Linkedin Cypress automation

Cypress automation for getting mutual connections with companies to leadgen them.

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Installation

Getting sources

0. First You have to check that Node.js is installed
1. Run the terminal console and checkout the project by git clone https://github.com/procoders/salesnav-collect-1.git
2. Go to project folder by cd ~/salesnav-collect-1
3. Install all the packages by running npm i

Find out your LinkedIn token

Use Chrome browser for the following steps:

1. Navigate to Linkedin.com and log in
2. Open up the browser developer tools (Ctrl-Shift-I or right click -> inspect element)
3. Select the Application tab
4. Under the Storage header on the left-hand menu, click the Cookies dropdown and select www.linkedin.com
5. Find the li_at cookie, and double click the value to select it before copying

Your token will look like AQEDAQe65gUEbNDLAAABcN6bpJMAAAFxAmcok00AAsz3E4cwkpIwJcrtHt8HloLcGOdyhIcwPIvuoYDUQqSu3RhUrauqaT7GRfzn. Keep somewhere for futher use

Ready to go

Build accounts lists

1. Put csv with companies list from Crunchbase with LinkedIn column to fixtures/crunchbase-lists folder
2. Run

npm run build-list -- --env it_at=<your_linked_in_token>,listname=<your_file_name_without_csv_extension>

For example

npm run build-list -- --env it_at=AQEDAQe65gUEbNDLAAABcN6bpJMAAAFxAmcok00AAsz3E4cwkpIwJcrtHt8HloLcGOdyhIcwPIvuoYDUQqSu3RhUrauqaT7GRfzn,listname=demo-crunch

You will find you updated account list with companies at your SalesNav account

Collect mutual for saved lists

Run

npm run mutuals -- --env it_at=<your_linked_in_token>,listname=<your_file_name_without_csv_extension>,searchurl="<your_search_url_from_linkedin>"

You will be able to get your result csv as fixtures/contacts/mutuals-<your_listname>.csv file

For example

npm run mutuals-list -- --env it_at="AQEDAQe65gUEbNDLAAABcN6bpJMAAAFxAmcok00AAsz3E4cwkpIwJcrtHt8HloLcGOdyhIcwPIvuoYDUQqSu3RhUrauqaT7GRfzn",listname="demo-crunch",searchurl=https://www.linkedin.com/sales/search/people?doFetchHeroCard=false&excludeContactedLeads=true&excludeSavedLeads=true

Visual mode

Since you wnat to see how script works in a realtime browser than use

npm run cypress:open -- --env  .....

How to drop list progress and start from scratch

In cypress/state subfolder you will see files according to your LinkedIn lists names. Since deliting it you purge the state and list collecting will be started from scratch

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.

License

MIT

Authors

Procoders.TECH

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