InScraper - LinkedIn People Scraper

A simple scraper for LinkedIn using Selenium and Chrome.
It captures employee names, descriptions, and profile links from a specified company and saves the data in a CSV file separated by semicolons.

Note

LinkedIn updates its code frequently, so this script might require constant updates.

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Installation

Git clone this repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/yarxna/inscraper
$ cd inscraper
$ python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

1. Close all Chrome browser windows before running the script. If Chrome is open, the script might throw an error.
2. Copy the company's "people" page link and paste it as an argument, as shown in the example below:

$ python inscraper.py https://www.linkedin.com/company/<COMPANY-NAME>/people/

3. The first time you run the script, a Chrome window will open for you to log in to LinkedIn so the script can access the company’s people page data. Press ENTER after completing the login.
4. From there, the script will harvest people data from the provided company URL.

After the scraping is complete, the employee information will be saved in a file named "linkedin_profiles.csv" in the same folder.

To log out or delete the profile used by the script, delete the inscraperChromeProfile folder.

Output Example

https://linkedin.com/in/johndoe;John Doe;CEO at Doe Inc
https://linkedin.com/in/mary-2168521512;Mary Lee;Web Developer

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TO-DO

• add cross-browser support
• suppress useless warnings/infos messages