README.md

Welcome

This is a quick demo of how nightmare.js framework is used to spidering LinkedIn Jobs Description on a single node with single user account logged-in.

Warning: Use this demo code at your own risk!

Prepare

Prepare your PC environment to Node.js Ready! Check Nodejs https://nodejs.org/en/ for installation on your own.

When your PC is Node.js Ready, you have 2 important command in your lifetime Node.js journey:

npm install XXXX  #THIS is used to install a package

node XXXX.js #THIS is used to run a Node.js script
nodejs XXXX.js #Or on SOME machine, the node command could be nodejs

We will practice these 2 command later.

npm install for LinkedInJS

This demo pack rely on 2 node packages, run the following command to install them.

cd LinkedInJS # start your bash under the path 
npm install nightmare # nightmare for spidering
npm install html-to-text # to stripe the text

Run the demo

On your first run, you should login with your LinkedIn account, before you do everything else.

node start.js # the start.js script will guide you to login
# after you logged-in, simply close the browser window

Then, you can run the demo.

node demo.js # this demo script will search "Art Director"
# and choose one job, grab its description in detail

Watch the console info, and enjoy the demo!