I use this script to search for other IT professionals in my area and view their profiles. Especially useful for visiting recruiters, etc who then go to view your profile and send you future job prospects. If you are part of a business that uses LinkedIn and lists their staff, it also helps raise your ranking with that.
With the code below you need to replace the hxxp://xxx.linkedin.xxx part with the correct address because it wouldn't let me post links.
With the code below you need to replace the hxxp://xxx.linkedin.xxx part with the correct address because it wouldn't let me post links.
Code:
require 'rubygems'
require 'mechanize'
require 'open-uri'
require 'json'
user = 'linkedinusername or email'
pass = 'sdsdsd'
delay = 10
keywords = [
'information technology brisbane',
'it brisbane',
'cio brisbane',
'cto brisbane'
]
url = 'hxxp://xxx.linkedin.xxx/vsearch/f?type=all&trk=vsrp_people_sel&keywords='
profileurl = 'hxxp://xxx.linkedin.xxx/profile/view?id='
results = []
loggedin = false
a = Mechanize.new { |agent|
agent.user_agent_alias = 'Mac Safari'
}
a.agent.http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
a.get('hxxp://xxx.linkedin.xxx') do |page|
loggedin_page = page.form_with(:id => 'login') do |form|
form.session_key = user
form.session_password = pass
end.submit
if loggedin_page.title == 'Welcome! | LinkedIn' then loggedin = true end
end
if not loggedin then print "Couldn't logon to LinkedIn.\n"; exit; end
keywords.each { |x|
a.get(url + URI::encode(x)) do |page|
pp url + URI::encode(x)
begin
begin
jsons = page.body.scan(/\{"person"\:\{.*?\}\}\}/i).each do |match|
json = JSON.parse(match)
if json["person"]["fmt_name"] == nil then next end
print "Visiting profile for #{json["person"]["fmt_name"]}\n"
a.get(profileurl + json["person"]["id"].to_s)
print "Waiting #{delay} seconds before continuing.\n"
sleep(delay)
end
rescue
end
is_next_page = false
next_url = ""
begin
jsons = page.body.scan(/"resultPagination"\:\{.*?\}\]/i).each do |match|
json = JSON.parse('{' + match + "}}")
if json["resultPagination"]["nextPage"] != nil then
is_next_page = true;
next_url = "hxxp://xxx.linkedin.xxx" + json["resultPagination"]["nextPage"]["pageURL"]
end
end
rescue
end
if is_next_page then
sleep(delay)
print "Getting next page: #{next_*****\n"
page = a.get(next_url)
end
end while (is_next_page)
end
}
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