Using Scrapy to get Linkedin's person public profile.
- Get all public profile
- Using Scrapy
- Enable auto throttle
- Enable naive proxy providing
- Agent rotating
- Support Unicode
- Using MongoDB as Backend
- ...
- Scrapy == 0.20
- pymongo
- BeautifulSoup4, UnicodeDammit
1. start a MongoDB instance, `mongod`
2. run the crawler, `scrapy crawl LinkedinSpider`
you may found Rakefile helpful.
you can change MongoDB setting ang other things in settings.py.
if you just need whatever public profiles, there are better ways to do it. check out these urls: http://www.linkedin.com/directory/people/[a-z].html
Our strategy is following also-view links in public profile.
This is a toy project a few years ago. Now I won't maintain it anymore, questions about this project will be ignored. You can read the code, there isn't much. I hope this project can help you get a basic understanding of Scrapy, then you can make your own Spider.