README.md in linkedin-scraper-0.0.10 vs README.md in linkedin-scraper-0.0.11
- old
+ new
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+[](http://travis-ci.org/yatishmehta27/linkedin-scraper)
+
Linkedin Scraper
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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.
+Given the URL of the profile, it gets the name, country, title, area, current companies, past comapnies,organizations, skills, groups, etc
-Installation
-------------
+##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
+This gem is tested on 1.9.2, 1.9.3, 2.0.0, JRuby1.9, rbx1.9,
-Usage
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+##Usage
-Initialize a scraper instance for an URL, like this:
+Initialize a scraper instance
+
profile = Linkedin::Profile.get_profile("http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffweiner08")
-Then you can see the scraped data like this:
+The returning object responds to the following methods
- profile.first_name #the First name of the contact
+ profile.first_name # The first name of the contact
- profile.last_name #the last name of the contact
+ profile.last_name # The last name of the contact
- profile.name #The Full name of the profile
+ profile.name # The full name of the profile
- profile.title #the linkedin job title
+ profile.title # The job title
- profile.location #the location of the contact
+ profile.summary # The summary of the profile
- profile.country #the country of the contact
+ profile.location # The location of the contact
- profile.industry #the domain for which the contact belongs
+ profile.country # The country of the contact
- profile.picture #the profile pic url of contact
+ profile.industry # The domain for which the contact belongs
- profile.skills #the skills of the profile
+ profile.picture # The profile picture link of profile
- profile.organizations #the organizations of the profile
+ profile.skills # Array of skills of the profile
- profile.education #Array of hashes for eduction
+ profile.organizations # Array organizations of the profile
- profile.picture #url of the profile picture
+ 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
+
+For current and past comapnies it also provides the details of the companies like comapny size, industry, address, etc
+
profile.current_companies
[
[0] {
:current_company => "LinkedIn",
@@ -114,12 +126,10 @@
}
]
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",
@@ -179,34 +189,12 @@
: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..."
+ #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 ",
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:title => nil,
:company => nil
}
]
-## Credits
-- [Justin Grevich](https://github.com/jgrevich)
-- [Vpoola](https://github.com/vpoola88)
-- [Mark Walker](https://github.com/jfdimark)
+The gem also comes with a binary and can be used from teh command line to get a json response of the scraped data. It takes the url as the first argument.
-You're welcome to fork this project and send pull requests. I want to thank specially:
+ linkedin-scraper http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffweiner08
+
+You're welcome to fork this project and send pull requests