LinkedOutReach

You've heard of LinkedIn. Now introducing LinkedOutReach. The platform to help students, industry newcomers, and career transitioners to make that first step in networking (will reword this later). Let's be real, do you really have the time today to be rewording and formatting your emails

Tech Stack & Requirements

Languages:

• python=3.8.0+

Front End:

• React (Vite) + Typescript
• React
• Typescript

Backend End:

• Python
• Flask

Web-Scraping Backend:

• selenium==4.1.3 (webdriver & webDriverManger)
  • webdriver-manager==3.5.2
• beautifulsoup4==4.10.0 (HTML parsing)

Database:

• MongoDB (Atlas or local installation)
• pymongo==4.0.1

Machine Learning:

• Cohere API's for text embedding, summarization, and generation

SetUp Instructions

1. Clone the Repo

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/linkedin-profile-scraper.git
cd linkedin-profile-scraper

2. Install Dependencies (using bestie pip)

pip install selenium==4.1.3 beautifulsoup4==4.10.0 pymongo==4.0.1 webdriver-manager==3.5.2

3. MongoDB SetUp

MongoDB cluster configured as such:

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Ensure MongoDB instance is running. For the purposes of this project, only using one account so password shouldn't need to change. Potentially will need to add more IPs so other devices can access it tho.

4. Update Script with Credentials

Update linkedIn username and password as needed

5. Run the script

As shown below

Refresh to check scraped data has been added to database:

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Have fun using

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