Linkedin-Scraper

Linkedin Scraper is a gem for finding linkedin public profiles. You give it name and company of required profile, it finds linkedin profile for same, and its title, name, area, connection, etc.

Installation

Install the gem from RubyGems:

gem install linkedin_scraper

This gem is tested on Ruby versions 1.8.7, 1.9.2 and 1.9.3.

Usage

First Initialize an instance Linkedin class like this:

require 'linkedin_scraper'

linkedin = LinkedinScraper::linkedin.new

This sets the mechanize object for scraping. Now you can feed name and companies:

profile = linkedin.get_profile_data(name: some_name, company: some_company)

third option can be country: some_country (see list of supported countries below)

# List of supported countries 1) United States - country: “us” 2) United Kingdom - country: “uk” 3) Canada - country: “ca” 4) India - country: “in”

Then you can see the scraped data like this:

profile.full_name          #the First name of the profile

profile.title               #the linkedin job title

profile.location            #the location of the prfile

profile.connection           # number of connection of profile 

profile.linkedin_url        #url of the profile