akshaysiwal / linkedin_networking

Python code to automatically expend your LinkedIn network based on your interest. ONLY FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES. PLEASE DO NOT MISUSE IT.

LinkedIn Networking

Python code to automatically expand your LinkedIn network based on your interest

Prerequisites

Use the package manager pip to install selenium.

pip install selenium
pip install webdriver-manager

How to use ?

• Open parameters.py file and provide your email id, password, and keywords for search criteria.
• Run python linkedIn.py

Contribution

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

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linkedin_networking's Issues

Separate settings from code

Instead of editing the source code to configure the program, an external file for the settings is ideal. This way, credentials never accidentally get committed. And updates to the code dont affect the credentials.

I personally like Pydantic Settings to handle settings but Dynaconf is another popular option. Configobj also deserves mention.

Corporate environment not able to access the chromedriver.exe

Hi Akshay,

I am in a corporate environment and the code is not able to access the chromedriver for me , to rectify this issue what I did I have stored the chromedriver in the same project directory and then gave that chromedriver to the program,

I want to make a pull request for the same

Randomize delay between connects?

Have you thought about having the about of time slept between various actions be a random number within a range of seconds? This way, the behavior seems more human.

reach page 10 and exit

Hi
good job here for this amazing bot.
i just wonder why it reach page number 10 then it exit the loop for the rest of pages !!

thanks

'WebDriver' object has no attribute 'find_element_by_id'

`C:\dev\LinkedIn_networking>python linkedIn.py
C:\dev\LinkedIn_networking\linkedIn.py:55: DeprecationWarning: executable_path has been deprecated, please pass in a Service object
driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())

DevTools listening on ws://127.0.0.1:60722/devtools/browser/87b1c9f2-a2e0-4a63-84d5-3d4b1275d8c3
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\dev\LinkedIn_networking\linkedIn.py", line 57, in
driver.find_element_by_id('username').send_keys(parameters.linkedin_username)
AttributeError: 'WebDriver' object has no attribute 'find_element_by_id'`

What is file_name? connection.csv?