Linkedin Scraper ================ 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 and much more. Installation ------------ Install the gem from RubyGems: gem install linkedin-scraper This gem is tested on Ruby versions 1.8.7, 1.9.2 1.9.3 and 2.0.0 Usage ----- Initialize a scraper instance for an URL, like this: profile = Linkedin::Profile.get_profile("http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffweiner08") 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.name #The Full name of the profile 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.picture #the profile pic url of contact profile.skills #the skills of the profile profile.organizations #the organizations of the profile profile.education #Array of hashes for eduction profile.picture #url of the profile picture 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 #Array of hash containing its past job companies and job profile #Example [ [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.linkedin_url #url of the profile profile.websites #Array of websites [ [0] "http://www.linkedin.com/" ] profile.groups #Array of hashes containing group name and link profile.education #Array of hashes for eduction profile.skills #Array of skills profile.picture #url of the profile picture profile.recommended_visitors #Its 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 } ] ## Credits - [Justin Grevich](https://github.com/jgrevich) - [Vpoola](https://github.com/vpoola88) - [Mark Walker](https://github.com/jfdimark) You're welcome to fork this project and send pull requests. I want to thank specially: