NetworkingBot

NetworkingBot is a bot to let you expand your network while you sleep. It send requests for you to your school's alumnis that work in your sector.

Prequistes

$ path/to/this/dir pip install -e .

Download a chromedriver, and place the .exe file in your clone version of this repo. Make sure the version match your browser version.
Find your school code (cf. bellow).
Update the config.yaml with your linkedin li_at cookie (cf. bellow), school code (cf. bellow), job title and your os_type (mac or windows).
Run the script once a day. Due to linkedin scrapping restrictions you can only send 80 connections a day.

$ path/to/this/dir network

Navigate to www.linkedin.com and log in
Open browser developer tools (Ctrl-Shift-I or right click -> inspect element)
Select the appropriate tab for your browser (Application on Chrome, Storage on Firefox)
Click the Cookies dropdown on the left-hand menu, and select the www.linkedin.com option
Find and copy the li_at value

Open Linkedin & log in
Click enter in the search bar (left it empty)
Click on "All filters"
Scroll down to the School section
Click on "Add a school"
Type in your school name
Click Show results
You can find your school code in the page url (ex: https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?origin=FACETED_SEARCH&schoolFilter=%5B%"12434"%5D&sid=FW2, school code is 12434)

If you want to contact me you can reach me at leopoldavezac@gmail.com.

This project use the following licence, MIT