linked_in_scraper

LinkedIn Scraper with voyager API

• How to setup

1. Make sure you have python3 on your machine
2. Create virtual environtment python "python3 -m virtualenv env"
3. Activate virtual environment . Windows: env\Scripts\activate . Unix : source env/bin/activate
4. Install python requirements "pip install -r requirements.txt
5. Setup configuration apps . Copy file .testing.env and rename to .env . Open file .env and adjust the value
6. Run the apps, cd to root folder apps run command "flask run" or "python run.py" and make sure you activate your virtual env before running this command.
7. Check collection folder, it has postman collection.

For username and password, you can use a valid/active user account. I suggest using a dummy account for testing.

For this project, I am using the library from the repo this https://github.com/tomquirk/linkedin-api More detail about voyager API https://linkedin.api-docs.io/