meetup linkedin search

linkedin-loop.js

/*
INSTRUCTIONS 

1. Open this file in notepad or something similar 
2. Paste your list of names where it says replace names
3. Go to linkedin and line up a people search for your city
4. In google chrome. In Windows and Linux hit: Ctrl + Shift + J. On Mac hit: Cmd + Option + J.
5. Copy paste this whole script in to the console and hit enter
6. leave the window active while it collects results 
7. You should get a tab seperated CSV that you can open in Excel 
*/

//REPLACE THE NAMES ONLY
var input = `
John Smith
Jane Doe
`;

var names = input.trim().split('\n');
var people = [];
var i = 0;

function loop() {

	//because I'm from the past and don't know about setting up promises and waiting for them to complete 
	setTimeout( function() {

		console.log( 'run number ' + i );

		if (i > 0) {
			var j = i - 1; 
			
			people[j] = {};

		 	var firstEntry = jQuery('li.search-result').first(); 

		 	if( firstEntry.length > 0 )
		 	{
				people[j].name = firstEntry.find('span.actor-name').text().trim(); 
				people[j].link = firstEntry.find('a').prop('href').trim(); 
				people[j].des = firstEntry.find('p.subline-level-1').text().replace(/[\n\r]+/g, '').trim(); 
				people[j].loc = firstEntry.find('p.subline-level-2').text().replace(/[\n\r]+/g, '').trim(); 
				people[j].pos = firstEntry.find('p.mt2').text().replace(/[\n\r]+/g, '').trim(); 
				console.log( 'stored ' + people[j].name );
			}else{
				people[j].name = names[j];
				people[j].link = 'not found'; 
				people[j].des = 'not found';
				people[j].loc = 'not found';
				people[j].pos = 'not found';
			}
		}
		
		if( i < names.length ) {

			$('.search-typeahead-v2 artdeco-typeahead-deprecated-input')[0].dispatchEvent(new Event('focus'));

			$('.search-typeahead-v2 artdeco-typeahead-deprecated-input input')[0].value = names[i];

			$('.search-typeahead-v2 artdeco-typeahead-deprecated-input input')[0].dispatchEvent(new Event('input'));

			Ember.run(() => {
			  	var blerg = $.Event('keydown');
			  	blerg.which = 13;
			  	blerg.keyCode = 13;
				this.$('form#extended-nav-search input').focus();
			    this.$('form#extended-nav-search input').trigger(blerg);
			}); 
			
			i++; 
			
			loop(); 
		}
		else wrapup(people);

	}, 3000);   

}

function wrapup(people)
{
	console.log(people); 

	var tsv = tabValues(people);
	var hiddenElement = document.createElement('a');
	hiddenElement.href = 'data:text/csv;charset=utf-8,' + encodeURI(tsv);
	hiddenElement.target = '_blank';
	hiddenElement.download = 'people.csv';
	hiddenElement.click();
}

function tabValues(array) {

    var keys = Object.keys(array[0]);

    var result = keys.join("\t") + "\n";

    array.forEach(function(obj){
        keys.forEach(function(k, ix){
            if (ix) result += "\t";
            result += obj[k];
        });
        result += "\n";
    });

    return result;
}

/////////////////////kick it off
loop();