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Linkedin Scraper

Linkedin-scraper is a gem for scraping linkedin public profiles. Given the URL of the profile, it gets the name, country, title, area, current companies, past comapnies,organizations, skills, groups, etc

##Installation

Install the gem from RubyGems:

gem install linkedin-scraper

This gem is tested on 1.9.2, 1.9.3, 2.0.0, JRuby1.9, rbx1.9,

##Usage

Initialize a scraper instance

profile = Linkedin::Profile.get_profile("http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffweiner08")

The returning object responds to the following methods

profile.first_name          # The first name of the contact

profile.last_name           # The last name of the contact

profile.name                # The full name of the profile

profile.title               # The job title

profile.summary             # The summary of the profile

profile.location            # The location of the contact

profile.country             # The country of the contact

profile.industry            # The domain for which the contact belongs

profile.picture             # The profile picture link of profile

profile.skills              # Array of skills of the profile

profile.organizations       # Array organizations of the profile

profile.education           # Array of hashes for education

profile.websites            # Array of websites

profile.groups              # Array of groups

profile.languages           # Array of languages

profile.certifications      # Array of certifications

For current and past comapnies it also provides the details of the companies like comapny size, industry, address, etc

profile.current_companies

[
[0] {
         :current_company => "LinkedIn",
           :current_title => "CEO",
     :current_company_url => "http://www.linkedin.com",
             :description => nil,
    :linkedin_company_url => "http://www.linkedin.com/company/linkedin?trk=ppro_cprof",
                     :url => "http://www.linkedin.com",
                    :type => "Public Company",
            :company_size => "1001-5000 employees",
                 :website => "http://www.linkedin.com",
                :industry => "Internet",
                 :founded => "2003",
                 :address => "2029 Stierlin Court  Mountain View, CA 94043 United States"
},
[1] {
         :current_company => "Intuit",
           :current_title => "Member, Board of Directors",
     :current_company_url => "http://network.intuit.com/",
             :description => nil,
    :linkedin_company_url => "http://www.linkedin.com/company/intuit?trk=ppro_cprof",
                     :url => "http://network.intuit.com/",
                    :type => "Public Company",
            :company_size => "5001-10,000 employees",
                 :website => "http://network.intuit.com/",
                :industry => "Computer Software",
                 :founded => "1983",
                 :address => "2632 Marine Way  Mountain View, CA 94043 United States"
},
[2] {
         :current_company => "DonorsChoose",
           :current_title => "Member, Board of Directors",
     :current_company_url => "http://www.donorschoose.org",
             :description => nil,
    :linkedin_company_url => "http://www.linkedin.com/company/donorschoose.org?trk=ppro_cprof",
                     :url => "http://www.donorschoose.org",
                    :type => "Nonprofit",
            :company_size => "51-200 employees",
                 :website => "http://www.donorschoose.org",
                :industry => "Nonprofit Organization Management",
                 :founded => "2000",
                 :address => "213 West 35th Street 2nd Floor East New York, NY 10001 United States"
},
[3] {
        :current_company => "Malaria No More",
          :current_title => "Member, Board of Directors",
    :current_company_url => nil,
            :description => nil
},
[4] {
         :current_company => "Venture For America",
           :current_title => "Member, Advisory Board",
     :current_company_url => "http://ventureforamerica.org/",
             :description => nil,
    :linkedin_company_url => "http://www.linkedin.com/company/venture-for-america?trk=ppro_cprof",
                     :url => "http://ventureforamerica.org/",
                    :type => "Nonprofit",
            :company_size => "1-10 employees",
                 :website => "http://ventureforamerica.org/",
                :industry => "Nonprofit Organization Management",
                 :founded => "2011"
}
]


profile.past_companies
[
[0] {
            :past_company => "Accel Partners",
              :past_title => "Executive in Residence",
    :past_company_website => "http://www.facebook.com/accel",
             :description => nil,
    :linkedin_company_url => "http://www.linkedin.com/company/accel-partners?trk=ppro_cprof",
                     :url => "http://www.facebook.com/accel",
                    :type => "Partnership",
            :company_size => "51-200 employees",
                 :website => "http://www.facebook.com/accel",
                :industry => "Venture Capital & Private Equity",
                 :address => "428 University Palo Alto, CA 94301 United States"
},
[1] {
            :past_company => "Greylock",
              :past_title => "Executive in Residence",
    :past_company_website => "http://www.greylock.com",
             :description => nil,
    :linkedin_company_url => "http://www.linkedin.com/company/greylock-partners?trk=ppro_cprof",
                     :url => "http://www.greylock.com",
                    :type => "Partnership",
            :company_size => "51-200 employees",
                 :website => "http://www.greylock.com",
                :industry => "Venture Capital & Private Equity",
                 :address => "2550 Sand Hill Road  Menlo Park, CA 94025 United States"
},
[2] {
            :past_company => "Yahoo!",
              :past_title => "Executive Vice President Network Division",
    :past_company_website => "http://www.yahoo.com",
             :description => nil,
    :linkedin_company_url => "http://www.linkedin.com/company/yahoo?trk=ppro_cprof",
                     :url => "http://www.yahoo.com",
                    :type => "Public Company",
            :company_size => "10,001+ employees",
                 :website => "http://www.yahoo.com",
                :industry => "Internet",
                 :founded => "1994",
                 :address => "701 First Avenue  Sunnyvale, CA 94089 United States"
},
[3] {
            :past_company => "Windsor Media",
              :past_title => "Founding Partner",
    :past_company_website => nil,
             :description => nil
},
[4] {
            :past_company => "Warner Bros.",
              :past_title => "Vice President Online",
    :past_company_website => "http://www.warnerbros.com/",
             :description => nil,
    :linkedin_company_url => "http://www.linkedin.com/company/warner-bros.-entertainment-group-of-companies?trk=ppro_cprof",
                     :url => "http://www.warnerbros.com/",
                    :type => "Public Company",
            :company_size => "10,001+ employees",
                 :website => "http://www.warnerbros.com/",
                :industry => "Entertainment",
                 :address => "4000 Warner Boulevard  Burbank, CA 91522 United States"
}
]


profile.recommended_visitors
#It is the list of visitors "Viewers of this profile also viewed..."
[
[0] {
       :link => "http://www.linkedin.com/in/barackobama?trk=pub-pbmap",
       :name => "Barack Obama",
      :title => "President of the United States of ",
    :company => nil
},
[1] {
       :link => "http://www.linkedin.com/in/marissamayer?trk=pub-pbmap",
       :name => "Marissa Mayer",
      :title => "Yahoo!, President & CEO",
    :company => nil
},
[2] {
       :link => "http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sean-parker/0/1/826?trk=pub-pbmap",
       :name => "Sean Parker",
      :title => nil,
    :company => nil
},
[3] {
       :link => "http://www.linkedin.com/pub/eduardo-saverin/0/70a/31b?trk=pub-pbmap",
       :name => "Eduardo Saverin",
      :title => nil,
    :company => nil
},
[4] {
       :link => "http://www.linkedin.com/in/rbranson?trk=pub-pbmap",
       :name => "Richard Branson",
      :title => "Founder",
    :company => "Virgin Group"
},
[5] {
       :link => "http://www.linkedin.com/in/reidhoffman?trk=pub-pbmap",
       :name => "Reid Hoffman",
      :title => "Entrepreneur. Product Strategist.  ",
    :company => nil
},
[6] {
       :link => "http://www.linkedin.com/in/mdell?trk=pub-pbmap",
       :name => "Michael Dell",
      :title => "Chairman and CEO",
    :company => "Dell"
},
[7] {
       :link => "http://www.linkedin.com/in/mittromney?trk=pub-pbmap",
       :name => "Mitt Romney",
      :title => "Believe in America",
    :company => nil
},
[8] {
       :link => "http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sheryl-sandberg/2/665/512?trk=pub-pbmap",
       :name => "Sheryl Sandberg",
      :title => nil,
    :company => nil
}
]

The gem also comes with a binary and can be used from the command line to get a json response of the scraped data. It takes the url as the first argument.

linkedin-scraper http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffweiner08

You're welcome to fork this project and send pull requests

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