Looking for developer with LinkedIn API experience
Looking for someone to help me prove a concept, and help me roll a beta product out to my team and customers. (I run a recruiting firm.)
Looking to pull data from LinkedIn, specifically on "previous company" and "current company", including date of employment. This is the tricky part!!
Anyone with experience or ideas around this would be great to chat with. If we can do the POC and roll out a beta version, then my company is a ready set beta customer.
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Hi Murray. Accessing 'previous company' using the API requires your app to be approved by LinkedIn. They are reportedly aggressive against scraping so bypassing the API at scale is likely to be a struggle and against terms. If your POC only needs something within normal browsing limits then ok doable but longer term will hit the same issues. If you are looking to convince yourself or stakeholders (before applying for elevated access) then maybe a mock-up of data could suffice. There are a few caveats but it depends on scale.
Thanks. Yes, this is the conclusion we've come to. Now looking at a quick and dirty work around for a slightly different way to kick it off. (I have the needs in my company anyway, so if that goes well then we can look at a commercially viable API-approved version later on (or just leave it as it is). Thanks for the constructive response.
The only experience I have with LinkedIn api is asking them to give access to our product which was already approved by Facebook, google, Yahoo and Twitter , which was a Yahoo preferred partner, to LinkedIn members to buy ads on LinkedIn (something that'll make them money) via our app and they still rejected it, infact they didn't even reply.
That's how strictly they safeguard the api.
Regarding a workaround, if you have the url and open it in incognito window and you can see the data you need, then a web scrapper can easily do it. You can rotate ips or use proxies , even a web scraping api service and get the date very reliably and in large amounts.
Let me know if you want to discuss further or want me to build a simple script for you to test scraping the page, I'd do it for free if you allow me to add it to my GitHub. 😁
Not my area, but from previous experience with the Linkedin API, they have pretty tight controls on the API. You can’t just roll up and start pumping data out of it. It’s not a programing issue. I know that other people trying to do the same thing came up with some really advanced webscrapers.
Doesn’t LinkedIn Recruiter do this already?
Yes, but I want it out of LIR and in our own app.
why? is it because of LIR price?
LIR doesn't do what I want this app to do. No app does, which suggests a technical or legal or API issue, or (just maybe) that no-one has tried it or rolled it out successfully - there are certainly going to be challenges there as well, but first I need to know if we can actually do it. To do that I need to consult with a developer who can get intimate with the LinkedIn API, or scraping, or other work arounds. At the end of the day the app would automate something that I've done many times and I try to get my people to do now - but relying on humans is hard. Automation will help.
So, first up is POC. Then beta test in my own company. Then commercial.
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