Any Rails Plugin/Gem available to facilitate users to import their profile info from LinkedIn?

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Any Rails Plugin/Gem available to facilitate users to import their profile info from LinkedIn?

Nope! You are on your own here.

To the best of my knowledge, LinkedIn do not have a public API. Its closed to a selected few partners. They however provide some widgets, which you can utilize.

Swanand 2009-06-24 05:47:16

Thanks for the feedback. Then how do you think visualCV.com and comozap.com handling this? Do you think they are just scraping the profile page? If yes, is it acceptable?

satynos 2009-06-24 11:28:00

As far as you willing to adapt to their changing HTML, you are welcome to scrapping.

Swanand 2009-06-25 04:50:27

Thanks, so screenscrapping it is. Do you happen to know of any rails plugins/gems that does scrapping in OOP way?

satynos 2009-06-25 13:34:22

scrAPI seems promising but I haven't really tried it out in production. Works well on samples they provide.hpricot is well known, well tested html parser. Pretty powerful and easy to use.

Swanand 2009-06-25 14:18:27

@Swanand - Thanks, on the surface looks promising.

satynos 2009-06-27 15:00:59