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