linkedin-scraper 0.0.7 → 0.0.8

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+Linkedin Scraper
+================
+
+Linkedin-scraper is a gem for scraping linkedin public profiles.
+You give it an URL, and it lets you easily get its title, name, country, area, current_companies and much more.
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+Install the gem from RubyGems:
+
+    gem install linkedin-scraper
+
+This gem is tested on Ruby versions 1.8.7, 1.9.2 1.9.3 and 2.0.0
+
+Usage
+-----
+
+Initialize a scraper instance for an URL, like this:
+
+    profile = Linkedin::Profile.get_profile("http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffweiner08")
+
+Then you can see the scraped data like this:
+
+
+    profile.first_name          #the First name of the contact
+
+    profile.last_name           #the last name of the contact
+
+    profile.title               #the linkedin job title
+
+    profile.location            #the location of the contact
+
+    profile.country             #the country of the contact
+
+    profile.industry            #the domain for which the contact belongs
+
+    profile.picture             #the profile pic url of contact
+
+    profile.current_companies
+
+    [
+    [0] {
+             :current_company => "LinkedIn",
+               :current_title => "CEO",
+         :current_company_url => "http://www.linkedin.com",
+                 :description => nil,
+        :linkedin_company_url => "http://www.linkedin.com/company/linkedin?trk=ppro_cprof",
+                         :url => "http://www.linkedin.com",
+                        :type => "Public Company",
+                :company_size => "1001-5000 employees",
+                     :website => "http://www.linkedin.com",
+                    :industry => "Internet",
+                     :founded => "2003",
+                     :address => "2029 Stierlin Court  Mountain View, CA 94043 United States"
+    },
+    [1] {
+             :current_company => "Intuit",
+               :current_title => "Member, Board of Directors",
+         :current_company_url => "http://network.intuit.com/",
+                 :description => nil,
+        :linkedin_company_url => "http://www.linkedin.com/company/intuit?trk=ppro_cprof",
+                         :url => "http://network.intuit.com/",
+                        :type => "Public Company",
+                :company_size => "5001-10,000 employees",
+                     :website => "http://network.intuit.com/",
+                    :industry => "Computer Software",
+                     :founded => "1983",
+                     :address => "2632 Marine Way  Mountain View, CA 94043 United States"
+    },
+    [2] {
+             :current_company => "DonorsChoose",
+               :current_title => "Member, Board of Directors",
+         :current_company_url => "http://www.donorschoose.org",
+                 :description => nil,
+        :linkedin_company_url => "http://www.linkedin.com/company/donorschoose.org?trk=ppro_cprof",
+                         :url => "http://www.donorschoose.org",
+                        :type => "Nonprofit",
+                :company_size => "51-200 employees",
+                     :website => "http://www.donorschoose.org",
+                    :industry => "Nonprofit Organization Management",
+                     :founded => "2000",
+                     :address => "213 West 35th Street 2nd Floor East New York, NY 10001 United States"
+    },
+    [3] {
+            :current_company => "Malaria No More",
+              :current_title => "Member, Board of Directors",
+        :current_company_url => nil,
+                :description => nil
+    },
+    [4] {
+             :current_company => "Venture For America",
+               :current_title => "Member, Advisory Board",
+         :current_company_url => "http://ventureforamerica.org/",
+                 :description => nil,
+        :linkedin_company_url => "http://www.linkedin.com/company/venture-for-america?trk=ppro_cprof",
+                         :url => "http://ventureforamerica.org/",
+                        :type => "Nonprofit",
+                :company_size => "1-10 employees",
+                     :website => "http://ventureforamerica.org/",
+                    :industry => "Nonprofit Organization Management",
+                     :founded => "2011"
+    }
+    ]
+
+
+    profile.past_companies
+    #Array of hash containing its past job companies and job profile
+    #Example
+    [
+    [0] {
+                :past_company => "Accel Partners",
+                  :past_title => "Executive in Residence",
+        :past_company_website => "http://www.facebook.com/accel",
+                 :description => nil,
+        :linkedin_company_url => "http://www.linkedin.com/company/accel-partners?trk=ppro_cprof",
+                         :url => "http://www.facebook.com/accel",
+                        :type => "Partnership",
+                :company_size => "51-200 employees",
+                     :website => "http://www.facebook.com/accel",
+                    :industry => "Venture Capital & Private Equity",
+                     :address => "428 University Palo Alto, CA 94301 United States"
+    },
+    [1] {
+                :past_company => "Greylock",
+                  :past_title => "Executive in Residence",
+        :past_company_website => "http://www.greylock.com",
+                 :description => nil,
+        :linkedin_company_url => "http://www.linkedin.com/company/greylock-partners?trk=ppro_cprof",
+                         :url => "http://www.greylock.com",
+                        :type => "Partnership",
+                :company_size => "51-200 employees",
+                     :website => "http://www.greylock.com",
+                    :industry => "Venture Capital & Private Equity",
+                     :address => "2550 Sand Hill Road  Menlo Park, CA 94025 United States"
+    },
+    [2] {
+                :past_company => "Yahoo!",
+                  :past_title => "Executive Vice President Network Division",
+        :past_company_website => "http://www.yahoo.com",
+                 :description => nil,
+        :linkedin_company_url => "http://www.linkedin.com/company/yahoo?trk=ppro_cprof",
+                         :url => "http://www.yahoo.com",
+                        :type => "Public Company",
+                :company_size => "10,001+ employees",
+                     :website => "http://www.yahoo.com",
+                    :industry => "Internet",
+                     :founded => "1994",
+                     :address => "701 First Avenue  Sunnyvale, CA 94089 United States"
+    },
+    [3] {
+                :past_company => "Windsor Media",
+                  :past_title => "Founding Partner",
+        :past_company_website => nil,
+                 :description => nil
+    },
+    [4] {
+                :past_company => "Warner Bros.",
+                  :past_title => "Vice President Online",
+        :past_company_website => "http://www.warnerbros.com/",
+                 :description => nil,
+        :linkedin_company_url => "http://www.linkedin.com/company/warner-bros.-entertainment-group-of-companies?trk=ppro_cprof",
+                         :url => "http://www.warnerbros.com/",
+                        :type => "Public Company",
+                :company_size => "10,001+ employees",
+                     :website => "http://www.warnerbros.com/",
+                    :industry => "Entertainment",
+                     :address => "4000 Warner Boulevard  Burbank, CA 91522 United States"
+    }
+    ]
+
+
+    profile.linkedin_url        #url of the profile
+
+    profile.websites
+    #Array of websites
+    [
+      [0]   "http://www.linkedin.com/"
+    ]
+
+    profile.groups
+    #Array of hashes containing group name and link
+
+
+    profile.education
+    #Array of hashes for eduction
+
+    profile.skills
+    #Array of skills
+
+    profile.picture
+    #url of the profile picture
+
+
+    profile.recommended_visitors
+    #Its the list of visitors "Viewers of this profile also viewed..."
+    [
+    [0] {
+           :link => "http://www.linkedin.com/in/barackobama?trk=pub-pbmap",
+           :name => "Barack Obama",
+          :title => "President of the United States of ",
+        :company => nil
+    },
+    [1] {
+           :link => "http://www.linkedin.com/in/marissamayer?trk=pub-pbmap",
+           :name => "Marissa Mayer",
+          :title => "Yahoo!, President & CEO",
+        :company => nil
+    },
+    [2] {
+           :link => "http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sean-parker/0/1/826?trk=pub-pbmap",
+           :name => "Sean Parker",
+          :title => nil,
+        :company => nil
+    },
+    [3] {
+           :link => "http://www.linkedin.com/pub/eduardo-saverin/0/70a/31b?trk=pub-pbmap",
+           :name => "Eduardo Saverin",
+          :title => nil,
+        :company => nil
+    },
+    [4] {
+           :link => "http://www.linkedin.com/in/rbranson?trk=pub-pbmap",
+           :name => "Richard Branson",
+          :title => "Founder",
+        :company => "Virgin Group"
+    },
+    [5] {
+           :link => "http://www.linkedin.com/in/reidhoffman?trk=pub-pbmap",
+           :name => "Reid Hoffman",
+          :title => "Entrepreneur. Product Strategist.  ",
+        :company => nil
+    },
+    [6] {
+           :link => "http://www.linkedin.com/in/mdell?trk=pub-pbmap",
+           :name => "Michael Dell",
+          :title => "Chairman and CEO",
+        :company => "Dell"
+    },
+    [7] {
+           :link => "http://www.linkedin.com/in/mittromney?trk=pub-pbmap",
+           :name => "Mitt Romney",
+          :title => "Believe in America",
+        :company => nil
+    },
+    [8] {
+           :link => "http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sheryl-sandberg/2/665/512?trk=pub-pbmap",
+           :name => "Sheryl Sandberg",
+          :title => nil,
+        :company => nil
+    }
+    ]
+
+
+
+You're welcome to fork this project and send pull requests. I want to thank specially:

data/lib/linkedin-scraper/profile.rb

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-USER_AGENTS = ["Windows IE 6", "Windows IE 7", "Windows Mozilla", "Mac Safari", "Mac FireFox", "Mac Mozilla", "Linux Mozilla", "Linux Firefox", "Linux Konqueror"]
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 module Linkedin
-  class Profile    
-    #the First name of the contact
-    attr_accessor :first_name,:last_name,:title,:location,:country,
-    :industry, :linkedin_url,:recommended_visitors,:page
-    #Array of hashes for eduction
-    # [
-    #     [0] {
-    #                :name => "Vishwakarma Institute of Technology",
-    #         :description => "B.Tech, Computer Engineering",
-    #              :period => "2007 – 2011"
-    #     },
-    #     [1] {
-    #                :name => "St Ursula's High School",
-    #         :description => "Secondary School Education",
-    #              :period => nil
-    #     }
-    # ]
-    attr_accessor :education
+  class Profile
 
-    #Array of websites 
-    #[
-    #[0] "http://www.yatishmehta.in"
-    #]
-    attr_accessor :websites
-    #array of hashes containing group name and link
-    # [
-    #     [ 0] {
-    #         :name => "Business on Rails",
-    #         :link => "http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Business-on-Rails-27822"
-    #     },
-    #     [ 1] {
-    #         :name => "HTML5 Technologies",
-    #         :link => "http://www.linkedin.com/groups/HTML5-Technologies-2868882"
-    #     },
-    #     [ 2] {
-    #         :name => "India on Rails",
-    #         :link => "http://www.linkedin.com/groups/India-on-Rails-149940"
-    #         :name => "Open Source",
-    #         :link => "http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=43875"
-    #     },
-    #     [ 4] {
-    #         :name => "Rails Developers",
-    #         :link => "http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=77764"
-    #     },
-    # ]
-    attr_accessor:groups
+    USER_AGENTS = ["Windows IE 6", "Windows IE 7", "Windows Mozilla", "Mac Safari", "Mac FireFox", "Mac Mozilla", "Linux Mozilla", "Linux Firefox", "Linux Konqueror"]
 
+    attr_accessor :first_name,:last_name,:title,:location,:country, :industry,:picture,:linkedin_url,:recommended_visitors,:page
+
+    attr_accessor :education
 
-    #Array of hash containing its past job companies and job profile
-    #Example
-    #  [
-    #     [0] {
-    #                 :past_company => "Consumyze Software",
-    #                   :past_title => "Trainee",
-    #         :past_company_website => "http://www.consumyze.com",
-    #                  :description => "Responsible for design and development"
-    #     },
-    #     [1] {
-    #                 :past_company => "SunGard Global Services",
-    #                   :past_title => "Project Intern",
-    #         :past_company_website => "http://www.sungard.com/globalservices/learnmore",
-    #                  :description => "Fame PassPoint. Developed an entirely Ajax based online control panel for user management and Data access for Fame"
-    #     }
-    # ]
+    attr_accessor :websites
 
+    attr_accessor:groups
 
     attr_accessor :past_companies
-    #Array of hash containing its current job companies and job profile
-    #Example
-    #  [
-    #    [0] {
-    #          :current_title => "Intern",
-    #        :current_company => "Sungard"
-    #     :current_company_url=>"http://www.betterlabs.net",
-    #             :description=>"Responsible for design and development of projects on Ruby on Rails."
-    #        },
-    #    [1] {
-    #          :current_title  => "Software Developer",
-    #        :current_company  => "Microsoft"
-    #     :current_company_url =>"http://www.microsoft.net",
-    #             :description =>"Development and design"
-
-    #        }
-    #  ]
+
     attr_accessor :current_companies
-    #url of the profile
-
-
-    def initialize(page,url)   
-      @first_name=get_first_name(page)
-      @last_name=get_last_name(page)
-      @title=get_title(page)
-      @location=get_location(page)
-      @country=get_country(page)
-      @industry=get_industry(page)
-      @current_companies=get_current_companies page
-      @past_companies=get_past_companies page
-      @recommended_visitors=get_recommended_visitors page
-      @education=get_education page
-      @linkedin_url=url
-      @websites=get_websites page
-      @groups=get_groups page
-      @page=page
+
+    attr_accessor :skills
+
+    def initialize(page,url)
+      @first_name           = get_first_name(page)
+      @last_name            = get_last_name(page)
+      @title                = get_title(page)
+      @location             = get_location(page)
+      @country              = get_country(page)
+      @industry             = get_industry(page)
+      @picture              = get_picture(page)
+      @current_companies    = get_current_companies(page)
+      @past_companies       = get_past_companies(page)
+      @recommended_visitors = get_recommended_visitors(page)
+      @education            = get_education(page)
+      @linkedin_url         = url
+      @websites             = get_websites(page)
+      @groups               = get_groups(page)
+      @skills               = get_skills(page)
+      @page                 = page
     end
     #returns:nil if it gives a 404 request
 
-    def self.get_profile url
+    def self.get_profile(url)
       begin
-        @agent=Mechanize.new
+        @agent = Mechanize.new
         @agent.user_agent_alias = USER_AGENTS.sample
         @agent.max_history = 0
-        page=@agent.get url
+        page = @agent.get(url)
         return Linkedin::Profile.new(page, url)
       rescue=>e
         puts e
       end
     end
 
-    def get_company_url node
+    def get_skills(page)
+      page.search('.competency.show-bean').map{|skill|skill.text.strip if skill.text}
+    end
+
+    def get_company_url(node)
+      result={}
       if node.at("h4/strong/a")
-        link=node.at("h4/strong/a")["href"]
-        @agent=Mechanize.new
+        link = node.at("h4/strong/a")["href"]
+        @agent = Mechanize.new
         @agent.user_agent_alias = USER_AGENTS.sample
         @agent.max_history = 0
-        page=@agent.get("http://www.linkedin.com"+link)
-        url=page.at(".basic-info/div/dl/dd/a").text if page.at(".basic-info/div/dl/dd/a")
+        page = @agent.get("http://www.linkedin.com"+link)
+        result[:linkedin_company_url] = "http://www.linkedin.com"+link
+        result[:url] = page.at(".basic-info/div/dl/dd/a").text if page.at(".basic-info/div/dl/dd/a")
+        node_2 = page.at(".basic-info").at(".content.inner-mod")
+        node_2.search("dd").zip(node_2.search("dt")).each do |value,title|
+          result[title.text.gsub(" ","_").downcase.to_sym] = value.text.strip
+        end
+        result[:address] = page.at(".vcard.hq").at(".adr").text.gsub("\n"," ").strip if page.at(".vcard.hq")
       end
+      result
     end
 
     private
@@ -155,89 +99,92 @@ module Linkedin
       return page.at(".industry").text.gsub(/\s+/, " ").strip if page.search(".industry").first
     end
 
+    def get_picture page
+      return page.at("#profile-picture/img.photo").attributes['src'].value.strip if page.search("#profile-picture/img.photo").first
+    end
+
     def get_past_companies page
       past_cs=[]
       if page.search(".position.experience.vevent.vcard.summary-past").first
         page.search(".position.experience.vevent.vcard.summary-past").each do |past_company|
-          url=get_company_url past_company
-          title=past_company.at("h3").text.gsub(/\s+|\n/, " ").strip if past_company.at("h3")
-          company=past_company.at("h4").text.gsub(/\s+|\n/, " ").strip if past_company.at("h4")
-          description=past_company.at(".description.past-position").text.gsub(/\s+|\n/, " ").strip if past_company.at(".description.past-position")
-          past_company={:past_company=>company,:past_title=> title,:past_company_website=>url,:description=>description}
-          past_cs<<past_company
+          result = get_company_url past_company
+          url = result[:url]
+          title = past_company.at("h3").text.gsub(/\s+|\n/, " ").strip if past_company.at("h3")
+          company = past_company.at("h4").text.gsub(/\s+|\n/, " ").strip if past_company.at("h4")
+          description = past_company.at(".description.past-position").text.gsub(/\s+|\n/, " ").strip if past_company.at(".description.past-position")
+          p_company = {:past_company=>company,:past_title=> title,:past_company_website=>url,:description=>description}
+          p_company = p_company.merge(result)
+          past_cs << p_company
         end
         return past_cs
       end
     end
 
     def get_current_companies page
-      current_cs=[]
+      current_cs = []
       if page.search(".position.experience.vevent.vcard.summary-current").first
         page.search(".position.experience.vevent.vcard.summary-current").each do |current_company|
-          url=get_company_url current_company
-          title=current_company.at("h3").text.gsub(/\s+|\n/, " ").strip if current_company.at("h3")
-          company=current_company.at("h4").text.gsub(/\s+|\n/, " ").strip if current_company.at("h4")
-          description=current_company.at(".description.current-position").text.gsub(/\s+|\n/, " ").strip if current_company.at(".description.current-position")
-          current_company={:current_company=>company,:current_title=> title,:current_company_url=>url,:description=>description}
-          current_cs<<current_company
+          result = get_company_url current_company
+          url = result[:url]
+          title = current_company.at("h3").text.gsub(/\s+|\n/, " ").strip if current_company.at("h3")
+          company = current_company.at("h4").text.gsub(/\s+|\n/, " ").strip if current_company.at("h4")
+          description = current_company.at(".description.current-position").text.gsub(/\s+|\n/, " ").strip if current_company.at(".description.current-position")
+          current_company = {:current_company=>company,:current_title=> title,:current_company_url=>url,:description=>description}
+          current_cs << current_company.merge(result)
         end
         return current_cs
       end
     end
 
-    def get_education page
+    def get_education(page)
       education=[]
       if page.search(".position.education.vevent.vcard").first
         page.search(".position.education.vevent.vcard").each do |item|
-          name=item.at("h3").text.gsub(/\s+|\n/, " ").strip if item.at("h3")
-          desc=item.at("h4").text.gsub(/\s+|\n/, " ").strip if item.at("h4")
-          period=item.at(".period").text.gsub(/\s+|\n/, " ").strip if item.at(".period")
-          edu={:name=>name,:description=>desc,:period=>period} 
-          education<<edu
+          name   = item.at("h3").text.gsub(/\s+|\n/, " ").strip if item.at("h3")
+          desc   = item.at("h4").text.gsub(/\s+|\n/, " ").strip if item.at("h4")
+          period = item.at(".period").text.gsub(/\s+|\n/, " ").strip if item.at(".period")
+          edu = {:name => name,:description => desc,:period => period}
+          education << edu
         end
         return education
       end
     end
 
-    def get_websites page
+    def get_websites(page)
       websites=[]
       if page.search(".website").first
         page.search(".website").each do |site|
-          url=site.at("a")["href"]
-          url="http://www.linkedin.com"+url
-          url=CGI.parse(URI.parse(url).query)["url"]
-          websites<<url
+          url = site.at("a")["href"]
+          url = "http://www.linkedin.com"+url
+          url = CGI.parse(URI.parse(url).query)["url"]
+          websites << url
         end
         return websites.flatten!
-      end  
+      end
     end
 
-    def get_groups page
-      groups=[]
+    def get_groups(page)
+      groups = []
       if page.search(".group-data").first
         page.search(".group-data").each do |item|
-          name=item.text.gsub(/\s+|\n/, " ").strip
-          link="http://www.linkedin.com"+item.at("a")["href"]
-          groups<<{:name=>name,:link=>link}
+          name = item.text.gsub(/\s+|\n/, " ").strip
+          link = "http://www.linkedin.com"+item.at("a")["href"]
+          groups << {:name=>name,:link=>link}
         end
         return groups
       end
-
     end
 
-
-
-
-    def get_recommended_visitors  page
+    def get_recommended_visitors(page)
       recommended_vs=[]
       if page.search(".browsemap").first
         page.at(".browsemap").at("ul").search("li").each do |visitor|
-          v={}
-          v[:link]=visitor.at('a').attributes["href"]
-          v[:name]=visitor.at('a').text
-          v[:title]=visitor.at('.headline').text.split(" at ").first
-          v[:company]=visitor.at('.headline').text.split(" at ").last
-          recommended_vs<<v
+          v = {}
+          v[:link]    = visitor.at('a')["href"]
+          v[:name]    = visitor.at('strong/a').text
+          v[:title]   = visitor.at('.headline').text.gsub("..."," ").split(" at ").first
+          v[:company] = visitor.at('.headline').text.gsub("..."," ").split(" at ")[1]
+          recommended_vs << v
         end
         return recommended_vs
       end

data/lib/linkedin-scraper/version.rb

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 module Linkedin
   module Scraper
-    VERSION = "0.0.7"
+    VERSION = "0.0.8"
   end
 end

data/linkedin-scraper.gemspec

@@ -3,13 +3,10 @@ require File.expand_path('../lib/linkedin-scraper/version', __FILE__)
 
 Gem::Specification.new do |gem|
   gem.authors       = ["Yatish Mehta"]
-  gem.email         = ["yatishmehta27@gmail.com"]
   gem.description   = %q{Scrapes the linkedin profile when a url is given }
   gem.summary       = %q{when a url of  public linkedin profile page is given it scrapes the entire page and converts into a accessible object}
   gem.homepage      = "https://github.com/yatishmehta27/linkedin-scraper"
-   
-   gem.add_dependency(%q<mechanize>, [">= 0"])
-   
+  gem.add_dependency(%q<mechanize>, [">= 0"])
   gem.files         = `git ls-files`.split($\)
   gem.executables   = gem.files.grep(%r{^bin/}).map{ |f| File.basename(f) }
   gem.test_files    = gem.files.grep(%r{^(test|spec|features)/})

data/spec/linkedin-scraper/profile_spec.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+require 'spec_helper'
+require 'linkedin-scraper'
+
+
+describe Linkedin::Profile do
+  describe "::get_profile" do
+    it "Create an instance of profile class and populate it will all details" do
+      @profile = Linkedin::Profile.get_profile("http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffweiner08")
+      @profile.first_name.should == "Jeff"
+      #other parameters may change with time
+    end
+  end
+end

data/spec/spec_helper.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+$: << File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '../lib')
+# This file was generated by the `rspec --init` command. Conventionally, all
+# specs live under a `spec` directory, which RSpec adds to the `$LOAD_PATH`.
+# Require this file using `require "spec_helper"` to ensure that it is only
+# loaded once.
+#
+# See http://rubydoc.info/gems/rspec-core/RSpec/Core/Configuration
+RSpec.configure do |config|
+  config.treat_symbols_as_metadata_keys_with_true_values = true
+  config.run_all_when_everything_filtered = true
+  config.filter_run :focus
+
+  # Run specs in random order to surface order dependencies. If you find an
+  # order dependency and want to debug it, you can fix the order by providing
+  # the seed, which is printed after each run.
+  #     --seed 1234
+  config.order = 'random'
+end

metadata

@@ -1,35 +1,31 @@
 --- !ruby/object:Gem::Specification
 name: linkedin-scraper
 version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version
-  version: 0.0.7
-  prerelease: 
+  version: 0.0.8
 platform: ruby
 authors:
 - Yatish Mehta
 autorequire: 
 bindir: bin
 cert_chain: []
-date: 2012-08-02 00:00:00.000000000 Z
+date: 2013-03-12 00:00:00.000000000 Z
 dependencies:
 - !ruby/object:Gem::Dependency
   name: mechanize
   requirement: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
-    none: false
     requirements:
-    - - ! '>='
+    - - '>='
       - !ruby/object:Gem::Version
         version: '0'
   type: :runtime
   prerelease: false
   version_requirements: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
-    none: false
     requirements:
-    - - ! '>='
+    - - '>='
       - !ruby/object:Gem::Version
         version: '0'
-description: ! 'Scrapes the linkedin profile when a url is given '
-email:
-- yatishmehta27@gmail.com
+description: 'Scrapes the linkedin profile when a url is given '
+email: 
 executables: []
 extensions: []
 extra_rdoc_files: []
@@ -37,35 +33,38 @@ files:
 - .gitignore
 - Gemfile
 - LICENSE
-- README.rdoc
+- README.md
 - Rakefile
 - lib/linkedin-scraper.rb
 - lib/linkedin-scraper/profile.rb
 - lib/linkedin-scraper/version.rb
 - linkedin-scraper.gemspec
+- spec/linkedin-scraper/profile_spec.rb
+- spec/spec_helper.rb
 homepage: https://github.com/yatishmehta27/linkedin-scraper
 licenses: []
+metadata: {}
 post_install_message: 
 rdoc_options: []
 require_paths:
 - lib
 required_ruby_version: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
-  none: false
   requirements:
-  - - ! '>='
+  - - '>='
     - !ruby/object:Gem::Version
       version: '0'
 required_rubygems_version: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
-  none: false
   requirements:
-  - - ! '>='
+  - - '>='
     - !ruby/object:Gem::Version
       version: '0'
 requirements: []
 rubyforge_project: 
-rubygems_version: 1.8.24
+rubygems_version: 2.0.0
 signing_key: 
-specification_version: 3
+specification_version: 4
 summary: when a url of  public linkedin profile page is given it scrapes the entire
   page and converts into a accessible object
-test_files: []
+test_files:
+- spec/linkedin-scraper/profile_spec.rb
+- spec/spec_helper.rb

data/README.rdoc

@@ -1,134 +0,0 @@
-= Linkedin-Scraper {<img src="http://travis-ci.org/jaimeiniesta/metainspector.png" />}[http://travis-ci.org/jaimeiniesta/metainspector]
-
-Linkedin-scraper is a gem for scraping linkedin public profiles. You give it an URL, and it lets you easily get its title,name,country,area,current_companies .
-
-= Installation
-
-Install the gem from RubyGems:
-
-  gem install linkedin-scraper
-
-This gem is tested on Ruby versions 1.8.7, 1.9.2 and 1.9.3.
-
-= Usage
-
-Initialize a scraper instance for an URL, like this:
-
-  profile = Linkedin::Profile.get_profile('http://in.linkedin.com/pub/yatish-mehta/22/460/a86')
-
-Then you can see the scraped data like this:
-
- 
-  profile.first_name          #the First name of the contact
-    
-  profile.last_name           #the last name of the contact
-    
-  profile.title               #the linkedin job title
-    
-  profile.location            #the location of the contact
-    
-  profile.country             #the country of the contact
-    
-  profile.industry            #the domain for which the contact belongs
-    
-  profile.past_companies
-    #Array of hash containing its past job companies and job profile
-    #Example
-    #  [
-    #     [0] {
-    #                 :past_company => "Consumyze Software",
-    #                   :past_title => "Trainee",
-    #         :past_company_website => "http://www.consumyze.com",
-    #                  :description => "Responsible for design and development"
-    #     },
-    #     [1] {
-    #                 :past_company => "SunGard Global Services",
-    #                   :past_title => "Project Intern",
-    #         :past_company_website => "http://www.sungard.com/globalservices/learnmore",
-    #                  :description => "Fame PassPoint. Developed an entirely Ajax based online control panel for user management and Data access for Fame"
-    #     }
-    # ]
-  profile.current_companies
-  #Array of hash containing its current job companies and job profile
-    #Example
-    #  [
-    #    [0] {
-    #          :current_title => "Intern",
-    #        :current_company => "Sungard"
-    #     :current_company_url=>"http://www.betterlabs.net",
-    #             :description=>"Responsible for design and development of projects on Ruby on Rails."
-    #        },
-    #    [1] {
-    #          :current_title  => "Software Developer",
-    #        :current_company  => "Microsoft"
-    #     :current_company_url =>"http://www.microsoft.net",
-    #             :description =>"Development and design"
-
-    #        }
-    #  ]
-    
-    
-  profile.linkedin_url        #url of the profile
-
-  profile.websites
-  #Array of websites 
-  #[
-  # [0] "http://www.yatishmehta.in"
-  #]
-
-  profile.groups
-    #array of hashes containing group name and link
-    # [
-    #     [ 0] {
-    #         :name => "Business on Rails",
-    #         :link => "http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Business-on-Rails-27822"
-    #     },
-    #     [ 1] {
-    #         :name => "HTML5 Technologies",
-    #         :link => "http://www.linkedin.com/groups/HTML5-Technologies-2868882"
-    #     },
-    #     [ 2] {
-    #         :name => "India on Rails",
-    #         :link => "http://www.linkedin.com/groups/India-on-Rails-149940"
-    #         :name => "Open Source",
-    #         :link => "http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=43875"
-    #     },
-    #     [ 4] {
-    #         :name => "Rails Developers",
-    #         :link => "http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=77764"
-    #     },
-    # ]
-
-  profile.education
-  #Array of hashes for eduction
-    # [
-    #     [0] {
-    #                :name => "Vishwakarma Institute of Technology",
-    #         :description => "B.Tech, Computer Engineering",
-    #              :period => "2007 – 2011"
-    #     },
-    #     [1] {
-    #                :name => "St Ursula's High School",
-    #         :description => "Secondary School Education",
-    #              :period => nil
-    #     }
-    # ]
-    
-  profile.recommended_visitors
-  #Its the list of visitors "Viewers of this profile also viewed..."
-  #attr_accessor :recommended_visitors = [
-  #    [0] {
-  #           :link =>  href="http://in.linkedin.com/in/nileshavhad?trk=pub-pbmap",
-  #           :name => "Nilesh Avhad",
-  #          :title => "Engineering Manager",
-  #        :company => "Better Labs"
-  #    },
-  
-
-= ZOMG Fork! Thank you!
-
-You're welcome to fork this project and send pull requests. I want to thank specially:
-
-= To Do
-* 
-Copyright (c) 2009-2012 Yatish Mehta, released under the MIT license