LinkedIn Scraper using Puppeteer (and Chromium)

This is a quick and dirty script for scraping LinkedIn contacts quickly, for sales lead generation. It also allowed me to learn Puppeteer.

Requirements

• Dependencies:
  • convert-csv-to-json
  • csv-parser
  • csv-writer
  • node-fetch
  • puppeteer
• You'll need to have a LinkedIn account. Proceed at your own risk (LinkedIn may ban your account).
• You'll also need a Cognism account and API key.

Get started

• Download repo and run node install.

Instruction for how to get a list of prospects from LinkedIn, complete with emails from Cognism.

1. Make sure creds.js is using the right LinkedIn login details.
2. Amend LinkedIn search params as needed within index.js (rows 30-31).
3. In console, run node index.js. Results will be written to csv/prospects.csv. If there are less than 100 LinkedIn pages of results, there will be an error.

To improve

• Use cases where search results come back with less than 100 pages.