Hey gang. I'm up late thinking of various ways I can better manage my own list of LinkedIn Connections beyond the features LinkedIn presents to us users. This is my own personal profile where I basically want to customize how I view, arrange, and organize all the various details of people I am associated with. I want to be able to associate a face with a name in the database I am making though so that will include requiring me to save the profile photo of all my connections. Ugh...
[Request]
What is a clean and repeatable way to scrape and associate the images of each person from the page below so that my output is a list of profile images correctly associated with the corresponding name and job details?
Note: I'm an avid user of Jitbit MacroRecorder already and as a last resort would consider automating a manual workaround using that method, so if your solution is in this realm I'm hoping to save those options for later. Ideally though, I'd like to take the features or tools used from other page scraping methods many users here may use yet I'm personally just not familiar with. I don't want to reinvent the wheel if I don't have to for this basic element, you know?
[Background Info]
I am essentially working on building a personal 'Skill Clustering' interface where I can aggregate user contact details like skill sets and experience into a 'Potential Team' based on certain criteria I select.
For instance, lets say I have a Chef friend with a great twist on the food truck idea and *would* start a business but frankly is intimidated at the thought on their own. Well, I know there are 5 others probably within my own network who not only have the skills my friend is lacking, but would *also* jump at the chance to tag team a business venture exactly like that; as it sits now, those 6 people will never meet. Therefore, I want to pop into my program the various background skills he might need in a team such as website management, logo design, app development, regulatory requirements, food truck marketing, etc and then generate these potential teams that I could essentially start probing for interest.
[Request]
What is a clean and repeatable way to scrape and associate the images of each person from the page below so that my output is a list of profile images correctly associated with the corresponding name and job details?
[Background Info]
I am essentially working on building a personal 'Skill Clustering' interface where I can aggregate user contact details like skill sets and experience into a 'Potential Team' based on certain criteria I select.
For instance, lets say I have a Chef friend with a great twist on the food truck idea and *would* start a business but frankly is intimidated at the thought on their own. Well, I know there are 5 others probably within my own network who not only have the skills my friend is lacking, but would *also* jump at the chance to tag team a business venture exactly like that; as it sits now, those 6 people will never meet. Therefore, I want to pop into my program the various background skills he might need in a team such as website management, logo design, app development, regulatory requirements, food truck marketing, etc and then generate these potential teams that I could essentially start probing for interest.
Non-profit Commercialized Version - See note below
Side Note: This is a personal version acting as a precursor concept to much wider visions I have for a non-profit commercialized version that would enable people to sync LinkedIn data online and manually add other types of skills and interests; the eventual goal is a system that can intelligently pair people for introduction and discussion based on their mutual entrepreneurial skills and passions.
I've been told by close business friends to not share even the fringes of this concept out of worry it could be taken and launched successfully by someone else... Here's the thing... this is something LinkedIn et al are frankly negligent for not already enabling users of the world to benefit from today; to that end, I want it stolen so that eventually the big guys do copy it themselves; so feel free to reinvent your own version of this concept and do what you want with it free and clear, who knows maybe we'll work on it together someday. My long term goal isn't to make something heavily used and positively impactful that makes my wallet just as heavy; I just want to see the potential of a system organized like this to be available to the masses like it should be already. Hopefully, the threat of a high potential pairing system like this gaining traction would simply instigate LinkedIn and others to follow suit and invest in implementing the functionality into their own systems. If they were smart and appropriately ambitious they would already have done this with designs of monetizing the business creation aspect. Oh well. For now
Your comments, insight, and time/thought invested is much appreciated! Thank you in advance.Side Note: This is a personal version acting as a precursor concept to much wider visions I have for a non-profit commercialized version that would enable people to sync LinkedIn data online and manually add other types of skills and interests; the eventual goal is a system that can intelligently pair people for introduction and discussion based on their mutual entrepreneurial skills and passions.
I've been told by close business friends to not share even the fringes of this concept out of worry it could be taken and launched successfully by someone else... Here's the thing... this is something LinkedIn et al are frankly negligent for not already enabling users of the world to benefit from today; to that end, I want it stolen so that eventually the big guys do copy it themselves; so feel free to reinvent your own version of this concept and do what you want with it free and clear, who knows maybe we'll work on it together someday. My long term goal isn't to make something heavily used and positively impactful that makes my wallet just as heavy; I just want to see the potential of a system organized like this to be available to the masses like it should be already. Hopefully, the threat of a high potential pairing system like this gaining traction would simply instigate LinkedIn and others to follow suit and invest in implementing the functionality into their own systems. If they were smart and appropriately ambitious they would already have done this with designs of monetizing the business creation aspect. Oh well. For now
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