Scrape a public linked-in profile using scrapy
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Rock Slate
Jul 11, 2015, 6:25:20 AM7/11/15
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Hi,
I am trying to scrape a public linkedin profile using scrapy. I started of with scrapy shell linkedinprofile. When I try the response.body I get this message
Out[1]: '<html><head>\n<script type="text/javascript">\nwindow.onload = function() {\n var newLocat
ion = "";\n if (window.location.protocol == "http:") {\n var cookies = document.cookie.split(";
");\n for (var i = 0; i < cookies.length; ++i) {\n if ((cookies[i].indexOf("sl=") == 0) && (
cookies[i].length > 3)) {\n newLocation = "https:" + window.location.href.substring(window.lo
cation.protocol.length);\n }\n }\n }\n\n if (newLocation.length == 0) {\n var domain =
location.host;\n var newDomainIndex = 0;\n if (domain.substr(0, 6) == "touch.") {\n newDo
mainIndex = 6;\n }\n else if (domain.substr(0, 7) == "tablet.") {\n newDomainIndex = 7;\n
}\n if (newDomainIndex) {\n domain = domain.substr(newDomainIndex);\n }\n newLocat
ion = "https://" + domain + "/uas/login?trk=sentinel_org_block&session_redirect=" + encodeURICompon
ent(window.location)\n }\n window.location.href = newLocation;\n}\n</script>\n</head></html>\n'
I dont need to authenticate to view public profile. What am I doing wrong?
Travis Leleu
Jul 11, 2015, 12:56:59 PM7/11/15
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LinkedIn is sensitive to scraping. You need to set user agent headers and use a proxy.
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