#PythonScripts

##LinkedIn resume scraper

About

This script retrieves the information from a resume on LinkedIn, and creates an XML file with these information.
The format of the output file is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<resume>  
    <position>
        <title>Your title</title>
        <company>Your company</company>
        <from>From date</from>
        <to>To date (or Present)</to>
        <location>The location of the company</location>
        <description>The job description</description>
    </position>
    <position>
        ...
    </position>
</resume>

The description is escaped for its HTML entities.

Installation

To install this script, you'll need (of course) to have Python installed. The modules needed to run this script are:

• cgi
• codecs
• urllib2
• requests (to install: sudo pip install requests)
• StringIO
• sys
• lxml (to install: sudo apt-get install python-lxml)

Usage

To use this script, just call it ./linkedin.py <profile_address> <output_file>