Automate-LinkedIn 0.1.2

Automate LinkedIn with Python and Selenium.

LinkedIn Python Bot

I built this project because I'm super lazy to check my LinkedIn account.
So by using this bot, I'll increase my profile views, interactions, followers, and connections.
And since I love sharing my stuff with others, I created this package. So if you enjoy it, start it on GitHub.

• Features
• Installation
• Usage options
  • 2.1. Create driver
  • 2.2. Login
• 1. Posts Interactions
  • CLI
  • API
• 2. publishing
  • CLI
  • API
• 3. Network
  • 3.1. Follow people
    • CLI
    • API
  • 3.2. Connect with people
    • CLI
    • API
• 4. Environment variables
• 5. Run it on a server

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Features

• Interact with LinkedIn posts.
  • Like
  • Comment
• Auto post/image publishing

Installation

pip install automate-linkedin

or

pip install git+https://github.com/SelmiAbderrahim/automate-linkedin

Usage options

1. CLI

You can use these features throught the command line interface (CLI), which is quite useful to run it on a server.

$ autoln OPTIONS

options:

• username: Your LinkedIn email address (required).
• password: Your LinkedIn email password (required).
• env: Get username & password as environment variables. (optional).
• headless: Hide the browser's window. (optional).

2. API

You can use the same features on your own project (code) throught the API.

from automate_linkedin.interactions import Posts
class Interaction(Posts):
    pass

For the LinkedIn authentication, I'm using the easy_selenium to create a Chrome driver and login to LinkedIn accounts.

2.1. Create driver

from easy_selenium.driver.chrome.driver import Driver
driver = Driver()
chrome = driver.create(headless=headless)

2.2. Login

from easy_selenium.authentication.login.linkedin import Login
login = Login(username, password)
authenticated = login.start(chrome)

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1. Posts Interactions

CLI

Interact with the LinkedIn 'home page' or 'groups' posts.

Options

• post-interaction: Interact with your LinkedIn posts. (required).

  autoln --username plain_text_email --password plain_text_password --post-interaction

• post-number-likes: Number of post likes [default: 5] (required).

  autoln --username plain_text_email --password plain_text_password --post-interaction --post-number-likes 10

• env: Get username & password as environment variables. (optional).

  autoln --env --username LINKEDIN_EMAIL_ADDRESS --password LINKEDIN_PASSWORD --post-interaction

• headless: Hide the browser's window. (optional).

  autoln --env --headless --username LINKEDIN_EMAIL_ADDRESS --password LINKEDIN_PASSWORD --post-interaction

• comment-number-likes: The number of likes of comments. (optional).

• like-post-comments: Like comments of each posts. (optional).

  autoln --env --headless --username LINKEDIN_EMAIL_ADDRESS --password LINKEDIN_PASSWORD --post-interaction --like-post-comments --comment-number-likes 2

• auto-comment: Comment with positive examples. (optional).

  autoln --env --headless --username LINKEDIN_EMAIL_ADDRESS --password LINKEDIN_PASSWORD --post-interaction --auto-comment

💡 Example: If I want to run a headless browser to like 20 posts and comment on any of these posts if possible.

autoln --env --headless --username LINKEDIN_EMAIL_ADDRESS --password LINKEDIN_PASSWORD --post-interaction --auto-comment --post-number-likes 25

API

After creating a Chrome driver and making sure you're authenticated, as shown above, you can use this function to interact with posts on your LinkedIn pages and groups.

from interactions import Posts

posts = Posts()
posts.start(chrome)

Attributes:

>> print(Posts.__doc__)

Interact with the LinkedIn posts.

    Params:
        number_of_posts_to_like (int): Number of posts to like (default = 5).
        number_of_post_comments_to_like (int): Number of comments to like for each post (default = 2).
        like_post_comments (bool): Start liking comments (default = False).
        auto_comment (bool): Post a positive comment for random posts (default = False).
        url (str): The page's url (default = 'https://www.linkedin.com/feed')
        short_sleep_range (tuple[float, float]): time.sleep(short range) (default = (0.5, 0.9)) 
        long_sleep_range (tuple[float, float]): time.sleep(long range) (default = (1.5, 4.9)) 

    Returns:
        None

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2. publishing

CLI

This will allow you to publish a post with an image or text on your LinkedIn profile.

options:

• --publish: Enable the publishing option (required).
• --text: The text content of the post (optional).
• --image-path: The absolute path of the image (optional).

💡 Example: If I want to publish a post with my image and greeting message.

autoln --env --headless --username LINKEDIN_EMAIL_ADDRESS --password LINKEDIN_PASSWORD --publish --text "Hi people!" --image-path C:\\images\me.png

API

Post text only

from automate_linkedin.publish import Publish
p = Publish()
p.post(chrome, content="greeting!")

Post text and image

from automate_linkedin.publish import Publish
p = Publish()
p.image(chrome, r"C:\Users\selmi\Pictures\BloggersHood1.png", content="zfzazafazf")

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3. Network

Manage your network.

3.1. Follow people

You can follow up to 16 people each time.

CLI

autoln --env --headless --username LINKEDIN_EMAIL_ADDRESS --password LINKEDIN_PASSWORD --follow-network

API

from automate_linkedin.networkk import Follow
follow = Follow()
follow.start(driver)

3.2. Connect with people

You can send invites up to 16 people each time.

CLI

autoln --env --headless --username LINKEDIN_EMAIL_ADDRESS --password LINKEDIN_PASSWORD --connect-network

API

from automate_linkedin.networkk import Connect
connect = Connect()
connect.start(driver)

4. Environment variables

There many reasons for using environment variables in your projects, including:

• Easy configuration
• Better security
• Fewer production mistakes

So in your working directory, create a new file .env and place the secrets you'll use with this package.

Exmaple

LINKEDIN_EMAIL_ADDRESS=[e-mail]
LINKEDIN_PASSWORD=password

Then you gonna use it throught the cli:

autoln --env --username LINKEDIN_EMAIL_ADDRESS --password LINKEDIN_PASSWORD

5. Run it on a server

I have tested the below code on my Ubuntu server, if something went wrong, please open a new issue.

• The first thing you have to do is installing Chrome

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable
google-chrome --version

• Login to your server

ssh user@ip

• Create a virtualenv

Linux/Mac

python -m pip install virtualenv
python -m virtualenv env
source env/bin/activate

Windows

py -m pip install virtualenv
py -m virtualenv env
env\Scripts\activate

• Install automate-linkedin

pip install automate-linkedin

• Create a new bash file with the content below

Let's assume this is my working directory

selmi@7BNVUM:/selmi$ pwd
/home/selmi/automate-linkedin

Then we create a new file like.sh in that working directory.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
SHELL=/bin/bash
DISPLAY=:0
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin
cd /home/selmi/automate-linkedin
autoln --env --headless --username LINKEDIN_EMAIL_ADDRESS --password LINKEDIN_PASSWORD --post-interaction --like-post-comments --comment-number-likes 2 --post-number-likes 10 --auto-comment

Then for the permissions:

sudo chmod +x /home/selmi/automate-linkedin/likes.sh

• Environment variables see this

• Crontab

and finally, we automate the process using crontab.

crontab -e

To run that bash file every 5 hours, add this line:

0 */5 * * * ./home/selmi/automate-linkedin/likes.sh

Then save it.

That's it.