= Linkedin-Scraper
Linkedin Scraper is a gem for finding linkedin public profiles. You give it name and company of required profile, it finds linkedin profile for same, and its title, name, area, connection, etc.
= Installation
Install the gem from RubyGems:
gem install linkedin_scraper
This gem is tested on Ruby versions 1.8.7, 1.9.2 and 1.9.3.
= Usage
First Initialize an instance Linkedin class like this:
require 'linkedin_scraper'
linkedin = LinkedinScraper::linkedin.new
This sets the mechanize object for scraping. Now you can feed name and companies:
profile = linkedin.get_profile_data(name: some_name, company: some_company)
third option can be country: some_country (see list of supported countries below)
Then you can see the scraped data like this:
profile.full_name #the First name of the profile
profile.title #the linkedin job title
profile.location #the location of the prfile
profile.connection # number of connection of profile
profile.linkedin_url #url of the profile
Copyright (c) 2012 Bhushan Lodha, released under the MIT license.
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