busshi/linkedin_bot repository overview

⁠Linkedin Bot / Selenium

⁠A basic linkedin bot used to accept incoming connexions requests coded in Python.

⁠Functionalities:

• Autologin with TFA enabled (optional)
• Accept connexions requests
• Send an automatic welcome message inside my network
• Autoreply to messages from new contacts and send actions keywords:
  • dispo
  • techno
  • profile
  • contact
  • unmute
• Send notifications to a Telegram account (userID needed, get yours with Telegram API⁠) using a telegram bot (you can easily create one with BotFather⁠) with new connexions requests and profile picture

⁠Usage

• Install dependencies pip install -r requirements.txt
• Copy env.sample to a .env file a replace with your custom values
• Run the bot without options python3 bot/bot.py
• Run the bot with Telegram support python3 bot/bot.py --telegram
• Run the bot without visualization python3 bot/bot.py --headless
• Combine both options python3 bot/bot.py --telegram --headless

⁠Docker usage

Before use docker, think about login in a virtual environment to get a cookie. It will avoid human captch verification. Then you will be able to run it headless inside a container.

docker-compose up -d

⁠Notes

• This bot uses Selenium⁠ and the Firefox webdriver so you will probably need Firefox to be installed on your system.
• Sometimes, after login in, you can have a captcha to validate manually. You will have a message in the console and 10 seconds to validate the captcha.
• As Selenium uses classnames, ids, xpath to find elements, it is possible it will not work anymore in the future without updating DOM_VARIABLES (inside constants.py file). This bot was created to work with a french browser, so classnames are in french...
• Tested on macOS.
• Also available on Dockerhub⁠

⁠Todos

• Use Linkedin API to avoid captcha -> here⁠
• Dockerize service
• Intl