Tiny LinkedIn profile scraper for public profiles.
in console:
npm install linkedin-public-profile
and in file:
var LinkedInProfile = require('linkedin-public-profile');just call the module with a public linkedin profile url. It returns a promise which resolves to the profile.
var LinkedInProfile = require('./index');
var url = 'https://de.linkedin.com/in/julian-beisenk%C3%B6tter-77038939';
// standard usage
LinkedInProfile(url)
.then(function(profile){ // chain your logic
console.log(profile);
});
// With links to similar profiles
LinkedInProfile(url, true)
.then(function(result){
console.log(result.profile); // the requested profile
console.log(result.links); // the featured profiles on the page
});
// usage with HTML
var request = require('request-promise');
request(url) // request with html output
.then(function(html){ // promise chain
return LinkedInProfile(html)// return the LinkedInProfile promise
})
.then(function(profile){ // chain your logic
console.log(profile);
});The result looks like:
{
"url": "https://de.linkedin.com/in/julian-beisenk%C3%B6tter-77038939",
"name": "Julian Beisenkötter",
"headline": "Tech Developer bei HitFox Group",
"location": "Berlin und Umgebung, Deutschland",
"industry": "Computer-Software",
"featured_current": "HitFox Group",
"featured_past": "HitFox Group",
"featured_education": "DHBW Ravensburg",
"contacts": "185",
"positions": [
{
"position": "Tech Developer",
"companyName": "HitFox Group",
"dates": {
"from": "Oktober 2015",
"to": ""
},
"locality": "",
"description": "Product Management, Business Model Innovation, Business Development, Project Management, Prototyping, Technical Feasibility Analysis, Big Data, Financial Services, AdTech, ",
"current": true
},
{
"position": "CEO",
"companyName": "eXalted IT UG (haftungsbeschränkt)",
"dates": {
"from": "Februar 2011",
"to": ""
},
"locality": "Münster und Umgebung, Deutschland",
"description": "Business Development, Startup Consultant, Software EvangelistEntrepreneur, Geschäftsführer",
"current": true
},
{
"position": "Consultant",
"companyName": "Accenture",
"dates": {
"from": "Oktober 2012",
"to": "September 2015"
},
"locality": "",
"description": "Software Architect; Infrastructure Architect;",
"current": false
},
{
"position": "Studentische Hilfskraft",
"companyName": "Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg (DHBW)",
"dates": {
"from": "Oktober 2012",
"to": "Dezember 2012"
},
"locality": "",
"description": "Grundlagen der Programmierung",
"current": false
},
{
"position": "IT-Abteilung",
"companyName": "Max-Planck Institute for molecular Biomedicine",
"dates": {
"from": "Juli 2010",
"to": "Mai 2012"
},
"locality": "",
"description": "Infrastructure Management",
"current": false
},
{
"position": "Oracle PL/SQL Consultant",
"companyName": "Biss Consulting",
"dates": {
"from": "Juli 2011",
"to": "November 2011"
},
"locality": "",
"description": "Database Developer",
"current": false
}
],
"skills": [
"Consulting",
"Entrepreneurship",
"Business Model Innovation",
"Design Thinking",
"Software Prototyping",
"Ruby",
"AngularJS",
"Ruby on Rails",
"Mobile Applications",
"Lean Startup",
"Web Development",
"Responsive Web Design",
"Rapid Prototyping",
"Linux",
"Python",
"Bash",
"Git",
"MySQL",
"PHP",
"CSS",
"HTML5",
"Automobilindustrie",
"Microservices",
"Projektmanagement",
"Datenbanken",
"SQL",
"Java",
"JavaScript",
"IT-Strategie",
"Softwareentwicklung",
"Start-ups",
"Agile Methoden",
"Business-Intelligence",
"Geschäftsprozesse",
"Veränderungsmanagement",
"Unternehmensführung",
"Unternehmensstrategie"
],
"educations": [
{
"school": "DHBW Ravensburg",
"course": "Bachelor of Science (BSc), Economics and Computer science, Business Engineering, ECTS Grade A",
"dates": {
"from": "2012",
"to": "2015"
},
"description": "Business Engineering, Consulting, SAP, Java, Projektmanagement, Software-engineering, Requirements-engineering, IT-Management, ERP, CRM, SCMAktivitäten und Verbände: Tutor: Software Entwicklung"
},
{
"school": "Durban University of Technology",
"course": "Exchange, International Management, Project Management",
"dates": {
"from": "2014",
"to": "2014"
},
"description": "Project Management, IT-Management, Financial Accounting, International Management, Contract Management"
},
{
"school": "Fachhochschule Münster",
"course": "Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Wirtschaftsinformatik",
"dates": {
"from": "2011",
"to": "2012"
},
"description": "Webentwicklung,Softwareentwicklung, IT-Management, Projektmanagement, IT-Infrastruktur"
},
{
"school": "Hans Böckler Berufskolleg Münster",
"course": "Abitur, Mathematik und Datenverarbeitungstechnik",
"dates": {
"from": "2008",
"to": "2011"
},
"description": "Aktivitäten und Verbände: Schülersprecher"
},
{
"school": "Hans Böckler Berufskolleg Münster",
"course": "Informationstechnischer Assistent, Elektrotechnik Informatik Wirtschaft",
"dates": {
"from": "2008",
"to": "2011"
},
"description": "Netzwerktechnik, Technische Informatik, Datenbanken, Wirtschaft, Projektentmanagement, Grundlagen Softwareentwicklung, Philosophie"
},
{
"school": "Waldorfschule Münster",
"course": "FOR, Fachoberschulreife",
"dates": {
"from": "1997",
"to": "2008"
},
"description": ""
}
]
}The MIT License (MIT)
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