README.md

LinkedIn Bot

A bot to fetch name, email, title and url of linkedin user based on their public profile and upload that data to google spreadsheet using google api.

Running locally(Python 3 Only)

Clone this repo

$ git clone https://github.com/shubham-shrivastava/linkedin_bot.git

Now create the virtualenv of Python3.6 using

$ virtualenv my_env

OR if using conda

$ conda create --name my_env python=3

Activate the environment.

$ activate my_env

or

$ ./bin/activate

Now install requirements using pip, navigate to linkedin folder which have spider as a subfolder and start the bot

$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ scrapy crawl linkedin.com

Your application will now be running.