README.md

Linkedin Scraper using Scrapy

• Scrape number of profiles that exist in result of Linkedin searchUrl.
• Export the content of profiles to Excel and Json files.

Installation

• Use the package manager pip to install Scrapy.
  (Anaconda Recomended)

cd LinkedinScraperProject     
pip install -r requirements.txt    

• clone the project

git clone https://github.com/khaleddallah/GoogleImageScrapyDownloader.git

Usage

• get into the directory of the project:

cd LinkedinScraperProject   

• to get help :

python LinkedinScraper -h

usage: 
python LinkedinScraper [-h] [-n NUM] [-o OUTPUT] [-p] [-f format] [-m excelMode] (searchUrl or profilesUrl)

positional arguments:
  searchUrl     URL of Linkedin search URL or Profiles URL

optional arguments:
  -h, --help    show this help message and exit
  -n NUM        num of profiles
                ** the number must be lower or equal of result number
                'page' will parse profiles of url page (10 profiles) (Default)
  -o OUTPUT     Output file
  -p            Enable Parse Profiles
  -f FORMAT     json    Json output file
                excel    Excel file output
                all    Json and Excel output files
  -m EXCELMODE  1    to make each profile in Excel file appear in one row
                m    to make each profile in Excel file appear in multi row

Examples

• Parse ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/khaled-dallah/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/linustorvalds/ ) profiles and export the result content to ABC.xlsx and ABC.json
  (-p) because of parsing single profiles

python LinkedinScraper -p -o 'ABC' 'https://www.linkedin.com/in/khaled-dallah/' 'https://www.linkedin.com/in/linustorvalds/'

• Parse 23 profiles of searchUrl https://www.linkedin.com/.../?keywords=Robotic&...&
  if you don't set output name by (-o), Name of result files will be value of keywords (Robotic)

python LinkedinScraper -n 23 'https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=Robotic&origin=GLOBAL_SEARCH_HEADER'

• Parse 17 profiles of searchUrl https://www.linkedin.com/.../?keywords=Robotic&...&
  and get output as excel file and put the information of each profile in one row

python LinkedinScraper -n 17 -f excel -m 1 'https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=Robotic&origin=GLOBAL_SEARCH_HEADER'

Built with

• Python 3.7
• Scrapy
• openpyxl

Author

• Khaled Dallah - Software Engineer | Python/c++ Developer
  [email protected]

Issues:

Report bugs and feature requests here.

Contribute

Contributions are always welcome!

License

This project is licensed under the LGPL-V3.0 License - see the LICENSE.md file for details