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LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network on the internet. You can use LinkedIn to find the right job or internship, connect and strengthen professional relationships, and learn the skills you need to succeed in your career. A complete LinkedIn profile can help you connect with opportunities by showcasing your unique professional story through experience, skills, and education.
In this tutorial, Let's look at how to implement a web scraper to gather job details and company profiles from a posted jobs list on Linkedin and save them in a .JSON file using Python.
This tutorial is a complete beginner guide to web scraping using python.
What is Web Scraping?
Web scraping refers to the extraction of data from a website. This information is collected and then exported into a format that is more useful for the user. Be it a spreadsheet or an API. In most cases, automated tools are preferred when scraping web data as they can be less costly and work at a faster rate.
Getting started
In order to complete this task, we need these widely used python libraries in web scraping.
The first one, Selenium is used to automate the navigation of web pages. The other one is widely used to scrape data from web pages.
So let's install them.
pip install selenium
pip install beautifulsoup4
Installing the web driver
In order to work with Selenium you need to install the web driver for your browser. WebDriver is an open source tool for automated testing of webapps across many browsers. It provides capabilities for navigating to web pages, user input, JavaScript execution, and more. If you are using chrome, you can download the driver by this link.
It's important to check your browser version before downloading the driver.
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by chamodperera
chamodperera | Sciencx (2022-07-17T12:32:27+00:00) Tutorial – How to build your own LinkedIn Profile Scraper in 2022. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2022/07/17/tutorial-how-to-build-your-own-linkedin-profile-scraper-in-2022/
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