LinkedIn Alumni Crawler

Academic project for discovering institute alumni on LinkedIn and generating simple profession / domain reports from search results.

Disclaimer: This was a student project. Automated LinkedIn access can violate LinkedIn's Terms of Service. Do not use with real credentials or for production outreach. Treat this as historical / educational code only.

What it does

• Search profiles by keywords / institute filters
• Optional connect workflows (legacy)
• Generate alumni-style reports by profession and work domain

Project layout

File	Purpose
linkedin_profile_search.py	Keyword / profile search
linkedIn_profile_connect.py	Connect workflow (legacy)
alumni_yearwise_linkedIn.py	Year-wise alumni reporting
parameters.py	Local config (credentials via env — not committed)

Setup (local only)

pip install selenium parsel
# Install a matching ChromeDriver for your Chrome version
cp parameters.example.py parameters.py
# Fill credentials via environment variables or local parameters.py (never commit)

Configuration

Use environment variables:

export LINKEDIN_USERNAME="you@example.com"
export LINKEDIN_PASSWORD="..."

Or copy parameters.example.py → parameters.py locally (gitignored).