Linkedin-Scraper <img src=“http://travis-ci.org/jaimeiniesta/metainspector.png” />¶ ↑

Linkedin-scraper is a gem for scraping linkedin public profiles. You give it an URL, and it lets you easily get its title,name,country,area,current_companies .

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¶ ↑

Initialize a scraper instance for an URL, like this:

profile = Linkedin::Profile.get_profile('http://in.linkedin.com/pub/yatish-mehta/22/460/a86')

Then you can see the scraped data like this:

profile.first_name          #the First name of the contact

profile.last_name           #the last name of the contact

profile.title               #the linkedin job title

profile.location            #the location of the contact

profile.country             #the country of the contact

profile.industry            #the domain for which the contact belongs

profile.past_companies
  #Array of hash containing its past job companies and job profile
  #Example
  #  [
  #     [0] {
  #                 :past_company => "Consumyze Software",
  #                   :past_title => "Trainee",
  #         :past_company_website => "http://www.consumyze.com",
  #                  :description => "Responsible for design and development"
  #     },
  #     [1] {
  #                 :past_company => "SunGard Global Services",
  #                   :past_title => "Project Intern",
  #         :past_company_website => "http://www.sungard.com/globalservices/learnmore",
  #                  :description => "Fame PassPoint. Developed an entirely Ajax based online control panel for user management and Data access for Fame"
  #     }
  # ]
profile.current_companies
  #Array of hash containing its current job companies and job profile
  #Example
  #  [
  #    [0] {
  #          :current_title => "Intern",
  #        :current_company => "Sungard"
  #     :current_company_url=>"http://www.betterlabs.net",
  #             :description=>"Responsible for design and development of projects on Ruby on Rails."
  #        },
  #    [1] {
  #          :current_title  => "Software Developer",
  #        :current_company  => "Microsoft"
  #     :current_company_url =>"http://www.microsoft.net",
  #             :description =>"Development and design"

  #        }
  #  ]

profile.linkedin_url        #url of the profile

profile.websites
  #Array of websites
  #[
  # [0] "http://www.yatishmehta.in"
  #]

profile.groups
  #Array of hashes containing group name and link
  # [
  #     [ 0] {
  #         :name => "Business on Rails",
  #         :link => "http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Business-on-Rails-27822"
  #     },
  #     [ 1] {
  #         :name => "HTML5 Technologies",
  #         :link => "http://www.linkedin.com/groups/HTML5-Technologies-2868882"
  #     },
  #     [ 2] {
  #         :name => "India on Rails",
  #         :link => "http://www.linkedin.com/groups/India-on-Rails-149940"
  #     },
  #     [ 3] {
  #         :name => "Open Source",
  #         :link => "http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=43875"
  #     },
  #     [ 4] {
  #         :name => "Rails Developers",
  #         :link => "http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=77764"
  #     },
  # ]

profile.education
  #Array of hashes for eduction
  # [
  #     [0] {
  #                :name => "Vishwakarma Institute of Technology",
  #         :description => "B.Tech, Computer Engineering",
  #              :period => "2007 – 2011"
  #     },
  #     [1] {
  #                :name => "St Ursula's High School",
  #         :description => "Secondary School Education",
  #              :period => nil
  #     }
  # ]

profile.recommended_visitors
  #Its the list of visitors "Viewers of this profile also viewed..."
  #attr_accessor :recommended_visitors = [
  #    [0] {
  #           :link =>  href="http://in.linkedin.com/in/nileshavhad?trk=pub-pbmap",
  #           :name => "Nilesh Avhad",
  #          :title => "Engineering Manager",
  #        :company => "Better Labs"
  #    },

ZOMG Fork! Thank you!¶ ↑

You’re welcome to fork this project and send pull requests. I want to thank specially:

To Do¶ ↑

* Copyright © 2009-2012 Yatish Mehta, released under the MIT license