Linkedin people search

This automated script searches possible matches people in likedin searching them by name. It relays on watir, so it will use a real browser. Unfortunately the api has been vetted [1], so this is a really slow alternative to the API.

[1] - (people-api)[https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/people-search-api]

Installing

  $ git clone https://github.com/bonzofenix/linkedin-people
  $ cd linkedin-people 
  $ bundle

running

with a file with names:

Mark Anthony, other information
Chris Cornell, other information

you can run:

  $ ruby linkedin.rb USERNAME PASSWORD FILEPATH > result.csv

your result should be something like this:

name_person_1, result1-job-description, result1-company, result2-job-description, result2-company, result3-job-description, result3-company