Linked Out

The goal of this project is to simply look at different people’s linkedin accounts.

Ruby version

Currently using ruby 2.3.3.

System dependencies

I have only ran this on OSX and Linux (Ubuntu). I do not have a Windows environment.

Setup

Let’s get it rolling.

Install your stuff

A simple bundle install will do:

bundle install

Set your own secrets

These are where my secrets are stored. You probably don’t want that.

rm config/secrets.yml.enc
rails secrets:setup
rails secrets:edit

Add this (with your own credentials) to your secrets file:

shared:
  email: me@website.com
  password: password1234

Create the database

Don’t need to use rake for db:create anymore! It’s the 2000’s.

rails db:create
rails db:migrate

Add some search terms

You will need to add some search terms. I added some basic terms and if you are super lazy, feel free to copy.

If you want to add your own, edit db/seeds.rb. When you are done, run this:

rails db:seed

Visit some profiles

We have reached the point where the magic happens:

rails linked_out:random_search

If you want to search by a specific SearchTerm, you can run:

rails linked_out:search SEARCH_TERM="tom"

How to run the test suite

I didn’t write any tests. I’m normally better than this.

Deployment instructions

Still need to figure this out!

Constraints

Can only view 200 profiles per day. We should go significantly less to start out.
We only want to view a profile once every four months.
We want to dynamically be able to add new search terms for a user.

Schema

SearchTerms

field	type	purpose	example
name	string	store the term	“software engineer”

Profiles

field	type	purpose	example
name	string	full name of the person	“Evan Dancer”
uid	string	linkedin id for the profile	???
connection_distance	integer	1st, 2nd, 3rd degree connections	3rd
created_at	datetime	when they were viewed
search_term_id	reference

Additional

Randomizer

To not look super sketch, I will want to do some random mouse movements between a lot of actions.

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