data from the Linkedin profiles.

2. Python : it relies on two packages;

A. CustomRequest 
B. LinkedinItem 

Execution steps:

Command line

JLinkedin Scrapper comes with a simple command line argument module.

Options:

• -u --url : Url of the profile you want to scrape
• -a --attribute : Display only a specific attribute, display everything by default
• -f --file_path : Raw path to html file of the profile you want to scrape
• -h --help : Show this screen.

Examples:

• Get a json of Samay jain profile: jlinkedin -u https://www.linkedin.com/in/samayjain

• Get only the skills of Samay jain: jlinkedin -u https://www.linkedin.com/in/samayjain -a skills

• Parse html stored profile and get json: jlinkedin  -f /path/file.html

Download

Please contact me directly or leave your email id with exact requirement and I will share the download link to your inbox.

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