[![Build Status](https://secure.travis-ci.org/yatish27/linkedin-scraper.png)](http://travis-ci.org/yatish27/linkedin-scraper) [![Gem Version](https://badge.fury.io/rb/linkedin-scraper.png)](http://badge.fury.io/rb/linkedin-scraper) Linkedin Scraper ================ Linkedin-scraper is a gem for scraping linkedin public profiles. Given the URL of the profile, it gets the name, country, title, area, current companies, past companies, organizations, skills, groups, etc ## Installation Install the gem from RubyGems: gem install linkedin-scraper This gem is tested on 1.9.2, 1.9.3, 2.0.0, JRuby1.9, rbx1.9, ## Usage Initialize a scraper instance profile = Linkedin::Profile.get_profile("http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffweiner08") The returning object responds to the following methods 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 job title profile.summary # The summary of the profile 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 picture link of profile profile.skills # Array of skills of the profile profile.organizations # Array organizations of the profile profile.education # Array of hashes for education profile.websites # Array of websites profile.groups # Array of groups profile.languages # Array of languages profile.certifications # Array of certifications profile.number_of_connections # The number of connections as a string For current and past companies it also provides the details of the companies like company size, industry, address, etc 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 [ [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.recommended_visitors #It is 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 } ] The gem also comes with a binary and can be used from the command line to get a json response of the scraped data. It takes the url as the first argument. linkedin-scraper http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffweiner08 ## Contributing Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/yatish27/linkedin-scraper. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the [Contributor Covenant](contributor-covenant.org) code of conduct. ## License The gem is available as open source under the terms of the [MIT License](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).