Automating LinkedIn's Connection Procedure

This is a project that automates LinkedIn connection requests, written in Python.

Getting Started

Clone the project from GitHub

$ git clone https://github.com/tariqshaban/linkedin-connection-automation.git

Install the required Python dependencies by running the following command pip install -r requirements.txt.

Adjust the following critical parameters in config.json:

Key	Description
webDriver	Specify the desired webdriver
maximumConnections	Specify the threshold of processed connections before stopping (for each method), set to -1 for unlimited
securityVerificationDelay	Set the time in seconds necessary to manually solve the security verification question upon login
webLoadDelay	Specify the number of seconds to wait till a website is loaded successfully (compensates for slow internet connections), throws an exception when times out
companyNames	Specify the company name(s) to iterate
profileNames	Specify the profile name(s) to iterate
endpoints➔longin➔username	Specify the username. Optional, useful since the username will not be required every runtime, insecure since credentials are saved in a raw file.
endpoints➔longin➔password	Specify the password. Optional, useful since the password will not be required every runtime, insecure since credentials are saved in a raw file.

Supported web drivers:

• Internet Explorer internet explorer
• Microsoft Edge edge
• Mozilla Firefox firefox
• Opera opera
• Google Chrome chrome

The website structure may change in time, modify the values in config.json accordingly if it caused breaking changes.

Usage

Navigate to main.py and invoke the desired methods

# Requests a username/password combination in the console stream
AuthenticationHandler.login() # ==> Must be invoked first

# Redirects to 'https://www.linkedin.com/mynetwork/' and connects to all profiles under the 'More suggestions for you' section
ConnectionHandler.handle_suggestions(connect: bool = False)

# Redirects to 'https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/' and iteratively connects to all profiles in each page
ConnectionHandler.handle_people_search(connect: bool = False)

# Redirects to 'https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/' for a specified profile(s) and recursively connects to all profiles in each page
ConnectionHandler.handle_profile_connections(connect: bool = False, depth = 1)

# Retrieves all of the specified company's/companies' people, and connects to them
ConnectionHandler.handle_company_people(connect: bool = False)

# Redirects to 'https://www.linkedin.com/mynetwork/invitation-manager/' and accepts/ignores all incoming connection requests
ConnectionHandler.handle_received_invitations(accept: bool = False, ignore: bool = False)

# Redirects to 'https://www.linkedin.com/mynetwork/invitation-manager/sent/' and withdraws all outgoing connection requests
ConnectionHandler.handle_sent_invitations(withdraw: bool = False) # ==> Warning, LinkedIn will not permit reconnecting to the same profile for three weeks

To specify either the company name or the profile name, companyNames and profileNames keys in config.json must be modified. Note that the values should not be the actual company/profile name on the webpage itself; but rather the denoted string value from the URL.

For precautionary reasons, the default behaviour of the methods is passive; that is, they only generate CSV files without taking action; to override such behaviour, set the boolean flag to the respected method's argument to true.

Disclaimer

The program requires a valid username/password combination in order to function; such credentials will NEVER be disclosed, stored, processed, or sent to any server/third-party provider. You can inspect the code to verify its confidentiality level in handling such sensitive data.

LinkedIn will temporarily restrict your account if too many requests were issued in a small timeframe.

---