Linkedin Scraper - An fully configurable Linkedin scrape

Scrapes any Linkedin data.

Installation

$ pip install git+git://github.com/jqueguiner/lk_scraper

Setup

Using Docker compose

$ docker-compose up -d
$ docker-compose run lk_scraper python3

Using Docker only for selenium server

First, you need to run a selenium server

$ docker run -d -p 4444:4444 --shm-size 2g selenium/standalone-firefox:3.141.59-20200326

After running this command, from the browser navigate to your IP address followed by the port number and /grid/console. So the command will be http://localhost:4444/grid/console.

Retrieving Cookie

Browser-Independent:

Navigate to Linkedin.com and log in
Open up the browser developer tools (Ctrl-Shift-I or right click -> inspect element)  

Chrome:

Select the Application tab
Under the Storage header on the left-hand menu, click the Cookies dropdown and select www.linkedin.com
Find the li_at cookie, and double click the value to select it before copying

Firefox:

Select Storage tab
Click the Cookies dropdown and select www.linkedin.com
Find and copy the li_at value

Setting up the cookie

Method 1: Setting the cookie in the config file

You can add your LinkedIn li_at cookie in the config file that is located in your home (~/.lk_scraper/config.yml) see:

Method 2: Setting the cookie at the Scraper level

from lk_scraper import Scraper
li_at = "My_super_linkedin_cookie"
scraper = Scraper(li_at=li_at)

Method 3: Using Variable Environment

(Not implemented Yet)

$ export LI_AT="My_super_linkedin_cookie"

A full working example

run the jupyter notebook linkedin-example.ipynb

Usage

from lk_scraper import Scraper
scraper = Scraper()

Company Scraping

from lk_scraper import Scraper
scraper = Scraper()
company = scraper.get_object(object_name='company', object_id='apple')

Profil Scraping

from lk_scraper import Scraper
scraper = Scraper()
profil = scraper.get_object(object_name='profil', object_id='jlqueguiner')